The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-16
Comes From Germany Tell
ing Of Declining Hope
for Victory Now.
IN HISTORICAL STATE
Food Would Go Further to
Bring About Harmony Of
People at Present.

London, Feb. 15.--(Correspondenc
Of The Associated Press).
declining faith In victory is described
by "a well to do neutral medical man
who lately left Germany after living
in Augsburg during the war period"
Writing from Berne to the Daily Mail,
he declared that though still believing
that Germany could not be beaten. the
German people had long since become
war-w weary and had given up hopes of
the so-called German peace.
1.-THE masses" he continued. ARE in
an hysterical state. one minute pray
ing for peacc Mt any price and the next
under the influence Of some piece OF
news, some well organized patriotic
concert or kinematograph exhibition
got up by the Fatherland (annexa-
tionist) party. at which they will be
shouting wild apn,ause and singing
Deutschland. Deutschland uber Allies"
sIames FatherIand Party.
"The Fatherland party is justly re-
Rarded by many people as the chief
obstacle to peace. In Bavaria it's
propaganda Is unceasing and is ad-
vancing by leans and bounds. The
party has unlimited funds and good
business men to spend the money ju-
diciously I'm cultivating tho German
will to power" On the other hand,
this junta OF government officials,
country sqnires. ironmasters admirals
n 20 ~,
odious tyranny on all the people de-
pendant on it, Woe betide the village
constable, the concierge, the factory
hand. or agricultural labcrer underlinE
who dares refuse his monthly gift to
the Fatherland party's funds
"As for all the fuss about demo.
cratization, ] think Ii is mostly moon
shine, manufactured for the benefit of
the Economically inclined English rad
ical. There is II discomfort simmer
ing up and down the country. but to
quiet 1T n pound of butter q week
would go farther than any promise of
political reform. The riots that take
place In the towns from time to time
are the work of women whose hus-
bands have long been away in the field
and who have got out OF hand Mobs
of half-grown lads run wild and get
into mischief, and worse than mis-
chief.
Bavaria Opposes Kaiser.
| '1n Bavaria the emperor and Berlin
never popular. are now less popula,
than ever. Bavarians are unmovcd b,
Williams choice of Won Hertling as
chief advisor. If Won Hertling hat
been a Bavarian born they say per.
haps there might have been something
in it, but he is a Hessian. In Bavaria
as elsewhere, the emperor has bee,
completely overshadowed by linden
burg. who to the average German Il
the war incarnate, and whatever ther,
Is great and glorious about him Il
putting the emperor and the roya
princes entirely III the shade. On tn
other hand, Hindenburg came with tn,
war and will go with the war. l,
bavaria and elsewhere the dynasti
sentiment Is so strong that nothinJ
can root It out.
II consider that, however tho wa
ends, whether the German empire con
tinues to hold together officially or no
afterwards, the result will be an cnor
nous intensification of separatist feel
ing In the various constituent states.
AS regards the food position.
should say that it Is only acute 70
people of small means. They are tn
only ones who suffer tho pangs of rei
hunger, especially the small officials
the police. the schoolmastors, the min
listers of religion. and people living O,
small salaries or annuities or savings
. 1t Is generally recognized in Ger
! many that German prisoners OF wa
l