Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-12
WORKMEN TO HAVE
REPRESENTATIVE on
KAISER BILLS STAFF
ZlMM ERMANN AND HELFFERiCH
STEP DOWN AND OUT or CAP.
MET TO APPEASE POPULAR DE
MAND FOR REFORM.

Amsterdam, July T. The German
cabinet has undergone its first shake.
up since the war began.
II was reported today that the re-
tirement of Vice Chancellor tIelffer.
ich, and Foreign Secretary thinner
mann, from the government has been
/ officially gazetted in Berlin. Botn
were of the strongest proI}ussian tyne
and were frequently criticized by so
cialists and clericals for their unrc.
lenting efforts to maintain the domiu.
ancy of Prussia over the other Ger
man states. Their elimination, it is
believed will strengthen the positiun
of the Chancellor, DR. Won Bethmann.
| llOllwcg
Adyices from Berlin today said that
the Kaiser and the Crown Princes
were comforting with the higher states.
men as to the Successors of DR.. Helf.
ferlch and DR.. Zimmerman
An imperial ministry of labor Is 10
be added to the German government
to appease the working classes.
Domestic reforms have been decid
cd open by the Crown council and
will shortly be announced IN addition
to this concession to the masses the
government likely will take Il Social
lSt into the cabinet He viii got the
portfolio of Minister of labor.
According to the Cologne Volkszeit.
ung the political power Of The Kaiser
VIII suffer To some extent because the
cabinet in the future will be held re-
sponsihie to the Reichstag instead of
the emperor as in the past This is
to be brought about through con
centration of power in The hands of
The foreign minister, the chancellor.
the vice chancellor and the minister
of labor Through them the Whole
cabinet will become responsible to the
Rechstag. The shakeup extends to
the Irussian cabinet as well as the
Imperial cabinet Five rrussian
ministers have resigned and they
will be replaced by leaders closer to
the pepole
Electoral reforms for Prussia also
arc on the slate. They will be aim.
nd 4 hp ,r a
ont political influence Of the Junker
War party) and Agrarians over the
Pru5Sian government.
The political storm has not yet pass
ed off nor has the possibility Of the
retimcnt of the Chancellor gone by on.
tirely IN fact, The well informed
Weser Heitung strongly limited today
that the Chancellor would retire if
the political changes now in the MAX
ing do not appease the various liberal
factions.
The Conservatives are urging the
Chancellor to stick to his post and If
the worst came to the worst. TO head
q uclnotfatlc movement
The political disturbances are closs-
~ allied with the question OF peace.
4 tc'C gram from Cologne today quote
the aemioiliCial Gazette as SAYING.
The whole crisis is mainly the re-
suit of the Universal demand fer y nee
by the German people, and the peace
demand is occaaioned largely by the
food difficulties"
just as the Chancellor in his speech
the other day, when he declarod that
Germany must fight to the last gasp"
shoWed that peace is long way off,
50 Goes the echo come now lrGm Er.
Matthias Erzbergor the Clerical dcp,i
ty who was mainly responsible FOR the
present crisis
Writing in the Gcrmana Dr. Err
berger said no is convinced lhat Inc
Wor win last for a long tine and that
reforms should not be declared uutil
peace comes