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Show MONARCHISTS CHEER EX-KAISER jf AS RATHENAU IS MURDERED axmilian Harden Declares There Have Been 37 Victims in German Murder Epidemic and All of Them From Democratic Political Group Bv M AXIM.'TJ HARDEN', krrmany's lVivnuwi Publicist. cial tabic lKia(li (o The Standard-1 -a miner. rpyiight, 1 '--'-' by The Stnndard-Examlner Stnndard-Examlner I BERLIN. Ju'j 1- The German Mrr . plil'Tiu is disgracing the Brian pHoplf in the opinion of the i rid TriK-. K'nlr.nd ;l1so has one, cb i:iimlnai ! in tho assassination I Sir lKnrv Wilson. lut that rcpre-I rcpre-I b the last a ponies of the war be-I be-I en propl- Here compatrlotsj rd-- a'ch ot h i merolji on account! I Eirtv differences without the ox- t nf 'ir-lmu sirife 'h r- h ive be n 17 victims In Ger- ny all from the democratic group. 1 a hair of i nationalist or a roy-1 t lias been tour-hod since Germany's! hps-- Am tin luteal victim's RglCil i-orpse was nr-iriK carried ic crowds w -if. cheering: Hlnden-g Hlnden-g and two of the kaisor'n sons at Edam, nnly half an hour :uny. I'm- -:.'.!: imi:arehlHi urder of St. in w holding lis annual knight (binp f'Mlval with all of its an-lt an-lt itumnivlii- ! pomp and with the acs of n h i.f W.lhelm'a mandarins itcd n the program with their full rt title ami T-.'in I Friederlcll named hi royal lilRhnrss. The offlclat- ( -lcrcryma n -a'!rvl hofprrdiger urdng court preacher expressed J hope of soon seeing Doom castle Mom into 'i--.- life Everybody fcr-tood '. hat. r-.is meant rilhclm. v.- ii" r . - 1 frm i h n rmv now is fx:n i:'i; H'.i.uiin.ii'ii) murks m Get n-c-nv'- i isery for h.s mcm-still mcm-still calls himself emperor and hi-- eldest ;on calls himself; jvn prim - ; in lavarla Prince Kup-ch' Kup-ch' review 'he tmops and the ab-p ab-p tc I grand dukis do likewise In I In and H-s-ie OM- Ifindunburg fenr-- ' I i i. imnv In East Prus-Itra Prus-Itra rispor ' 1 ih'-r In a special car, ft for weeks is adorned like a god I IE honored n or. than an general wr a trii.mphact victory The realign re-align flap Is torn down and spat n wherever hoisted I'm n dent Htrman Is hooted in Munich. Doz-j 'Wa lniptnal of' - in bright dressj Rrms take a morning rule In the fcrg..rten follow 'd by uniformed km n The o;,i court societj gave balls durine tin wdnter in n lux- us hotel whll the devout bour- Isle looked on reverently from tho JHde Nationalist leaders In tho Spstac: publlrlv declare the people lit the monarch restored and (tnise an ea.-ly fulfillment. 1 Bid tho reuubllc allows all lhl. Jess our leaders a-- blind or dead, ir know numerous officials and all iary men regard the republle as Ian ugly interim stop-gap. This juiins why not a single political Iner has been i uplated and no I Barer caught despite gigantic Ifcisec of reward and why tho jfjtarv raureler business can be en-H en-H almost w. It hout risk ihe murder ot Rathenau w as t h ! Itest mistake I he military has e This extraordinarily gifted was neither i republican nor a itoerat at heart He Inherited a lb bustneos after a BQUl)d len- jeducatlon. He had man') talenta l a favorite of ihe kaiser, received I y hltrh orders and wore them Idly and he purchased the Queenl I Louise countr eeat from the crown with the light to call it a royal castle. When tho war broke out he took charge of all raw materials and as lato as the summer of 1918 prophesied prophe-sied a certain military victory publicly opposing Princ Max of Radon's pcaco Offer that autumn and willing for a continuation of the war. This man, who supported the republic re-public only becauso he realized It was necessary and coin 1 thereby fulfill his ambition to hold high office was maliciously and ctupldly slaughtered by antl-semlte militarists The extraordinary intelligent and Ofr) h It lot! E mtllimaire would have favored fav-ored any reasonable understanding with the royalists. 1 know him better than anybody. After 25 years of Intimacy, In-timacy, and Ju-t two years ago, I felt obliged to differ with him and Kharply to criticize him I must now declare tnat undoi'lieath he was drawn much more to the right than to the left. His last work was the organ!- zation of a great campaign to prove I Germany's Innocence of .starting tho I war. He had hoped thus to win the support of the nionaichists for tho government, not realizing that these people support such a campaign only for the purpose of discrediting the I republic. Rathenau tirelessly courted the favor fa-vor of the press and now he Is eulogized eulo-gized A apeclal law to protect the i blic has been introduced and the government says It mustn't happen again hut the same thing was said after Erzberger s assassination and tho only result was that a fine of 5 000 marks was Imposed on a man who twice demanded in his paper that Hnrden Forster and other traitors-should traitors-should he shot. The government still does not dare to compel Its troops to carry the flag of the republic and bo long as the government doc-i nothing to engender respect the murder epidemic will continue and those striving fervently! to purify Germany spiritually, mor- ally and politically will have no! weather position wherewith to meet the world's judgment that Germany is a dangerous animal which must be kept in chains. This Is our vicious circle from which young bright America must realize we can only be saved hy international action. |
