El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-12
GERMANY Would
BIG ARMY

. in the treaty Of versailles. But IN
Itic1iarly Britain, have been impress
ed with the German uliitaristic
plea that IL is necessary 20 preserve
I the German army il order 10 avoid
bolshevism and as result there has
been q break between the allies,
which encouraged the Germans TO
risk the defiance Of France and the
/ transport OF certain government
troops 10 the Rhine area
French action was forcseen- At
last one nation is emerging from the
foc and preparing 10 follow q set
tied policy The French man 20 in
sisL that the German troops shall not
be permitted 10 invade regions for
hidden them by the treaty. which are
in fact regions through which an at
tack upon France must pass they
mean TO insist upon the reduction OF
TIL German army and the have
reached the sane and logical conclu-
sion that the German cry about boil
shevism Is nothing more or less than
a propaganda vancouver 10 obtain al
lied permission to keep their army
In fun strength and 10 use it against
the real democratic and liberal ele-
ments in Germany
Our Mistaken Notion
The main difficulty in America and
in Great Britain, so FAR as Germany
is concerned. grows out Of the wholly
Inaccurate notion that the war did in
fact dispose Of German milirarism
and the elimination Of the kaiser
ended the old regime
Nothing could be less accurate. In
the first place the kaiser was not
the brains but the symbol OF the old
order As the war progressed be-
came more and more q mere creature
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and at the end, he was sacrificed TO
the system. which he had publicly
typifled. with utter ruthlessness-
Today. Il IS credibly reported from
Holland that his unceasiuE complaint
is that he was betrayed and aban-
doned and there can be but little
doubt that he was coerced into abdi-
cation by servants Of the old order
seeking q scapegoat
In the second place. no real lib
eral control ever came into being in
Germany on the contrary the men
who had opposed the war, who spoke
for real revolution. were promptly
murdered and the control OF the gov
eminent was vested in the hands OF
sham liberals who had been the ac-
completes Of the uilitarists during
the war period.
For a certain time the mask
was worn. Ludendorff went TO
1atess there was great sem
blanee Of a new order. But pres
entity the old leaders reemerEed-
Events disclosed the control Of
the army still vested I'm the
hands which had controlled be-
fore and during the Wur and
presently both HlndenburE and
Ludendorff reappeared in Berlin
and their renppenrances were
signals for junker demOustru-
tons.
This reaction eliminated in the
kappist counter revolution Had u
been fully successful. the old order
would have been restored 20 the sad
die and Ebert and his associates
would have disappeared permanently.
The Old Conditions
Complete control OF Germany by
the old Prussian crowd would IN
occasionally mean relatively prompt
reorganization OF Germany indus
trially II would mean an end Of
chaos. Of strikes. OF disorders But
K would mean in the same way. a
return TO the old armed peace OF the
years before 1915. il would mean
that under cover OF alleged fears or
disorder. Germany would once more
build I'd an army 70 be used for Ak
erosion and generation hence we
might have all OF US 10 fight the
same fight over again
Allied nations have 20 decide
which they fear most economic
disorder for q period Of years,
during which there e. an evolu-
ton Of Germany and a march
toward liberal IDEAS or speedy
economic refrigeration spur-
chased by IN alliance. tacit but
rCLi, between the POtsdam gang
and their western enemies Of
the recent war.
If the Ebert government. which
remains a mere camouflaEe, Is per
mitted 20 use the army. commanded
by the old officers and lmbued with
the spirit which expressed itself at
Louvain and all over northern
France in 1914. 70 stifle the revo-
luton In the west. then we shah see
a total elimination Of democratic
elements from Germany and the re-
turn OF the regime which was or
ganiZed by Bismark on the founda-
tons OF Frederick the Great--Copy-
right, 1918. by Mcclure Newspaper
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