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Show WARDEN'S CAMPAIGN. Maximilian Harden continues his campaign of education in Germany. By this time the governmental authorities, which have suppressed his journal ever and anon, must realize that he is serving serv-ing their best interests. He is preparing prepar-ing the public mind for a peace that is not to be a Germanic triumph. It is better for all concerned that he should educate the public mind than that the government should attempt the task later. Editor Harden informs the German people that the world is not to bo divided in accordance with the Teutonic will. The very fact that he finds it necessary to break this news gently to the Germans shows that there exists throughout the fatherland a general belief that the end of the war will give Germany whatever of the world 's lands and goods she may. desire. How this belief was created there can be small doubt. It was the result of a campaign of education instituted in-stituted by the government years ago. The German public has been fed for nearly a generation on the idea that if the great world war should come Germany Ger-many would emerge from the conflict with all the colonies she desired and with more territory in Europe. That idea still persists among perhaps a majority of the German people. But Editor Harden has become a skeptic. The war is not tending in the right direction to keep him satisfied with the popular view. He sees that the conflict will bring the Germans a large measure of disillusionment, disillusion-ment, for under no circumstances can Germany and Austria win that victory which they forecast in the summer of 1914. They may not be conquered, but, if present signs be worth anything, they cannot win. The world ontside of Germany Ger-many knows this and it is known in Ger- I many by some fow leaders of thought, among them Maximilian Harden. He considers it his duty, therefore, to describe conditions as they are. To keep the public deceived until the last shot is fired would be a crime, he thinks. That the government is no longer dissatisfied dis-satisfied with Harden 'a attitude may be inferred from somothing that occurred oc-curred a week ago. In fifty cities of Germany orators presented to the people simultaneously views of the war and of peace quite different from those promulgated pro-mulgated by the government a year ago. Knowing as we do the propaganda methods of the Berlin government we can be sure! that the orators were inspired in-spired officially and that they were merely echoing views which had been imparted to them by the government. It is true that these orators were not as candid as Editor Harden, but their views indicated a modification of German Ger-man demands, a' willingness to accept much less than the triumphs of German arms seemed to warrant eVen as late as six months ago. Maximilian Harden is . performing a service to the fatherland. He is removing some of the governmental scales from the eyes of the people. He is trying to leathern see the war in its true perspective. For this he deserves their gratitude and the appreciation of the government. s |