The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-19
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GERMAN REFORMS.

lmDudenCe reached It's cllmaX Wnen
the kaiser's socialist" tool, Scheide'
mann, gave out a statement which
practically demanded that the allies
lay down their arms on the promise
that the democratic forces of Germany
after the war will clip the claws of
kaiserism.
The best reason why the allies will
do no such thing is Scheidemann him,
self, and creatures of his sort, who
have bulked so large in what has
passed for German democracy"
On his own showing Scheidemann is
either a po!troon or crook-perhaps
both. Before the war he and his tel
low jabberers talked much of democ-
racy and internationalism, but they
always ducked for cover when the
militarists ratified their sabers
After the war began, they crawled
on their hands and knees to the foot
of the throne to lick the kaiser's
boots. They applauded the ruin of
Belgium and practically every act of
frightfulness. They echoed the boasts
of German "efiiciency' and kultur. In
the reichstag they voted the money
to pay the assassins 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, we'll fed $50
cialists" cOunterparts of our own
fat Bergers and unctious IIillquits-
who were employed to spread the nets
OF the Stockholm conference and the
kindred peace traps, all fashioned in
the workshops of Germany or her neu-
trail tools, Holland, Sweden or Den
mark.
To the REAL socialists of Germany,
the small remnant of real democracy
remaining in the country, Scheide-
mann and his clique are kaiser So
cialists," and have been denounced as
such to the entire world by lIaase.
Ledebour and Lisbknecht.
II German, democracy is to be
achieved, either during or after the
war, it will have to be achieved by
other hands than the fatted paws of
Scheidemann and his kind. If Ger
man democracy depends on such PEG.
pie, it's cause is indeed desperate.
Never before the war did their oppo-
sition to autOcracy amount to more
than windy harangues in the power
less debating society called the reich
stag. After the war began it never
amounted to more than 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 German
peace" by hoodwinHing the liberal
forces of the allied world
Can anyone imagine German democ-
racy led by such creatures as Scheide-
mann OverthrOwing kafserism 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 autoc-
racy But they must deliver the goods
first. Their record requires payment
in advance, for they never showed
that they could rule themselves before
the war, and by allowing themselves
to be ruled by autocracy and led into
war they have cost the world millions
OF lives, billions of property, and heart
breaks immeasurable.
They proved unfaithiul. to the world
cannot be trusted again I'M
il they prove by DEEDS. not WORDS,
hat they mean to rule themselves.