The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-18
BY IlOYD ALLEN,
Western Newspaper Union Staff Cor
RESPONDENT.

cnced no change Of heart is q result
of her military defeat is the message
DR.. 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 a remarkably con-
else survey of the political and eco
nOmic situation.
Probably no one in America was
better fitted to size up Germany tina
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
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 ever pick Taylor out Of
q crowd as one Of our leading Ameri-
cans, because he does not look like a
statesman, a college professor, q po-
litical economist, or a diplomat-and
he Is all Of these things.
When he hurried out of MIR. Hoov-
er's office In the Hotel de CrillOn, on
his return from Germany, Taylor
started, without a pause, to get into
the heart of his talk with a group of
American newspaper men that had as
sembled to learn the truth about the
Germans. He actually talked one hour
and forty-ive minutes. He answered
half a 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 a governmental
machine working smoothly, in order to
present some kind Of a solid front to
the allies when the time comes to set
tie final peace terms. While the gov
eminent is shaping itself tire 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 un-
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
ting 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 so
years ago before the militaristic
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 60 before
they come out of this war experience
as even a halfway decent nation.
Militarism as a 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 a 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 be-
longed TO them rightfully, the Ger
mans are going to take the attitude
that they are q much abused nation.
And they are going to hint broadly
that no good can come Of abusing a
nation of 100000 people. In fact,
they are already beginning a 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 Tn cat his cake and have II 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 a kulturized world.
He believes that any means the mill
tary party took to win the war, nc
matter how cruel, and no matter what
suffering these methods caused inno-
cent populations, were justified.
Now that the Germans have been
defeated and see some Of their steal
ings of the past half century going out