The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-14

recuOn we are drifting.
"As for the Reichstag, it would be
quite hopeless to expect any guidance
from that quarter, as all that is done
there now takes place behind hermet-
ically closed doors and over all reigns
the iron hand of the censor. which
bars the way to those who are seri-
iously concerned about the fate of the
people.
1.-THE present conditions have be-
come intolerable. The time has come
for the German people to demand
satisfaction from the leaders" of
German imperial politics, and also a
candid statement concerning all the
things that have been done in semi
obscurity of party interests.
I'VE call on all those who still call
themselves Social Democrats to speak
with the fiery tongues of demagogue
enthusiasts, so that the dreaming
German people may at length rouse
themselves from their lethargy, and
that, rubbing their sleepy eyes, they
may see whittier they are being driv-
en-.
"Then will those false leaueTs w
high places who do not lead, but mis-
lead, be elected ANONYMOUSLY from
the seats of the mighty and the peo-
pie will come into their own. To
daily any longer with the secret and
highly-protected plotters is suicidal
for the nation
The Huns have been repeatedly &C
cused of brutal barbarism. Their
fiendish antics wherever their ''Kul-
tur'' led them have numbed their
enemies, and even their friends. I'm
possible!' they shouted. Read the fol-
lowing narrative that appeared in the
issue Of January %, 1918, of the
Mecklenburg "VoIkszeitung:"
"SouI and Body in ThraIP'
Herr Wilhelm Won Oertzen, lord
of the manor at Raggow, and owner
of vast estates, is a landowner of the
true old feudal type.
HE caught a man in the act of
placing in a sack a few ears of cut
wheat which he had picked up. Herr
Won Oertzen, with the assistance Of
two of his rangers. stripped the man
completely naked bound him secure
ly to a tree by means of leather
thongs, gagged him to prevent him
from raising an alarm, and then
thTashed him for an hour with a rid
ing whip, until his body was one mass
of livid weals from which the blood
poured in streams.
THE following day, when the I'M
happy cleaner called on a doctor the
latter refused to grant him a certifi-
cate testifying to his brutal maltreat-
ment."
subsequently, on the case being
he Itt
the charge was dismissed, the judge
remarking that, as lord of the manor
Herr Won Oertzen possessed a sover
eign right over the bodies of his ten
ants, who had been given a whole
some lesson to abstain from pilferins
on feudal estate.
I'VE can but hope that the rejuv
enating breath of the new revolution
airy movement that is making it's wa.
through the ranks of the nation ma.
soon deliver us from such a reign o
brutal force and tyranny"
Compare the words of the German
Judge with what the Hun propagan
dists would have us believe regarding
justice and civilization in the Hun
land.
Great prominence is given in tn
"Deutsche Zeitung," to a vitriolic at
tack on Freemasonry in Germany
which, to it's lasting credit has, sine
the first day of the war, strenuous
ly, consistently and courageously, de
nounced every act of barbarism com
n?itted by the Hun militarists. Thi
same body has also been strenuousl
urging the abandonment of the I
of
annexation
Here is what the "Deutsche Re
tung' says regarding the employ
ment of a firmer policy towards tn
be dy:
THE childish claptrap with whic
certain newspapers are filling the
columns with the object of w:nnir
the Freemasons to the opinion tn;
the U-boat war should be abandone
i. unfortunately making it's influenC
felt among the feeble-willed and IL
soft-hearted.
st is lamentable that the militGl
authorities have not found the meal
to silence these babblers, who are a
lively assisting the enemy propaganC
both here and abroad. Equally mi
chievous is their nonsensical twadd
about a peace without annexation
and the right of the inhabitants
occupied territories to decide the
own destiny.
1--WE solemnly adiure the COVER
Inent to show the strong hand
these matters and to muzzle the vel
ing mob effectually, or all our hr
liant victories will have been won
VAIN"
"Down With the jews
During the early days of the W
the Berlin "Vorwarts" had always r
ferred to Count Reventlow as ct
foul-mouthed Gentleman" Later
decided to call him that Prince
Mouth heroes." Now the famous, S
cialist organ names him "Rever
Levy" because the Court Journali
has been a booming, pamphlet
which DR.. Herman Levy glorifies t
U-boat war as a heaven-sent jud
ment on England. However, accor