The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-07
GIFTS OF NATIONAL
TIES AND THE
i GERMANS
BY CHARLES PERGLER
Prcsident, Bohemian Sationa


lace by understanding may be
he'd only with a nation that Is
Possessed with the notion of its
superiority. Understanding IN
basible with nation which al
.Antireiy is devoid Of real liberal
Such liberalism must concede
hers the right TO live Had such
BIT been applied 10 the German
Ee even priar TO the war. the
would have had a clearer notion
hat II must ultimately facs, would
have been surprised so unpre-
Even then the German nation
one to regard itself as the chosen
of and 10 look upon everything
herman as inferior. The German
= everything best.
he other Germans wrct q
schke, know better than the
Eians wherein lies their true wei
,We will bring them 20 their
selves in spite of them.
kitrrhkeis statement Is typical OF
German position as regards hil
natioralities. II does not repre-
only the vaporings of one dis
mind. PrFer To the war IL was
red that the German social de-
scv- stood FOR one element in
an national life which was will
b mete ont Justice to norGer~
nationaiitie1 Yet what r. the
record Did the German social
craey ever utter sufficiently
etic protest against the burial
pts AT the Germantging OF the
OF Posen? bid II rser engage in
bnS protest against the Prussian
under which Polish landowners
island suffered appropriation? 2,
tina thought 4 Indeed. the Ger
kpctai democracy would not per-
adeouate measure Of autonomy
e Polish Socialist Party Of posen
= the party, and thereby In prac.
aced itself upon record as being
"a 10 freedom for oppressed ma
For In a polysiot state, the or
ktion OF a party may be. and
Ia. bat a mirror OF the organiza-
4 state as that particular party
hes II.
ls11 the German social demo-
,vcted for an increase or taxes
iiitAry purposes. This was but
esncnition OF what the part!
a do upon the outbreak OF WA
hat actually It did on August 4.
when 1t voted for the war bud
nd did not protes, against Ger
! attAckupon all the civilized
And how long In It that the
ia Socialist Cunow. denied in a
in Socialist. monthly magazine
yht OF small nations TO exist
question OF the rights OF small
alities Is the touchstone of the
ty OF the allied powers, IT was
b OF. the sincerity and fairness
rman parties. individuals and
lions prior to the war. In this
icy failed. The German social
racy OF Austria In theory pro-
to believe in the rights OF small
But when II came to practi-
easures. her representatives
voted with their openly
nistic co-nationals. They could
Ire -faccdly admit that German
OF the smaller nationalities was
pus to them. so the theoreti-
( the Austro German social de-
~. Bauer and Renner. both of
evolved the Ingenious theory
kagimaiAtton of nom German
Tho pan Germans openly
Of CermAnixation: these socia-
He'd Il assimilation. The latter
Bly 4 euphemism for the form
hat n tho difference. in effect.
h Germanization and assimila-
what IL the difference. In effect.
b numbering a man. with a
= Revolver?
Austrian German socialists sup
the war from the beginning,
". Id 1t an opportunity to re-
Dntrol of the whole Austrian
movement which they lost
years before the wars out
lust because of their. chauvin-
he Czech socialist deputy. Hah-.
Who Ii also editor OF the peri
sNpyx Doba.r Of Pilsen. re-
revealed the fact that upon
fling lpf Austria's infamous ulti-
10 Serbia. the Czech socialists
Z r1Approchement OF the vari-
laliN parties OF Aassria. Rep
ives Of the various national
groups met. and the Czech
to proposed discussion of
measures which might be
~ the workingmen OF Austria
the war. and which unques-
would have a powerful ef-l
vt one Of the leading German
b Ae the curt answer,
deaE the time for parley has
Now ID the time for action.
evA In syohr sincerity. But
mons speak now II their Ian
n IT. consequences. II favor
ycp, Czech socialists, we shall
) conciliatory On the. con,
their language nroves lezs
: 80 YOU. We rlall be less