The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-09-13
GERMANY, WITH THE II
GREAT WAR ENDED
Written Specially For The Manning.
Times.
(By Edward Percy Howard

nations destined to bloodshed and
suffering to maintain and develop
their entity, old nations embittered
to battle for their reincarnation.
Of Germany review indicates
bankrupt nation, but one getting back
on it's feet. Financial ruin has lit
tie meaning. So lon gas the world
will accept German paper money at
some price, so long will the printing
presses turn it out.
1t is difficult to get proper per-
spective of Germany. Henri Lich-
tenberger, professor of the University
of Paris, in a twelve day visit to
Berlin few weeks ago, dug out some
very interesting facts.
Growth of National Party Shows
Trend of Thought
Llchtenberger points out that the
German National party has succeed
ed the old Conservative party. This
includes the aristocrats, the proprie-
tors of large estates and high officials
of the old regime. The officials who
have lost their positions and who are
living from hand to mouth supply the
party with force, are always ready
for action, are energetic, eager for
battle and even anxious for a fight.
The university people, both fac
ulty and students, fed OH the tradi-
ton of policy of force, feel keenly
the humiliation of defeat, and have
ranged themselves solidly behind the
idea of restoration Of the German
military power. The peasants form.
the mass of the party.
The leaders have capitalized GER
tain elemental mental conditions
for the purpose Of building strength,
and organization. They exploit the
bitterness of the former privileged
classes, tltvJ play upon the resent
ment of TIE disbanded army, they
wave the fear lag of Bolshcvism,
and excite the anti-Semite passion
al! tie profound misery caused by
the attitude Of France toward the |
conquered. Hence they have linked
to common cause the fanatics, the !
d!scontentcd, and the lovers of mill
tarism.
The German newspapers, particu-
larly the Deutsche Tagcszeitung,
aid in driving the masses to despair
They infuse them with the convic-
ton that they have nothing more to
lose, no matter what happens.
Even before the bloc dhas coagu-
lated in the German wounds, there
has been established an almost uni
vcrsal determination to rcconquer
the lost provinces, particularly up
per Silesia and even Alsace-Lor-
raine. The old German Imperial |
ism is far from dead.
Socialists Want Peace But Peoples
Party Revenues
AS against this attitude of the |
National party there battle the
Democratic Socialists and idealists
who want to purge the country of
revenge, and who dream of last
ing peace in which the nations
shall lie down together, the lions
becoming lambs. Plus this is found
the Peoples party, composed of
many captains Of industry, bold and
reSOlute men who have financed
Germany in the war and since the
war, men who are making huge
profits from the revival of industry
and who are doing the best they
can to conceal every dollar they
make. While the Nationalists would
be happy with revenge, the Peoples
group would be content with rev.
enue.
Briefly the public mind is kept in a
responsive condition by wise Ger
man economists, ready to be excited
in whatever direction may be most
useful. 1t must and will be moulded
to suit the emergency of the hour,
and that it will respond there can
be no doubt. The lion and the lamb
may lay down together, but sooner
or later there can be only one an
swer-more graves, more suffering,
more treachery, and more sacrifice,
thinks Lichtenbergcr.
There is no hurry about this thing,
of course. A renewal Of physical
war is not probable in some time.
The fist phase of a struggle usually
is political and economic.
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