Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-01
CZECH PEASANTS ULTI-
MATUM SHOWS B0LSHE-
Visit GRIP ON FARMERS
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that will shortly come via Hamburg
and the Elbe can scarcely do more
than keep the country from starving.
You cannot get a square meal in
restaurant under twenty kroners zap
proXimately sd. Hence a working
man never gets square meal. | have
gone through districts where the peo-
pie say they have not had a square
meal within their memory ] have
calmly discussed starvation with peo-
pie who were starving. I have spoken
to housefeepers who have not seen
an ounce of fat in al year, and who had
only a few handfuls of flour with
which to make a loaf of bread and a
little roasted grainlfor coffee, to keep
the house upon. The wonder is that
people can be so non-partisan where
their own starvation is threatened,
and where it seems that no relief will
be possible for several months.
Election Far Off.
So the working people are naturally
tending toward an extension of their
political powers, and it seems certain
that the socialists will run the agra
rians n close second in the election of
a national assembly Most of the poll
ticians think a general election far
off, but the socialist ultimatum
sounds a strong blast for municipal
elections, which will probably take
place soon Signs of further reckon
ing arc noted even now in the attempts
of the shaky parties to divert public
attention to anti-Semitism.
The press has gone far in this direc-
ton, the worst example being fur
nished by a clerical newspaper which
suggests that the Jews be shut up in
ghettoes, as in medieval times, and
that girls be counted so that none can
disappear by means of ritual murders
Nothing would better suit some of the
politicians than a repetition of the
anti-Semitic riots that took place af-
ter the signing of the armstice, and
such recurrence is not beyond the
bounds of possibility. The clerical
newspaper to which | refer says the
Poles engaged in very serious pos
groms and that the declaration in
January by Minister klofac that the
entente would not permit poGroms was
wrong. Articles like this are pNnted
every day, although there is a pretty
strong press censorship.
In connection with the prospective
municipal elections, interest attaches
to a recent census taken by the Czecho
government to determine the nation
altities Of the population of Moravia.
Czechs always claimed that the Aus
| trian census was manipulated. 1t now
| turns out that in most of the large
| Moravian cities the Austrians gave
! the German population as twice as
| large as that shown in the present CEN
| SUI ~
In Brunn the Austrian census
| showed 1913 CZechs and S0617
| Germans white the present Czech cen
sus showed 70,S43 Czechs and 45,026
! Germans Figures such as these, il
| reaChed without manipulation, will
! mean that in the coming municipal
elections many cities formerly con-
! trolled by Germans will pass to the
| control OF Czech officials.
So very shortly we shall have direct
test Of the Czech, and German strength
| in Czccho Sloyakia, as well as a direct
| test OF party strength, Then loca
| politicians will begin to see where they
are. The birth rate of the country
continues to fall. and infant mortal
ity reports are. shocking.