Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-12-26

will not do to conclude that Germany,
because her armies for the moment
are defeated and disorganized, no long
er is to be considered factor in the
economic and political life of the
world.
Socialists Are Pam Germans.
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 it's close, just as
pant German as the kaiser himself or
his junker advisers who now are so
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, hut 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 neighbpr-
ing lands and compel their peoplesttc
purchase German products
1t is not reasonable to believe tina
| these German Industrial workers hav
changed their Views overni ght-thats
they would not try even under so
cialist government for expansion if
| 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
I 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 Slav
4 lands. These lands will furnish the
/ best sources of raw material and the
4 best markets for goods made in Ger
many"
1 1t is certain, therefore, that Ger
many, under its new government, will
make every effort to monopolize the
trade of these lands, to keep them
from progressing industrially to a
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 their
power at the peace table to see that
these new nations are firmly establish
ed. 1t is their plain duty, thereafter
to see that proper support, moral and
financial, and, if necessary, military, is
accorded them in order that they may
. become real barriers against Ger
J manys 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 must
: fulfill this duty, because, if the newly
created states are left to | emselves
it is by no means certain lat tie,
: will not soon fall again undel the con
troll of a revived and reconstructed
t Germany, thereby made powerful
, enough once more to attempt to throt
tie the world.