Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-03-22
THEY NO MORE DIE FOR
KAISER AND FATHERLAND
RiOts and Disturbances are Frequent,
But Revolution is Not Yet i'm Sight.
The Germans Will Not Rebel Be
cause it is Forbidden"
COpyright. 1918. BY international
News Bureau, Inc.
(Third Installment)

(Third InStallment)
| found Munchen a sad city. ] re-
manned in this place for weeks. making
frequent visits to neighboring towns
and villages.
have interviewed hundreds of
people and attended no less than sixty
fraternal gatherings. the greater num-
ber of which were in the habit of
meeting in secrecy.
| found a greaSt chasm between the
people of South and North Germany
| do not wish to he misunderstood
however. The great chaSm between
the peoples of North and South Ger
many should not be attributed. alto
gether. to political differences. Its
origin lay in the fact that the Imper-
ial Governments policy regarding food
and other things. is openly to benefit
Prussia at the expense of the South.
Prussia on Germany's Shoulders
While Prussia has chosen TO manu-
facture munitions and industrial COM
modities South Germany's immense
agricultural products are constantly
conscripted by the North, which is the
Imperial Government, without the
slightest regard for the daily needs OF
the hard pressed South Germany. |
could make myself more plain it | state
that while starvation created in South
Germany is not natural, the inordinate
luxury one finds in the Berlin district
q
artificial
Through the unjust conscriptiOn Of
the agricultural products of South Ger
many the Imperial Government at
Berlin has accumulated enough in
Prussia to feed the upper classes and
the upper middle classes, who are the
backbone of Germany's military caste.
Thus l found that wherever the I'M
periaI Government was in direct
charge of the food distribution, it
played a sinister favOritism. l also
noticed that members of powerful Ia
bor unions and skilled mechanics re-
ceived better treatment from the I'M
perial Food Distributors that the mid
die classes and the lower middle
classes. In truth the great majority
of the actual starvation is amongst the
middle classes and the lower middle
classes.
Middle Glasses Suffering the Most
| count a provincial bank president
q middle class man, and | count the
average educator. lawyer, minister OF
the Gospel, judge, st0rekeeper, and
other lesser magnates or professions
as belonging to the lower middle
classes. The privatiOns amongst these
are indescribable.
At Munchen | became a sad witness
and tortured observer of German
family's plight and privation. | had
become acquainted with this family
about fwenty-eight years ago when
was an educator and milliOnary i'll
Palestine. The head of this family
who is now very near seventy, was
then at the head of his Beyrout
(Palestine) house. Though he is d
devout Roman Catholic and / a prot
eStant minister of the Gospel, at such
distance from the Fatherland it was
natural that warm friendship shOult
grow between us, and later this friend
ship was extended to our family cir
cles Many years later this friendship
was again renewed in various parts o.
Germany So it was natural that
should seek him at Munich, where III
had retired to comfortable home OF
Maximilian Strasse to spend the re
manning years at peace with his chill
dren and grand children.
Tragedy of a Family
/ cannot find words in describin,
my grief on entering his house. Eigh
male members of his own blood ant
flesh had been conscripted by the wal
only one of whom had been spared, an'
he totally incapacitated being as ia
as future useful service to the Father
land is concerned. His wife ha
Succumbed to grief in the second yea
of the war. i think / should note her
that through my six months travelling
in Germany / always found that til
women succumbed to grief far NOR
frequently than men. Women do Civ
themselves to grief more readily tha
men do.
OF his daughters two, both of whOI
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