New Britain herald., 1919-02-13
Can Germany Pay.
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 Many financiers and writers on eco homie questions are undertaking to prove that Germany could not pay the cost of the war to the Allies, and base their statements on Germany's sup posed income prior to the war, entirely ignoring the fact that under modern inventions and modern machinery the world progresses at such a stupendous rate of wealth increase that it would be utter folly to base any argument on Germany's inability in the future to meet indemnities by Germany's in come prior to the war
 When the Civil War ended, the South was bankrupt far beyond any thing which Germany has known or IS likely ever to know. Chaos ruled alm ost cOmpara ble to the chaos in Russia. because for ten years after the Civil War, under the leadership of a few vicious men in public life, the Federal Government held the South in bondage, kept armed soldiers at the polls and pra ctically forbade vot- ing by the white men of the South but encouraged voting by the negro population. These negroes, be it re- mem bered, were just out of slavery. They had never kn nown what it was to vote. Misled they then were by the vilest white elemen akin in spirit to the Bolshevists of Russia of to- day. which came into the South for the purpose of robbing this section and footing it, the negroes voted into office the most corrupt white men from other sections and the m OSt diSrepu- table men of their own race. This con- dition lasted until 1876, when in the Hayes-Tilden fight a compromise was effected on the basis that Hayes would withdraw the soldiers from the South ern polls and permit the Anglo-Saxon people of the South to work out their own problems.
 For the four years of war and the ten years of reconstruction. or four teen years as whole, the South was drained physically and financially to an extent infinitely beyond anything seen in Germany. So fearful were the conditions brought about by the war and the ten years of reconstruction and of negro domination that between 1865 and 1900. and very largely in the earlier part of that period, 5,O0O,- O00 whites emigrated to other sections including about 1,50O.0 900 to Texas and A 3,500,00O went entirely beyond the borders of the South Tn 1860 the South only had about 5000. 900 white people. Therefore the emigration be- tween 1865 and 1900 of 5,0OO.0OO whites, largely of the more energetic i element, which went out to make a home somewhere else was almost as great as the total white population of the South in 1860. This drain upon the South extended from Virginia to the Mississippi river. This movement Of population poured into the North west and into the Southwest and out to the Pacific coast, and also largely into New York and other Northern cities, in which Southern men found an opportunity for employment which they could not find al home.
 Despite this unprecedented condi- ton of fourteen years of war and reconstruction and the years of emi- grafton of many of it's best people, the South in 1915, or at the end of fifty years after the close of the war , had a larger output in manufactures and in agriculture than the entire country had in 1880, though the po- tion of the South in 1915 by 170O0,000.
 Germany was not invaded during the war. Its farms and factories were not destroyed. Its whole life went on actively and progressively with the exception of it's foreign trade. Ger many maintained it's millions of troops at the front and yet continued it's vast buS1neSs activities a home. Its people gladly subscribed more than $30,00O,- ooo,0oo for the purpose of carrying on the war, expecting to loot the world ana become enormously rich through rohhing others.
 from the day when the Southern otaCes were readmitted into the Union they began to pay their share of the i