The Pensacola journal., 1922-12-04
The Pulse of the Nation

ing to make the socialists see that il
takes 10 hours work a day to pay up,
to which the Brooklyn Eagle adds that
mot until the sober sense of the French
people put an end to the present re
vanche policy is there any hope of sta
biHzing governments or policies in cen
trail Europe"
The SHINES group must reckon with
more or less passive resistance Of mil
lions of organized, intelligent and radica
WOrkmen," says the New York Globe
terms with the allies. In any event il
seems certain that anarchy and ruin
must follow if the attempt to bleed this
once great nation is not at least tenn
pOrarily abandoned" And, while the
downfall of this cabinet has Of course
been feared the Washington Star recalls
that 'it often falls out that realization
of an event is not nearly SO bad as an.
ticipatiOn has painted it, and it may be
SO in the case of the Berlin government
If it serves to bring the allies, and par
ticularly France and England, into agree
ment OH a just and workable Preparations
program. the passing Of Wirth may
prove the greatest Of benefits. But ii
the policy of resistance is strengthened
in Germany, and the allies draw apar
instead Of together, the days ahead will
be full of trouble with disaster always
lowering near" The New York World
believes that the surprising thing about
the Wirth cabinet was that it lasted Sc
long. The real cause of his downfall is
almost certainly the increasing power Of
the great industrialists under the leader
ship of SHINES. Germany is at the end
Of her rope. In the next few months the
choice will have to be made between a
catastrophe and q settlement"
There is very deep significance" in
the events leading up to the crisis the
Baltimore Sun is convinced because ''it
is not unwelcome to the big business in
terests who have never appreciated his
efforts to make vested wealth bear the
chief burden of reparations. DR. Wirth 5
resignation not only indicates some
thing of the domestic dscord in Ger
many-it makes plain the conviction of
an honest German, who has done his
best to meet allied requirements, that nc
amount of external pressure will for the
time being wiring anything tangible from
a country now almost as insolvent as
Austria" The Newark News sees be-
hind the resignation the bringing nearer
of the clash between the socialists and
nom socialists and "a continuance of the
group struggle that underlay the sup
pressed revolution, and until some set
tlement is reached between these group
there is no reason to expect any definite
developments in the relations between
Germany and her neighbors. 1t is often
assumed that Germany needs SHINES,
which is one Of those things that may or
may not be true. But whether the bet
ter place for him is in the government,
where he would surely dominate or
smash, or in the opposition, is the ques-
cause there is little likelihood that the
political parties can reach an agreement
the Roanoke World News fears that tile
condition of Germany bids fair to be-
come more and more wretched. The un-
happy country presents a sad and warn
ing spectacle to those Americans who
would split the people of this country
into 'blocs'."
It is a colossal task that now con-
fronts the new ministry, the Syracuse
Herald says, and lit may seriously be