Show THE GERMAN PEOPLE WIT WANT PEACE prom from the bleeding hearts at germany has gone up a cry for peace that has penetrated even to the reichstag aud and the kaiser has answered it with Mich tells michaels Micha ells who speaks with the tongue ot of his rn master ter and demands war more war ignoring the spirit of democracy that Is stirring in thear the war weary hearts of a suffer suffering lg people whose fa fathers sons husbands husban hus banda ils aud and brothers have been sacrificed to an ambition for world power and bilard to the approaching crisis born of heartache azid and the new york times says of tile the unrest in germany the kaiser has spoken the german people yearned for peace and in some measure perhaps for far democracy they will ill get gel neither democracy nor peace they learn it now from his own lips for Mich aeliss lips are his when Bet bethmann limann spoke he spoke as the servant ot of the kaiser but when michaelis speaks it is the kaiser himself who speaks s after v hll bethmann was aas an individual michaelis is not an individual lie he has no identity when the kaiser dismissed bethmann he did not supplant him with some german statesman who had a personality lie he piel picked ed out an obscurity with no known view a blank sheet of paper on which to write the kaiser himself himi self became chancellor the soul of germany was waa aching for peace oliree months ago how desperate their situation is now may be gathered from conditions at that time of which A curtis roth then american vice consul at in saxony wrote rote in the times ot of march 15 16 ile he said wage earning germans nerves have been w wom raw by the increasing w weight eight of suffering that eliat the war has brought it the class of germans germana that become sullen dissatisfied ed with the government almost rebellious chile Vh ile the middle class remains in 1 tensely becsei patri a 1 ac fi d I 1 t g ye fo ri h he a P casual observer a unified and determined german fatigue of war is making alarming strides among the working people A great many of these humble people want peace at any price at the price of their colonies of 0 alsace lorraine even ot of their count lys prestige and position mr roth hns bas lived in dose bose touch etith industrial saxony where he has had spent seven years as a friend ile he therefore spoke with accurate knowledge of the industrial situation when ile he declared that the standard of living among the Nor working king people was on a par with the coolie standard of asia and conditions in saxony it is fair to assume reflected those throughout germany of the changed spirit of the people he said the working people at least in saxony are becoming restive they have hungered and grieved and overworked for many months hs with conditions steadily growing worse and with each promise of peace fading into an indefinite prospect of endurance all foods but the ve very n y co charest ar est are beyond their means the ration of the these coarse foods is insufficient the poor have been subsisting throughout the I 1 liast last year upon bread potatoes turnips and salt bait pushed much farther by oe fie stress of starvation overwork and loies of dear ones a second peasants war may well veil bo be added to the miseries d of central Fu europe rope the standard of living among the working people has been low lowered erea fearful I 1 auly y it is now on en a par with ther the coolie standard of overcrowded asia their work hay has increased their share in clothes and foods and other creature comforts has diminished and i their amusements haye have end entirely rely fallen away the urban people have be come desperately poor and they are beginning to realise that each added mouth of the war means that their plight must become more md re nud and more lo lo in the beginning all ars wild enghu for the war the people crowded around the railway stations to see the troop trains hurled buried past pact every twenty alte minutes then canie came tho the floods of wounded the difficult readjustments just ments made necessary by the absence of the wage earners and then the numbing pinch of hunger worst of bf all was the atmosphere that settled down upon the land an atmosphere of want of fear of suffering continued on t Ds two WHY THE mm GERMAN PEOPLE WANT continued from page cage 1 ot of black depression which it see ed to seep through and through one and chill tile the consciousness an eternal new 1 sunday gript fript the formerly bustling manufacturing towns in my district the streets were bare or of traffic people passed about their errands silently there was no laughing whistling loud land talking or jovial greetings the business streets ii were dotted everywhere by stores closed up tip by war grass grew between the cobbles in the roadway now and then oxen dragging primitive carts of farm produce lumbered through the streets restaurants and cafes were deserted it cost money to frequent them and moreover they had nothing to sell it is hard to describe life under these conditions the best I 1 can do is to say that I 1 was suffocating when not going to and fro about their work the loss less well to do hid bill their unhappy ness in their rooms As it was one was forever meeting on oil tile the street hollowed hol loed cheeked checked che eked emaciated dry eyed sufferers I 1 felt as though I 1 had escaped front from a dark prison when I 1 got back to this country and saw happy healthy veil ikel lf fed people again the strain Is beginning to tell I 1 leave heard tile emperor soundly berated by ills his tarnished famished subjects in fit the shops that the hie poor frequent I 1 have often during tile the last months of rny ray stay stav listened to strangely seditious talk among the workers nien men and women chich grew in violence after the cheek check at verdun the ix working women have threatened a number of times to get act out cut of hand and rough things in saxony at least war is successfully throttling one by one all the peoples impressions for living the saxon list has been very heavy the alien regiment lias has been aped wiped out six bit times all the young dashing das liing professional officers wife led the first onslaught have been wiped out the troops are now officered by men of all classes who ibo have made good in the held field and in some sonia cases cares that I 1 know of the derivation of the officer testifies to the startling democratizing effects of war the call for more men is is always insistent the file high school boys go oat once a week neek for drill rov rol scouts hill from twelve to sixteen te ile land hand lias las been of it 9 tit fit me men n saxony lias has borne an all overlarge share of the war suffering it is primarily a manufacturing country and so has suffered most keenly from the effects of 0 food shortage at one time last bear ear the saxons were eating a bread eked out with will chopped straw then saxony ill did an all enc en ermous rinous export guisness buis ness I 1 knew many men in ill my district who wealthy in fit 1914 their ill wiped out aut by war saw rhems themselves I 1 es paupers haupers in 1915 1 I believe that it will take many years of peace to repair the frightful losses and bring back the old prosperity the rich textile industries of saxony have suffered staggering disaster the woolen and cotton goods mills once shippers to every part of the world are just barely employed ga 90 ing back backward in organization enterprise capital and hence in ability for like old stiff competition was conditions condit lons are ara threatening the destruction st of the great leather glove industries dus tries the famous machine made lace and embroidery industry of plau plan tn ten t n whose hose products before tile war graced tile the dresses of miladi in every land likewise is decaying under the war stagnation and the highly trained operatives in these and other if industries dus tries are being killed off as fast as cannon rifle gas and bomb can call accomplish ti air work upon tile the battle fronts A revolution an all economic revolution has already been worked in ill Si siony vony a revolution of destruction whose alloe efat ejects als vill lill outlive this generation the saxon poor lealice tins this better than their move more fortunate countrymen and they are bitterly v very e ry bitterly war weary A dispatch from amsterdam to the new york times of march 24 thus described tile the diminishing bread ration an its upon the eople wheat has become so eso scarce in germany that the bread ration la to be diminished one fourth beginning april 1 according to dispatches from berlin the announcement is said to have spread surprise and couster consternation nalon throughout germany the potato ration will be five pounds weekly and hie file meat ration will be increased by grams grains weekly large st stocks oc k 8 of cattle in germany are being slaughtered owing to the shortage at fodder it is said tile the reduction is a very painful surprise says the ische Zel tung the cologne reproduces a statement which contains tile the following it should not be concealed that t this b Is new restriction means a great flee and can only te be boTi borne leby ty people who for or the sako sake ot of the highest alum will bear even a heavy burden and na who have it a ina firm cona con dence that their patient endurance will bo be rewarded deC before be fore long by a glorio JB peace the says editorially if the measure is absolutely sary it must bo be accepted but it auxt be stated that for m many any tho the limits ot of the bearable are thereby exceeded even now it is only with great deprivations privations s that the industrial populations of the towns manage with tho the bread rations 11 literary i digest |