The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-09-15
Deeds, Not Words, II
Will Prove the Reality
of German Reforms

Impudence reached It's climax, when
the kaiser's Socialist tool, Scheide-
mann gave out a statement which prae-
tically demanded that the allies lay down
their arms on the promise that the dem
ocratic forces Of Germany after the war
win clip the claws of kaiserism
The best reason why the allies VIII
do no such thing is Scheidemann himself
and creatures Of his sort who have bulk
ed so large in what has passed Tor ter
man democracy
ON his own showing Scheidemam IS
either poltroon or crook-perh'ps
both
Before the war he and his fellow iab-
berers talked much Of democracy ana M
tenationalism. but they always dochea
for cover when the mihtarists ratified
their sabers.
After the wan began they era"ied on
their hands and knees 70 the foot 81 the
throne to lick the kaiser's boots.
They applauded the ruin Of Belgium
and practically every act of frghtfll-
ness.
They echoed the boasts of German
deficiency" and kultur
In the Reichstag they voted the money
to pay the assasins Of Belgium and
northern France.
Later on, when the militaristic game
had reached its losing stage and peace
was necessary, it was Scheidemann and
his crowd OF sleek, well fed Socialists
the counterparts Of our own fat Ber-
gers and unctious Hillquits-who were
employed to spread the nets Of the Stock
holm conference and the kindred peace
traps. all fashioned in the workshops OF
Germany or her neutral tools, Holland
Sweden, or Denmark.
To the REAL socialists Of Germany,
the small remnant Of real democracy re-
naming in the country, Scheidemann and
his clique are kaiser socialists, and
have been denounced as such to the en-
tire world by Haase, Ledebour and Lieb-
knecht.
If German democracy is to be achieved /
either during or after the war 1t VIII have (
10 be achieved by other hands than the
fatted paws Of Scheidemann and his kind. !
If German democracy depends on such
people, its cause is indeed desperate.
Never before the war did their opposition
to autocracy amount to more than windy
harangues in the powerless debating So
ciety called the Rechstag.
After the war began it never amounted
to more than a feeble squeak Of protest
at some particularly revolving phase Of
frightfulness, and whenever the kaiser
called them to the task they obediently
undertook the work Of trying to get a
German peace" by hoodwinking the lib
eral forces of the allied world.
Can anyone imagine German democ-
racy led by such creatures as Scheide-
mann overthrowing kaiserism after a war
which ends in successful peace for the
kaiser?
No; if the German people want peace
they can get it by paying the price, which
is the overthrow Of autOcracy.
But they must deliver the goods first.
Their record requires payment in adj
vance, for they never showed that they
could rule themselves before the war, and
by allowing themselves to be ruled by au-
tocracy and led into war they have cost
the world millions of lives and billions Of
property, and heartbreak immeasurabe
They proved unfaithful to the world
once-they cannot be trusted again until
they prove by DEEDS. not WORDS, that
they mean to rule themselves.