The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-12-09
Europe Is Drifting.
Paul M. warburg, in New York Times.

@ ~ Tau M. WaTpur9, IN NW YORK Times. IN $E
At the British trades union congress held at Portsmouth during the
summer we find the joint committee IN the cost of living submitting a report
the international aspect Of the problem Of high prices we think thai: o9 tho
Of peace throughout the world is a prime essential; CD
1t is interesting most encouraging to find progressive capital in n
tente End neutral countries in practically complete accord with conservative,
organized labor o n these points.
alive to the fact that every day h solution OF this problem is postponed
aay III is dangerously close to the brink. and that her plunge would with
Individually and collectively the Germans are al the end of their tether.
ahey ire undernourished n tuberculosis is spreading at an alarming pace.
taxation in 100 different forms takes an amazing proportion OF their capital
ad income while thu balance of their revenues command only a fraction Of
aeir n time purchasing power With all that though the item of evenu
ron take in the latest budget provides for a n estimated increase from
1000 marks before the wa to approximately 3oO00Oo00oo marks
shem In The ace, which is being met by constantly printing more notes and
treasury bills. Their ships, their colonies, the bulk of their foreign invest
has laid many industries idle n keeps the people freezing n houses which,
ne rich have to share with the poor; their country is dsorganized through
lots and Instructions is totally insufficient and unreliable How, o n top.
social disorder?
The danger O. such a situation is that if driven to desperation even the
aanest population might in the en- surrender to the argument of the reac
sonary ITO the effect that if all hope for a brighter future is to be abandoned,
It might be better to opent the doorso of bolshevisnl in spite o all its horrors.
which then would enguf all Europe an give Germany a chance to start
gain on an equal level with her unforgiving victorious enemies.
Europe is at the crossroads of her destiny, an HI decision whether
80 viii sink or rise lies largely in the hands Of France. There re those
N Franc who take the moderate n wise view that, if Europe and her
cease 10 carry OF a "a after peace that hey must stand together in re-
moving the wreckage and in trying to salvage what still can be saved.
ton setuad promptly and N a reasonable basis AS against this school of
thought there are the bitter enders" who partly from hatred engendered
= dnsraa fnh a4s o nn neverr an mmnu eos rm %u n uopiI@ rn u nf ro oano ~ sue OF
own feeling is lat tn moderate elements in France ultimately are bound
70 prevail; her financial and economic difficulties and her genuine anxietes
however, S % real and sc grave that it is mos difficult fr her to reach
No fair minded person would deny that France is entitled to the most
complete military protection against the risk OF a military attack by Ger
man n that she is entitled to special consideration for her industries
crippled by he destruction of "a n as large an indemnity IS III German
lose these benefits to which h IS fairly entitled unless Germany is given
a chance to work and become reasonably prosperous