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Show HU ATTACKS HUH MillTIES German Editor Opens His Batteries on Republican Republi-can Government. Language Used in Assailing Kaiser Mild to That Now Employed. By GEORGE RENWICK. (New York Times Cable, Copyright.) JJEULIN, Dec. 21. Maximilian Harden, the redoubtable editor of Zukuntt, has washed his hands of the German republic, repub-lic, lie has noV made up his mind that, though the old regimo was bad, the new order of things is revolting in the extreme. Such language as he used to employ in criticizing things when William II reigned Is mild in comparison with that which he employs in the latest issue of his weekly to assail the ministers and ex-ministers and their friends, lie looks around the "YVilhelnu'trnsse precincts and sees vast Augean stables with no Hercules Her-cules to cleanse thorn. Lieutenant Marloh's trial over the Berlin Ber-lin shunting affair, which Harden brought so prominently before the public a few weeks ago, was evidently the straw. For a year Harden has waited for the first fruits of the revolution, now his patience has gone, and he attacks in full fox-ce. Noske Is Assailed. Regarding the Marloh verdict, he prints a letter from an officer "who was at the front from the first day of the war till the last," who declares; "The condition in this Germany is so terrifying that one cannot . remain inactive when persons of the type of Noske and Reinhard go un-punished. un-punished. We ought to take up our rifles again and defend the sworn constitution, constitu-tion, however bad it may be. It is no use living In a state which despises the most elementary rights of man." That, declares Harden is the voice of thousands. With especial violence does he attack Noske, "the all-highest clti-'zen clti-'zen win lord," as he calls him. i Ho demands that the real guilty and highly placed persons in the Marloh and numerous other tragic scandals be : brought to trial. He warns the govern -1 ment to make haste "otherwise the pig-i pig-i sty of pestilence which reeks to heaven I will be cleaned from the outside, and not all the guard of rascally writers will protect the h capers-up of injustice, the lords privy seal of ail dirty work, from ' the branding iron and hangman's rope." Luxemburg Tragedy. Then Harden refers to the Rosa TjUX-emburg TjUX-emburg and Liebknecht tragedy and to the way in which the villain of that piece was spirited off officially to the Argentine. Argen-tine. He prints a letter from a man named Ernst Son n en f eld, who was formerly the paymaster of the "Reichstag Brigade," Sonnenfeld declares on his oath that he received an order "to pay a premium of 50,000 marks to any person who would deliver Liebknecht and Luxemburg living liv-ing or dead." He adds that Schcfdemann and another together offered 100,000 marks for the deed. Vorwaerts called this statement "a mere fantasy of a thief." Harden attacks President Ebert in the strongest terms and assails many ministers min-isters and ex-ministers for their connections connec-tions with a certain George Sklarz, whom he describes as "a military agent, provocateur, pro-vocateur, and master profiteer." Sklarz is heaviiy involved in numerous profiteering profiteer-ing scandals in which he is alleged to have made millions under the aegis -of the government. "Hbert, Seheidemann, Noske and the other- arch enemies of capitalism," says Harden, "have been in the habit of going go-ing to the house of Sklarz to guzzle at his overladen table." Noske has excused himself hy stating he only went there as to a house convenient con-venient during the times when Berlin vas perfectly quiet. Thinks Socialism Collapsing. Harden believes German socialism to be collapsing. Vorwaerts, he says, had a circulation in March of three-quarters of a million copies, but now he declares it amounts to only 110,000. Vorwaerts, which pays some attention to the Zukunft article, ar-ticle, does not deny this assertion. Sklarz and Parvus, the nom de guerre of Dr. Holphand, a curious sort of millionaire million-aire -socialist, who runs Die Giocke, the socialist weekly, are heads of a big publishing pub-lishing concern which appears to have obtained considerable hold on Vorwaerts. They bought up its fine printing plant, which Harden asserts was disposed of because Vorwaerts was in low water. The same firm acts for such pan-German pnpers as the Deutsche Tages Zeit-ung, Zeit-ung, the Deutsche Zeitung and Lokal An-zeiger. An-zeiger. Next Harden turns on Krzber-ger Krzber-ger and commenting on the failure of the premium bond loan, he waxes ironic over "the ruins of the Krzberger lottery palace" and over the millions spent on that far-' cial structure. Turning to the country at l.n rge he declares since the armistice Germany has imported four billion marks' worth of food and thirteen billion marks' worth of articles of luxury. "We lead such a merry life in Germany," he adds bitingly, "Never has Christmas in Germany Ger-many approached in greater darkness." |