The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-09-05
Why Germany Wants
Peace-Autocracy Has Its
Hands Full At Home


this war, that she is now making war IN
enemy territory and holds VAST reaches
of Belgian. French, Russian, Serbian and
Rumanian lands. there are conditions at
home that make il wise, II not impera-
tive. that the war come to an early end
The Germans are a docile and discl-
plined people
They love a ruler and master
They apparently delight in being for
hidden to do all manner Of things
They are a folk among whom reyolu-
tons do not thrive
They have too wholesome respect for
the kaiser's soldiers and the kaiser
police.
But the ruling caste Of Germany ap-
parently knows there is limit TO which
even Germans may be driven
Germany today is land Of thin, un-
derfed, underclothed people.
1t is a land upon every home Of which
Death has laid his icy finger There
are blind men and manned men in every
village.
1t is a land in which people never
smile any more.
Carking care has taken the place Of
easy mirth
And the depressed spirits Of the peo-
pie are not uplifted when they read in
workers journal like the Textilarbeiter
of Berlin, that Bernhard HauptigY
member of the textile workers union has
Exchanged the temporal for the eternal
life"
Nor do they rejoice when the article
continues that his relatives applying for
financial help, were instead given death
certificate by the district medical officer
which said:
1.-THE undersigned hereby certiies
that the 5S-year-old factory worker,
Bernhard Hauptig, was found dead on
June Is in Engelsberg pastures. Ac-
cording to Investigations which were
duly carried out, the above named per-
son died of starvation"
To which the Textilarbeiter added the
terrible thought:
''Hauptig is not the first nor VIII he
be the last member Of the textile work
ers union to die Of starvation"
This simple item, with its Nain
truths. gives the lie to the announce
ments Of the Prussian masters that Ger
many has enormous resources and her
food supply is holding out well.
A land in which the resources are am
pie is not land in which an industrious
worker wanders the fields and dies OF
starvation like neglected dog
No wonder Vorwaerts, a socialist or
gan Of Germany which sometimes dares
to hit at the truth, said in a recent IS
sue:
1.-THE present internal conditions ir
Germany remind one of the festive horse
man immortalized in the Fliegende
Blaetter who, being asked, Meyer, wher,
are you riding - frankly replied How
do | know? Ask the horse.
I'VE ask: Quo vadis Germania ?
Now the socialists are not the only
ones who are asking whittier German!
is going.
It is being asked sullenly. savagely
tmidly or worriedly, as the case MAJ
be, by everyone in kaiserthum.
All recognize that the breaking poin
may be reached
There is stage beyond which ever
Germans will not endure.
Wars have sometimes ceased because
the people have absolutely refused L
prosecute them any longer.
Dynasties have sometimes been top
pied into the dust because people have
refused to starve any longer.
That is what is worrying the Hohen
zollern outfit.
They are not winning abroad and they
fear conditions at home. Hence theil
strenuous efforts to end the war befor'
winter, before defeat. before a starved
and frozen people may find the courage
to drive them from their thrones.