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Show A Queer Coincidence. It is rather a remarkable coIncN dence that the birthday of Georg Washington is also the natal day of August Ferdinand Bebel, "the Red Washington" of Germany. Bebel'sl birthday was widely celebrated by socialists so-cialists during his life, (but since the war the German government has sought to suppress all memories ofj the teachings of the arch-foe of the Hohenzollerns. For 20 years before his death, in August, 1913, Bebel continually con-tinually asserted that the Prussian rulers of Germany were planning a great war, and he called upon his followers fol-lowers to meet the declaration of hostilities hos-tilities with a counter rebellion which should drive the Hohenzollerns from power. A Saxon, Bebel had all the Saxon hatred for Prussia and all things Prussian, Prus-sian, and a bitter, relentless hatred of Prussian kings. The great majority ma-jority of Bebel's followers are now. in the camp of Bebel's greatest enemy, but it is safe to say that if he had been granted a year more of life the Red Washington "with the mocking lips and burning eyes" would have 6tood by his guns to the last. |