The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-07
German Citizens No Longer
Stand in Awe Of the Braves
Who Wear the Uniform of
His Majesty, the Emperor.
NAVY OF GERMANY ONE
TO BE RECK0NED WITH
Hint That 1t May Be the Inten-
ton of the Rulers of the
Empire to Go to War for the
Purpose of Raising Money
PRINCE WOULD BE A KING
BY FREDERICK wARNEl

Berlin. Aug. SLOWLY but none the
less surely. the masses Of the German
people are beginning TO realize how
false is the claim OF the German army
officers that they are super-men with
a separate code of honor, VINO live AMI
move in a sphere far above that or
the mere civilian. claim that has al
ways been carefully nursed and en-
couraged by the kaiser himself who Is
well aware that the army is the very
basis OF his power
The idea OF the special military code
of honor is deeply rooted in the Ger
man nation. and the essential point in
q lis that every Insult 10 an officer
can only be wiped out in blood. II a
mere civilian, for instance. should
brush against an officer in the street
OF hesitate in giving him the. right
OF way, the officer Is not only justified.
but even required 10 draw his sword
and chastise the offending citizen.
When an officer is insulted by a fell
low officer or "a gentleman who is
~satisfactiOns faehig,' he must chal-
lenge the aggressOr TO a duel, and Is
dishOnOred in the eyes OF military law
until he has fought = duel under very
severe conditions.
An officer who shirks q duel is ex-
PEELED from the army with demOnstra-
tive rapidity, although the duel, &C
cording 10 the law Of the land, is
criminal offense.
Civilian an Outeast.
The civilian in Germany. on the
tiOn as the negro in the southern
states in America. The officers them
selves associate only with officers and
have a profound contempt for every
man who does not wear military uni
form.
II was the utter and complete ex-
pOsure Of the fallacy OF the claim OF
superiority that made the recent Al
lenstein case SO distasteful 10 German
officers, for the sworn testimony OF
witnesses in court revealed conditions
Of moral depravity and of utter alb
Eence OF decency of feeling among the
officers OF the garrison.
The last issue OF the intrepid Maxi
milan Won Harden's magazine, the
''Zukunft" was confiscated for its
Ecathing comment on the moral lep-
ers' found among the Alenstein Off
GERS, but truth viii out. and with the
discovery of the clay feet of the Idol,
Germany citizens are undergoing q
revulsi0n OF feeling towards those who
bOasted OF being their superiors and
OF maintaining the chiValrOus tradi-
tiOns of the knights of the middle
ages.
Undismayed by foreign criticism and
lack OF money in the country itself,
Germany is going ahead constructing
navy which makes England turn pale
with fear and apprehension. In 1917.
81 is said officially, the naval program
viii have been carried but with every
shipyard working overtime and with
the Krupp works adding hundreds OF
their army or workers every wear,
prospects are that the German navy,
almost equal 70 the British, shall be
complete even before then.
During the debate in the reichstag
last year. the secretary OF the navy,
Admiral Won Tirpitz, promised to re-
duce expenses, but nothing has been
heard OF this intention since then.
No one can persuade the kaiser TO
reduce that program No argument can
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