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Show i j "KAISERISM GONE FOREVER,,, SAYS VON GERLACH, THE BRAVEST JOURNALIST IN ALL OF GERMANY 4 BY Mil 1 1 N BJRON N EF BERIvlN. Julie 17 "(rermany Is don 1 with EXohonxollerna and militarism KBHSaaBHJBJBB 1;1S elected for ggg 1 I c.nt.ie ,11), the HH ways of peaci jm industrj says w I 1 est Journal! I ' 1 ' count r: lb II '.' .v''' ' '0Jm '''nth von 'b rlach , ' edl.OI .1' "I W ell 1 V ' ' e 1 ' 1 a c h d 1 '?L JF 1 1 1 1 1 y ""'fU . the old days an 1 W ' " ,M in dan ei ' V ,,is ''''' '" (; . : ... -1 b '.f3a! ' "' 1 ' Ia 1: r VON CEKDACII. lulled him. I "Outsiders muBt remembe; Rermany ;- essentially an industrial nation." sa - a 'on fierla.c'n. "Sixty oer cent of (Jexmanv is madi 1 I up of Industrial workers They ar 'almost all republicans. Fifteen pm cent more Is made up of small government gov-ernment functionaries, such as rail-wny rail-wny workers. letter carriers, police-'men. police-'men. flri mi n and the minor clerks In I the government bureaus, almost all republicans re-publicans likewise. ! "They see thaf a republic has not brought heaven to Germany, hoi thes know our bad condition in the paturaj aftermath of war and deleat I 'They are not foolish enough to be-ievs be-ievs that to overthrow the republic land put a Jlbhensollem back on th J thro)l0 would put any more potatoes , In the kitchen pot or make shoes one mark 1 helper. "The groat mass of Ihe German people know now they are free. They walk like freemen. Thes breathe free an . They can speak their thoughts a well as t liiiik them. "Of-course there are monarchists In Germany. All Uhe 01,1 lunker j cVowd, the h'gher officials no! armj-officer- now deprived of their Jobs and their swords. all the nobility I most of the great industrial overlords over-lords sigh for a return of the mon archy And they work to bring it about There is never an dearth ol money , , "But don t let that alarm any friend if the German republic The Workers ..defeated the Kapp monarchist revolution by the simple means of b general strike. They can defeat any other kalseriit movement as easily." . 00 |