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Show 'GOD HELP THE GERMAN PEOPLE,' HARDEN SAYS ON BED OF PAIN ? 4 Wounded Teuton Editor Waxes Ironical in Communing Com-muning With Mocking Bird in Garden of His Hospital. By MAXIMILIAN HARD i: Geiiiiany's Poreniosl lublicbrt v special Cable to The Standard- V Examiner Copyright, 1?::. By The Standard-JP Standard-JP ' Examiner) . BERLIN Jul LG Walter I ' V. au and 1 one" sat beneath a cvpross X , troe near Flesclie, dreamily of our own y. J " and of Germany's future. while a painfully overwnelrhlng v3 r on lotion forced me to break with V. Rathonau In 1910, tor 2Z ydartf, he al- ways callcl me till best u not his only - friend. . Ratlicnau contempbited abandoning . industry and finance and C"n to Pa ils tu develop a painting talent whl fa he bad In good measure With his alwavs flattering eloquence he prophesied prophe-sied that some day AVllhelm II would bo forced to entrust me. whom he hated, witb the ministry of for. Ign affairs. This wa to happen as BOOn as Germain- had a constitutional government gov-ernment like England. The prophecy naturally sounded fantastic to me, for I had taken this Italian holiday to recover from the effects ef-fects of Imprisonment for le.s ma lest e WHAT OF TIiEAMS? But, now what has become of our ' , i- foxle? Rathonau. who enthusiastically supported sup-ported the monarchy and Pi -usM-ml-m in? aristocracy, and who was unhappy hecause his Jewish blood prevented nis blcSminJ "n officer, finally, after hard striving, attained the office he bad prophesied for me. only to be shot by ',' boy criminal. . . , A few days later and a tew minute - from where ho met death ' voung. but more cowardly bandits at . tacked me from behind and here 1 stUl am with a torn and Weeding body, with eight frightfully pa In. f wounds, scribbling these hn i tor tne . able in the hospital of Professor Mor-itz Mor-itz Borchardt, one of Germany B greatest great-est surgeons. BIRD IS SINGING mocking bird is Ringing In the . irarden. What does It say ' Because you disputed Wllb. !m's divine right, the imperial Government , m,. threw you in prison and tiled to ruin vou physically and materially u . a, series of criminal proceedings. "Because you could not believe there was a world-Wide anli-Gerrn .n conspiracy In 1914, nor wallow In a victory delirium; because vou disapproved disap-proved of the invasion of Belgium and of ruthless submarine warfare, because be-cause you did not believe in the devastation devas-tation of northern France and of Poland" Po-land" and because ou disapproved ot til the militaristic acts from the lying ultimatum to .Serbia to the extorted Brest-Eltovsk treaty. the military censorship twice suspended your weekly newspaper for live months and - almost ruined you by a hundred con-. con-. flscations and petty prosecutions. HATED BY POWERS "Because you maintained the con-' con-' vlction that the new born republic was mlndl-ss and soulless, Us 1 ad-rs ad-rs dllletantlsh and superficial you are hated bv the new power.s as by the old. .. who now hlro scoundrels to murder you "The republic has not protected you and has not punished open appeals to assassinate you which have appeared again and again You have been infamously infa-mously slandered in the official news- papers and even now they have no sin- . gle word of regret for the shameful deed of July 3. "But look, your sick room In full of flowers sent by sympathizers the world , ..over, Including many unknown to you and the flood or letters and telegrams mounts higher and higher I NO GRIEF SHOWN I "Your government, however, does not betray directly or Indirectly the . ,irht..Mi irrcf iir nhnmc thnt nlv hv a miracle a writer of world-wide reputation rep-utation ha escaped death by assassination assassin-ation under the very eyes of Its police and may perhaps never hope to be entirely en-tirely healed. The public prosecutor demands a fine of only GOO marks fa dollar) for an incitement to murder and the grotesque reward of 10,000 marks ($2U) is offered for the capture of a murderer. Obviously they do not ' desire the criminals caught Don't you realize now what a pitifully useless use-less fellow vou are? Wh don't you learn from Swift, that nt Ither in the land of giants nor dwarfs does a truth teller get anything but distress for his ' rewards?' Dear mocking bird, 1 have learned my leason. Numberless times I have been threatened and warned, but 1 have alwajs thought "whv shou.u i private political writer Mhom nobody is forced to read, be murdered?" Well, they tried anyway and the ac complice in the act was Caught. Tho chief criminal, a 21-year-old lieutenant; lieuten-ant; was not taken. However, the police po-lice learned from letters that the criminals crim-inals were employed by a secret organization organ-ization In Bavaria (naturally) of "brave and loyal Germans" to kill mo whom thev didn't even know. How "brave and loyal' It was to attack an unarmed man from behind' WATCHED FOR WEEK It seems that for weeks they watch -t ed my path, meantime squandering j 35,000 marks advanced to them on ac- count. Needing urgently the ret of the money promised them, they already al-ready had written to sa "our orders have been punctually executed.' For people who in th-.su fa ;rd times can get money for riotous living from secret monarchist hands "bus.ncsi it I business." I Rathenau, meantime, has had th i glorious death his ambition deslrec and the government now Is trying fc fulfill his dearest v,i.sh a union wltl tho monarchist and industrialist "pco-pies' "pco-pies' party" supposedly ' for the pro-H pro-H i Hon I ' I f h- republic' I I.KVIHIM. TOTTERS Everything Is tottering. Only one thing is certain. Murder rontmuc5 jHut until more capable murderers alia, al-ia, k me 1 shall continue to cry "God help you. German people, out of the morass of lies and the unscrupulous unscrup-ulous cunning of those who seek only power,' But you, also, our enemies of yesterday, yester-day, como to tho assistance of this 'poor, misled people, which is noblo at heart. Help It save its self-respect through brothcrh acts of h juian kindness. kind-ness. Today my voke is weak, for If tho good professor knew that his patient upon whom ho has worked so skillfully skillful-ly was continuing to write dispatches against his orders, I would have bitterer bit-terer trtiths to swallow So that Is nil, lest there bo soon a day of celebration ut Doom castle 00 |
