San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-06

! hence? That was the question the
writer asked more than a score OF
members of the Rcichstag in the lobby
of the German Parliament today. In
! the shadow Of statues of bismarck.
| the empires Iron chancellor" and of
| William |, Germ-ny's first kaiser, the
men who moulded the great German
reich. lot of deputies now responsible
for the country'S fate. shrugged their
shoulders and admitted frankly or
shamefully that it had never occurred
to them TO give thought to what the
outcome of the present muddle would
be.
DO you really mean that when you
approved the CunO cabinets present
policy of offering resistance to the
French in the Ruhr and refusing to
pay reparatiOns. you never considered
the future?' the correspondent asked
in turn. a nationalist. a ccntrist, a
democrat, a socialist and a communist
deputy. Following were the replies
received:
No Thought to Future.
ationalist-"Germa must stick
TO her present policy of moral resis-
lance and not yield a single point to
the foe. How long we can do so, |
do not know. If we had an army it
would be easy to settle this question,
but now all We can hope for is inter
ventioS-"
CentriSt-"My party heartily ap-
proves of Chancellor Cuno'S present
course and hopes that his policy will
win out. If the French counter every
move the Germans make as they have
done in the last few weeks the German
government will be put in the air and
will not know what TO do. We never
expected the present deadlock to last
as long as it has
Democrat--"So far the Democratic |
party has supported the government |
but we think the time has come to ap- !
peal 10 the United States. Great Brit !
ain or some other neutral country TO /,
intervene. Too much of Germany's lu- !
ture prosperity is at stake 10 risk it by |
being stubborn and making no move !
because of some statement in the past |
that Germany would not take the first |
step. Unless Chancellor Cuno realizes |
this soon it will be better if someone |
else takes his place. When Germany |
embarked on her present policy she |
did not realize how long the Ruhr Oc-
cupation might last. Like the I'M
perial government in the case of the |
World War, she seems to have thought
it would be very short"
Socialist-"Germany's working men
are getting tired of the Ruhr business.
They are convinced that Chancellor
Cuno, who is running Germany with
out consulting the working men, is |
TRYING 10 please the owners of the |
Ruhr industries more than the miners
and the working men down there and |
that Cuno had no idea of that he |
started when he adopted his present |
policy. But how about the working |
men in Bochum and other cities who,
according to the newspapers are no |
longer able to get enough food on ac-
count of the state of siege proclaimed |
by the French and the strike of shop |
keepers which was the result? The !
officials who from Berlin |
dictate to the Ruhr population and
tell them to refuse to obey French or
the events in the Ruhr district. The |
future looks dark to us and we cannot !
possibly imagine what the situation |
will be like after another few months
Of these uncertain conditions.
Communicable Cuno cabinet is |
ruled completely by SHINES and Com
pany. Hugo SHINES failed to reach an
agreement with the French comite des
FORCES and is now forcing the govern !
ment to resist the French even if 1t
means unemployment and starvation
for the 6.000.000 inhabitants of the
Rubr region. The Cuno cabinet and |
the bourgeois parties in the Heichstag |
who applaudcd the policy OF passive |
resistance have not the slightest idea |
where they stand now and what will |
happen in the future. The working |
men themselves were never asked as
to their opinion; if they had been the
situation would be totally different.
Other deputies belonging to these |
parties had the same opinions which |
shows that after another few months
Or perhaps a few weeks Germany will
be quite at sea unless some outside
power intervenes.