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Show HOLD HIT GE11Y WILL FIGHT TO END Social Democrats Regret Existing Ex-isting Conditions, but Remain Re-main Loyal to Fatherland. SEE ULTIMATE . GOOD . j Admit That World Wide! Conflict Is Problem Be-yond Be-yond Ken of Humans. - I Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN, Feb. 27. While the failure j of the efforts of German diplomats to ( create friendly feelings toward Ger- ' many in neutral countries ana particu-! larly in America have certainly resulted , in a feeling of deep disappointment I and considerable bitterness against the unsuccessful diplomats, the determina-: tion of the nation to see the war , through at any cost is absolutely unchanged, un-changed, and tho feelings are remark ably uniform from the exclusive circles, through the middle classes and down through the childlike masses. I have talked with several leaders of the social democratic party. Without a single exception they all showed the same calm, deliberate and suiheient i strength as officers, privy councillors j and financiers. With considerable pride they point to I the fact that the percentage of unem- ployed among organized workers, which during the second month of the war was 22A, has now increased. They told me how many industrial establishments during the war had changed their entire production in order to accord with their present needs. Working now partly to ; I make up for stopped imports- of luxuries, partly to support army and navy. i Where Hope Is Strong. One thing they all maintained that the war would mean an enormous moral gain to Germany which would greatly benefit social evolution. Many a narrow Ereiudice has already been crashed and roken by the war. "No living being knows.' ' writes a chief mouthpiece ot socialist opinion, "if we are now at the middle of the war, if we are approaching its end, or if we have years of war ahead of us. One thing only we know, that we shall and must, endure, that no superiority of numbers or arms, no attempts at starving starv-ing us into surrender, shall crush us. We have this feeling not only because we have full, confidence in the strength of our army, its organization, training and discipline, but first of all in the patriotism pa-triotism which unites all Germans without with-out exception "Let war last a month or years, it will only weld the people together and promoto the strength or the nation in a manner that will surprise the world. All enemies may as well now give up the hope that Germany will finally succumb in the struggle. ' ' Later the writer deals with conditions after the war, and says: Hold to Ultimate Benefit. "Of course we shall then, as before, never be able to avoid strikes and lockouts, lock-outs, but we dare hope that they will be more easily and justly settled.1' At present, of course, the government is doing everything to keep the Socialists Social-ists in good humor and make them forget for-get the suppression of certain Socialistic organs. A curious instance of this policy has just occurred with reference to a certain cer-tain reading book for soldiers, ' ' The Good Comrade," by Maor von Klass, which is being circulated in all barracks and military depots. In this book the Social Democrats are represented as the ' inner enemy," as a "plague," wanting to divide all pr pTty and aspiring to the overthrow of the kaiser and all other legal authorities. authori-ties. Poor Major von Klass, who was before highly praised for bis book, has , now become persona non grata, all copies cop-ies of his book have been con4scated and destroyed and a new edition has been published in which by the order of the war lord all these offensive passages have been stricken oat. The government, however, does not go bo far as to admit that its previous opinions opin-ions of Socialists have been wrong, but hints the particular God, who looks after aft-er the welfare of Germany in some miraculous manner has brought about a change of heart among these misguided citizens and has guided them back to the path of righteousness. |