Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-24
W|RTH CABINET
HAS RESIGNED;
DISP j TE OVER
S|LES|A CAUSE
Ministry of Premier Could
Not Survive the DiSap-
pointment Of the German
People, Harden Claims.
MAJORITY RULE IS
FORBIDDEN BY PACT
Nearly Every Teuton Shouts
That a Partition of the
Province Is a Wicked In
Justice, Statement.
By MACMILLAN HARDEN.
Especial CabIu 10 ,.orning JournaD
Copyright 1921 by Albuquerque JournnD

(SpecfaI UAbIn 10 rs0rnInB JOuFnHI
Copyright 1921 by Albuquerque JournnD
Berlin, Oct. 23.-The Wirth cab
met has fallen after a precarious
existence. 1t could not survive the
disappointment of the German peo-
pie over the Sileslan decision. This
development, however, really is less
| important than 1t seems at dis
tance.
Americans doubtless are bored
| by the Upper Siiesian struggle.
Successive German governments
have made the mistake of telling
the people that the plebiscite was
hel to determine whether the
province should be Polish or Ger
man and that a. S three-fifths of the
voters cast their ballots for Ger
many, nearly every German shouts
that a partition Of the province is
a wicked injustice. But, accord
ing to the treaty of Versa lilies, the
plebiscite was TO show only where
the German-Polish frontier was to
! be drawn. The treaty does not
allow for a majority rule over the
entire province, but permits OF only
the smallest possible minority be-
| ing placed under foreign rule.
ChancclIor's Mistakes.
Despite the two-fifths Polish
vote in the province. Chancellor
! Wirth has ceaselessly repeated,
| undivided Silesia must remain
| German" Hence TIE loud outcry
OF today which the chancellor has
not attempted to stifle because 1t
| l., tp I1snt 1ttpntiOn WHV
from his mistakes in signing the
| " eisbaden agreement for recon
struction work in France before he
knew Silesia's fate. This Loicher-
Rathenau agreement binds Ger
many to deliver in the next four
years material to the value of forty
billion paper marks for use IN the
devastated regions, besld heaVy
cash payments. These sums must
be paid to contractors by the Ger
man treasury which thus Will be
compelled continuously to increase
1.-The enormous paper money infla-
ton from which the country now is
suffering.
Only in increasing her exports to
extents heretofore undreamed, can
Germany free herself from this dis
tress. Money depreciation facill-
tates exports and therefore is SO
welcome to the industrials just
now that Westphalian leader said
recently:
"If the mark should improve
considerably it would be a terrible
economic catrastrophe.'
Must Export Copiously.
To meet even half Of the repara-
tions expected, Germany must eX-
port so copiously and so cheaply as
to become an export plague, poison
| ing the commerce of all industrial
nations and her only hope today Is
that the nations thus threatened
will demand revision or the
treaty and q reduction of the repair
atoms to a possible figure.
Production for mass export is
| possible only IL strikes are avoided
and labor's demands conceded in
understanding with the trade
unions. Therefore, the so-called
peoples party (Which is really mon
archist and represents big manu-
/ facturers and capitaD, recently de-
clared its support of the republican
regime and willingness to make an
possible concessions. The social
democrat party convention declared
its willingness to form a coalition
with this "stinnes party as the
labor leaders call the peoples party.
The lure of Office.
II is true that many roletarians
are against such union ana
threaten to desert to the independ-
ents If II is consummated. but grad
ually, even in Germany. the lure OF
| office entices leaders of both the
right and left. Men who have spent
their lives as petty party officials
or as obscure country editors do
not despise the prospect of becom-
mig president or minister or even
under-secretary with veil furnish
ed official dwelling and a motor
for the wife who shares in the title
of "excellenoy."
| The representatives of private
wealth are demanding in exchange
for their reserve credit, "eeded Tor
essential imports, control OF the
| principal state apparatus They
want to make private enterprises
Of the railroads. whose deficits now
make great holes in the state bud
get. They also want the municipal
gas. water. electric and tram serv-
ices. and even the postoffice put
ting all on the basis of private
| profit.
Possessing such power the H.
| terests could impose high rates and
combat the eight hour day, whose
application in the railways alone
caused all sorts of expense and diff
ficulties.
Who could resist him who rules
| over the harvests of the fields. the
wood Of the forests, the coal of the
earth, the iron, the textiles. chemi-
calls, heat. light and all the means
of transportation
New Economic System.
More swiftly than the socialism
Iprophesied 1000 times before. dur
ing and after the war approaches
the era of private capitalism. The
proponents OF the Industrial ana
agricultural lnicn which is TO
hasten these events and whose
strength was shown in last Sundays
elections. would be foolish TO al
low the Silesian ecison to distract
them. German feelings are per-
haps panied thereby. but the deci-
sion revealed the seed from which
4 a new European economic system
may sprout. The political frontier
fixed is not to be the economic one.
Germany's enterprise and technl-
cal skill is to cooperate with Po-
lands y, orkmen and Frances capi-
tai. II such supernatural COM
| munities should be created every
where voluntarily and not by order,
then could Europe emerge into