The Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1918-1919, 1919-04-17
BY LLOYD ALLEN,
Western Newspaper Union Staff Cor
RESPONDENT

respondent.
Copyright. 1919. by Western Newspaper Union)
Paris. THAT Germany has expert
of her military defeat is the MESA &c
Or. Alonzo Taylor has just brought
to Paris after three weeks in Ger
many, where he inspected the food
supply, the stocks of raw materials,
briefly, and made q remarkably con-
else survey of the political and eco
homie situation.
Probably no one in America was
better fitted to size up Germany than
Doctor Taylor.
While America was neutral, during
those first months of the great war,
Taylor was travelling through the
length and breadth of Germany in
specting the allied prison camps. He
was attached to the American embas-
sy. He gained, during the days be-
fore we were in the war, an intimate
knowledge of German war methods,
German official procedure. German in
trigue, German lies, German cruelty,
and came to know all about the condi-
ton Of economic Germany.
You would never pick Taylor out of
crowd as one of our leading Ameri-
cans, because he does not look like Il
statesman, a college professor, a po-
lltical economist, or & diplomat-and
he Is all OF these things.
When he hurried out of Mr.. Hoov-
er'g office in the Hotel de IrillOn, on
his return from Germany, Taylor
started, without pause, to get into
the heart of his talk with group Of
American newspaper men that had as
sembled to learn the truth about the
Germans. He actually talked one hour
and forty-five minutes. He answered
half Il hundred questions.
"Same Old Gang"
"They'Ve got the same Old gang in
the government offices at Berlin that
we knew before and during the war;
Taylor began. "SOme kind of a revO-
luton actually started in Germany be-
fore the armistice was signed. For
the time being that revolution is be-
ing held up. The politicians are bend
ing every effort to get governmental
machine working smoothly, in order to
present some kind of solid front to
the allies when the time comes to set
tie final peace terms. While the gov
eminent is shaping itself the old civil
servants are being kept in the govern
ment Offices The men in control do
not intend taking unframed men into
the government. because they have the
concrete example of the failure of the
Russian government that took UNI
trained officials into the government
machine. The Germans in control
won't allow Germany'S government to
fall to pieces like the Russian govern
ment."
AS soon as peace is actually de-
clared the Germans will start out set
fling their internal difficulties and can
be expected to introduce many social
istic reforms--possibly the socializa-
ton of many of the leading industries,
such as the large factory groups and
the coal and potash and iron mines.
In the meantime, the men in control
at Berlin are endeavoring to get their
people back to work, back to the in
dustriOus and nonpolitical ways of 80
years ago before the miltaristic
crowd started preaching world con-
quest and "kulturiZation" of the globe.
MiIitarism Is Gone.
And it is now appreciated that the
Germans have a long way to go before
Z hnx of
as even a halfway decent nation.
Militarism as Il world menace in
Germany is gone, Doctor Taylor be-
lieves. He found sufficient evidence
to satisfy him that the German army
of the old days is thing of the past.
AS to the men at the helm in Berlin
who are trying to solve the present
urgent problems of the country-they
have had no change of heart no con-
version TO the doctrines of President
Wilson unless they are permitted to
retain their original boundaries.
Failing to hoodwink the world into
giving them territory that never be-
longed to them rightfully, the Ger
mans are going to take the attitude
that they are Il much abused nation.
And they are going to hint broadly
that no good can come of abusing Il
nation of 100000 people. In fact,
they are already beginning propa-
ganda to make their people believe the
allies are eager for an unjust peace.
Non compos Mentis.
Today the German has figured out a
kind of new philosophy of life. He
wants to eat his cake and have it too.
He admits that he would have been
overjoyed had the central powers won
the war and enslaved the world. He
sees no wrong in kulturized world.
He believes that any means the mill
tary party took to win the war, no
matter how cruel, and no matter what
suffering these methods caused inno-
cent populations, We're justified.
Now that the Germans have been
l1cn &,xJ