FROM THE MAN IN THE STREET.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 54, 30 October 1914, Page 6

FROM THE MAN IN THE STREET.

The Man in the Street is the unit of the crowd. What he says, many think. What he wants to know, the whole crowd is curious about. His uttered sentiments are those of the big silent section of the community. The Man in the Street stood on the corner yesterday as we came from the Post and told us just what the Allies should do in cleaning up the German mess after the war. There should be no navy or army for the Fatherland. The Allies should take that leaf out of the Kaiser's book in which he had written the fate of France. The Kaiser and his sons, and all the brood of proud princelets who back up the war, should be sent out to work for their living, all their possessions be■ing confiscated as :& first act in the preparations for peace. lie saw no difficulty about making the princes wprk for their living. They would have to do it if they had no land and no money, just as Bill Blick had to. Germany should be placed in charge of a Council of the Allies for 25 years, so as to make sure of the collecting of the thumping war indemnity, the first instalment of which should go to Belgium. Instead of the young Germans going into the army or navy, under the old conscription system, a large batch of them should be sent each succeeding year into Belgium and France to repair the damage done by the war. These German gangs of Workers should be under the princes, princelets, and other aristocrats, the whole supervised by Belgians and Frenchmen to see that the work is done thoroughly. No arms of any sort to be allowed in Germany. The land to.be cut up into suitable areas for cultivation and industries to be alldwed.but no exportation. Further,for the Man in 'the Street was very thorough in his planning for the future—no German of the first generation should be permitted-to reside in any portion of the British Empire. Every man, woman and child who came dilfc of Germany during the past 20 years should be sent back to the district they emigrated from, and there given a section of land to work upon. "After their base ingratitude towards the British in every part of our Empire," concluded the Man in the Street, "I wouldn't have a German left in the whole realm—the dirty, despicable, .snaky spies!' Strong language that, but fully justified by the disclosures in Britain. South Africa, and Belgium, to mention only a few of the places wherein the hydra-headed spy system has worked for the injury of the people who treated the Germans as men and brothers.— Feilding Star.