The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-06-15
A beautiful spot for a home

C1Sm ana protest against tne designs
and methods of her governing classes.
This seems indicated by signs that now
and then become vocal 1T would be
amusing If it were not desperate to
note the puerile faith which English
and some American papers display in
the reports and editorials published in
German newspapers says Prof. E. r.
Hedrick. OF the University of Missouri,
in long letter in defense of the real
Germany" published in the New York
Evening Post. Professor Hedrick holds
a degree from the University of Coffin
gen and is a member of the Deutsche
Mathematiker Vereinigung. He finds
it hard to imagine ian intelligent Ger
man" expressing Gin cold words in
German newspaper his real opinion of
the invasion of Belgium or of the sink
ing of the Lusitania." Moreover, he de-
clares that "German-born friend who
holds a position of honor and promi-
nence has received within week a
letter from his brother in Germany
begging him not to believe what the
German papers are printing about the
conditions and opinions In Germany"
That such letters are written in spite
of the known risks is evidence to Pro-
fessor Hedrick of the strength of the
suppressed opinions. In support of
this view he writes:
II claim that Germany has had little
to say about her government, that she
has been highly suspicious of that gov
evrnment and that she is responsible
for the recent acts of which we disap-
prove only in that she has not yet ex-
erted herself to alter that government.
| claim that no reasonable opportuni-
ty now exists for reliable expression
of German opinion. and that the real
Germany is as humane, as trustworthy
| and as honorable as is any nation.
Those who are leading men to think
| otherwise are enemies of Germany,
whether they frankly avow it or wheth
er they stand for and seek the favor of
the present government OF Germany.
|
| ut was a German, and by no means
an Englishman, who forced the Ger
man government to announce in the
| Reichstag long before the war that I'M
| der no conceivable circumstances
| would the German army invade Bel
GUM if other powers did not
1T was a German who exposed the
rottenness' of a clique who disgraced
German court circles a few years ago.
Real Germans as well as Alsatians
voiced protests that were as danger
Gus as they were futile against the ar
bitrary acts of German military officers
in Alsace.
"Yet the government which stands
in reality not for the Kaiser so much
as for the whole bureaucracy of Ber-
lin and Prussia has been retained.
In defense of Germany, be it said that
any real alteration would not be so
easy a matter as in England or in
America. We need merely vote
against the existing government and
return a majority of congress unfav-
orable to it. If anything, the cor
responding action in England is swift
ter than in America While revolu-
ton would not be strictly necessary
| in Germany, it is true that serious
ltchanges in the organic law would be
necessary before even an unfavorable
majority would secure any effective
change of policy, or any such change
| in the real rulers as happens regular
ly in England"
The boldest attempt yet made to
give expression to this silent Ger
many is a volume entitled "JAccuse
Won Einem Deutschen" It's bi-lin-
quail character is obviously intended to
recall the famous "JAccuse" of Emile
lola, which brought about the public
trial of the Dreyfus matter The book
is published in Lausanne, Switzerland
] for obvious reasons, but CORES
pendent of the New York Tribune,
Gordon Gordon Smith, asserts that it's
writer is mot only a German. but a
Prussian, born as he himself de-
clares, on German soil, of German
parents. German in language and
sentiment, who loves his country bet