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[BY MES. ABIA.]
bitions but just swagger which tempts the I is not simplo pride nor vaulting, cu
majority is boasi, ay of benefit received for personal merit, the past or present possession of various ills which the flesh ig heir bo
Often in the history of war the vietor has domanded from the vanquished, when the A Scandinavian writer, interviewed by war comes to an end that a money index the Milan journal Secolo, says he is con- nity shall be paid as a reward of victory.vinged that for the next twelve months In 1907, by the Pence of Tilsit, Napoleon Germany will be able to cope with her dif- imposed a crushing money indemnity an
ficulties, external as well as internal; A The mother of many has been excused for Prussia. In 1871 the victorious. Germans
poace concluded before the end of 1916 The relief of Ladysmith she well remem dating history by the birth of her treasures. demanded and obtaized a sum of five-mil-
would be-bound to be advantageous to her,bers as the day before Jane was born.**
and General Gordon's heroic death cok. on Violet's first anniversary." It waa in one of Wilkie Collins' novels that some. heroine flagrantly exhibits this idinayn crasy, her chronology being impressed. by the arrival of litte Abs of the year she presented twins.
·liards of francs (or £200.000,000) from the But if the British and the Allies can con defeated French. In such cases a doubletinue the war for another year Ger. object is in viow: (1) To recompense the many will not entertain any hope of via victors for their costly victory, and (2) to leave the vanquished weakened and crush-tory. ed, and therefore unable to prove danger. ous again, at least, for a term of yours. At the closs of the present war will it bo pos sible, and if possible, will it be good policy, 'for the victors to impose a heavy money
indemnity on the vanquished?
Now, of course, many Englishmen will he moved by pulse to say: Certainly we shall make Germany pay every penny we can get out of her, for the cruel rain which she has caused; and we shall go ou fighting till we can get terms including a big indemnity," That in very simple. If it is possible Resily the imposition of an | indemnity is a very complicated and diff- cult question to decide Hera aro a few facts which indicate the variety of con siderations which arise around it.
As a result, or at least a consequence, of the huge indemnity paid after 1871 by France to Germany, the prosperity and trade of France was recuperative and pro- gressive, while Germany was depressed and suffering. Bismarck himself acknowledged this; and economists in both - France, and Germany attributed it to the way in which Germany received her French indemnity
debt,
In subsequent wars, notably the Russo Japanese war, claims, for indemnitics in money, even when made by the victors, have not been pressed, because of the im- mense difficulties which they present. The Baxer war indemnity is the only recent indemnity demanded."
The greatest blows at Germany have been struck by the British the loss of her colonies, the loss of her commerce. The British blockade is much more effective than the Germans would like the outside world to believe, whilst the German sub marine “blockade " has aroused the hatred
Maternity is forgiven for bragging; babice are accounted acceptable heroes while other weaknesses are undesirable, and others again supremely commendable, com plaints being well classed as order of
We bravely relate of the terrors of p- of the world and brought on complications 8uce or disorders of disgrace... with America, Von Tirpitz is in disgrace.pendicitis, venture boldly to enlargò. upon This war," Rys the Scandinavian," will the details of drapsy, and exhibit some either he won definitely in 1918 by the Gershane about shingles. There is pump in mans on land, or in 1917 by the British on the sea."
It would be antrac to state, he went on, that public opinion in Germany is depress ed. The contention of everybody is that the war has been carried on victoriously hitherto, as is proved by the positions of the German armies on enemy territory, but there is everywhere a vague sense of dis- quietude. The uncertainty of the morrow is weighing heavily on the nation.
more
pleurisy, while the circunstauce' of bronchitis pales before the wore, ofcitual fires of inflammation of the lungs, and the the sufferer with the right to a hearing in supreme triumph of typhoid fever endows
all afflicted circles to the end of his days.
The pride of the patient extends to alt classes and is not entirely personal, for we are apt to glory is the superior illnesses of our relations. But the honours of amazing symptoms and remarkable cures are easily gained by the mLASSES. Which of us has not listened with as much credulity as we could elect to the sad tale of Jane's mother who had not swallow- ed anything for years? And with what sympathy have we not heard of the house- maid's niece who has been in bed for six
time? mouths and never slept a wink all the
- MUOR· FAULT-PINDING, The consequeness is an attitude of criti- cism, ill-humour and fault-finding. Some and fault with the Chancellor, others with the Socialists, some with the farmers, others again with the speculators. long halt on the West is condemned; like The
wise the arrest of the offensive in Russia; there are many who denounce as mideum-treme youth was a sight of the laundress
Among prohibited pleasures of my er-
Asiatic undertaking. Some ate for annexa much pride to the head housemaid; the mer madness the high falutin' about the arm, which she would show weekly with,
tions on all sides, others consider it impry-privilege being most generously accorded dent to think of permanently annexing a to abone for some discrepancy in the wash- ningle inch anywhere, but these would in- ing sent and thomashing received. sist on "ransom.'
PAYING THE PRICE, Any indemnity commensurate with the range and losses of this war must be taken The enemy is besten but not dominated, at a huge figure, and 1,000 million pounds Bays the Germans, Though one Ally may sum less than the British Parliament has speak evil of another (the Gersions are already voted for the war, may be taken as always discovering dissensions among the the lowest figure likely to be named Now Allies), and the British speak evil of them to pay 1,000 millions, from one side to an- selves all seem to agree on one thing: they other is impossible in gold; and if gold will go on until they win Notwithstand Fayments could be made the immediate ring the Pact of London, the Germans place, sult would be immensely to inflate prices their chief hope in a separate pouco with in the country receiving the gold. Prices one or other of the enemy Powers. The being raised enormously with an increase Chancellor spoke the mind of the nation in the volume of trade, manufactures, or when he described treaties is scraps of commodities would mean intense privation paper, to the poor and a complete upset of com
merce.
PROBLEM OF MEN.
There are invalide and invalids! Just a few delicately withhold their ailments and are of the army of gentle martyrs, this not conspicuously including a masculine con- tangent, for although men will declare women" fussy," reticence about their own minor lls is nevertheles, not among their
any other virtues.
LACK OF BYMPATHY..
The habitual invalid has a distinct, lean- ing towards intolerance of the illnesses of others, which way by attributed either to Having sensitiveness or there jealousy. taken the fold as sufferer in chief, such patients resent ite javasion, and; however contentedly he or she may bear the burden The casualty lists published by the mili-of continual ministrations from doctors and
nurses, will protest that these are unneces ary authorities are always three or four
A letter from an old mouths late; they do not contain the names sary for others. of the slightly wounded, and are suspecte offender runs of being otherwise incorrect, Hindenburg fought his last battles in Russia with the Landwehr; deckensen spared his men in Scrbis, utilising artillery almost exclu sively.
The French Government surprised the world when, in September, 1873, just 27 months after the date of the first, inden nity payment she repaid (In advance of time, thus saving the interest otherwise duc) to Germany the last of those 200 mil lion pounds, France could do this by buy. ing bills in London, Amsterdam, and else. where. Sixty-two million pounds worth of bills were bought in London, for English Germany began the war with 8,000,000 trade had been brisk while France and Ger- availablo mong by December 1st, 1918, so many had been fighting, and London bank-cording to the most moderate calculation of ere had been lending while French and Ger- her daily and monthly losses, she will have man armies had been spending. The nen. no more than 8,000,000, including youths of trality and activity of England made the the 1918 and 1917 classes, of whom at least indemnity easy. In the circumstances of 1,000,000 will be required in the auxiliary this war, no such neutral trading and bank-service. ing countries exist,
If Germany has to pay a huge indemnity to her enemies, she cannot do it by any shipments of gold, nor by transferring debis due to her, nor by creating fresh debts; she can pay only directly or
Germany does not lack arms and am- munition it is true, but the people are well aware of the feverish, organised activity that prevails in the Allied countries and in America,
A German officer told the writer quot
"I am sorry to hear you are ill. I feel certain you will soon be butter. I don't believe in doctors. I never felt right until I chucked the whole profession, and now I haven't had a dose of medicine for a week."
Doctors. I am thinking, are but bady rewarded for their labours, and
is
When the devil is sick the devils saint
would be,
When the devil is well the devil a soluit is ho, as good dogma as doggerel.
We hang upon every word of our dive at the first attack of pain, and are so ready to denounce them a useless when we have. na immediate need of them. Yet among the most bumptious of invalids are some whe vaunt the number of physicians they have consulted and the amount of money they show some natural conceit in not having have spent upon special cures, while they
of them.
indirectly (and it would have to be much that the Gorman Army owed almost all its succumbed to "Diary" he writes with
more directly than was the case with the French in 1871-8), by her commerce or pro ductive industry. If her manufacturing businesses and trading and shipping houses could be started away at once in full swing, immediately the war ende, she might soon be paying off a huge indemnity. But her men will be gone, her credit vanished, her trade broken, her system overturned. The possibility of paying under these condi- tions seems remote.
A DIFFICULT PROELEM.
If Germany's wonderful productive and trading enterprise are to be revived; sconer or later, after the war, in order to pay indemnities to her enemies, it means that her enemies will have to trade with her far more than they did before the war. If the impoverished workers of Germany are to make wealth to pay for the ruinous policy of the German rulers, then there must be customers for their work. These can only be found among the Allies, who bave couguered her!
successes to its heavy artillery. Now his advantage has been lost, for the French showed during their attack in Champagne that today they possess an excellent arma- ment of heavy artillery. In short, the prob- lem of men is disquieting, while the nd- vantage in artillery and munitions is die appearing
The Prussion Government has not found the courage or energy to keep the specu lators within bounde, and this everywhere caused the deepest discontent. The farmers and big landowners are also denounced for their greed, and the dealers refuse to sell when the prices do not snit them; the Government, strong and even brutal as it enn be to others, is tender to the Agrarian. Junker interests, The farmers for their part complain of the shortage of labour. Prisoners of war are employed on public works, such as railways and canals; the numbers allotted to the farmers has been mall perhaps because of the difficulty and expense of guarding them except in large gauge.
In Richardson3«. some humour of Poor Aan," whose
delicacy was so pronounced, and who out- lived the whole of the healthy family. To be delicate confers some sort of listinction, and may lead to much extra cherishing. To be cadowed with this suspicion has a restful charm, and the heroine may escape many domestic duties, She is never asked to run upstairs to fetch things, rarely even to ring the boll; it is seldom suggested that she should do any shopping for others; she cannot sit up late at sight should any. nursing be required; and it is impossible to permit her to go out in the rain,
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ed prescriptions are among her daily de- lights, and her health proffers an apology sion," argued that war indemnities were hand, the Allies continue to make the in- for any sort of manzers and methods, an futile, have decussed the subject, have, treated it with great caution and reserva- tegrity of Belgiun an essential object of amusing example being provided lately by tions. These writers (H. H. O'Farrell and the war.
a damsel who wished for the privilege of F. W. Hirst) appear to agree on the fol- this latest and greatest war new and business at the moment; you will under- The other consideration is this, that in postponing the payment of a debt, She wrote to her creditor: Too ill to attend Jowing conclusions: A-nation which proves- astonishing methods of warfare and sctionstead this when I tell you I am taking: have been widely introduced, o'd traditiona
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Among beikons sins of the braggart int valid is the deplorable frankness with which they will discuss intimacies of medical treatment; for nowadays reticence is not a cultivated virtue. We confess nobirahing- ly to the most dire diseases, even as we admit without shame to unnatural teeth and to alien hair
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war that newproposals for peace will be meat quite understood; and became pos nation paying the indemnity must be very
put forward? For instance, why not Bessed of a very definite hope of an early weathy; (b) it must be immeasurably require Gerumay to supply so many tons probate which might yield more than the weaker in military strength than the of steel, cement. timber, stone, bricks, for imaginative delalter prunised
-rebuilding-devastated. Belgium! Why not victor; (c) the war must be of short dura agree to trading conventing that would
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of Europe and Russia across Germany? Still, there are two points of view which And other similar concessions will readily make the subject nos unworthy of serious occur: The object of these would not be, consideration. Before Germany entored like that of an indemnity, to disarm and Belgium she promised full satisfaction for weaken the vanquished; but it would be a the material and moral losses which Bel possible policy to arrange trade or services gium would suffer in allowing German. on terms which would obviously be advant- forces to pass through, Though the war ageous to the victors. The possibilities of subsequently proclaimed between the two civilization are not exhausted, even if a States would be taken to show that the crushing indemnity is in the nature of
He Wag withdrawn, yet, on the other events out of the question !
Animals and the primitive races when sorely stricken fee to caves to suffer their pangs in silence and solitude, but civilisa tion goes out into the open and proclaims its disabilities Mayaap when this habit spreads farther and we combine deliberate
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