South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-03-14
Germany Falls Into Hands of MonarchistS
BY Grace of y. S. Senate Treaty Assassins

FAILURE OF the United States to ratify the Paris
= treaty and make OF the League OF Nations
going institution. It should have been at
east six months ago, proves today to have been
such an enteriRg-vedge between the allies weaken
ing their solidlarity-exactly what Germany has
wanted.--that facing the patent weakness her
old foes the old reactonary forces favorable
restoration OF the monarchy. have been permitted
20 resume control OF the Berlin government.
OF course. It is under pretense at leost for the
present OF continuation Of republic every
body knows how little the pan Germanists care
about forms OF government long they
have control revolution 30 peaceable. and a
render resistant is reported the Ber-
I'm capital hardly be regarded in its results,
very unsatisfactory the German people. In
consequence OF the American aloftness and the
limited cooperation Of the associated powers first
came a practical capitulation OF the allied demand
for surrender os the kaiser. then OF the other
criminals and finally growing disposition,
mOllycOddnng in nature. to finance Germany and
try becoming a OF good angel" 70 her.
The German however doesn't mollycoddle that
way. He has never considered himself whipped and
with the allied powers not cooperating. and show
ing tendency to surrender-the responsibility for
which lays upon the United States senate and no
where eIse.--he counts every concession of the al
lies as weakness, and as a generosity never Ger
allies Good samaritanism but GENERALIZATION
OF the inability OF the allied Iowers the
treaty terms against her The teutonic mind does
not operate like any other mind earth. The
radical the threats made against Germany during
the war the evidence she sees in the failure
20 carry them out OF a confession that the allies
were wrong and Germany right and that the terms
OF the treaty cali for blood-money rather than
justice.
seems only the other day when all the talk in
England and France, and most of the talk in Amer
lea. for crippling Germany industrially There
was almost universal desire to punish that coun
Try By taking whatever wealth she had left after
the and putting her. for a generation at least
beyond the possibility OF Industrial and CONNER
cial competition with the allies Who does not re-
member the propaganda carried In this country
in 1918 for perpetual boycott against Ger
many?
It is not charity. however. that urges the change.
unless it Is charity that fattens the calf for kill
ing, least. according TO German reason To
her, TO use a appropriate figure, the allies
End themselves confronted with the seeming
OF feeding the German goose II they hope to get
any golden eggs. Germany has made considerable
progress toward reconstruction but is stu far from
able to demands for money and goods i'm
posed her by the treaty. II is held by many al
lied statesmen that big loan. for which ample
German security was taken. would be the best
means OF guaranteeing that Germany will meet her
obligations Germany in it only the dis
position TO get the most out OF Germany
There is growing conviction. too that quite
aside from the settlement the permanent
good the allied countries would not be promoted
by keeping Germany PROSTATE. The old economic
truth. that nations grow rich by each others
dustry and commerce, Is finding more general
ceptance. It IS realized that only a Germany able
TO sell goods viii be able to buy goods-and all the
allies Increasingly eager to get into the German
market. Such motives may not be noble, but they
are reasonable, and going TO play their part
in future dealings with Germany; that is they
would II Germany would let them.
But aye. there's the rub, Regarding the
United States as quite it, due to her friends
in the senate. and the hindrances thrown in the
way OF the functoning OF the League OF Nations
Germany with the nnonarchist party again at the
helm, IS merely paving the way the declaration
that the Paris treaty is n mere scrap Of paper"
Shs may borrow some money from the allies if they
VIII loan Il to her but when # to paying the
treaty indemnities. that is matter which she
looks with another eye. Frankly would be
surprised 70 Wilhelm Hohenzollern back on the
throne OF Germany before another election in the
United States; placed there by the treaty assassns
the United States senate. so engrossed in making
political capital OF the Paris undertaking. that
The direction in which the affairs of the world is
tending. concerns them not
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