The Present Rulers of Germany.

The year 1923 will go down in the history of Germany as a year of terrible hardship and bitter disillusionment, not only for the "working class," but also for the major part of the intellectual and middle classes. Whatever comfort and subsistence were left them by the inflation were taken away by the unemployment of a third of the industrial workers of the nation. Since the war and especially during the last year or two the agricultural class in Germany has been growing stupendously rich. The rapid depreciation of the mark affected some of the more ignorant farmers unfavorably, because they could not easily rid themselves of the notion that "money" was "money," to be hoarded, but in time they too learned about the worthlessness of the paper mark and refused to have anything to do with it.