Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-12-25
NO. d

will not do to conclude that Germany,
because her armies for the moment
are defeated and disorganized, no long
q IL to be considered factor II the
economic and political life Of The
world.
Socialists Ars an-osrmans.
The German government, at this
writing, appears to be under the con-
troll Of socialist groups who will bit
.terly oppose any return to the auto
cratic form. But these same socialist
leaders who now direct the German
government were at the outbreak of
the war and, in fact, up to very
few weeks before its close, just as
pan German rs the kaiser himself or
his junker advisers who now are 80
cordially hated.
The workers Of Germany-the So
cialists now in control Of the govern
ment-must look to the outside world
for the raw materials to keep their
mills busy and they must likewise look
beyond the boundaries Of their coun-
try for markets in which to sell their
surplus production. For fifty years
they have been taught this. Further,
they have been taught that the way to
get supplies OF raw materials from
abroad is not to buy them, giving their
surplus manufactured products In re-
turn, but to go out and grab the lands
which supply them. They also have
been taught that the way to open for
eign markets to their export trade is
not to meet the other nations In fair
competition, but to subdue neighbor-
ing lands and compel their peoples to
purchase German products.
It is not reasonable to believe tina
these German industrial workers hay
changed their views overnight-that
they would not try even under so
cialist government for expansion II
they thought there was chance for
success. More than ever before they
must depend on the outside world both
for their raw materials and their mar
kets, and, defeated though they are,
they are likely to try to get these
things in the only way they know
by force.
Seek to Push Trade.
This powerful industrial Germany
governed by socialists who must work
or starve, who must get raw materials
from abroad and sell their finished
wares abroad, will be the nearest
neighbor of the newly established Slay
lands. These lands will furnish the
best sources of raw material and the
best markets for goods "made in Ger
nany."
1t is certain, therefore, that Ger
many, under its new government, will
make every effort to monopollze the
trade of these lands, to keep them
from progressing industrially to 0
point where they would rival indus
trial Germany, and finally to reduce
them to such economic dependence
that political servitude might easily
follow when the time Is ripe.
The allied nations have it in theil
power at the peace table to see thai
these new nations are firmly establish
ed. It is their plain duty, thereafter
to see that proper support, moral ant
financial, and. if necessary, military. Il
accorded them in order that they ma!
become real barriers against Ger
many's greed No one nation. it is evi
dent can take up this burden alone
Something like a league of nations. un
selfish and powerful, undoubtedly mus
fulfill this duty. because, If the newl!
created states are left to themselve!
it Is by no means certain that the!
will not soon fall again under the con
troll Of a revived and reconstructed
Germany. thereby made powerful
enough once more to attempt to throt
tie the world