The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-11-07

WASHINGTON
/ NEWS CULLMCS
WILSON TACTICS ARE HAV-
ING PROFOUND EFFECT
|. ON ENEMY PEOPLES.
Washington, D. c.. President
Wilson's ultimatum to the Ho-
henzollern government, to get
out Of Germany or be thrown out
by allied arms, is counted upon
in Washington to mark the turn
ing point If the revolutionary
movement in Germany. He has
made it practically impossible
for either the kaiser or his fam
lily or any of the men prominent
in the jmker or militarist clique
to remain on German soil after
the reichstag majority shall
have decided that peace is more
important than autocracy. The
next few months are to witness
the beginning of a great emigra-
ton of the German ruling class
Some will flee to Switzerland,
which hitherto has been the re-
fuge of Russian and Balkan
revolutionists. Others will 20 to
Holland, and others to Sweden,
to watch the development of the
liberal and socialistic republic
in Germany. Perhaps some will
seek to hide their political and
military nakedness in Spain.
. At the time of the French
Revolution the thousands of flee
ing nobility were welcomed to
Germany and England and Spain
Many came to America and built
fuedal country homes-in Canada
and in the region of Lake George
and Lake ~Ghamplain. But
they left France, fearing the
guillotine.
H. When the Russian revolution
came on, the world was at war,
and the only places of easy re-
fuge for Russian aristocrats
were Sweden and Germany. To
the extent of their ability to
cross the border they have left
Russia, and today the monarch
ial and pro-German party
launched by MiliuKoff, the first
Cadet minister of foreign af-
fairs after the fall of the car, is
made up of these refugee artist
ocrats-waiting behind the Ger
man field guns for the opportun-
ity to again claim their feudal
estates in Russia.
Royalty Tottering.
The state. department is
watching with some interest
the signs Of this promised Ger
man imperial moving day. There
was the report from Holland,
for instance, that Kaiser Will
helm had been shipping to Hol-
land a lot of personal effects.
There was the Independent So
cialist meeting which welcomed
home from prison the reichstag
member, William Ditt1nan, who
was sentenced last year on char
ges of having fomented the re-
volt at Kiel. This meeting de-
manded that the great Lieb-
knecht be liberated, and called
for a Socialist republic. Again,
there was a plain warning by
Maximilian Harden, in big pub
lie meeting, that the kaiser must
humiliate himself or get out of
the way He will have to do
both.
If President Wilson were anx-
ious to avoid a revolution in
Germany, as certain Of the big
vested interests in the allied
commercial world have been,
he would not have told the Ger
man people, that the word Of
their kaiser was warthless, and
that he would have no dealings
nor armistice with any but the
real representatives of a consti-
tutionally established popular
government in their country.
His note of October % says to
the German people, in effect: Il
will recognize a democratic gov
ernlnent just as soon as vow
form one, but it must not pre-
tend to be based on the wishes
Of your old ruling class. That
class is outlawed.
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