The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-05

 achieved by these Germans, was the most tragic crime the world has witt messed. A tidal wave had broken over Germany, not by the force of nature, but through the weakness of the gov ernmcnt represented by the Chancellor and the crippling of IeaderIess pec- pie. sl
 COMPELLED TO USE FORCE
 Those who for decades had confused the people and made them false promz ises who have all the time agitated' against authority in state and army, and have now destroyed it, son found themselves forced to abandon the prin- ciples they had hitherto propagated. A new authority had now to be created, a new army formed in order at home to oppose force to force. in manner never heretofore necessary.
 It is not the troops formed by the revolution, but the voluntary formations with the spirit and discipline of the army of 1914, that are rescuing Ger many, an eniightening glimpse into this fateful time; mankind was, all, not ready for the alleged blessings of the revolution.
 What the revolution thinks that it has achieved might have been won on constitutional lines without self-de- struction. It was a terribly criminal game that they played with Germany in her hardest hour. and Germany is pay ing for it with her life and her ideals
 Before all these cents the world has stood astonished; it could not be- lieve it's eyes when it saw the collapse of this prour and mighty Germany, the terror of her foes.
 The Entente feared us even in our destruction, and could not do enough In using the opportunity to weaken us still further internally by propa- | A~ HA tn heI nta, m m us.
 WHAT GERMANY LOSES Germany, by her own fault. has been brought low. She is no longer a great power; she is not even an independent state. Her very existence is in danger. Out of this world struggle she comes weakened and diminished in every re- spect, and robbed of districts and peo- ples which have been hefs for genera tions
 l She loses her colonies.
 1 Her right to defend herself is taken away. The German has lost the right to serve his country in the army.
 Germany's merchant fleet disappears l from the high seas. Her industrial strength is broken, and the fragments 1 that remain are placed under enemy supervision The livelihood of 70,000.000 Germans stands on insecure soil. They | cannot live at home, and what is to become of the surplus population no man knows.
 The indemnities we have to pay are l beyond our power.
 | The debt which the revolution has
 laid on itself does not end merely with 1 this terrible peace. It makes the heavy yoke. under which it has sent the Ger 1 man people into bondage, into an abso- 1 lutely crushing one.
 l She places a premium on idleness [ I, f.a hot I greater than money reward. She hin | ders the employment of creative energy 1 and obliterates personality, replacing i it by mob ruIe and mediocrity. All mo- :, tive for reconstruction in government ! and political economy in reconstruc- l tion is lost for years to come, or. at any | rate incalculably weakened.
 : "ROTTENER DAY BY DAY. | In Germany there is civil war. Ger 1 man property is being destroyed. The public moneys are wasted and put te ! selfish uses; the finances of the em- 1 pire. the states and the towns become rottener day by day. The fallen mora 1 of the population rushes unrestrainec 1 into the freedom" of the revolution the lowest instincts of mankind develor ] unrestrained and regardless of conse l quences.
 I Everywhere are disorders. shirSings i deceit and over reaching, accompanied ] often by the most disgusting frenzies oi ., luxury. and this at the graveside of tho l millions who have died for the countr, | and in sight of the many cripple! Ii on whom our eyes rest.
 Germany offers . hideous and con tenn mptible spectacle. filling every tPu' | German breast with tndescribabi' grief. hut awakening among ou' enemies and neutrals nothing but con tempt.
 German men come forward and ac. cuse their country of crimes to tht
 enemy. to please the foe and achieve