Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-11-13
FRIED UPHOLDS WILSON VIEWS
AS TO A GERMAN DEMOCRACY
German Editor, Winner of Nobel Peace
Prize, Says President Has Done
Teutons Friendly Act.

DR. Alfred II. Fried winner Of the Nooei
peace prize in 1911. is a German pacinst ieaoer
who has kept out of Jail by going to switzer-
land. In Zurich he is editing the monthly mag
axine called Die Frietlens Wnrte-The Peace
Witch or Observer-whfch contains articles by
German antimilitarists In and out Of Germany:
It is from DIR. Fried's own comment on cuTrenI
events in the spes fer The Evening Star
and the Chicago Daily News.
ny DIR. ALFRED H. FRIED.
President Wilson refuses point blank
~ deal with the representatives OF the
miIttaristic viewpoint and absolute ata-
tocracy In Germany. He intends to help
the will Of the German people to break
through. All those who seek the sue
Gems of democracy In Germany will un-
derstand Wilson's demands and indorse
them. They will realize. nevertheless.
that the fight has not been made easier
for them. The military autocracy. feei-
ing itself threatened. Will picture the
demand of Wilson as an impudent In
reference in internal affairs; as an in
suit. and will know how to win over
those easily convinced. OF course these
methods will not prevail in the end. but
+ba f31ht will be heightened and embit-
tered.
Hooted Down by Medievalism.
Wei, and good. We pacifists must bow
before this. Out of the mouth Of the
President of the American republic
comes the breath of the learned man,
.peaks the spirit of new epoch In hu-
man history, which for years we pre-
Ynr
pared for it in this Germany, In which
medieval minds Knocked us and turned
us over to the ridicule of the unthink-
ing mob. They did not realize how much
they were preparing for the suffering
of the people. the woe of the country.
when they opposed us-we who de-
sired to lead the great and talented
German people to the new ideas that
dominate the coming epoch, and who
wanted to protect 1t from the nara
wantAd to save our people from the
shambles and commercial disinteEra-
ton. and they caused US to be over
RIDDEN by the noise trawling Of the pro-
tective leagues. the navy leagues, ana
the pan German groups. If the people
had needed us. if they had prepared for
International cooperation. for recogni-
tion of justice in the relations between
nations. for organization and understand
inr for recognition of the rights OF others
and respect for foreign possession-had
they thrown aside that moribund faith
in blood and iron-then they would not
now have to face world coalition.
would not have to hear those IDEAS Tor
~ a foreign nation. behind which stands
an untouched Army of many millions
and enormous wealth. After the Ger
man people have been bleeding and
dvirp for three years this Army comes
to demand a hearing for those same
views for which we fought decades ago.
We would have had 1t otherwise!
InterfereP Why NotP
The principal weapon OF the German
=, i1tt arists against Wilson's demands
u,ili be the excuse that one foreign
tarnaI AFFAIRS of another. That is an
emntv hypocritical phrase. 1t is hypo--
critical because the representatives OF
a system which Is founded on war can
with the least Justice reject foreign In
tarfarence. War has but one sole OBJ
tect--to mix in the affairs Of other ma
lions by force. Is not that which Ger
man militarism performs In Belgium.
northern France, Poland, Lithuanta and
Courland a drastic interference In the
Soye reignty has limit. which begins
where its own affairs harm the affairs
Of others. Any state has the right 70
take measures to protect itself against
tho internal analTS OIL duOlHeI etdee -
these threaten its interests. Just as In
our civil life. while respecting the In
violabtlity of individual freedom we
would protect ourselves should any one
start dynamite factory in his home
or keep cholera patients secreted there.
In world which is determined no
ion9er to incur the enormous penalty
of war. which wants to introduce jus
tice in the place Of might. every nation
has the right to protect itself against
warlike horde in the neighborhood
and to mix into its affairs SO that this
general danger will disappear.
stampeded by Pan-Germans.
The representatives Of the democratic
.nirit in Germany do not possess the nee
essary backbone. else they would not have
haen SO thoroughly embarrassed by Presi-
Sent Wilson'S demand for the democratic
zafion Of Germany Just because the reac-
tionaries declaimed, all in one voice: "Ah.
you want just exactly what our enemies
want" In view Of the fact that Ger
many has twenty-five enemies, 1t is very
difficult to wish for anything for Ger
] many today which an enemy does not
want Thoss shoatsrs for "tr'u"'a''