Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-25
INCREA SED LIVING COST
IS CAUSE OF BITTERNESS

IS CAUSE OF BITTERNESS
So there is bitterness. But that is
not all. There is also bitterness be-
tween employers in munition works
and their work people. The cost OF
living is goins UP. Yet when workers
ask for corresponding rise in wages
they are met with a blank refusal
The employers are thoroughly well or
Sanilcd and present n united front If
man should leave his Job as q pro-
test against insufficient rates Of pay
he will tind no employment In his dis
trict. He will he boycottcd by the en-
pieycrs. who besides will put the police
on his track
South Germany is much more liberia!
than the North. North Germany means
Prussia. and the poison OF milltaris:n
has spread over the whole Of Germany
/ from Prussia. The Prussians are brutal,
cowardly, naughty, and rcactionary
They arc to-day in their feelings where
other parts Of civilized Europe were
ave or six hundred years ago. In Prus-
STA the lords are lords, and the people
are regarded just as so many kinds. The
South Germans never did love the Prus-
slams. Even before the war the little
! boys in SaXony sang a song In which
they declared that they were no prus-
/ slams.
/ The war has not made the German
tribes Ito use a pharse of tho Kaiser's)
more agreeable 10 each other. Tho
I ljavarians 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 tho Prussians? Not they. More
/ than that. the willy Prussians would
arrange to go TO bavaria for their sum
mer holidays during the last two sum
mers. The Eararians were very rude
! TO their northern visitors. and refused
TO give them food. OF course, the Prus-
slams were violently angry.
Hated JUNKERS TERRIFIED
4 LEST TIE PEOPLE RISE
! Il is clear from all this that there
! is much Irritation in Germany, and the
/ governing classes--the hated Junkers--
arc terrified lest the ground should slip
from beneath their feet. So they are
/ fran;ical!y urging the people to fight
on. AID the notorious. longbearl d
! Tirp!tz has been chosen as the spokcs-
/ man OF the Junker view. They have
( established a new society. given IL a
catching namc-the Patriotic Associa
/ ton -and arc calling on the stupid
( yoEc!s 10 hasten 10 the rescue OF the
! l'athcrland. Eow. despite their universe
. ties ana their educational system, there
IL no ono SO ignorant or capable Of be-
iia gullcd rs the German country yokel
/ The moderate men. who have at last
! wokcn up from their war nightmare
arc fighting: these Junker patriots. The
| whole of Germany may be said to-day
10 DC divided into two camps violently
! opposed TO each other-the Patriotic
Association and the League for Free
I dom and Fatheriand.
I II stands to reason that this kind OF
| thing is not good for the nerves either
Of the soldiers at the front or of the
I civilians at home. what is tho result:
The Germans have had enough Of the
war. The best indication OF this fact
may be found in the appeals which tho
Junkers, with Tirpitz and Lundendorf
at their head, find it necessary to max G
in order to whip up the spirits OF the