Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-10-23
By MACMILLAN HARDEN,
Germany's Foremost PubIicist.
Special Cable to The Tribune.


Berlin. Oct 2o.-WilI the Wirth cab
German people over the Silcsian deei-
sion of the League of Nations?
This question. however. really is less
important than it seems at distance
OF far greater Importance is what I'M
derles it
Americans doubtless are bored by the
Upper Siiesian struggle Successive
German governments have made the
mistake of telling the people that the
plebiscite was held to determine
whether the province should be Polish
or German and that as 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, according to the treaty
of Versailles, the plebiscite was to
show only where the GermanPolis
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 being
placed under foreign rule.
Outcry Against Silesian Decision
Despite the two-fifths Polish vote
in the province. Chancellor Wirth has
ceaselessly repeated undivided Silesia
must remain German Hence the
loud cutlery of today which the chan
cellor has not attempted to stifle be-
cause it has served TO draw attention
away from his mistakes in signing the
Weisbaden agreement for reconstruc-
ton work in France before he knew
Silesia fate.
This Loucher- Rathenau agreement
binds Germany to deliver in the next
x-,,1, Nf hi
paper marks for use in the devasted
regions. besides heavy cash payments.
These sums must be paid to contract
ors by the German treasury which thus
will be compelled continuously to in
crease the enormous paper money in
flation from which the country now
is suffering.
Only in increasing her exports to
extents heretofore undreamed. can Ger
many free herself from this distress.
Money depreciation facilitates exports
and therefore, is so welcome to the in
dustrials just now that a Westphalian
leader said recently: IF the mark
should improve considerably. it would
be terrible economic catastrophe
Will Become Export Plague
To meet even half of the reparaiions
expected of her. Germany must export
so copiously and so cheaply as to be-
come an export plague. poisoning the
commerce of all industrial nations and
her only hope today is that the nations
thus threatened will demand a revision
Of the treaty and a reduction of repara-
tons to possible figure
Production for mass export is pos
sible only if strikes are avoided and
labor's demand conceded in understands
ings with the trade unions. Therefore,
the so called peoples party, (which is
really monarchist and represents big
capitan recently de-
clared it's support for the republican
regime and willingness to make all pos
siblc concessions. The social demo-
cratic party convention declared it's
to form coalition with
This "Stnnes party" as the labor lead
ers call the peoples party.
1t is true that many proletariats
are against such union and threaten
70 desert to the Independents it il is
but gradually. even in
Germany. the lure of office entices
eaders Of both the right and left.
Men who have spent their lives as
BETTY party officials or as obscure