The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-03-22
News Of the World
NO TIME TO BE LOST IF WE ARE
TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM THE
DESPOTISM OF ANARCHY, SAYS
LANSING
&C. B. w. J
Serious State of Affairs in Germany


Serious State of Affairs in Germany
Latest dispatches state that the Sparta
can instruction in Berlin, which has been
raging with great fury within the past two
weeks, has been brought practically to an
end by government forces. Eye witnesses
of the fighting, according to reports, say
that both the Spartacan and the government
soldiers acted like wild beasts. Women
participated in the cruelties with as much
desperation as men.
While the outbreak in Berlin has been
suppressed for the time being, it is spread
ing through other parts of Germany.
A London Times cable states that the
idea that the strike and instruction will
soon break out again in Berlin, is general.
The Dentsche Tages Zeitmng declares
that lively propaganda is being carried on
among the working classes for a general
strike and its outbreak even has been fixed
for March rs.
On March Is, monthly ration for Ger
many of $4,000 tons of foodstuffs was
fixed by the allied commission, comforting
in Brussels, with German delegation as
shipping and German owned securities in
payment for food shipments.
The Germans are. said to have observed
that the ration was smaller than they had
requested and seemed pessimistic as to the
financial arrangement Germany hopes that
the allies will provide food supplies until
August IS, which is the earliest date flour
from this years harvest can be counted
upon.
Macmillan Harden, editor of Zukunft.
and known as Germany's "most outspoken
citizen" in statement to the Associated
Press the other day, is quoted as saying
that the present German government should
be and will be overthrown; that the German
people are crazy, and that the kaiser, if he
were not coward, could return to Germany
and regain the throne
He says that Germany's new republican
government is not anything to be proud of
as it is entirely too much like the old regime
but for the time being, it ought to be rec
ognized and dealt with literally by the en-
tente, to prevent Germany from falling into
the hands of the Bo1shevists
Secretary of State Robert Lansing, in a
speech delivered at a banquet, in Paris on
the night of March | /, made this notable
declaration:
GA mighty victory has been won. The
imperial armies of the central powers have
ceased to threaten. They no longer exist.
Scattered and broken, they have returned
to their homes, where hunger and privation
await them - hunger and privation which
are the consequences of their own blind faith
in evil men who led them into this TN
righteous war.
Germany has suffered bitterly, is suffer
ing bitterly, and Germany is entitled to suf-
fer for what she has done. She has paid
fearful penalty for the crime of plunginq
the world into four years Of blood and fire.
Today starvation and want are the portions
of the German people. Violence and muir
der stalk through the streets of their great
cities. Political institution, industrial en-
terprise and the very structure of society
are tottering. It is the price of their own
evil doing, the just retribution of their
crimes
eve may be disposed to pity those limo
cent among the Germans but our pity is al
most dried up when we consider what France
and other nations have had to suffer from
the invading armies of the Teutons. Ten
days after I landed in France, in December,
| made it my business to visit the battle
fields of the Marine, Aisne and the Cham
payne. | saw the ruins of Chateau Thierry
and Fishes; | saw the stately and historic
cathedral of Reims, monument to the fe-
roc1ty of the Germans [ saw the SCARED
and upturned fields of Champagne and de-
serted places where once had been thriving,
happy villages I saw ham1ets along the
Marine whose crunbling walls bore witness
to the friehtfulness of war No man could
see what [ saw in those days without bear
ing a burning indignation against those
responsible for such ruins and destruction
"And, now that the great conflict is
ended and the mighty war engine of Prussia
is crushed, we have new problems to solve,
new dangers to overcome. East Of the Rhine
there are famine and idleness, want and
misery. Political chaos and outlawry have
supplanted the highly organized govern
ment of imperial Germany Social order is
breaking down under the difficulties of de-
feat and the hopelessness of the future.
Like the anarchy which for years made an
inferno of Russia, the fires of terrorism are
ablaze in the states of Germany. Over the
ruins of this once great empire the flames
are sweeping westward 1t is no time to
allow sentiments of vengeance and hatred
to stand in the way of checking this con-
haeration, which soon will be at the German
borders and threatening other lands We
must change the conditions on which social
unrest feeds, and strive to restore Germany
to normal, though it be weakened, social
order. Two words tell the story = food
and peace To make Germany capable of