Republican farmer., 1918-10-25
WILL BE
 DEMOCRATIzED

New York. Oct. 18-Henry Nor genthau, former Ambassador to Tur- key, believes Germany will be thor oughly democratized, but he is con- f1dent that such a condition is solely contingent on the absolute defeat of the German armies and in some meas ure on the salutary effect of war carried by the Allies to German soil. - The germ of democracy is in the nation, he believes, awaiting only the right influences which the United States and the other free peoples can exert to bring it to fruit. He out lined his opinions last night in an .ad- dress at Cooper Union, in the course of big Liberty Loan rally.
 Referring to President Wilson's ac- tion in going over the heads of the German government and to the people themselves in his replies to peace pro- posals, MT. Morgenthau said:
 This attempt to differentiate be- tween the German government and the German people is nothing new. President Wilson drew his distinction in the very address in which he asked Congress to declare war. His insist ence on this point has irritated many observers, here and abroad, who have insisted that no such difference exists; that the people are as bad as their Kaiser; that they approve the dastard- ly crimes of the German army and the German navy. and are just as lust full of military conquest as their inn perial masters. n
 q believe that those who refuse to see much difference between the mentality of the people and their gov ernment are right. They have work ed as a unit in this insane enterprise of conquering the world. This fact, however, does not affect the wisdom of the Presidents policy. It does not mean that the people cannot be sep arated from their kaiser, that they cannot be led to see a new light. thar they cannot be forced even to over throw their whole autocratic system abandon the damnable philosophy il which they have been so sedulousl5 schooled, cleanse themselves of tht foul crimes which they have applaud ed for four years and reform them selves into a decent, self-respecttng liberty-loving democracy. Indeed they have got to do this or perish.
 "I shall probably be told that thi! invokes transformation in human nature---and that human nature doe! not change itself The psychology. O. a whole nation can be changed ant changed fundamentally. I believ' this first of all, because I am a be liever in democracy"
 MT. Morgenthau, in emphasizing this point, traced the freedom of lib eral peoples today to the old Ger many.
 ''We are taught" he said, that thu Anglo Saxon peoples have particula, gift for democratic institutions. Le us not lose sight of the fact that tht Anglo-Saxon peoples came original. from Germany. Indeed, a great Eng fish historian - Freeman, I think has said that if you wish to trace tht Declaration of Independence to it beginnings you will have to go bacl to g. German forest. All history show that the seeds of democracy do exis in the German peoples, little in evi dence as they have been in the last 5t years"
 The South German states, as dis tinguished from Prussia, are mainl, relied on by MT. Morgenthau to In stitute and develop the new philoso phy of democracy. He recalled thu Baden of his boyhood, and traced tn, growth of the militaristic idle; through the years that succeeded tn, founding of the Empire.
 "At present" he declared, q regard the German mind as in a condition O disease. It has been deliberateI! schooled for 40 years to think il psychiatrists have a method of handl ing the human mind that has beer twisted out of its normal course by it early impressionable years. They cal this the process of re-education. I is A process of substituting health! thoughts for diseased thoughts O right attitudes for wrong attitudes and developing 8 normal mentality tC take the place of an abnormal men tality. Some such process of re-edu cation must be applied to Germany i she is to cease to be a menace to the worId-if the world, indeed, is to bt fit place for peaceful, hberty-lovine democracies, such as are the powers that are now overcoming the Kaiser legions.
 "A terrible nervous shock frequent ly produces the most beneficial and health-making results. Nothing would do Germany so much good in the present crisis as such a shock This is the reason why complete military defeat is the essential preliminary tc ending the war
 "There is not the slightest doubt that. at this present nome G<'i
 many still believes she is superior tc the rest of the world in war, and that she regards her present reverses as only temporary; serious enough, per haps, to justify her in making an tn- conclusive peace, but not serious enough to dissuade her from her great enterprise of universal empire. II permitted to do so, she will tempor-