Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 303, 20 December 1922 — Page 2
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND.. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1922.
INDEBTEDNESS OF 13 STATES LARGELY DUE i TO HIGHWAYS, BONUS
HERRIN MINE WAR CASE UP FOR TRIAL.
BT Amc!ated Press) CHICAGO, Dec. 20. Soldiers' bonus and highway improvement account for approximately 85 per cent of the $376,683,115.12 authorized Indebtedness of 13 middle west and northwest states, according to reports of state treasurers from the various states. Of this amount. $181,783,113 Is represented in bonds or certificates of Indebtedness already Issued. Voters of Illinois, Michigan, Mis
souri, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Ohio have authorized the
payment of $207,705,000 to veterans of
,1he World war, a portion of which al ready ha3 been distributed. Illinois
Michigan and Missouri have provided
for a system of Rood highways representing an expenditure of $115,000,000. North Dakota. Indiana, Kentucky
and Oklahoma have no outstanding
indebtedness for the payment of a
bonus .or. the - improvement of high
ways. . although in some of these states - highway improvement funds are obtained from the peneral '.fund
by legislative appropriation. War Causes Indebtedness, v
The reports reveal that the greater part of the indebtedness has been in
curred since the World , war. The part highways played 4a the prosecution of the war is attributed by some officials to the increased activity in road development . . Nebraska has no state Indebtedness but the bonded obligation of $73,760,187. Indiana reports outstanding stock certificates in the amount of $5,515.12, which were re-issued in 1845-46 for canal, development purposes. Though the certificates aru believed lost, this amount is still carried on the Looks as an obligation, -' farmers in North Dakota figured in that slate's Indebtedness, the total showing the sale of $3,670,000 real cs.tato bonds, the money being distributed to residents in farm loans. The Industrial commission was empowered to sell a further issue of $10,000,O00 for thtj purpose by vote of the people June, last. The Indebtedness further shows a $2,000,000 Bank of North Dakota capital stock bond Issue together with an issue of $1,575,000 mill and elevator bonds and $202,000 outstanding, which are known as "old bonds." TICKETS SELL RAPIDLY FOR MASONIC CONCERT Sale of tickets and reservation of seats for the concert to be given next Tuesday night by the Girl's orchestra and Boys' band of the Indiana Masonic home at Franklin, Ind., Wednesdav, was reported to. be exceedingly Eatisfactory and an increasing demand for tickets was reported. The reserved seat plat was opened Wednesday at Weisbrod's Music store. The orchestra and band are being v.ni, Vim w TMpVimnnd lodEe. No.
196, F. and A. M. Webb lodge No. 24, of this city, and other Masonic lodges of Wavne county, are co-operating. Special arrangements have been made by Superintendent W. C. Higginbottom. of the Pennsylvania, it was announced Wednesday, to provide accommodations for delegations from Hagerstown and Newcastle, expecting to attend the concert. The late evening train will be prepared to care for the return trip of those who attend from those places. Music lovers are expecting an evening of enjoyment when the two youthful organizations present their prosram in the Coliseum, beginning at S o'clock. Both the band and orchestra aro composed of well trained musicians and a delightful concert is KThe members "of the organization will be entertained at a banquet given by the Richmond lodge at 6:30 o'clock ' Tuesdav evening in the Masonic temple The banquet will be served b
the women of the uraer ox mC tin Star. " ' Randolph Farm Bureau Meeting Is Postponed WINCHESTER, Ind., Dec. 20.-The Randolph county deJ which was announced for 22 has been postponed until WednesfaV, An 3, 1923, when the program will be the 'same a3 previously announced. W. H. Settle will talk in the courtroom at 1 o'clock on live stock marketing and the state farm bureau federation. i
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Picture shows the court house at Marion, 111., where testimony is being presented in the first of the five trials to determine the responsibility for the mine massacre at Herrin. 111., some months ago. The case is typified by the State prosecutor not as a labor-capital dispute but as a conspiracy. Counsel for the five miners held on charges of murder ' assert that hired gunmen provoked the massacre.
The Mistakes of the Kaiser By RENE VIVIANI Premier of France When the War Broke Out Copyright, 1922, by The McClure Newspapei- Syndicate.
IV Political Materialism, Basis of Modern German State
When came this generation of Germans, such as it was when William II ascended the throne, euch as it still remains in 1922, scarcely changed for the better by the merited disgrace of the misfortune which brought about it3 defeat? In the page3 of this rapid survey we cannot probe, much: less solve, the problem of whether the universities of Germany or her barracks were the cradle of her haughty pride, intoxication and collective madness, that incurable disease which killed Germany after having sought to infect the entire world whether it was born solely of the teachings of German philosophers or was the child of events. This is not a psychological study, even of human beings in collective movement; a profound study of that sort would require another method of treatment. Nevertheless, It may be stated that two causes contributed toward facilitating the blossoming of these generations of Germans, alike hot-headed, violent, rebellious against all lessons from outside, refractory to all influences from foreign lands. Prussia was a poor and mediocre kingdom, unable to live despite the fact that it had the determination to live, ambitious to spread beyond itself, and, consequently, beyond its frontiers.
Its struggles were like those of a pris
oner wno, unatue yet to break down the bars of his prison, wishes, never
theless, to thrust them aside in order
to open a narrow passage for him
self. Such were the struggles of Prus
siav first in pursuance of the policies of her chiefs of long ago, afterward
under her three kings, particularly
a reaencK tne ureat.
How, then, was Prussia to extend
her frontiers; not merely to seize
which is simply an act of force but, having seized, to keep; how, then, was she to do all this, to cater to'her insatiable appetite, if deference must be paid to what was morally right, to the rights of others, even to nothing more than the rare principles which the human mind had managed to set up dur
ing the sixteenth and seventeenth cen
turies as scruples evidencing the birth of a conscience among the nations?
for the purpose of swallowing up ev-
erything into Itself, to put the matter
in a nutshell individual numan beings as well as material things. The state Is everything Right, Morality, Force such was the Prussian dictrlne.
In vain the FrenchfSevolution pass
ed, like a thunderbolt, burling thrones into the dust. Not even the French Revolution could crush that conception of the state. In vain the Revolution of 1848, more international in aspect, came into being, that revolu
tion whose dawn was too close to its decline. . It moved men's souls, put its Impress upon them, aroused them because of its romanticism, inspired some generous acts which clothed themselves with stormy strength; but only to die down again forever v into nothingness under the boot of the soldier.Growth of Materialism. From this political materialism,
whose weapon was militarism, came
economic materialism, wherein it found its resources, and later intellectual materialism, its guide and prop
agator, then social materialism, which
imposed with a heavy hand upon the
German working class also dominated
French thought for too long, and brushed aside too long the fruit of the thoughts of Rousseau, Considerant,
Loui3 Blanc, Proudhon. The world has
seen what socialistic independence in Germany became under this system of education. This will be pointed out again in the course of these pages. Let us bear in mind, for the present, the sinister lessons taught by those twin teachers, German philosophy and German literature. It was not a case,
as with us French in our glorious eighteenth century, of thought creating in
the human mind independence of rea
soning; of philosophy proclaiming the rights of all; of a cohort of jurists breaking down the deadly formula of
! superannuated traditions; of genius, t imnn'crtTioH in the Ttastillp TrpflHnEr
away the stones that had lasted through the centuries until, at last, the people smashed to pieces what was left. In Prussia there was none of all this whatever thought existed there was material, Temained material, served only to stdengthen what was material. Thus did Prussia form her conception of the omnipotence and unity of the state. . Crime of German Thought. The crime of the entire German school of thought with the exception of certain minds that were refractory to this enterprise which, none the less,
was ot a general cnaracter was to
though, at that time, France had been so uselessly favorable to Frederick and
to Prussia by means of her eighteenth century philosophy! And hate was
preached, above all, against liberating
revolutions which entomb the old-time respect felt by peoples for authority.
Germany stood above everything!
Amid such influences the genera
tions of Germans grew up from the be
ginning of the nineteenth century. The
process or concentration worked slow
ly, being checked-by a, vague liberal
ism emanating from Konigsbure.
whence sounded the voice of Kant, and
from tne lofty thoughts of Goethe. The
various German states, did not resem
ble each other and, though similarities
of mind and race drove them together despite this, there was lacking, nevertheless, a strong bond of union; more
over, tne mentality of the inhabitants
of these different states was not that of the Prussians. In other words, the
time for the fusion was at hand, but
not tne powertul and crushing mould
in wrucn it was to be accomDlished.
For this unity the great dream of j Frederick II what was needed was a ! basic interest and the man capable of
serving it. The true heir of the great king was not destined to be born upon the steps of the throne; the formidable and fateful, genius was destined to come, however; that genius who pos
sessed what every one of the others lacked will-power. This master of events appeared in 1862. His name was Bismarck. Ho it
was who was destined to complete by
"blood and iron" the work begun by the Great Elector in the seventeenth century, and continued, in the eighteenth, by Frederick sll. It was BismaAk who was to force into a reality the aspirations of German intellectuals toward national unity. (To Be Continued)
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Such questions were not asked by have tolerated the conception that rea
soning should be subordinated to force. What a humiliating spectacle, alike for the mind and the eye, are those lengthy dissertations, so often reported and
which reappeared in part quite recent
ly which exalted force into a divinity of whonl man was the slave and Germany the temple! "How can a nation live otherwise than according to such principles?" asked the Germans such an existence was, to them, incomprehensible. This line of reasoning easily led them tq the conclusion that any nation denying such principles was of an inferior sort, that it should be despised and. scorn
ed, that it should be subjugated by means of an alliance, if self-interest demanded, or if interest pointed in another direction that war should be waged against it. Germans Taught to Hate. And so it came about that hate against England was preached, against England, which protected- her moving barrier of ships, thwarting German power and neutralizing German commerce! And hate was preached also against France from the very beginning of the eighteenth century, even
those who believed in conquest for
conquest's sade. Without even asking themselves whether what they did was morally right, whether the sporadic violence of one day might not, because it had turned out to be advantageous, engender the principle of continuous, permanent violence, the Prussian monarchs went ahead and acted. It may well be said that what they did was equivalent to applying the system of piracy at sea to politics. First, they introduced a system of discipline which smothered in the mass of men subjected to it all Illusions of personal independence, all independent thinking, criticism, and naturally all yearnings towarad revolt. Then, having emptied the brains of their subjects, they took good care that . their hands should be provided with weapons and that they should be taught to strike! Above all, no individual thinking! in that the Prussian rulers paid heed to the prohibition, superfluous, to be sure of Frederick. And thus it was that the Prussian state was created not, like other states, for the advantage of those whom it governed, but for its own advantage;
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