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Show GERMANY SINCE THE REVOLUTION!- . 1 iLJs mt too ury tii pruphewv wnh certainty thai the laboring HassV will be disarmed, while the counter revolu tionary organisations particularly tTie orgesch will remain in possession : their weapon. "Who will dure to deprive the lo mI elements of their amis'; lie wouM make the German people defensek-.. . on account of Spa would bring on himself him-self everlasting disunite" This challenge van uttered by a m.ci who until recently was minisW of justice jus-tice of the bavarian republic :i man Tallin himself it democrat, a lawyer who thus teach th people how to obey the l;w. This hold pronouncement shows.. -.,.01 jIo many other signs that the count, r revolution hns advanced further in levari le-vari than in any other section of .tr-many. .tr-many. In the spring of Bavaria, in flamed by the murder of Kisner. w;i--the leader in the movement tow.ir l bolshevism. Her almost childish imitation nf the Rus.siaji experiment, due to the psychological psycho-logical reaction of the moment !-lapsed !-lapsed Within a few weeks because fix land untouched ty the fury5 of war. i An Indemnity of thousand of million mil-lion would have been xtorted without tint ami without mercy from the attacked at-tacked and vanquished foe. Hut no one In lermatiy wmld have given a: thought to the criminal source of all thin splendor. I UNDERMINING GOVERNMENT. As for th army officer (after the revolution) one of the few mho were driven by a guilty conscience across the border into fore! ten land, ernulai- i Ing the example of the kaiser and the, crown prince, was Kudendorff. I Moat of the commander, whether I of high or low rank remain! at thelr posts, and Kield Marshal von ilmden- j bur waa even officially In trusted by the popular Kovernment with the direction di-rection of the retreat. Hut It waa not in ordeY to nerve the republic honorably and uprijrhtty that the bureaucrat a and the officers remained re-mained at their poat. They remained tn order the better to combat and undermine the new jrov-ernment. jrov-ernment. What the consequence waa to be, time Ulvultced. It waa on tlna foundation, hlKhly New German War Foreseen by Author "Juti the old Imperial (iermany of 1314 alopt . - su Jiie-republican f'.ermany of today will slumber intil the flourish of trumpeu of the new militarism announces tt )t the downfall of ull that ha been painfully won by the revolution. "Then will follow a titanic combat . . . I'nhappy (iermany will be devoured by an internecine war auch the world has not yet aeen. "Then will come the political jind economic disaster, alroady showing its grinning death head, which wUl carry down with It nil that I Ht ill Mtandinx-" 'The author of 'J'Accuae'" the moat aenaatinnal attack on kaiser) published durinir the war. make new charges aKaiuat (iermany. He a that Militarism still live: It will hot down! William HohenxolJern, former emperor, ignft himself "Kmperor and Kins'"! And .Bavaria i leading the way toward the restore tlon of a monarchy! These astounding disclosure have Just been made by Dr. Richard Cirellinjr. himself a .eriiiaii. (It waa CirellinK a book ".I'Accuse!" which created, during- the war, a furore on three continent, i iermany refused to publish it; it appeared In France, then JCnffland. later America- In it -the author placed the stintna, of blame upon the kaiser and hi country. Because of this he was exiled. (Hack in lermany. (irellinK ha been studying- the new republic. He tell things exactly as they are. He sounds a note of warning He seea a new danger. (The "menace' of bolshevlsm is a "fake." Germany doesn't fear bolahevisin. But bolshevism. makes an excellent cover for militaristic activities. (Germany la in a fair way to be torn to ehreds by civil war. In hundreds of places arms are secreted. And when war comes, it will be a ftrtfe between the party of the left, for a dictatorship by the proletariat, and the party of the right, for dictatorship by those of the old military regime.) buf-L . of William. TUisiomluponn hUh pedestal with the old war ft;K of imiwrial (Iermany at its foot. The commander of a division made a n ultra patriotic speech, n fter which telegrams of homnue were sent to William Wil-liam . Ilindenburi; and t,udendorf f. and. hImip all. to 'apt a in Khrhardt, a ho, as a commander of the division that carried out the counter revolution of last March; had been forma ly summoned sum-moned to answer to the charpe of hlcli treason and mutiny, but had never leeii placed under arrest and will po scot fre, like all the opponents of the republic who wear uniforms. KAISER STILL KING. f wh h fmBarhHf--4emfMratlms I cotiiri cil? hundreds of examples. On the J7th of August, the anniversary of the battle of Tannnber. an exchange of telegram took place between William Wil-liam and the "National Alliance of (ierman Officers." William replied as follows to his faithful officers: "I am deeply grateful to the National Alliance of German Officer for the remembrance of the 27th of August, i Would that another Tannenhcrg might j i be granted to the fatherland. William! - By OR. RICHARD GRELLING (Author of -J'AcoumI") Haa the new German republic, up to the present time, proved a blessing to Germany? la It for (be world at large a safe companion on the way to laating peace, universal prosperity and the higher development de-velopment of civilization? Has the downfall of the criminal warmakem meant all that It seemed to promise during the dramatic negotiation negotia-tion for the armistice? Has It brought about the regeneration regenera-tion of the ierman nation from within with-in and without; a purging away of all the dross of the past; the new birth of -a people trodden ttndeT' the "Iron " heel of militarism, corrupted and ruined by the unscrupulous plundering of It ruling classes, into freedom, humanity, self-discipline, moderation? These are the question 1 shall here attempt briefly to answer. To understand lightly the character of a man or of a slate, one must first understand its origin. The German republic did not grow out of th feeling that conditions under un-der the Hohensollern were Intolerable; Intoler-able; nor out of the lack of civil free- times were. politically unripe for it and It ended in a bloody white terror. At present Bavaria is leading t!i. way in the opposite direction, toward counter revolution. I In spite of all the denials of the Bavarian Ba-varian government, which consists exclusively ex-clusively of the civilian and conserAa-,tive conserAa-,tive dements. I have no manner f doubt, reasoning from manv - f-ct- ' iuhj.h have come to light, that th-I th-I nc.t to tiie largest state in the Gernn . federation is nearer to the. reatorat lorr of the monarchy than any other part j of iernmny. . The scion of the old rovat house -T Wittelsbach is regarded in his heredi-I heredi-I tary lands as a sacrifice tn William'" desire for war rather than as Inn mnlty 'colleague and accomplice i The deep rooted aversion to I'm--linniNm. which persists in the soul of I the Bavarian In spite of the splendid development of jthe new (ierman empire em-pire Kince 170. broke out again dnrinff th war, and the feeling has increa J since Germany's shipwreck, j The greater the guilt of the Hoh. -Izollerns. the less that of th.. Wute'--: bach such iH the trend of popular thought which is now preparing th-. th-. ground in Bavaria for the activities of I lilH m''anhists. It is not bv accident that the idea and the origin of ih. orgeHch are both Bavarian. BAVARIA RINGLEADER. These Bavarian Intrigues threaten not only th republican form of government gov-ernment In (iermany, but also the stability sta-bility of th (ierman state. The Bavarian counter revolution is opposed to centralization. Disguised as "federalism." its aim Is to' loosen one important stone after another from the structure of- the state, to revise the Weimar constitution with a view to limiting the powers of the national gov-rnment. and to win greater sectional section-al independence in military affairs -f--r instance, in the matter of the enforcement en-forcement of the law of disarmament. The counter revolutionist go so far a to Uim for Havana independent control of her foreign policy. th right io H4 nd diplomatic representatives to foreign countries, and to receiie for- firn repn-ntiiiiv nt h r cwpltil Tn appointment and the recognition of the-tiew French minister at Munich t Continued on following pae.) precarious and insecure from the very f 1 ra t, tha t t lie 1 ierman republic was set up. A wide from the three Independent memlers of the government, the en tire administration In Germany was coniHscd of conspirator and accomplice, ac-complice, or at least promoters. In the stupendous crime (terpet rated in the hist dd of July, 1914. The first result of this disastrous alignment was that the truth concerning con-cerning the origin of the great crime remained as much hidden after the slh of November as It had been tefore thut decisive day. The lie was continued. If anxoite were to suppose that by, this time the truth would have penetrated pene-trated to the German people, and that they would understand it and openly priM-laitn it. he would find himself grievously mistaken. As for the writings of those of u who were the original champions of truth my hooks "J "Accuse" and tta Verbrttchen." and other works of men of like mind - theso are no longer formally for-mally forbidden in Germany, but they are. what is perhaps even worse, repudiate,!, re-pudiate,!, strangled, boycotted by the I books-liters, by the press and by the public. j AU of us. without exception, are shut out from participation in the j German republic; our writings are not, read by the German people; indeed, we j are daily threatened with death if we i d,o not seek safety in a foreign land. I Of tuy ersona! " friends and feU6w ! thinkers several have been asasslnat- ed Hause, F.isner. laebknecht. Ian- J dauer and ihe most ardent peace lover, of all pacifists, Han Faasche. Home of the murderers wore the uniform of officers of the rejehswehr (state guard . which is supposed to exist for th protection of the republic. MENACE OF MILITARISM. .j There Is no manner' of doubt that! the republic is already sick. At it vi- ( tals is gnawing the he with which Wll- I liam and his followers have inoculated! i the German people as with a war ba-t villus. nd It sems incapable of self- 1 diwctpline. self-knowledge and w If - , cure. It musi succumb unles aj chsnge for the better soon lake place. First among the 111 that threaten the republic 1 militarism. It is not bolshevlsm that the new Germany has to fear. (ierman Social -1 emocTucy. which generations ago laid the foundations of scientific Socialism, and which before the war had created the most important, import-ant, best disciplined and most inte. gent Socialist party in the world. Is far too clever and far see tug to be led astray by the delusive appearance of the unaliuriug soviet regime tn Russia. Rus-sia. It Is much too shrewd to be terrorized terror-ized by the arbitrary commands of the Moscow dictators. To be sure, in the first transtorts of freedom won by the overthrow of the military autocracy, and under the fascinating fas-cinating leadership of Karl Lib-knecht. Lib-knecht. that idealistic popular hem who had suffered imprisonment for many years for his ideas, Kussta's experiment experi-ment exerted, a certain hypnotic In-' In-' fluence over a part of the German laboring la-boring class, for it melancholy result! I had not then nude themselves felt. j I But it was never more than a small j part of the total number of Germain laborer. In the elections he'.d in January, 1919. for the constituent assembly, the com -munists refrained from voting, and in this they were wise, for thus they did not reveal their weakness. In the reichstag election of the Cnd of June, lsJO. they did vote, but of the 2K."(h.0M) ballots cast only 441.04H belonged be-longed to them, and but two of their i party went elected out of the 4 representatives. rep-resentatives. BOLSHEVISM DEAD. It is also my firm conviction that bolshevlsm haa no future in Germany.) because it is a land of highly developed-Industrial developed-Industrial interests. j Fnder the pressure of Socialist vot- ers in June 42 per cent of all the vote , were cast by this party Germany will proceed by slow, cautious and gradual steps to a socialisation of those in-j dustrie most ready and suited for this , proi-ese. especially the mining indue- ' try. " ; r The transition will take place w.th-1 out violence as" Ihe natural result ofi economic development; and all ( al- tempts at armed terroristic solutions which may be undertaken by the communist com-munist party will come to nothing, because be-cause of its short-sightedness and lack of judgment. The danger to Germany's future Is to be looked for. not in the arty of thu Left, but in that of the Klght. The fear of bolshevlsm. which militarists mili-tarists and reactionaries have now been exploiting for two years, is far more dangerous to Germany's peaceful development de-velopment than bolshevlsm Itself. The watchword. "We must protect state and society against terror and overthrow," which has been used since Devember. litis, when the Independents resigned from the government, has ( brought about the creation of att army of mercenaries that has gradually I-! I-! come the real master of the fate of the j ierma n jeapje, imposing its w til as iluw upon the civil government. It is well known that universal compulsory com-pulsory military sen ice in Germany was abolished by the treaty of er-! saile. The arm) of mercenaries, which had taken the place of the old army, and wliii h contained many hundred thou- I sands of highly paid soldiers under the command of William's generals and ; officers, haa now been reduced, in av- j cordance w ith the decrees issued at Su, to lOO.woo men. j The support of this army, with other! similar exiense. is a leach sucking ! the blood of the German eope. In J the budget of 1920 the estimated cost! of an army of 1VO.(m0 men is put at two and one-half billion marks. At such a budget one does not know whether to weep or to laugh. One is impelled to weep over this lavish 'X-I penditure by the German people now beggared, and to laugh at the ridiculous ' farce of pretending that an asylum forj officers of t he old reg ime exists for the protection of the German republic. -JUNKERS" CONTROL. Here are a few items from the latest military budget: The army of IW.OoO men has i4 grerals. "." staff officers. lieutenant colon ets and cap--tain. I To every ninety soldiers are .as.M5nd I a captain an4,two lieutenants, nut to mention the higher officers. There is a noncommissioned officer for every five men, so that Instruction in the "goose step" will be given by 16,413 noncommissioned officer who serve as eommon soldiers, but draw the pay of their rank. j Picture to yourself this force obedient 'to it monarchist leader, a general who deire. and can dsire, no'hinz more 'ardently than the earliest possible re-jturn re-jturn of the beloved HohnxoIlerns. ;undr whose rule Germany prospered brilliantly and w hose defeat resulted 'from that "dagger thrust in the hack." ! the (ierman revolution. I This year mi the Jnd of Septembtr. the anniversary of the battle of Sedan. which e en during the last years of the ImiH-rt.tl regime had passed unobserved. unob-served. General von Seeckt issued the ' following pnx-lamation in the official order of the day. "Toda . the anniversary of Sedan, we j cat! to mind our fathers and predces- ors of fifty yeur ago. .Mere holiday I rejoicing is not Itecouiing in this tune of great distress. Iet us observe the ,day with the proud knowledge that we are worthy of our fathers, in quiet hoie for German. ' future, and w ith high resolve to keep alive in the reichs-I 1 wehr and among the people the spirit which after the victory of Sedan led I us over hundred of battlefields in the j west and in the east." j The spirit which "led u over hundreds hun-dreds of battlefields" lias brought tier. I many to beggary. i To It we owe cripples and the blind. I often mentally deranged, who wander j by thousands through the countryside and th citie of Germany. And it is: this spirit, w hich has reduced count - less German families to hunger nd j misery, tha the chi f of the new Ger- j man army now summon froH the, lower world t asmst -at fhe telebra- j tion of a victory of half a century - a Iyrrhus victory which was the first step toward the rum of :h Gt- j many of today. Is it to le wmdered', at that the example of such a thief; finds tmitat'trt in hi ol-edient ins-pr?! In Hie camp ul MutlMer. whrr" ser- erT division "of the reiciisw hr . ere I stationed. tle anniversary a Sedan I was celebrated by the unveiling of a I.K." Wiliiam still signs himself "lm-perator "lm-perator Hex." Kvldently while felling trees .it Amerongen he has not yet given up hope of some time hiving his ax to the republic. And behold the officers of the republic, with the iwnevolcnt toleration tol-eration of t he minister of defense, pledging to the destroyer of Germany their loyaltv ami their assistance for liew deeds of blood! j The new militarism has recently a-. a-. suined a most dangerous form in the ' organization of a nationwide alliance, 'of which the founder and leader is a Bavarian forester atid captain of re-; re-; serves named Kscherich. Anyone who has a en a Ierman j newspaper in recent mi'iHhs must have come, day after dav. upon long articles t concerning "orgeseh an abbreviation for "organization Kscherich." I If thegfi articles emanate from the j r la bt, they indicate harm fewness on Ihe part of this civilian organization : for '"self-protection." If, however.' ; they tome from the left, they warn of, ! great danger in this armed alliance. j J Tlie ( iraesch has in fact no other purpose- than (he preparation for thej I counter revolution down to the small-' small-' e?-t detail. j The affray fJf March. Jfrja, failed be- cause it was insufficiently prepared i for and was staged l"efore its time. I The next attempt Is to lie better ; planned, better carried out. With the i lenevolent inactivity of Seeckt 'k j 1 reichswehr. it will attain the desired! I result. But for success it is. above all. j rebuild te that the supporter of t he Orgeseh rema;n in possesion of their ) firms which have been stored m nun-; dred of hiding places in the country' districts while the groups of the peo- pie who might make a stand against) military 'reaction have their weapon ' taken away. ! ALL ON. ONE SIDE. , Pursuant to the settlement at Spa. a' disarmament law was passed, accord- 1 ing to the terms of which only thel reicKvwehr. the police and other tffi- I cials in. uniform were farmiited to carry arms, the remainder of the popu- ! laiton being obliged to deliver up their - weapons to the iuthrtriiie. . A former russtan landrath was ap-I pointed stale commissioner to super-I vise the enforcement t( this law, and dom, which. In spile of an apparently democratic franchise, stamped the (ierman people as a pariah among the nations of western Kurope. Nor was It the result of the traditional tradi-tional arrogance of a ruling caste made up of junkers and army officer, who had, time out of mind, divided among themselves all the eivtl and military offices leading to preferment, and who knew how to turn to the advantage of their own pockets the tax laws and the tariff. REPUBLIC BORN. The birth of the republic was not due to the encroachment of an army which regarded itlf as a state within a state, and which lived according to its own penal law and it own code of honor; nor. again, was it due to the gigantic crime of a half-demented aovereign who, carried away by dream of world power and spurred by ambition am-bition and earth hunger, brought about a world catastrophe a catastrophe which he could have averted with a wave of his hand or a single word. It was not the stave chains which the German people had worn in time of peace, nor the moral stigma nor the material suffering which the war had broiuht upon them, that caused the revolution and the creation of the republic. re-public. No. It was defeat and defeat alone that broke tha power of the criminal warnmker the terrible, crushing defeat de-feat which in three short months, from July to October, 1918, transformed a ruler drunk with victory into a deserter desert-er fleeing from his own country; and transformed his generals, carried away by success as they had been, into bowed and beaten supplicants for. a cessation of hostilities. It is sad to have to acknowledge it. j but it was victory alone that mattered : to the great mass of Germans victory which so often in history has caused the worst crime to be forgotten. The walls of the capital city (had Germany won would have trembled . with the hallelujahs of the victory choruses and the cheers of the enthusiastic en-thusiastic crowds. I The dead would have b'n foxgotua, i The maimed unnoticed; the devastated j countries beyond the border would i hare been regarded as a pleasing , around to the German cities and GERMANY SINCE THE REVOLUTION (Continue. 1 from preceding paiie mark a beginning already made in the dlriicliuu of an inilepndut fr ign policy. In the course ol lime this might easily lead to the long desired kmI of the U (v.i n.i n pat t iculai lsla the creation crea-tion of a South flernmn -Austrian al- liatiee, whlell Woii'il iMljoailt to Hie same thing as the d.vsolution of the (icrmaii statt. the downfall of all that has been painfully pain-fully won ny the revolution. Then will follow a titanic combat between be-tween the military caste and Ihe proletariat, prole-tariat, wherein the great mass of ihe bourgeoisie, again a In 11. will take no active part. Cnhappy (iermany will be devoured "T7 ah" internecine war-stirh ns the-world the-world hss not yet seen. Then will cotrio the political and economic disaster, disas-ter, already showing Its grinning death's head, which will carry down with iLu.ll UiiiL ..J3JJ1L tilandiiiK. From this supreme misfortune may some kind fate ;ivu my people! Hut. if they are to be waed. iminediale action must be taken. Therefore, in this last remaining hour, I cry aloud Ithis w arning to the leading men of i iermany : "V idea lit consules no quid detrimentl rcspubllca capiat! From advance sheeta of the Yale I e Jew. January, 1 . Copyngfit by. j i he Yale Publishing association, New I Haven, onn. BETWEEN TWO FIRES. AM t hi r-e fa rrea clung plans of the counti r re otutionisis are very loselv reinted to the tiuesiioti i f disarmament I ii fori una te , i lungs liav e come to sueli a pass with the unhappy tierman people thai it is tiot the id-a of the g. ii-r;il wt !fare w hi. h molds their Thoucht, nor any consideration of their d .-per. I'm 'in .in ic ;uid ftn:ill'-1al sit-lu.itmri sit-lu.itmri r of i riimny'ri polituiil impn- Nit. ihe "n1 ftnstib'ratHin th;it In-fiueiHfr In-fiueiHfr their thinking today is; VVhhh urmp .f ih' p-oplc hut the most ve;ipdns at its dlspoMll? Whieh icrnup is bt-st cipniiped to tlominate tiie oth- i-y-i TIiiM ..ppe.il In brul" fnrec Is m-ide bitih by tli- piirty of the ein-m riirht Mlid th;it fif the . vir' inp left. The p f . Ties for the ilii liilorhip of Ihe proie-I proie-I i;tii;ii: the nvrhi fr the dtrt.itorship of the mililiiry .jst-. ine Is .is much to f .- n j. i-i d ;s tin- oth.-r. for dh-trttor-l-ii,p m-.'ins th- tif-K.'tiion of demtH-riiry, . the doinin i ' i"ti f Ihe iiiiti'Tily by tli in in "i it v . .tP-i t-rrir in th plm e f law. l:.iwri ih two tin - h;if fif the I rii.1.1 ai-l ih.it of the hit .-Uinds the! hoi.-' i'f hi -i'i rn;i n p-'.jil todav, and) .ft i.li lii"ir lit th deVoiil'iiitC flames; in. iy ;.- h- loft if th- building. wUictl 1 is f i! .1 Willi limb r. IVU. as I h:ive ai" j ri'-my sanl. lh ftr from tin ruin i ; t ), ri rtt'-r d.iiii r. I MHiirmaiiH nt iiij-ht to i MiLrijisli no'h f;ris. hut nat ili.ivs ii'nv s'an.l in 'iermany. 1 1 1 tan fin- f'.m the h ft will Mnot hi r d by, IT. 1 T:o re j; an :i I ! :.i ;!! d th "Hi- 1 Pm1,,..mn i - uiTei bund.- i-f r.nliT.iry i ad - j r-' who ,iP- i-'rniin. v r pii blba u .ft M'.'ni 'd Him. bef!j- of th.-ir fld l-! ;T to rM'Ul.li.. ate im--. i.-n-t jtirniui'v r., i ni'i-:ii'va,.i' tru I.y ;iid in- ' - ul: s i.ri t ti - -iit -f t )f iron. 1 1 1- hist r:i- ! I ji ritv .lb.- ntl.i --r ! I'l'U t ..!,! J b'.iitd f 'it oiit ii l-'Ht Ai'. or i t ; "f warn; i t' tin- world,' !vt i i i . vv.f hi i)nriii :i ii in? ('miiii nl arv fin .'ifn:.i ''Mlit ion-. I ii the yourse of ; i thi- M'p- ..I. the n puhhf- was .b-s.i;- i tn.i:-d as ;be staKe fitting for I). 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