THE GERMAN INDEMNITY
Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 241, 17 August 1921, Page 7
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THE GERMAN INDEMNITY
Why It Cannot Be Paid France cannot pay the interest, much less the principal, of her debts. England will not, and insists,- that she cannot pay her war debts. Both of these Governments, especially England, gained extensive territories from Germany, leaving her crippled and deprived of tremendous resources. Yet France and England demanded that. Germany pay her indemnity. They demand the last farthing. So did Shyloek demand his bond. From his unconscionable demand sprang nothing. From the unconscionable demand of these two Governments nothing will come. Blood cannot be squeezed from a turnip. Money cannot be drawn from an impoverished people. The English people are not responsible for the. suffering of Ireland. But the English Government is responsible. The German people were not responsible for the war. But, it is generally stated, the German Government wae. „ ■ . T% Great Crime To Impose a burden upon the German people for generations to come, because of the crimes of the.Government, is as great a crime as it would be to impose a penalty for generations upe-n the English people-for the crimes of the English Government committed in Ireland and India. Crimes cannotxbe recompensed by crimes. Revenge is not the law of j progression, of growth. Capitalism "is. hell. _ Both England and France are i-n it. •'There is not enough money on , earth, ranch less in Germany, lor them to Ray their way out of hell. Tbo "more, money they demand, the i more helf they will get.—Job Har-* riman. in "The Colony Nevs."_
