The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-08-02


sells on a Ruhr reparations cOmpro-
mise. Berlin also is working with
London on a dozen possible compro-
misses Berlin has never ceased try
ing to compromise with Paris. Com
promises bargains, evasions and in
ltrigues are the breath of Berlin nos
trils. But every compromise Berlin
offers. has offered or will offer aims
at escaping penalties of a war Made
in Germany" and at dividing the al
lies each against the others. Divide
and Evade" is the Berlin motto.
When will Brussels, London and
Rome have done with this folly?
When then will they learn that the
French, alone of all the allies. think
straight when dealing with the Ger
mans?
When will it penetrate British, Bel
gian and Italian skulls that Berlin has
but one aim, and only one: to evade
all payments possible, make another
scrap of paper" of the Versailles
treaty, emerge from the war-fog with
her full strength and resume the pol
icies that made Europe a red hell for
nine years?
The need of allied unity is as great
today as it was when Foch took SUI
preme command of the Keeling allies
in 1918. Great Britain is weakening
that unity Without unity Germany
will wriggle free from the just penal
ties of her sins She is playing the
familiar game she played through the
war. Never has she ceased to play
it. Every hour the patient wheedling |
the statistical whining and the pauper |
wailing go on. Tireless German fin /
gers, picking, prying and working at
the foundation stones of the entente, T
never rest.
England, a mainstay of the entente
in war; is the weak sector in peace.
Lloyd George wavered after his "kha
xii election" Bonar Law was FUN
bling and uncertain Since Stanley
Baldwin came to power there has been
too much British board of trade in
Downing street British business, be-
set by labor and bedeviled by lack of
markets and unemployment, is fascin-
tied by the phantom of German trade.
t is being bemused, befooied and be-
uddled. even as Lloyd George was by
he mirage of soviet markets Under q
Baldwin the British are acting like {
the nation of shopkeepers" Napoleon Z
allied them.
All English gestures have done is :
o stiffen German resistance at a time >
hen even Berlin admitted it was -
France is in sight of her .
Oal when London begins blowing G
isses to Berlin. Germany must sur .,
snder if Great Britain does not play .,
'aitor to France. French fingers y
utch the very heart of industrial =,
ermany
England is wrong and France is
and fundamentally right
this business. The struggle in the -
uhr is past compromising. France ..
fed up with promises and evasions. "
ermany pays only when there is -
yonet at her breast. J0e
Germany may be knee deep in
Drthless paper money but she is -
osperous. She is able to find the -
sh to buy 100000 tons of American
d millions of tons of English coal. %
e can't pay reparations but she has
md the money to support passive -
'istance' and feed thousands of the p,'
kers in the Ruhr. Money enough ~
S been poured into occupied terri ~,
y to meet all current reparations -
Ice over. se'
Germany pauper? Does a pauper
'ple dot the map with new factories. 90
ID new merchant fleet to sea, -.
Id railways and dig canals? Ger -
n Thyssens and Stinneses are pill
up riches If the Teuton middle
IS is being destroyed, Germany, not
allies, is destroying it, Germany
paying all domestic debts, public For
private, with worthless paper.
is ready to start again with n
N slate. All Germany may be Ana
lntic paper swindle and skin at
lie; but Swiss, Scandinavian, Bot
CHI, British and South American rec,
ks hold good German-owned Sc old
ties, and all Europe is overrun the
] a locust-like swarm of Swiss da
ne, prosperous Germans. dire
and when Britain turns from men
ice and breaks the entente, GER He
matters will be recalled. There fine
be barking back to the fact that adv,
land grabbed her war prizes while sibil