New-York tribune., 1914-12-21
HARDEN RALLIES
TO AID OF KAISER
Editor Drops Feud with
Emperor-Urges Ger
mans to Fight.
ENGLAND'S JEALOUSY
BLAMED FOR WAR
Acts. Not Words, Count in Strug-
gle, He Says-"We Do Not
Bark, We Beat" Is Warning.

"Die Hamburger Nachrichten,
copies Of which have just reached this
city, publishes a speech recently made
before an audience in Hamburg BY
Macmillan Harden, editor Of "Die
Zukunft.'
Harden, who was formerly one Of
the btterest opponents Of the govern
ment party and time and again as
sailed the German foreign policy, has
since the beginning Of the war become
one OF the stanchest supporters Of the
Kaiser's war policy.
His address has been published and
republished by newspapers and peri
odicals throughout Germany. and the
patriotic sentiments have aroused en-
thusiastic comments throughout the
Fatherland. A dramatic incident fol-
lowed the conclusion Of Harien's
speech in Hamburg, when, after ST.
lencing the applause Of his audience,
he said:
"From the bottom Of my heart ]
thank you. know that you are feel
ing what you express. Words are
nothing nothing At all to-day. The
humblest and the smallest man who
sends his last cartridge from the
trench which may form his grave,
does more for his German Fatherland
than all the writer's and all the ora
tors combined could ever do
I'm his speech Harden said IN part:
"What did VIC Germans DO that VIC
should now stand in the midst OF a
world Of hatred? What have we done
to bring up such a world Of hatred
against US?
Glance back over the forty-four
years that Germany has lived 1t can-
not be said that we have enlarged our
territory TO any great extent. 1t can
not be said that VIC have committed
unusual sins.
"Our crime WAS that while others
made merry this German Empire
worked and grew stronger and did
things others had been unable 10 DO.
This is said without boastng. as II is
said without hatred against others. J
do not propose that We should lose
ourselves in hatred against any one. A
nation in straits cannot afford the
luxury of such q sentiment.
"The business of a great country
cannot be conducted without a certain
degree Of dupicity. But there is a
limit When hypocrisy 10 not con
ciliable with tho welfare OF the ma
tion II becomes a crime. u can be
understood that, with the quick devel-
opment of Germany, e certain discon-
tent must result in Britain. But the
war against such a competition could
be conducted with decent weapons.
"ln business, for instance, one does
not surround and isolate the com
petitor, cut of his telephone and hold
him up 10 The rest Of the world as a
criminal. But that is the way they
treated Us. Our cables were cut, and
then they said: Don't you know that
those hounds arc broke already, the
castle of Berlin is alire, the Kaiser is
fugitive; he will settle in Canada?
"And then atrocities upon atrocities
were charged against Us. In view or
the concentrated efforts being made to
vilify Germany it is certainly difficult
to refrain from hatred.
But We do not bark. We beat And
n VIC did not beat hard no words, no
papers would help Us. When the bill
is drawn up nobody will put the ques-
tion a. to who started the war. All
they viii ask is who won the war.
England has done much good. but
she has done nothing unusual. Where
Is the great achievement that British
genius can boast that would give her
the right to rule the world as once
Rome ruled the world?
Rome fell, and Germans brought
about its fall. II is true there is rea-
son for Us to be ashamed of our
selves when we think OF the eccentric
enjoyment that we INDUCED in last
winter the tango, the futurists. the
slit skirts and other things called mod
ern. The same young men. however,
who allowed themselves TO be blinded
by these things then arc now wearing