The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-23

where they can fi.S 1t. L<rtial law
will be swept aside by the force OF
the mobs. and riot and massacre will
munity.
All these things are inevitable un.
less the kaiser a5dicates, and unless
the affairs of the German government
are turned over to men trusted by
the German people, with whom the al
lies will be able to talk.
Enough time has elapsed since Pres
dent Wilson's note to Germany to
make it safe assertion that Wilson
Is holding the German rulers up
against the hot blaze OF public opjn
ion like toast before the fire. He
has given them chance to squirm off
the fork, voluntarily, but he has made
it plain to them and to the German
people, as well as to all the rest of
the world, that, if they don't get off
the fort themselves, they will be
thrust up against the fire Of revolu-
ton, as fierce flame as the car
of Russia tried to face.
There is no open talk in Washing.
ton Of trying to moderate the storm
that is coming IN Germany.
The world does not want to look on.
agasp, at a repetition in Germany. Of
the Russian horror, and when we fin.
ally talk to German leaders, who
ever they may be, we don't want to
be dealing with German Bolsheviki, as
unreliable, from our viewpoint, as
were the Bolsheviki Of Russia at the
Rrest.L itOVsk peace table.
A transition from kaiserism to re-
publicanism in Germany would be an
upsetting process. Anything may
happen in the accomplishment Of it.
Wild party leaders, seeking for pow
err, will try to lead the German folk
into political excuses and force un-
stinted" will be suggested in carrying
out the plans and hopes Of these
leaders.
There isn't anything that can be
done by the allied leaders, at present.
to head off the coming T;1low-up" in
Germany.
If the Germans, in taking things ind
to their own hands turn their guns on
each other, we can only stand aside.
while the internal strife is under
way, thankful that their guns, at last
are turned upon each other instead OF
upon our own fine boys and upon the
civilians of Belgium and France.
There are republicans in Germany,
not a few, who have kept silent for
decades.
In the United States there are lit
orally scores of thousands of Ger
mans, many Of, whose parents left
Germany and came here after the
revolution Of 1S4S, who believe in the
republican form of government for
Germany.
German-Americans will Return to
Guide German Democracy.
Just as thousands of"Russians hur-
ried to Russia, after the revolution.
to try to help establish a republic
there. so floods Of American Germans
may be expected to hurry to Germany,
as soon as the frontiers ne ope- to
try to help tide the Crman people !
over their re5irth.
1t is going to be . Jolting, even
bloody change, before it is accom-
plished The kaiser. with all his
love for the Fatnerland and
the German people, can make it an
easier change by stepping out before
the resistance against him becomes
too great.
He and his clique form great car
Ouncle on the German oody polite.
The sooner this is lanced, the less the
fever will be.
Washington, from President Wilson |
down, is watching the kaiser. One
way or another he is bound to go. 1t |
is row certain that the German peo.
pie will see to that.
--BuY W. S. s----
Daily Thought.
A mans first care should be to avoid |
he renrOaches Of his own haart.=Ad- |