The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-01
GERMAN EDITOR DEFENDS J. s. IN
 DARING ARTICLE
Warns Teutons Against "Shams and Mistakes
 of Government.

Copenhagen, via London, May L. Macmillan Harden, the German 'en- fant terrible,' publishes in the latest issue of Die Zukunft'' another dar- ingly frank article, exposing to Ger man readers the shame, pretences and mistakes" of their governments 8 policy.
 The article is devoted to the entry of the United States into the war, which Herr Harden warns the people must be taken most seriously; both from the moral side. as a symptom Of the weakness of Germany's appeal to the neutral world and the failure Of her foreign policy, and because of the physical aspects Of the weight which America will ultimately be able to throw into the scale. In the article he reviews the steps leading to the German and American peace pro posals, the proclamation of unre- strdcted sumbarine war and the Amer ican declaration of a state of war, and declares, with a daring to which prob ably no German pubicist is equal, that Germany's peace overtures were put forward only as bridge over which Germany could pass to relent- less submarine warfare.
 Consistent with his earlier attitude, i1SII IldidGI ildS OIliy WoIoS OI iAA5 IT praise for President Wilson and his policy, and reveals in various pas sages a bHghting opinion of Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, which he did not con- ceal at the time of Zimmermann's ei- ovation to ministerial rank.
 Another article by Herr Harden eliminates in the appeal to Germany to put the interior of her house in or der and introduce democratic condl- tions, which, the writer says, is the only sure basis for future peace. Scarcely less noteworthy than his scatching criticism of German diplo- macy Gbut not that of Count von Bernstorff, former ambassador to the l United States, whose work he praises)
 is Herr Harden's justification to Ger man readers of Americas attitude during the war and his demolition, for example, of the favorite Pan-Ger- man arguments that the United States was inspired solely by dollar-chasing and looked upon war only as a source for enormous profits from munition supplies.
 1 The United States, Herr Harden de- clares, could have continued to amass
 unmeasured richess not from munition contracts, from which only a minute part of it's income was derived, but as a worlds source of supply. Instead
 he adds, the United States chose fol
 an ideal to reject continuance of its profitable neutrality and to load itseE
 with a burden of expenditures which
 no other country could safely bear
 Those who would profit, Harden tells
 his readers, can be sought nearer home, in the ranks of those wanting
 to retain Belgium, the Briey iron dis trict, Courland and Livonia.
 l Herr Harden condemns the Hnita. lions of the peace offer of the centra | powers, whose purpose was, he says to pave the way for a declaration O
 submarine war and the rejection O
 President Wilson's offer of mediation
 and the German official effects to de
 ceive and mislead the President re-
 garding the coming submarine cam
 paign. A rupture of relations was in evitaib1e from President Wilson note. the moment this was proclaimed, bu
 Herr Harden believes that it nigh have been limited to this and armed l neutrality if it had not been for thu overtures looking to an alliance witl
 Mexico and Japan, upon which h,
 1avishes all the language of ridicul, and contempt. He 1aments that thi. did not lead to the fall of the impe rial chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann
 Hollweg, and the foreign secretary Dr. Zimmerman, which PresideI
 Wilson may perhaps have expected
 when the publication occurred.