Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-05 | Page 4 | The Attack on Harden

Isl THE ATTACK OK Maximilian Harden was sei upon h two men in the slreeti Of Berlin, and seriously Injured, t ho third r fourth crime of magnitude had j Iurcn commit led against liberal gov- "rnment in German). First. Bnbei . r had been assassinated because h j -Igned the armistice Second, Rath-j enau WAS killed for having advocated sood faith in the carrving out of the I treaty of reparation. Then Harden 'was to have been beaten to death i for writing against the monarchists. Simond- accepts these murders as evidence that an effort Is being made I "to restore Lhe old order of things and j " he says: "Strong men like Eisner, Erzherger. Tiatheneau, Scheidniaiiu, who I shot at the other day, men who accepted ac-cepted the present regime, not bo j ause they liked It, but because they aw no other solution, men. in a word, who might make the present regime re-gime possible, the German republic du enduring fact, ihcse men are to be removed by muini then one day,! when strong men have been ellmmat j -ed, the old gang will come back to H . 'save German .' ffilra "r three years this gang has preached hate againsi Prance, fixed the responsibility for defeat not upon themselves; their leaders, Moltke, Falkenhayn and Ludendorff who lost I the war upon the battlefield, de-cllned ! to endure further agony and rose in revolt against those who had lost the I struggle. "The key of the whole situation, in a sense, lies in the peculiar political j character of the Germans themselves I They have no capacity for independ ence, they seem destined to be led, not to direct their own fortunes They I .are used to ha ing their thinking dono for them and have been accustomed, o take the results as they were de livered. By comparison with the masses of America, Great Bntlan. France, they are still in a remoto century, politically speaking " I Men who, in the past, have fhouted loudest for respect ot constituted authority, au-thority, are today urging the assassin to do their bidding They would break down the present order of things in 'an effort to restore themselves to power Sometimes law and order men i are for law and order when It is to their advantage, and then they are ready to resort to anarchy when anarchy an-archy 6erves their ends.