San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-19
SITUATION IN
GERMANY HAS
NOT IMPROVED
Cabinet Change Means
Little and Ruhr Still
Is Problem.
SAME PARTIES WIN
Harden Asserts Change Is
But New Alignment
Of Old Forces.
SAME PARTIES WIN
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN.

by MAMMALIAN hAhDEN.
Copyright. by The San Antonio Light.
Berlin, Aug. 1S.-Chancellor Strese'
mann steps to the fore on the political
stage of Germany as Cuno retires,
And in the wake of the latter's retire
ment one sees the-whirl of political par
ties-parties once The avowed support
ers of Cuno, then his regulators and
now the staunch proponents of the
new regime.
This very digrified vacillation is
easily explainable. The street had
spoken. Despite trade union warn.
ings, low wages had caused many
strikes. The printing presses which
had been turning out eight trillion
marks daily, stool still. Prices climb
cd steadily. German money became 50
scarce that foreigners were glad when
they could exchange their currency for
half the official quotations. There
was no light, no street cars, no food,
no money-all this was too much even
for the occident's most patient peoples.
The socialists and the trade union
lists saw their hold on the people slip
ping. They feared competition from
the communists and decided to save
themselves by sharply disavowing the
hated Cuno cabinet. Other parties
feared the loss of votes if they con-
tinued to support the most pitiable Of
all German cabinets. The same fac
ton that had maintained an incompe-
tent chancellor in office, overthrow
him.
Little Meaning i'm Change.
The socialists who had joined the
new coalition were really equally re-
sponsible for Cuno's chief mistakes
and their participation was contrary
to the desire of the mass of their
voters. u.s..
The communists general strike
broke down, but the atmosphere was
still unhealthy. If the daily struggle
for bare existence were not paralyzing
all political activity it would be seen
more clearly that the lower classes,
whose anger compelled the sudden
change IN cabinet are not satisfied
with the new cabinet. There is diff
ficulty in securing even the minimum
nourishment. The fall of stocks as a
result Of the unexpected and gigantic
new taxes and the shortage of money
occupy the peoples attention moro
than does the change in the personnel
of the cabinet which contains only the
well known figures in new groupings.
The new chancellor, like his prede-
cessor, comes from the industrial par
fy which calls itself the peoples party
in order not to brighten off the voters.
This party especially has been attack
ed by the socialists and accused of
being merely the servant of capitalism.
Now four socialists sit in the cabinet
headed by Chancellor Stresemann, the
leader of the suspected peoples party,
and the minister of finance is DIR. Ru-
dolph Hilferding, a follower of Karl
Marx, who once published a scientific
work attacking finance capital and
then became editor of Berlin's most
radical socialist newspaper. He wasn't
merely born in Austria, but possesses
the almost unforgivable failing of be-
ing Jew.
Adversely makes strange bedfellows
and GermanY's adversely counsels alb
stention from characterizing the chan
eellor for time.
Militant and Reactionary.
Stresemann was an enthusiastic
mouthpiece Of the army command OF
the monarchy and of unrestricted
submarine warfare and still in 1919
he was regarded as SO militant and
reactionary that even the meek dem
ocrats refused to admit him TO their
party. For nine years he helped to
make every variety of psychological
and political mistake. He made
speeches favoring most of the mistakes
and only few days ago declared him
self in agreement with the indescrib-