The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-13

u1dd WILL dI1SC1 dI IhCOO u 1OIAO'
 There are other causes for hate. The farmers demand very high prices for the foodstuffs they are willing to sell. The best illustration is sugar. Before the war Germany provided many of it's neighbors and Britain with sugar. Yet today sugar is scarce | in Germany Why? Because the beet growers are dissatisfied with the prices offered for their beets, and will not grow sufficient for the needs of even Germany herself.
 Employers vs. Employed.
 So there is bitterness. But that is not all There is also bitterness be- l tween employers in munition works and their work-people. The cost of 1 living is going up. Yet when workers ask for a corresponding rise in wages l they are met with a blank refusal. l The employers are thoroughly well organized, and present united front | If a man should leave his job as protest against insufficient rates Of pay, he will find no employment 1n his district. He will be boycotted by the employers, who besides will put | the police on his track.
 South Germany is much more lib- eral than the North. North Germany means Prussia, and the poison of mill itarism has spread over the whole of l Germany from Prussia. The Prus- sians are brutal, cowardly, naughty and reactionary. They are today III their feelings where other parts or 1 civilized Europe were five or six hun dred years ago. In Prussia the lords are lords, and the people are regard | ed just as so many minds. The south Germans never did love the Prussians. Even before the war the little boys in Saxony sang a song in which they de- clared that they were no Prussians
 The war has not made the German tribes (to use a phrase of the Kaiser's) more agreeable to each other. The Bavarians happen to have rather more food than the Prussians. for Bavaria is more of an agricultural country. But do the Bavarians share their produce with the Prussians? ? Not they. More than that, the willy | Prussians would arrange to go to Bavaria for their summer holidays during the last two summers. The Bavarians were very rude to their northern visitors, and refused to give them food. Of course, the Prussians were violently angry.
 Hated Junkers Terrified.
 It is clear from all this that there is much irritation in Germany, and the governing classes.-the hated Junkers-are terrified lest the ground should slip from beneath their feet.
 So they are frantically urging the people to fight on, and the notorious long-bearded Tirpitz has been chosen as the spokesman of the Junker view. They have established a new society, given it a catching name-the Patr1- !. otic Association-and are calling on the stupid yokels to hasten to the res cue of the Fatherland. Now, despite 7 their universities and their educa- tional system, there is no one so 1g-
 norant or capable of being gulled as 3 the German country yokel.
 The moderate men, who have al
 last wakened up from their war night
 mare, are fighting these Junker patri
 ots. The whole of Germany may bt
 said today to be divided into two
 camps violently opposed to eacl I
 the League for Freedom and Father
 land.
 It stands to reason that this kint
 of thing is not good for the nerve
 either of the soldiers at the front O.
 of the civilians at home. What is thu
 result? The Germans have ha(
 enough of the war.
 l. The best indication of this may b. p found in the appeals which the Junk d CTS with Tirpitz and Ludendorff a e their head, find it necessary to mak
 in order to whip up the spirits Of tn
 people. The recent resignations o
 generals, which, however, were no
 engineered. The people are assure S that if only they hold out a littl
 longer victory will be theirs, and Brit ain will be brought to her knees They are told cock-and-bull stor1e Il that if the Allies were to be victor y ious German homes would be burn 'r ed, German property taken, and Ger le many wiped off the map.
 d A year ago such fairy tales foun of believers. Today they have lost thei T. magic. Let one illustration suffice er About a fortnight ago the Patriot et Association organized a great publi rs meeting in Frankfurt, one of tn T. large, prosperous cities in Germany T. The Junkers brought down one c a their star orators-a Count, of course er Count Bothmer, who was expected t el do wonders and raise the war fee l. ing of the people to boiling point. O. IS he started: Britain is the enem! r. Britain must be smashed. German , must keep Belgium; she must ge
 back not only her colonies. but sh
 must be given other peoples as wei
 She must keep every acre of land sh II. has conquered" and so on.
 -h Right in the middle of the speec to a number of disabled soldiers wh le were among the audience interrupte a the speaker-"Why don't you go int to the trenches instead of making patr
 otic speeches ?" There was a hus