The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-08
GERMANS ANXIOUS
FOR THEIR FUTURE
Small Group OF Thinking Men Pro-
test Against Acts of Military Slique
Victories w i'll Bring Only
Shame. Warns Prince Max.

Berne, Switzerland, May There
is a small, slowly growing group OF
men in Germany who, thinking OF
the future, are trying to clean up
the Hun and make Germany pre-
sentable before the world.
They're trying to pound 1t nome
that Germany's world standing must
be considered--if, indeed, it is not
already too late.
These missionary efforts are ap-
parently having no general effect.
However, they do show that some
men in Germany now see the hand-
writing on the wall. From there
you can draw your own conclusions.
Prince Macmillan, amiable heir TO
the throne of Baden, who made the
Kaiser angry in 1917 by protesting
publicly against the Huns brutality,
still appears to have hopes OF saving
"Germany's good name"
Germany must declare that she
recognizes the rights of other peo-
pies, and that she is determined to
satisfy those rights" he says IN al
interview.
'.It is not within our own borders
solely that our name should have
good sound. Germany may not FISK
losing her moral position in the
world. If she did, all her victories
would bring her but shame, dishonor
and, finally, disintegration and
death"
Herr Won Gerlach makes, in Die
Weltmontag, another blunt appeal to
the Kaiser:
1--WE must without delay show the
men of good will across the sea that
our will, too, is good. This, how
ever, cannot be done by means OF
dubious speeches, but only by deeds.
''The Kaiser and his immediate
councillors must be made aware OF
this if they do not already realize it.
Then, if. they fail to act, the most
terrible responsibility for what may
befall will fall with crushing weight
on their shoulders"
Macmillan Harden and DR.. Maui
man sound the same warning
The Eberfield Free Press looks
ahead to the day when future gen
erations reflect calmly on the wanton
butchery for which Germany is re-
sponsible and says:
Germany will emerge from this
war without any really dependable
allies in the East and Southeast.
1.-The question that faces us is:
Whence shall we procure the pOliti-
cal friendships without which not ev-
en- the strongest nation can continue
to live?
I'VE must admit once for all that
on friendship in the west we can de-
pend even less than we can in the
east. The only thing, therefore, that
may still be possible for German
policy TO do will be to prevent this
war, on the very day of the conclu-
sion of peace, from resolving itself
into merely postponed enmity."
Perhaps the most interesting doc
ument is statement which recently
wa sgiven publicity here, signed by
DIR. Wilhelm Muhlon, former direc-
tor of the Krupp works. 1t follows:
Since the first days of 1917 l
have abandoned all hope as regards
the present directors of Germany.
Our offer of peace without indi-
cation of our war aims, the accen-
tuation of the submarine war, the
deportations of Belgians, the syste
matte destruction in France and the
torpedoing of English hospital ships
have so degraded the governors of
the German Empire that 1 am pro-
foundry convinced that they are dis
qualified forever for the elaboration
and conclusion of a sincere and just
agreement.
THE German people will not be
able to repair the grievous crimes
committed against its own present
and future, and against that of Eu-
rope and the whole human race un-
til it is represented by different men
tally. To tell the truth, it is mere
justice that its reputation through
out the whole world is as bad as it is.
THE triumph of it's methods
would constitute defeat for the
ideas and the supreme hopes of man
kind.
LAS man and as German who
desires nothing but the welfare of |
the deceived and tortured German
people, l turn away definitely from
the present representatives of the |
German regime. And l have only !
one wish-that all Independent men |
may do the same, and that many |
Germans may understand and act"
The Vossische Zeitung of Berlin,
says:
The German people will have
cause to curse their ruling men for