Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 6 | The German Revolt

THE GERMAN REVOLT. Tho air is . electric with changa in Germany. Tho debates in the reichstag are becoming .bolder and apparently the chancellor has not the courage to order or-der the arrest of more members. "When a Socialist deputy was rebuked by Vico Chancellor Helfferich for "insulting "insult-ing the fatherland" by comparing Germany Ger-many to Russia, tho deputy shouted defiantly: de-fiantly: "I should be proud to see such progress prog-ress mada in the fatherland as has just been made in Russia. " Those who make up tho body of the people in Germany are no doubt like the Socialist deputy they decline to put dark glasses on their eyes and to see the people of Russia or the people of oilier enemy nations through the blackness black-ness and distortion of prejudice. The German people hare long been taught to look upon tho outsido world with the squinting vision forced upon them by tho junker and militaristic authorities. authori-ties. To belong to tho Socialist group in the reichstag is not necessarily to be a Socialist. The populaj voice in Germany Ger-many finds expression through the Socialist So-cialist party. Men of liberal, democratic demo-cratic and radical views who profess no faith in basic Socialist doctrines, are ranked as Socialists. One who ia designated as a Socialist in the dispatches dis-patches may be simply ono who is opposed op-posed to an autocratic form of government. govern-ment. The world is being furnished every day with evidences of a popular protest among the Gorman people against the war. That it will grow, stronger from week to week is certain. And if the submarine campaign fails there probably probab-ly will be a revolution. Not even tho devotion of the people to the kaiser is i apt to be strong enough to keep down ! a revolt if the Doliev of Vnn Tirnit.K proves unavailing, for submarine failure will force home to the German people the conviction that the war is lost. That is one of the reasons why the party of ruthlessness is leaving no law-loss law-loss act undone to make the subsea warfare war-fare a success.