The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-01-02

rich are rapidly giving up what they
have. Sixty per cent Of the large
fortunes have to be handed over in
taxes, and smaller percentages Of the
smaller ones. and all the war
fortunes have to be turned over
bodily to the new government to ap-
ly on the payments to the allies. so
the rich are being punished along
with the poor. All Germany is in
hard circumstances and consider
themselves virtually in prison, for
they cannot get out, and simply have
to remain and stand it. Health,
nerves, cheerfulness, hope and pep
are all suffering from constant
squeeze as if under wise, and little
prospect of any substantial relief
from it for fifteen or twenty years.
How Germany
Pays
1t has been said, and we all regret,
that Germany was not made to feel
the weight and horror of war by hav-
ing it carried into her own country,
and that is we'll said, but we should
remember that every residence was
stripped of it's metals, useful and
ornamental, that copper and brass
wherever found, was seized for use
in war, that the church bells were
melted down and made into cannon
that were surrendered, that the very
doorknobs and light fixtures were
often sacrificed for the metals they
afforded, that all luxuries and COM
forts that could be sacrificed to help
in war were levied upon. Eevery-
thing has gone into dis-repair, and
is threadbare, and everybody from
the rich down to the laborers and
the unborn have suffered from actual
hunger till it tells upon the consti-
tutions, and it holds on with a stub
bornness that breaks the spirit.
These are some of the views, which
if true, should afford considerable
satisfaction to- the restless ones in
whose bosoms there is bitterness
the thought that Germany has
so far escaped the weight of war.
And now the kaiser, that cock-sure
monarch who thought himself above
rendering accounts to anybody on
earth, has become convinced that he
must stand trial for instigating all
the horrors and atrocities of the war.
The Hapsburgs
Suffer Too
And now the great city of Vienna,
the home of the Hapburges, the
home of the proud monarch who was
the kaiser's associate in forcing the
war, is suffering greater woes from
famine and all it's attendant fortunes
than any other great city in Europe.
After all the starvation of the fight
ing period Wien there were bread
riots and bread strikes, and one
strike after another was put down by
force of arms and the hungry went.
back to work on shorter and still
shorter ADMINISTRATIONS that only
the stronger ones could keep alive
on, they came into the after-war
period only to see new boundary
lines drawn in such way as to
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leys from which they had drawn
their supplies, and the rulers of the
provinces across the border would
let absolutely nothing go across to
Vienna even for money. That rap
idly reduced the proud old capital
to absolute starvation, and the death
rate has rapidly increased till the
horses, cats, dogs. rats, canaray
birds and every living thing except
ing people, have been killed eff for
food. One case is given of sixteen
year old girl being killed and the
body divided and eaten by poor p+o-
pie in the neighborhood who
acknowledged that they knew who
and what they were eating.
A Great Capital
An appeal has been made to the
allied committee governing the food
and commerce restrictions, to rush
food to Vienna before the twenty
first of January, as an even distribu-
ton of everything eatable would
leave nothing for anyone after that
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