The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-04-11
By LLOYD ALLEN,
Western Newspaper Union staff Cor
respondent.

Copyright, 1919. by Western Newspaper tnton-f |
Paris.-That Germany has expert
enced no change of heart as a result |
of her military defeat is the message |
DIR. Alonzo Taylor has just brought
20 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
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
speeding the allied prison camps. He
was attached to the American embas-
sy. He gained, during the days be
fore we were III 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 con.i-
tion of economic Germany.
You would never pick Taylor out of
crowd as one of our leading Amer-
cans, because he does not look like n
statesman, college professor, n po-
litical economist, or a 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 a group of
American newspaper men that had as
sembed 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 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 a 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 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
Ting their internal difficulties and car
be expected to introduce many social
tstic 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 contro
at Berlin are endeavoring to get theil
people back to work. back to the in
dustrious and nonpoltical ways of 81
years ago before the militaristi,
crowd started preaching world con
quest and "kulturization" of the globe
Militarism Is Gone.
And it is now appreciated that thu
Germans have long way to go before
they come out of this war experience
as even halfway decent nation.
Militarism as world menace il
Germany is gone, Doctor Taylor be
lieves. He found sufficient evidence
to satisfy him that the German arm!
of the old days Is thing of the past
AS to the men at the helm in Berlil
who are trying to solve the presen
urgent problems Of the Countrywide.
have had no. change of heart, no con
version to the doctrines of Presiden
Wilson unless they are permitted II
retain their original boundaries.
Failing to hoodwink the world int
giving them territory that never be
lOnged to them rightfully, the Ger
mans are going to take the attitude
that they are much abused nation
And they are going to hint broadl
that no good can come of abusing
nation of 7OO00,0O0 people. In fact
they are already beginning propa
ganda to make their people believe tn
allies are eager for an unjust peace.
Non compos Mentis.
Today the German has figured out
kind Of new philosophy Of life. H
wants to eat his cake and have it toe
He admits that he would have bee
overjoyed had the central powers VOL
the war and enslaved the world. H
sees no wrong in kulturized world
He believes that any means the mill
tary party took to win the war, n
matter how cruel. and no matter wha
suffering these methods caused limo
cent populations, were justified.
Now that the Germans have BEEF
defeated and see some Of their steal
ings of the past half century going GU
OF their hands, they say, 1.-THE mill
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