| Show t Many Germans Questioning Good Faith of Government j On Financial Rehabilitation T BY IA MAXIMILIAN EX Special Cable to The Standard Standard- Copyright 1923 BERLIN BERLI Del Dee 8 A A young woman to whom hom tn the writer mentioned the fact tact that Amer Amer- AmerIca Arner- Arner America ica lea had a hundred million In- In Inhabitants inhabitants in inhabitants habitants exclaimed that s snot Snot snot not so mans man She had been trained to think billions In In by bythe bythe bythe the shrinking value alue of ot the paper mark ten thousand bil- bil billions billions bil billions lions of v which are now re- re re required d to bua buy bu a poun of Sard Many of the i i 8 s fi ft lends belle bellee e that Germany herself hersel C CIs Is i to blame for tor the high prices because she furthered Inflation Ital by permitting the tho flight tUg of capItal capital cap- cap Ital The reparations reparation commis commis- commissIon commission sion slon now Is discussing a plan to ha have haie e experts investigate on how bow much German capital Is cn located abroad and how It can be reco ered erod Germans themselves es must mustI I that this attempt sue sue- BUC I for people ever hel 0 have lave been sa Ing to them for tor ear ears th the the reason jour your coun- coun country coun country tr try can plead 10 poverty erty is that gIgantic sums of o capitals from tax taxes and could easily hM have haie e been Id hase h lied led where they earn carn vast ast dividends In cu rt ncy Many pel sons ns asserted 1 ted fur fur- further fur further ther thit th Germany s prosperity was shown by the tile amount of dh and by stock quota quotations But dh dividends In reality are so ridiculously small that the they hardly pay the lee fees feel on money orders to transmit them And stock tok prices A thousand mark shar share of a great mining Industry cost In hi 1914 now Is worth about despite the fact tact that the plant has been vastly tin tin- ImpI pI 0 cd A share in the biggest German bank once oace worth orth now will not buy two pairs of shoes Nobody should taUt talk loosely about German Germanys Germany's s 's pros pros- prosperity prosperity at a time when millions of her workmen small officials and do not know how the are going to get coal and oleomargarine when the price ot of a kilogram of meat the wage age on which the he whole family of ot a 0 veteran railway employee must exist tor for t O tOda da daIs s and when the ov over overwhelming r whelming of ot the cIty dwellers will not be able to have even a naked ChrIstmas tree Perhaps the gossip about the flight of capital desen es equally little consideration but v what hat one terms the gov- gov government government gov government today encounter encounters the deepest distrust e el y here In Germany Sinco has confidence In the means cm- cm em employed m- m ed to ba have baia e the countries finances ever body has been desirous of ot saving easing a Ing his own capital and this could be bo done only abroad The majority of ot the officials iho ho are charged with Ith the th dut duty ot of preventing this rome come from the old imperial administration administration tion and being they sabotage the 1 They feel that rehabilitation of the country's finances finance wilt will willbe willbo be merely inure to the benefit ot of former enemies and and that therefore instead of h Ing the profits prots to the French and ond their allies the for tor themselves es as tenths Nine Nine of the Germans belle bellee belleve e aU all the burdens Imposed by the peace treaty were ero unjustly Im- Im Imposed Im tin Imposed posed and that every ery means ot of deceiving tho the the enemy enemy Is justified The Swiss and the Frenchman Wernie ernle have hase just published a book called colled the tho flight of German capital Its deserve desere examination b by tim the experts The rhe authol male make the follo King folio assertions assertions- Germanys port export figures are far tar below the figures re- re reported reported re reported ported by the countries re- re recel receiving re receiving cel them Foreign trusts and holding companies are arc often otten merely Geiman which cre- cre create cre create ate fictitious debts abroad In order to permit the Germans to export wares ares currency and stocks to meet them them Debtor and creditor are often otten the s oJ sane same person The The Germans are their own go gov by dum dum- dummy my foreign corporations which exploIt German patents In GermanY A Swiss concern which holds the German pat pat- patent patent pat patent ent for tor S synthetic ammonia and gets ro revalues aWes on e eiery ery ton manufactured Jn Germany Is really a German concern A considerable part of ot the capital which hid 1111 fled Is re- re returned returned re returned turned to Germany Gormany under die dis- gul e The authors of ot book make many other charges es s along the same line Ate Ale they truth or fiction 1 iSo he new government v which Santa Claus brought us should se- se seriously se seriously C and quickly understand the In e investigation and refutation refutation refutation tion of ot this dangerous book Foul Bavarians sit in this cabinet whose chancellor i Is A jurist The cabinet hardly differs In anY respect from Its predecessor Military dictatorship romaine remains for tor an indefinite period with the tacit approval of so- so so socialist deputies The Reich Reich- Reichstag Reichstag stag will be sent home homo tor for a afew afew few tew necks n or months and all e PO power er Is In the hands But disso dissolution lution of th the Reichstag hal hai been a avowed owed and pa ment ot of has hils been assured un- un until until un until til spring Thus Thug the dear fatherland has been saved It has its foul ca cabinet In Inthe inthe the years But But-as But as the young young woman oman that's sais-that's sa s that's not so many |
