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Show GERMANS DELIRIOUS IN WAR suffering HAS-BEEN "intense "FACE TO FACE WITH KAISERISM" By JAMES W. GERARD, American Ambassador at the German Imperial Court, July 23, 1913, to February 4, 1917. Author of "My Four Years In Germany." CHAPTER XXXVII. 4 N- one 0111 a fortune-teller or professional seer dares to predict the condition of the world after tins war. Only mere suggestions can be thrown out, shadows of prophecy as to what may come. Will the tide of emigration turn from Europe and the United States or will people of German birth and descent lea ve America to return to the fatherland after the war? I made it my business after I had learned German to talk to many of the plain people in Berlin and elsewhere else-where to pet their views. I found that the common sold iers, especially those representing- the class of skilled workingmen in the industrial centers, cen-ters, were almost unanimous in saying say-ing that after the war and at the first opportunity thev intended to leave Germany, to turn from a country coun-try capable of perpetrating this calamity ca-lamity on the world, a country where they have been subject not alone to military service, but to a cruel and oppressive caste system of discipline. disci-pline. To Prevent Emigration. I believe that Germany will enact laws against emigration and that there w ill he zones of espionage on all German frontiers designed to watch and keep back such iermans as may seek to escape to other countries. In Austria even more stringent laws will be necessary to keep the unmarried unmar-ried ma'es from leaving. I know that experts of the I'nited States government believe that at leas; three millions of Slovaks. Greeks, etc.. will leave America after the war. taking with them the money they have earned for investment iti new opportunities in the old country. With titis view I cannot auree. The soil of the European continent is too pool', wages too small, hours too long and distaste for the military and caste systems too srea t to tempt those who have tasted the equality and the freeJom of A merit, a. Why. today an ordinary coal miner in Pennsylvania can earn S'OOO a year a sum greater than the pay of a Prussian or Austrian sen era i ! Why should this miner go back to insult and slaverv? Trouble for Germany After War. The greatest problem of Germany comes after the war when these millions mil-lions of men. trained fur four years or more to murder, shall return. It will be hard for them to settle down to regular work, impossible for them to submit a sain to t he iron discipline disci-pline of German civil life. Will they not, as BiG'h predicts. possiMy re-enact re-enact the norrors of the French Commune, Com-mune, or even those of t ne French Revolution? It is hard to understand why Prussian Prus-sian auiO'rary does not fr elv offer what it" vul be compelled to give ar'tr the war epiai suffrage in .Prussia, fair representation in the re b' is tit n a eovernmnt responsible to tiie reienstag. Is it not hf-tu-r for the emperor to offer this, folio win ? Bismarck's savins that '"in Prussia the revolutions are made by the rulers," rul-ers," rather than to take an ud joining join-ing flat to t he Roma noff s In a dis- I tant city of Siberia .' German Nation Delirious. i And who of all rulers in history pnemf-d to sit more securely on his Thro re than Nicholas, who !s now larnintr from his keepers what a z,.r reallv is? - The emperor said to me one: "Is it not wonlerful how tiie Germn n people hear their fufrerinss in this war?' I said I thought it was wonderful. won-derful. It is thai. ;i nd moro it la almost a miracle that a whole nntion can so nerirly appron-'h this delirium. The autoraiic iba 'iries in Germany, On .Novi uibT 22, 111 7. the Conservative T'niori of tb province of P.raivlf'nhurp una n irnouivy adopted tii" foi'.ow;n(-,' rr-sohii ion : "Th- Km--:-: a n fiat, fundamentally a people of its prim-.;, in t he- foun- dation on which the German empire rents. "Not sovereignty of the people, but kingship by Divine right is its cornerstone. corner-stone. Kings by "Divine Right." "We implore our deputies to do their best to prevent the kingship being debased into a sham kingship and being replaced hy that sovereignty of the people by means of the alteration altera-tion of tiie Prussian franchise." After reading tins, can any one wonder that the kaiser believes he is called by God to rule the Germans? "Kingship by Divine right" is quite a development of a kingship that originated in foreclosure proceedings, pro-ceedings, when Prussia was taken for a debt by the crafty, rich Hohen-zollern Hohen-zollern Burgraf of Xuremburg. Is it any wonder that the kaiser once said 'to me during the war: "Everything seems to be going my way; don't you think God is helping me?" The efforts of tnose in charge of l lie German propaganda to sow dissensions dis-sensions among the allies a re more than awkward. German Propaganda Awkward. For some time after the landing in force of the British troops in France the newspapers of Germany were filled with cartoons representing the British refusing to leave Calais: and now that America has entered the war even so Intelligent a philosopher as Chancellor Hertling speaks as follows: fol-lows: " If those who hold power in France forcibly repress every eiuggestion of peace and try to rouse fresh will for war by a show of assurance of victory, vic-tory, in spite of the frightful sacrifices sacri-fices the war has cost the country, and must cost still further, it is be-tause be-tause tiiey are sustained hy the hope of help from America. In this hype they patiently tolerate the Americans also making themselves at home in France, turning Bordeaux into a gren t A men can harbor with immense loading ami unloading wharves and cutting down (he forests of the Gironde in order to build a ca mp In the neighborhood of Bordeaux for the expected army. French workmen tolerate in their factories the competition com-petition of A merican workmen, with whom they are not In sympathy, and the owners allow them to look into the secrets of thir business, all so that the new ally mav help to take revenue on the hated Germans." Misguided old philosopher! The most st upid peasant of t he Bordeaux country does r.ot believe t ha t t lie Ameri-ans have come to France in order to occupy permanently perma-nently a section of that san Iv, bfirrMi scrub pine desert wlii.-h stretches to the south of Bordeaux. Wolff's Poisonous Agency. And President Wilson and bin cabinet. IJnvd George and the statesmen states-men of Frame and Italv portud iar.d Russia ?m;sf be on their guard Wolffs atr.ncy is rC. wnrk spreading poisonous propaganda. Here is an excerpt ex-cerpt that speaks for itself: "The imnerhil and royal pronn en nda derrtrnrnt. .section of foreign affair, c-tlls the editor's aitertion to the practice prac-tice of th-- enpmv pr-s in carhatur-mc carhatur-mc the kai.-r. the .-rewn prim e. Min-denbure Min-denbure and all.-ced Gem. an militarism, militar-ism, with tiie evidt-nt intention of an odious arti-i jpruian propaganda. It would, ther-for.-. he important fio-i t h pa trio t If point of view for t ne daily n''tt."':ipt-r aiso to occupy themselves them-selves bv mea hp of r:i ri'-n t ;ir--s with tiie prireinal rv-nt of th. ''The Ide.i of s'.i. Ii propaganda h; l,e.n r'otii'dvfd hv supn-m ijllll- tarv cnniiTrarcl. Arid it is t hereto- e d'-slrri'de 'n-it all siinuld conform to it. The oTii'ial -dtienia ban hen ordered or-dered bv Tie :prere commmd to T.l'-r into d:r'. t iiue m un i''a t u..n with the (J , 'v pr"-. arid ni.inv lead'u new pi. pers ii,T.-e ha f er d to fip--n their read i n t o invert t hf-r pa t rt-ot rt-ot ! en rl c,i 1 1 1 r e . for the flra w mg of which fhe v,.rvi. -. n' the 1.-st ;trtl-ti in .f unh-h and :-r'..n lin vt ) r.n se. c ire I. The1-;- ' nr. .itur.-s v.' rt-c.ird rhieflv the hv;v- of stato of Hjo entente en-tente powe:-. t ; f i r poll : t-a eaie;- and thn-je who i!.;ikn iio m"t.Ty of their h -it red for Germatiy. The bio k w hi he v applied free of -peme.-- Spirit of Revolt (J rows. German encdoverx will nver he nMe to ' :nd dow-i their workmen ai hefore the war. The men who have fought In the tren'hen will return w'th a new feeling of li:dT-ndenf p. a new srlri t of revn't a gainst the a -it e prrdudi' f", a 1 1 i i n ! : n ri t 1 n to do t'jn f-ame woik in the Karue hour.- and for My tailor in Merlin told me that sev-j sev-j eral of Ids men who had returned I after being d.s'-harge,) f rrrTi the nrinv because nf vorue ph-Hcnl fli".iiiil!iv or wo'indH took an erdirelc ilifTi-rent I attitude, and r h'tt one of them, for ' example, hid v.i'd t him: "Do not think t'i:.t I ha'.e romp bark to work , a -t he fore. have the Iron 'ro. I have belt, cd to sa e Grma ny. I am a hero jind 1 r!o not propose again to he vn'ir I ndu--' i ijt t wl.ive." That is the new spirit whi h after the war w Ml aiurnale (he fP-.-ejvrd. hitiierto dow iitrodrh-n lower tdaen of ( Jerrna n v. f n our own con n I r v, i he lia la urc of political po.v-r in .v be hd.l bv tin-soldier tin-soldier Who are enlpited in the war, and who. like the G. . B.'h after our ('Kll w i r, mav doublh-ss nrgaidze not on! v for pro! erf on hut for pop t -jcal purtiou And this great rrnl- W'hm l,od' of tetnrned roori- vernr.nm of wars hevotid the rnav change our V. 'uole foi ejini nolle V In w:i v of wld' 1) we do no dream. We shjill he a tnore v'ir!k- nation. 1euw tialbtit to '"'at Innolt. more iead- for war, unless this war ends ad wars. Hitter Trade War After War. The wfi r alter f he war. In tradn nud commerce, may be long and hitter. hit-ter. The rivMM of Germane are liner? with ship of nev.ui or eight thousand hiiii, many of (Ihmm built or completed i.iii'-e tiie war. und G'-rrnaliv d''slf.n (i m her I i i i; f phi y in this cominer- i,i I War to f!ide the earning tiade of the world. The G rniiin eooiier has lot JdN trade fot- yeai.-. Alliaie have it 1 1 eddy ben made in I'l'-iil ilifbis-trb-H, mu'Ii mm I he dyes I ufT Industi v. in preparation tor o sudden and sustained sus-tained attack upon that new industry In America. Prices will be cut to far below the cost of nroduction in order that the new industry of America liq;htins si n xle- handed aeainst the single-head German trust may be driven from the held. The German government will take a practical hand . in this contest, and only the combination combina-tion of A merican manufacturers and the erection of a tariff wall of defense de-fense can prevent the A merican, as each fights single-handed and for his own end. from falling before the united, efficient and bitter assault of Gorman trade rivals. The war lias brooch t new power and new responsibility to women. Armed wit h tiie franchise, they w ill demand not only equal rights, but equal pay. In Great Britain alone, before (he war, there were fewer than .".hi niiQ women worker?;, where Vow more than B.iifi,e0a women workers carry the burden even of the war industries in-dustries of the country. Victory Must Be Decisive. Unless the war ends with a victory so decisive for the allies that an era of unusual peace shall dawn for the world, each nation will eons tit ute itself it-self an armed camp, fearlnsr always thai the German, wdtii his lust lor w ar and conquest will apain terrorize tiie wor'd by a sudden assault. And a necessary sequence of this lire j a: at ion for war will be the desire de-sire of ea eh na lion to be self-Fuffl-I'ieiit to produce within itself thope materials indispensaide for the wai; in- of war. GapUul will be wastt d beca use each nation will store up quantities of these materials materi-als necessary to war which it is compelled com-pelled to import from other countries. For instatue, Germany will always ca rry u-reat mockH of era in and of fa h, of ( orp-r and cot Lun and w ool, all of the ma terials for the lack of which she buffered during the present pres-ent war. To Forbid Luxuries. Tr my fust book I touched on the change In t tie industrial system that w di t.e brought about by the s-e -!ai-i7.ed buying and bedmif introduced rirst fry G'-rmany. and which must be copied hy the oti.er nations if they dtsire to compete on equal terms with that country. In Germany, for several sev-eral years after tiie war at least, and P'-rhRps as a permnn'nt rebuilt :on. t!i.' purchase of all luxuries out:de of Gorman v will he forbidden, br-ciie of t iip dfire to keep German fiold and erodlis Ht home. G'-iniann hav even stated to me that they do not fear hi .1 traie wav hii; Tirt'Jud. e ;ea;td a.i.nt 'hm In nthfi coi;ntrb-s by their nc-tionH nc-tionH during this war. Thev s.iv t.iat a man aiwaM will buv wht-re he ran hi iv the i-hf.ipesi and I hat how ev.-r much .( Merchant may hate t: e Ger-tnans Ger-tnans after Ti: war, if h" i a n buy th.e yoods he want f, for his use from G'Tmany at a eh'-aper rale than ."tiy-wh.-if el.' he wdl fnrft his preji-d:cf-s in tre lntret of his pochet- Hoycott Powerful Weapon. Th s Is a question which each reader read-er will 1 t - e to ho 1 ' e f r h i IT: ' 1 f . rvrsonal:v. I bdie e that in Ihi-kda Ihi-kda ud. in Fra mo. ami in A men a. ton, jf tin war .should last a lop i Ume, th' pni.ludlce against German t k'u -y and brutality in war w dl bo.-Dnirt so srea t that man'.' a m'-r-c 1 1 in! w ill pn-fer to h a I ; ' ! mon"v than deal with, Gern:an st"dlrs. However, tho appeal of :he pockot-hr.ok pockot-hr.ok Is alwas ho .artiest and so In-s In-s 'f'i '(it that the iLtii :iii may he i L'ht Iii t.e view tint flnanc'Hl ron-si.ior. ron-si.ior. t loiiK w lp W ' i'i down t!:r b.i'.- ar.ee as uvauiat ii,o prejudice einren-d.-icd In fdn struKi-'Ie. And If there i o nes a change of envernnent in G-rmnnv. :f the 1 1 nben ro! lertin no Ion re r .Mit rol, If m a liberall'd Germany th ministers are ieion-si'lo ieion-si'lo to a ta'pular pnrllHinnt. w'nlle kmc "ink to th political position tf the kltr-'s of Great ISrltaln or of Spain, then the comTnorcial p--ehi-fii-o will t:nt iHsf lone. The boycott boy-cott of Germ a ny f.ir f if t ' vea is. mii:-uooed mii:-uooed bv tiie American r ha tuber of ( 'ortiniorce. Is ii most powerful wen pon. A nd why. If w n rs nre to cont i nue a ftcr this one, slam Id we eon In hut o to i;Tin.'in tiade profits and .onse-quonily .onse-quonily to ;ernian oporntioris for another an-other war" The nations of the al-IP'i al-IP'i rnud reckon, too. with th.' bitter, bit-ter, bitter hate fet f(.r them bv the whnlo German perirde -find oibv one who has boeii in (leruiHiiv since the war ea u re i II ze Km in lenvjt v. Factor in Forcing1 a Change. (due cro.it factor In forclnjr n elinnco of i;n em men t will 1-e the desire of tiie Individual Gorman after the war In nv I ha I t he co'ei tunc nt of Ids cnunliv evlstitic then Is not tho government gov-ernment thai ordered the sliootlnc of Kdith Cavel. the enslavement of (lie women and cirls of northern Krance. the dept. i tat. n of tho ludi lan work-Invmen, work-Invmen, tho h.orrnrs of the prison ca in iv. t lie bund nc of 1 am va In a nd nil the other coiinMe-iv barbarities and cruelties oid- red by the German Hi M 1 1 a r v com ma nde i s. Imairiiie after this war In some distant dis-tant Island. peihnpH. a Krnchman, a n KiiLdlshnui n. an American, n 1 'or-tuwiu-Ne. an Italian, nil soate. at the dlnim' table of :i llttlo hotel. A Ger-inau Ger-inau comes In and seeks to .loin them. W ill he be treated on tin e pialMv" W ill he be taken Into their societc" ( r w ill bo be t t en t eel its a leper and a pariah? Will Repudiate Frightfulness. Tim Germans will wish to be In a posl I bin to mi v : "Vh , i.ent lemen. was a a In i t ii H t hone cl iiolt les. I w-jim iiciilnsl the Hlrikhm of the land-1 land-1 a n la and h mur 1 1 t of lis w omen and children. I wan a walnut tho Alanine of Poland and the slaughter of the Arni'MdiniM ami Die cruclfivlon of pi Nonei a. a i id we Germans ha e thrown out the i:ivf.'iiin.-iil Hint wan re-nomdbie for t) o honors." St r a nicer than it n v nt her cons Id era . t inn w ill be t he desire of I he i ho man In repudiate thee net which hao made the Germany uT to tav M I'aln anioiie the iiallonu an oubust binml-e binml-e I with the mark of shame The Itiisl-m author IMocb. whom I ha v 1 1 Mo I ed, fnH, t'ofei i ihk to the fni ere a r-: v "Hebinrl nil on(lb Ii of Inloiesl be-t be-t - eci i natlori't sd a I eanien must 'm I - llll.-e lb- .hancea of PUcc of their li.il'on, luiumned 1m the ie. amine to arm-:, nuidu'it the teirlbe ndserlos id (lie Vbllms HU'ed bV ItlO Will IIS uell ii s the Mo.inl peril wbhti can bo til wa'MMence nf war. "'fliev 'V ho a :U I llem" e.i W lien It Vitl I.e pte 4ible U, piiMio.:o to the lei. lie ol any na limi after t he M i ji eomppnsa'lon for ftp er.ormouc f.ic r dices forget thai the conuured w .11 ho ho e j;aust-d that t b-re w hi h no fjuesiion of br-:;j able to drnw from :i conquered nation the ieat T feiitdary i nd-tr n i t ' . All that e: n ho Imposed ,n the corv piernd will he the abandonment of prime ras of frontier territory. "In th condition? up to what point can calm v counted on lo reu:n ; monc ihe nd Hi oris of men callod to the colors, when jn tleip ntekp thr is not more than a handful of old officers, and w c,tn tho com ma nd w-.d be ! n the hands of t 'ii'se rewlv promoted pro-moted from am-Tc t.e noncomtiiip-si.r:ed noncomtiiip-si.r:ed officers --that h to men belouinc to the w orkln? i '.ism'?1 Wdl ti:ese work i n L'men surrender their nni',1 in the p tales of central 1 Europe whore th.e p,o:'a:.inda h tpreaj a'-rea a'-rea 'v :en"vc the masoj. "Will thee allow themselves to he o!v.rmeil a for the war. and cou'd there 'net come events more Horrible than those w'uch signalized the mpid trii.mnli of the et-ifanune of Paris?" Nations Will Meet in Markets. ttxlay it is not isolated armh-s hut whole toi;dea in arms that arc opposed, so In th.e war of commerce after tho war not single producers ami exporters, corporations or individuals, hut whole nations will meet in the markets of tho world. I iburnanv has faorei I rust s controlling con-trolling j rices ami unfair competition competi-tion and we shall encounter In buy-IriK' buy-IriK' n nd iti pelhnv: t he w ho e ( hunum nation ra nkM he h hi. I their t ent ral Hu inc eompiin v in hu inc and th.eir Kartels In sollinp. Isolated firms and individuals ran-not ran-not on our side cope with such an o'feji stve ; hut w e are ha mpore-1 in effect I veness by t he po-calle,! Sherman Sher-man la w , a la w from which K upland free. The w ar will produce preat a nd sudden altera t Ions. and rrvddent 11 son. In meet Inc now problems, has pursue! a progressive course; Witney his support of the Wehn law, which ouanie" our manu tact ui ers to combine in eiort trade. New Husiness Era Seen. very s i j; n points t o a n e w e ra hi husiness -an era In which the government gov-ernment will perm it --oven eucoar-HK' eucoar-HK' - enlightened business ccmhiua-t ccmhiua-t lonfl. The railroads of the count r". in 1 ho efficient ha nds of .VoAdno. ha e alreadv helt-uo,! sorvlce. and tho riirhts of the, savings banks and of otbor holders of the m. initios of each I o.i ' have been seem rd. We must, on the one hand, permit I he a holltlon of ruinous compel it ion ami on the other safeuuar.l the public from hi;: h prices and t he s ma her firms and cor pora t Ions from the unfair un-fair compel It ion of a po w ereful ri va I. (ireat chnnueH are coming In tiie social stiui tnro of the world. Wo are on the t h re timid of a urea t rea.i In si -ment , W ha t e er id so our out i a nee Into the war may ac oniplish, lei us hope that it will hae nuole of us n i nation with tin tliroh of n sin-Jo I patriotism miiI tho steady pule rf an eiHM'r;ot lc rl f Icency I ha t shall not niereh Meek in honest i.valrv to o:n-pete o:n-pete wlili other nailons. hut in an enlhrhtene.l and helpful wav shall strive irulv lo heal n wounded cl I! i.i t Ion In Ihe hid -t;h en dav s oi" peiH o. tiik i:iv I |
