El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-04
MORALITY IN
GERMANY LOW
Nation Has Supplied Most
Of LeWd Women of the
World for Years.
BY HENRI DE HA
BY HENRI DE HALSALLEs
(Author Of Degenerate Germany
THE Gc-man Woman and Her
Master efc.1

! By HENRI DE HALSALLEs
/ (Author Of Degenerate Germany
I ~The Gc-man Woman and Her
Master etc.)
London Eng, June ITO one who
I knows anything of the state Of NOR
ality" among the higher official and
military classes in Germany it comes
{ as no surprise TO hear that Won Kuhl-
mann during the negotiations at Blu
karest is now taxed by the pan-Ger-
man Deutsche Zeitung with acting in
I a manner "derogatory to the dignity Of
I the German empire"
It seems that Won Kuhlmann (as
well as count Czernin) was often
I seen in the Rumanian capital in the
company Of a notorious member Of the
delimonde. and in his defence a Ger
man Liberal paper remarks that Won
kuhlman has done nothing worse
Z than is generally witnessed at the
I German peasants annual meeting in
Berlin"
Having on one occasion been
spectator of one Of these peasant s
meetings, 7 cannot say that the res
tiviries," were characterized by mucn
else more pleasant than drunkenness
and immodesty. But that is neither
here nor there
Vice In Court Circles.
As regards the peccability Of the
p-2s M day ruling class in Germany,
it is only necessary to recall the COM
paratively recent EuIenf urg affair.
Here was a prince "a most intimate
friend Of Wilhelm ID who was de-
nounced in Zukuuft by Macmillan
Harden the editor. as a creature to-
tally unfit for human society" And
why2 Prince Philip Eulenburg and his
gang" who constituted a body OF r.
regular advisers and cOn1luants OF lne
emperor. were addicted TO 'unnamaole
vices But one OF the vices has a name
-le vice aliemand-
lie vice alIemand had long been
rampant in the army, but when IL
began to manifest itself among the
kaiser's personal friends there was at
least one man in Germany who dared
to publish the fact TO the world-Har-
den. the editor Of ZukunlL-
Ii was maintained by Harden that
prince Philip Eulenburg and his de-
generate friends had an immense IN
fluence over Wilhelm H. that they
formed a court -Camarilla- me
denial Of this by prince BueloW In the
reichstag had not the reassuring Ell
feet aimed at The whole affair leIt a
nasty taste-even among Germans
Huns UnenviabIe Reputation.
"Of all peoples, my Germans are
LLE mos mural 4AAAaG "a e f-.-1-~
which Wilhelm II. has uttered again
and again hat is the real moral
condition Of the German people, VINO
according 10 their kaiser. are THE
salt Of the earth"2 Let us take only
few illuminative facts chroniced by
Germans themselves.
Germany says Herr August
-ebel, @enjOys the unenviable
reputation OF producing the "un-
fOrrunates' for half the world
German women he continues,
efiu the hnrems Of the Turks and
houses OF bad fame from the in
terror OF Siberia away to bombay
Si-Eapore, and New York.
Joest, the German traveller lays II
down in his book. Aus Jaran nacn 7
Deutschland. etc.: ''In no country in 4
the world is such a trade with white
slaves carried on as in Germany
and from no country on earth are
such multitudes Of these human wares /
exported
This enormous business says Be |
bel again, lis thoroughly organized 1t Z
is carried on by agents and COM I
mercial travellers as q legitimate pro- I
fession"
"a Great Moral swamp
And not only by agents and com I
mercials travellers. but by parents I
themselves, Listen TO this,
says an English clergyman, the ]
2
in Germany: To their shame be IL I
said there are parents who rear their ]
daughters for this kind Of life 10 add 3
10 the income Of the family. In every 4
city, perhaps without an exception, \
this great moral swamp exists"
Commenting on the male creatures
who make considerable incomes out Of
the immortality Of women the German
author B0ehme says These persons
have their own clubs, their gymnastlc i
and athletic associations, and their
own bars" 'ProcuratiOn in Germany R
is looked upon as a legitimate profess
sion
But this is not confined to girls and
women of the poorer classes in Ger
many From a dozen cOrrOoOrative
statements 1 viii quote S lombard
German girls and women VINO live
in comparative luxury, who have 3
calling and a good social position, are
often cJurtesans; and Dr. Mol, FRO
lessor of psychology at the University |.
of Berlin, who states that the number
of these women in Germany must be
put down as no fewer than l.50Q,Uu0.
Paying n Dividend On Lust.
Besides sucn statement. the fol-
lowing, which appears in the Berliner
Tageblatt Of May =, 1912 seems a
trifle; but its like is not iufrequently 1
met with in the German press; "A
well known Berlin house of i'll fame I
is capitalized at 100000 marks, and I
has recently declared a dividend Of 20 {
percent"
After all. the affair Of Won Kuhl-
mann-What a storm in a teacupL