El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-25
Declare the Common People
Fit Only For Cannon
Fodder or SertdOm.
WOULD BAR PEOPLE
FROM PUBLIC VOICE
Baron Oon W angenheim
ArOuses Storm of Anger by
Attack on Democracy.

DERLIN, Germany March -Po-
X litical thraldom and servi,ude are
to be the fate Of the German peo-
pie after the war, it seems, IL the
Junkers have their way.
During the first months or the war,
while it was still to be feared that Sc
rious trouble might arise with the So
cialists. who never admitted that war
had been unavoidable, the Prussian
Junker found discretion the better part
Of ValOr and kept his reactionary opin-
ions and bitter contempt OF the masses
OF the people 20 himself But from
the very moment it became evident that
The Socialists willingly shouldered the
task OF fighting the enemy to save
Germany from her desperate plight, the
Junker found it impossible TO keep his
hatred OF all free and democratic in
situations in check.
He began openly to insult the COM
mon people who in his eyes are fit
only for cannon fodder in time Of
war and for abject slavery in time Of
peace.
IN a speech, Baron Won Wangeuheim,
president OF the POmeraniRn chamber
Of agriculture typical Junker insti-
tuition. and one OF the most reaction
airy members OF the Prussian Diet. said
recently:
says Democratic Government Failure.
''If there is one fact which this war
has brought out more clearly than any
thing else, II is that the idea OF demo-
cratic government is an absolute fail
IRE.
where should we have been IN this
war, II we had paid the slightest at
fention to the mistaken ideas OF par
liamentarism and socialism, What Is
happening I'm the countries OF our enc
mics conclusively shows that chaos
must be the inevitable result OF demo-
cratic government.
When IL is remembered that the av-
craze Prussian citizen looks upon the
king and government OF Prussia as IN
honor bound 10 carry out the promises
solemnly and repeatedly given before
the war Of abolishing the Anticipated
and hated three class franchise sys-
fem and Of submitting 10 the Prus-
sian peoDle n real election reform Dill,
one easiiv understands how imprudent
are utterances like those OF Baron Won
yVangenheim at a time like the present
Arouse Indignation.
The words OF the Baron have aroused
an outburst Of righteous indignation
and protest IN the radical and soclalis-
tic press which points to the readiness
with which the democratic parties put
aside their ideals and submitted 10
autocratic military control from the
very moment the war became an es-
tahlished fact.
Several radical papers emphasize
that had Prussia had a modern con-
stitutlon and been governed on demo-
cratic principles the militarists ana
Junkers would never have been per-
ynitted TO rush the country into war
Others maintain that the Baron
claim that democratic government mas
uroved a failure IL absurd, and point
10 the fact that it has been put TO the
hardest kind OF a test in France and
has come out with flying colors' FOR
in no country is the harmony between
all classes and all parties more per-
feet than in France
Not one Of the reactionary papers IN
Germany has seen fit to contradict this
statement or take up the cudgels on
behalf OF the Baron, whose words, by
fhe way. have been greatly resented
bv Americans here as a reflection on
the free institutions Of the United