Show r Course of Important Events I Through Germany Shaped By ByI ByN I I Shadow of Coming Elections 1 By DULJAN 1 HARDEN 1 Germanys Germany's Foremost Publicist t 1 Spee 1 lat lal to 10 The Tho Standard Standard- rd 1 I COP Copyright 1924 24 by the Con soli Press Pres Association BERLIN Feb reb IS The IG-The Th state slAte of siege a all e ea- ea ex executive e power r In 1 the hands of ofa ofa a military commander command r I Is to be lifted after aCter four tour month months duo du- duration du duration ration The stage stag setting gl es no reason to doubt that t they one O this demilitarization demilitarIzation of th the government gO nole-ly nole eole- eole ole ole- lIp Iy to the tre free Initially e of ot the army chief chlof and that they must muRt therefore believe bellee belle e that he ho ts Is Ismore more concerned about su- su supremacy supremacy su supremacy of ot civil authorities than are ar the gentlemen who ho rule rulo under the th partnershIp name of ot Democracy and So- So SocIalist So Socialist The real reel reason howe or Is that all factions that are not openly Inimical to the republic republic lic lie fear worse changes at the election by uince contin- contin u nce ol or the military regime There sometimes have hn been een In some omo parts of the th land a apart apart part which ascribes it Its III success to its own errors and not to the th errors error of ot others other but butIn butin butin In these prosaic prosaic- times grant us usno usno usno no such spectacle of virtuous self elt elt knowledge ledge In Saxony and ThurIngia Industrial tate states with lIh laboring elements the diet elections brought the such uch a bad defeat a as thy they never Or experienced 1 hot ot only In these fortresses of their power but also alRo In the th whole hole parliamentary history of near near- nearly nearly nearly ly 60 0 years ears th explanation n c cm easily be found The Socialists who as a crit- crit critics crit critics ics Ice of the th capitalistic and lot lot- Imperialistic Im Imperialistic economic system hive ve dono donI work have been a a disappointment every everywhere e en- en where here as ns rulers As Lenine liberated him smiling front from 0 otery very ery democratic principle Mer and nd Mile so MUSSO Ilni ha hav have vo not been Socialists for tor lears ears and men of the English labor government can be b r re- re regarded rt is such uch only In a close closely ly IY l i sense RenSe and not atall at all II in continental party ti lan Ian language lan language guage In the th fruits of ot So- So So Socialist or semi Socialist got gov government go taste especially bitter to Socialists who ho still till ly ly Iy themselves gin gin- In In- In Inland land revolutionary They were not able to prevent war ar end It quickly or make It more hu- hu humane humane hu humane mane and they have hae shown shon themselves often otten just as blind blind- blindly blindly blindly ly nationalistic and just as a greed greedy for tor office and ond emoluments emoluments emoluments ments a as anyone any one of the bour hour bourgeois parties partle which they ho hate e been abusing for years year For Foryt years ars the tho working man whose hose taxes are collected atthe at atthe atthe the source Murce has ha had to ply y reI- reI rd rel relatively more than the capital capital- capitalIst capitalist 1st Wages now are lament lament- ably bad there thero Is I less leks ks-i ks fr than In tn the days of If th the kaiser kal er so 0 mAny prohIbitIons Ordinances anti and anomalIes Were not possible and the In work worb day his h hi Den lengthened Iho rh railway em- em em had ns l the th chance of los los- losIng lo loing ing zag Ing their ther jOD ions Joos Immediately or accepting a hour 12 day The Tb working man m n sees en mAny m leader and od functionarIes of hIs party In comtoi table lAto stat and municipal but bitt he h hint hint- him himself self Is In worse orse need than titan lore be-lore be- be besore sore rore Isn't It un Understandable that h he turns away from boss boss- bosses bosses bosses es who promise promis him the th Holy HolyLand HolyLand Land but led him Into the des des- desort des dea desert ort crt of T Party Part chiefs however who WIll admit their de- de declare de declare dare clare that long duration of the ry regime Is solely soly re- re re responsible for tor the tho th tact fact that workIng men are and frequently go over to ex- ex extremist ex extremist nationalist t groups group and Communists These groups group entice working men by swear swear- swearing s swearing ear ear- earI earIng I ing their promises will 11 not prove to be b as deceitful as thoe others Many Mans votes will come corn to them also from oft land 0 owners ner pe and rural laborers German agriculture which In Ina Ina ft a blockaded Reich and a SL land landof landof landof of inflation was WI better bettt r off oft than tier Is In n a d dangerous I the situation Sine Since c cn ct th t the e ed war area arell of grain land and num num- number num- num ber bor hors of ot catti cattle In the oceans great trans oceans states ha bate hae e increased vastly In Eu- Eu Europe Europe rop Eu-rop rope production ha has been sunk greatly In the same period in Germany one one- one fifth fifth Russia at least third one-third Universal ersal Impoverishment of Europeans has hM reduced con con- consumption con consumption greatly Surplus pro pro- production pro production In the th United States Canada Australia and nd the Ar Ar- Ar Argentine gentine exercises pressure on European markets In order not to be b underbid d the th Ger- Ger German GerIann in Ger-in man Iann n farmer must ofte offet hIs products far tar below the anti anti- antIwar antiwar war ar prices but must generally iy y pty prices far tar abo above e the th world market prices for tor e every er thing thinh he needs from bu business and In- In In He H must Rl gise pounds pound of ot oats for tor a hundred hundred- hundredweIght hundredweight hundredweight weight of ot ammonium sulphate and pounds of ot re Ie for tor a pair of ot coarse coars boots boot Whether hether W reintroduction of customs which the farmers are ar would bo be possible or beneficial Is most doubtful What Is certain certain tam tain however er I Is that the th mon mon- mon mon- monarchists monarchists will Ill have more cause for rejoicing than the th republican republicans republicans lican If the government which thus far tar has produced noth noth- nothIng nothing ing but prohibitions does do not succeed In showing at least Ipat One great Teat class of people the way to a better future whIch lone can bp be b achieved and assured only with Ith the working tool of ofa n democratic republic |