Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-04-19

mental caliber-prOylncial,s devoid OF
knowledge of other peoples, but we'll
versed in the old Socialist dogma,
which they wish to guard zealously
and jealousy against any attempt to
revise it. They are more laxative than
heroic. and unless through heroic
measures. revolutions cannot feed on
talk alone.
Heroic But Too Prudent
There are, of course, heroic members
Of German Socialist Parties i'll the
Reichstag. but these are too prudent
to accomplish anything.
The German Socialist Party disci-
pline is staged after the fashion OF our
Prussian military discipline, and its
intolerance would put into shame the
devotees of old churches.
But aside from the three Socialist
factions there are other influences in
Germany that will help to bring about
situations that would become men
acing to our rulers.
German Political Chasm
There are many chasms in the Ger
man political life today that will, from
day to day, become widened. This de-
lection in the German system of Gov
eminent is primarily between the land
owners and the industrialists. The
German landowners are the militarists
while the factory owner is anxious for
an immediate peace, without annexa-
ton.
/ interviewed many persons belong
ing to this class and was surprised to
learn that they valued an immediate
peace so much that in order to obtain
it at once they even advocate restoring
Belgium and Serbia, and North France.
These men told me with a remarkable
similarity or reasoning, that another
year or so of this war would destroy
Germany completely.
1t was during these conversations
that I learned how Germany had bled
white during the last three years or SO
of war.
Germany was highly organized
country. A powerfully centralized
Government was able to put into effect
i've use all its resources at one move.
Therefore, Germany had eXerted her
utmost resources early in the war,
trusting that victorious ending OF
the war would outweigh the great sac
rifices. These men argue that while
England. had not yet removed the top
skin of her available resources, Ger
many had put her very last penny in
the great gamble. They explained to
me how, for instance, the German rail
roads and roadbeds had been taxed to
their utmost capacity. and the prop
erty had been run down i'm such way
that after the war it would take many
years to restore them to their former
efficient condition.
Exhaustion of Germany
And the complete exhaustion of Ger
manys resources in raw material The
great worry of the German magnates
regarding this phase of Germany's
black outlook is beyond description.
These two interests-the landed pro-
prietOrs and industrial magnates-
oppose each other more violently than
the political parties in Germany.
The degree of the development of
the ehasms between these two elements
is more promising in compelling the
arrogant military caste to listen to rea-
son than all the Socialists together.
/. Germany's anxiety for peace, how
ever. is misunderstood in other coun-
tries.
/ am, Of course, judging all other
countries from the public opinion of
Switzerland.
German people want peace, but they
all want peace of their own making
and dictation. Outside the small cir
Gle of MARKHAM Socialists and advanced
to me to care very little whether or not
they get peace that is just to other
nations. This German frame of mind
constantly panied me during my six
months of investigation in that coun-
try.
Socialists Of Hunland Without Pro-
gram
1t is true there is very little love
for the Kaiser and his issue among the
German people, but even in the Social
list circles / heard no plan whereby to
overthrow the monarchy, substituting
democratic form of Government in
the country The Majority Socialist
Party's most cherished program is a
reform of the Prussian suffrage, which,
in very few words means the electing
of few more professional politicians
to the Reichstag as Socialist members.
Their program to reform the entire
basic law of the Empire is as weak as
their hearts.
Ito be cOntinued)
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