The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-05-23
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Copyright. 1919. by Western Newspaper Union)
Paris.-That Germany has expert
enced no change Of heart as 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 remarkably con-
else survey Of the political and eco
nomic 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
speeding the allied prison camps. He
was attached to the American embas-
~. 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
| q crowd as one Of our leading Ameri-
cans, because he does not look like a
| statesman, college professor, po-
litical economist, or diplomat-and
| he is all of these things.
When he hurried out of Mr.. Hoov-
| er's office in the Hotel de CrillOn, 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 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 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 dc
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 contrO
won't allow Germany's government t.
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 cal
be expected to introduce many social
istic reforms-possibly the socializa
ton of many Of the leading industries
such as the large factory groups an
the coal and potash and iron mines.
In the meantime, the men in contro
at Berlin are endeavoring to get thei
people back to work, back to the ir
dustrious and nonpolitical ways of o
years ago before the militaristi
crowd started preaching world cor
: quest and ''kulturization" Of the globe
!. Militarism Is Gone.
And it is now appreciated that tn
,. Germans have long way to go befor
they come out of this war experienc
as even halfway decent nation.
Militarism as world menace !
Germany is gone, Doctor Taylor b.
lieves. He found sufficient evidenc
to satisfy him that the German arm
of the old days is thing of the pas
As to the men at the helm in Berli
who are trying to solve the preser
urgent problems of the countryside
have had no change of heart, no col
version to the doctrines Of PresideI
Wilson unless they are permitted
retain their original boundaries.
Failing to hoodwink the world int
giving them territory that never b
longed to them rightfully, the &c
mans are going to take the attitut
that they are a much abused natio
And they are going to hint broad
that no good can come of abusing
nation of 100000 people. In fac
they are already beginning prop
ganda to make their people believe Il
allies are eager for an unjust peace.
Non compos Mentis.
Today the German has figured out
:. Kind of new philosophy of life. T
wants to eat his cake and have it to
He admits that he would have be-
q oyerjoSed had the central powers WI
Q the war and enslaved the world,
2 sees no wrong in kulturized worl
He believes that any means the mi
tary party took to win the war,
q matter how cruel, and no matter VIII
9 suffering these methods caused inn
cent populations, were justified.
y Now that the Germans have be-
defeated and see some of their ste'
g ings of the past half century going o
mi