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Show REAPING THE WHIRLWIND. Since tho vvorl'i is nut inh:ilite by an,?N, it is quite jrobabl-' that the victims vic-tims of German are.-sion in Franci', neiium and other war-rava'eil countries coun-tries of Europe will view with some complacency the spectacle of the Hun chickens of disaster returning home to roost. Certainly the Germans are reaping reap-ing tho consequences of the madness which prompted her imperial masters to leap at the throat of civilization more than four years a'jo. JThe people of the land which sought to compel acceptance ac-ceptance of its kultur at the point of the bayonet are now progressing through anarchy and civil war. The cables are burdened' with recitals f bloody excesses for a parallel for which one must look at present-day Hussia under tho insane leaders of Bolshevism, or hark back to the noyades and wholesale whole-sale butcheries which disgraced the French revolution. The Kbcrt government at tho moment seems to have secured a firmer grip on affairs, but conditions are such that another an-other day may witness an aggravated counter-revolution, with its attendant blood-letting. Tho whole of the former empire is in industrial, political and social chaos, with no immediate prospect pros-pect that ordor will finally be restored without further toll of life and property. prop-erty. The Bolshevism which Germany encouraged in Eussia as a -weapon for beating Europe to earth has found so deep a lodgment in Hunland that only the most drastic methods can be depended de-pended upon to tear it loose. Since the time approaches wdien Germany must send commissioners to Paris to conclude peace with the allies, the present confusion con-fusion in German internal affairs is disquieting. The hope that stability will bo restored to a degree warranting negotiations with the existing government govern-ment is not abandoned, but tho outlook at this time is anything but reassuring. It is not possible to fence in the Gorman Gor-man people and permit them to decimato themselves without let or hindrance. Neither can Germany be suffered to continue in its present state of anarchy, since it would involve a menace to tho security of Europe. The world has precious pre-cious little reason for entertaining a very high regard for the Germans, but it does not lose sight of the fact that, a nation in anarchy is as undesirable as a nation .in arms. The most obdurate foe of the Teuton people must, therefore, there-fore, hope that tho Germans may have a speedy deliverance from the elements which seem determined to complete the ruin into which kaiserism plunged their nation. |