Evening star., 1923-10-21
HOLDS GOLD LOAN
HOPE Of GERMANY
Harden Says Berlin Govern
ment Must Make More
Honest Effort.
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN.

By Wireless to The Star.
BERLIN, October 20.-A govern
ment which demands dictatorial pow
ers proves thereby that it Is merely
negligible ornament of democratic
parliamentarism or else an evil which
b is unavoidable in good weather. but
intolerable in a storm. A parliament
which grants such a demand makes
itself into a fgleaf to cover Its
shame at such a shortsighted viola
tion of democracy's fundamental
principles.
The German government and the
retchstag have done this and then
boaSted of victory. The Stresemanr
cabinet wanted to assure more stable
tax payments, more stable currency
couple of emergency laws. The reich
stag would have adopted such meas.
ures without delay. The cabinet
however. demanded an enabling
hand sand gives the reichstag merely
the right to reject of approve later
measures which are adopted without
its vote.
Necessary Majority.
Since the dictates of a party caucus
compelled thirty-one socialists and a
dozen Bavarian deputies to vote against
eApTSSS6u COnNlCIlOUS, anu since
the chancellor threatened to dissolve
the reichstag his enabling act secured
the necessary majority. The threat
OF dissolution was a bluff. A new
election would have been impos-
Bible in the occupied districts, and
would have caused uprisings in Bavaria
and the red states of Saxony, Thuringia
and Brunswick. The campaign chests
of the four coalition parties are empty
and each of those parties would have
IO9t seats a aIanfinn ha
nationalists and communists would have
gained. Therefore only those parties
opposed the proposal to give the gov
ernment blank signed check and thus
brought about the humorous spectacle
where only anti-democrats stood for
democratic principles.
The coalition parties desired victory
IN order to, strengthen the coalitions S
prestige, but at time when Horthy,
Mustapha Kemal, Mussolini, the Bull
garian fascist and the Spanish officers
junta have weakened faith in the value
of democratic institutions, wise poll
tlcians may not loudly celebrate victory
and prestige which are compelled by
concession that democracy and parlia-
fnentarianism are useless in emer-
gencieS,
Praise For Cabinet.
The Stresemann cabinet deserves
praise for its attempt to end the print
ing OF money and to create new cur
Tency. That this imitation madness must
must be ended was certain, but it
IS not so certain that the new currency
can absorb the paper mark and protect
Itself against rapid devaluation.
The workers cannot be adequately
paid or protected against cold, hun
ger and epidemics unless a stable
currency is achieved. The number of
unemployed is already nearly so per
cent. Even in Berlin laborer doesn't
earn q dollar week. He must work
Two days in order to buy a pound of
butter and six weeks to buy pair of
shoes. -
Solution of the currency problem
must not be delayed longer, but an
enduring solution is possible only il
Germany can secure a gold loan
abroad. And she can secure this only
If she regains the worlds confidence.
a country which swore in December
that 1t couldn't breathe without a
nine months spent 5000, 10000 gold
marks in a purposeless defensive
struggle, has not the right to de-
mand confidence, and is suspected
and not merely by its enemIes-of
desiring to ruin it's finances In order
TO render itself unable to pay repara-
tiOns.
Holding of Confidence.
Further distrust would be aroused
II an attempt were made by the in
dustrialists in the Rhineland and the
Ruhr to dump abroad at cost of pro-
duction" the products which they
have heaped UP since January with
the aid of government credits. The
German government would act un-
wisely if it rejected a demand for
International control as 4 violation of
Germany's sovereignty.
Fair trade and the opening of all
books are financial conditions neces-
sary TO prove trustworthiness. The
political condition necessary to prove
IT is transition to a genuine democ-
racy.
Germany's technical apparatus in
land and municipal economy is intact
Germany's people can and will work.
Germany can win confidence only
when she shows, without ambiguity,
her Willingness to acknowledge her
war indemnity without any plans for
revenge. to suffer neither communis-
tic nor monarchistic rebellions, to
put her budget in order and abolish
Superffuous officials
Copyright 1921