The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-21
Suffering In Germany
To Lead to Revolt, Says Priest

butter at Is marks a pound. pork az
10 marks a pound and 5 marks for y.
pound OF flour"
25 Times Worse Than France.
Most of the meat in the butcher
shops, the priest says. Is horse meat.
ana for this the people must pay
51a marks a pound. After tho,
crops have been gathered Ia the best
time Tor Germany, and the people are
allowed one pound OF potatoes a day,
50 drains of meat and $50 Trans OF
,lour Tor each day. They are allowed
put so drains Of butter q week. A
woman who works IL and IA hours .
DAY must live on this food and some
times she can't even get that. Condi-
lions in Germany today, Father Dan
lels said. are without e~xaggeration IS
times worse thai in France.
Little Children Starving.
During the past two years the birth
rate in Germany has fallen OFF to al
most nothing, according TO Father Dan
iels, and the little children 8 and q
years old are dying after months Of
starvation and suffering. Germany does
not care for it's older people, he said,
and has interest in only those who are
helping the war. If any one should
go TO a German police station, whers
all permits for food are given out, and
should ask leave to buy a little extra
milk or an esq for n sick person, tho
first question he would be asked Is.
How old is the sick man?" II the
person in question is beyond the ago
of active service either at home or at
the front, he could get no food. an6
would be told by the authorities: THAT
man is of no use to US: we have
nothing for him."
"Sick People Of No Uce."
While Father Daniels was at a ho-
pital OF the AleXian brotherhood in
| Germany he was told of the enormous
death rate during the year. When he
asked one Of the brothers the cause
he was answered: I'VE have gone 10
the authorities for more food because
the people are dying of starvation and
we are old that sick people are Of no
use TO the government, and they are
allowed to die"
That" said Father Daniels emphart
cally, lis German kultur."
The people are imprisoned for the
slightest offense and If a man Is found
stealing a loaf of bread for his hungry
children, he is given three or more
weeks in prison. Father Daniels saw
In a half hour in court about 10 starv-
ing people given prison sentences for
acts that were committed by people
desperate from hunger. Father Dan
ielS said:
The feeling against the government
1 30 s'hS|N = - Ill "
go home on furlough every six months
and l have heard them cursing the
kaiser, the crown prince and all the
German OFFICIALS. The men, however,
are shot dow like dogs at any voice
of discomfort and SO they return to
the trenches to fight for something
they hate"
Mere Boys to Front.
Before the priest left he
saw the 1~S-year-old boys drafted into
service and a relative of his, who was a
mere school boy was taken by the gov
eminent and marched away to the
trenches. Father Daniels tells that
many of the boys after six weeks of
training are put N he trenches. and
after living under slch conditions for a
short while are returned to the cities
hopelessly Insane. The American prizes,
says that the insane institutions are
crowded with soldiers whose minds are
gone after a period Of life among tho
lighting forces of the empire. The Ger
man people, according to Father Dan
iels, do not know any OF the real news
OF the war, n 1t Is nothing unusual
to see many editions Of the papers, es-
pecially in the east part Of the empire
issued with half Of the pages blank.
but for the mark, censored"
How Propaganda Works.
During last spring when the riots and
NAsNNS - = Tx Do"eI
Of the German government all the pa,
pers in the empire told of the submar-
Inc warfare that would in three months
bring England to her knees. The peo-
pie went back to their work and waited
for the three months, and when they
did not find England begging for peace
they cried once more in protest 80 that
about May the priest heard Of the wide
spread anti Wilson propaganda. patri-
Otto meetings were arranged In the
schools and in all public buildings. The
people were told that President Wilson
had been bought by England and that
his action did not represent the senti.
ments OF the American people. Tho
Germans believed this and once again
were heard the hurrahs for the kaiser,
Father Daniels was in Muenster dur
ing this time, although he had asked
for a passport in February OF 1917. Sem
ator La Toilette cabled him to come
home with Ambassador Gerard's party,
but the priest was taken Ill and when
he did apply for the passport, was re-
FUSED. 1t took him from February to
had served a prison term.
Father Daniels thinks the unnatural
lied in this country are given
too much liberty, and says that every
American in Germany Is interred. y
have had to stand slurs and sneers
from German officials because OF my
nationality, and If the people here could
know the way their countrymen In Ger
many are treated they would not be
quite SO easy with alien enemies"