| Show many Ii-many Offers Offers' 5 leal eai Field for forIt Bolshevik It Rule r Sm Be Overthrown Radicals Would Fin Enid d Perfected Governmental Machine m at Work striking now all the fatherland t 1 over What will they thy do If they Morgan answers that question In today's artl article le in his series on ON IN GERMANY TODAY he says will find the MOST PERFECTLY ORGAN ORGAN- tON rION In history to try their experiments their on-their theories of abolition of of a world rule of brotherly love some of the Bolshevik poison polson the kaisers kaiser's militarists shot Into now creeping ba back k Into Germany and Hungary to plague them ad- ad I I. By Victor Victo r Morgan EDITOR OF THE CLEVELAND PRESS Copyright 1918 1915 by the the Newspaper Enterprise Association oIs should come iJ control In Germany Germany- t find no vast as in Russia in- in it sixes and sevens coman com com- an and transportation in a lId ild- find ready to hand the arly perfect organization of production ever over seen in this nore re perfect perhaps that than rl nl Marx dreamed of as pos- pos jine of production in t. t ture re and in fri agriculture is gated directly by the gov- gov ST or f under so close a super super- o mean the same thing true of transportation other elements In 1 the Germans today their government are turing and farming and tn the products thereof as l ind nd not as individuals machine had its o ancl Its development Inthe in ini inthe the i lust for power and Every turn of its Mor hate bloodshed and andon on exactly the maat mat ma- ma at t the Bolshevik and his hisa a twin the Industrial oft ot the World have been sis Is the one agency that that j Ush lish poverty and make Vove love a a. world practice has maintained hta little adjustment this thia Inow now Bow operated in the the thein Ine in- in f the e masters In Germany made ra to work fo for the the- theIL IL CONDITIONS 1 the machine would be ands of ot the most method method- orderly people in the thesa tsa sa new order of ot society r. r would have hare in Ger- Ger iny a a. test under the most 1191 conditions Il should overthrow J that event would st stand nd orid history as a perfect f retributive justice IB e German Is largely responsible for the rise of ot the Bolshevik to power in Russia German agents preached the doctrine doctrine doc doe trine unceasingly In all the large centers of or f Russia The kaiser gave safe conduct to the exiled Lenine that he might go from Switzerland to Russia to help the work along German Germany believed the least capable of all elements In Russia to carry on the war or to set up stable government The kaiser expected to be able to work his will with the Bolshevik in the matter of annexations Austrian and Hungarian regiments regiments regi regi- ments meats on the eastern front were supplied with the outline of a definite definite nite flite system of propaganda for or the poisoning of the Russian troops In the fraternization between Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian and German Gennan troops that re resulted ro- ro suited d from tho the armistice the kaisers kaiser's forces preached unceasingly unceasingly the laying down of ot arms and the setting up of a workers' workers gov gov- POISON RUSSIANS The kaisers kaiser's men succeeded in poisoning the Russians But re recent recent recent re- re cent events have indicated that Inthe Inthe in inthe the process the they too became poi pot zoned The first manifestation of ot this camo came in the almost open refusal of the Austrian and Hungarian troop troops to move from the east to the west front for the big drive the kaiser had in mind in December If were good for tor Russia would it not also be good for Austria and Hungary Hung these troops asked Anyhow waiting to see what would happ happen n under In Russia Hussla was better than going Into the west to be killed At the outset of the war the So Socialist Socialist Socialist So- So party with the exception of Liebknecht and a small group about him was with the kaiser alSer in the war In fact all Germany Germany Ger Ger- many was united in a plan of con con- quest After Arter three years of war however however how how- ever a split developed In the Socialist Socialist So So- party I The Tho majority party under continued to support the kaisers kaiser's program as before A small group known as a. the minority however developed opposition to toa I Ia a program of indemnities and annexations an an- These two groups have now united in Germany and are demanding demanding de do- manding peace They brought about a great strike In the empire a affecting even plants There may be no direct connection connection connection tion between the conservative Socialist Socialist So So- party parly of Germany and the radical Industrial Workers ers of or the tho World of Russia but undoubtedly the German movement is born of Inspiration at seeing what has been I done in Ill Russia ENCOURAGE SOCIALISTS Coupled with the attitude of the Austrian government toward peace events in Russia have jave undoubtedly put a courage into the Socialists of Germany heretofore undreamed of During three years of the war warthe warthe the Social Socialists have never tired of ot doing evil dee deeds s for or their kaiser Committed to the e kaisers kaiser's plan of world conquest themselves they nevertheless preached i internationalism and peace to the Socialists of other na na- na- na They urged union at home and dissension abroad The Their l' l attitude attitude atti atti- tude lude was as plain as It if they had said In so many mahy words to the Socialists Socialists Socialists So So- of other lands We will keep p on fighting for forthe forthe othe o the kaiser katser But you keep out of the war Cripple your our government Make lake your country helpless before Germany Help the tho German autoCracy autocracy autocracy racy to win tho the fight against democracy And the saddest page in the history history history his his- tory of American Socialism bears the the record of how some of the leaders loaders lead load ers of the party parly in this country permitted themselves to be used to I further the tho ends of tho kaisers kaiser's Socialists The Tho masters of Germany also appreciate appreciate ap ap- ap- ap I predate the possibility of the wonderful wonderful won won- industrial anti and nd commercial machine that has grown out of the war And it tt is ill not likely that they y will ViII surrender it to the workers without a struggle HUN SOLDIERS LOYAL If a revolution comes In Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many soldiers must be on the sid side of the revolutionists Even so so It Itis itIs is likely that a considerable part of the army would continue to be loyal to the l kaiser r and civil war and bloodshed would result Despite the almost perfect mobilization mobilization mob mob- of industry in Germany profits have not been abolished The Krupps Kruppa for in instance instance instance in- in stance since the war began have declared dividends divide as high as 36 per pel cent A At l present however the g gov government v- v taxes away most of the profits Thus the finances of Germany Germany Ger Gel many run in a circle The government govern Sovern- ment meat tax taxes s every man woman and child and gives the money back to them in the form of or profits and wages Round and round year in inand inand inand and year out the money keeps ps moving What the government does not take for taxes it takes In exchange for war bonds The war bond issues up to this time aggregate aggregate aggregate gate about marks marls or something less than More l tomorrow |
