Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-14
GRAFT AND CRIME
HAVE FREE REIN
In ALL GERMANY
Religion Loses Hold and
might Makes Right" Doc
trine Grows Daily

Washington, May IA. = Germany
throughout is graftridden and seeth-
ing with profiteering scandals.
Crimes, both against person and
property, go unchecked and the tide
of Juvenile delinquency and adult
immortality make new high records
daily.
Religion has lost it's hold upon
even the elemental minds in the rur-
al district and the doctrine of
Might Makes Right" rules in every
village.
These are high lights in a remark
able report that has come to the Gov
ernment detailing existing conditions
in Germany. The information comes
from a source that is a guarantee of
it's veracity and authority. 1t is of
the most complete character and
comprises detailed reports dealing
with exact conditions in Austria
Hungary is in course of preparation.
The German report includes stat
istics of suicides, defalcations. bur-
glaries and other kinds of robbery,
assaults, murders, illegitimate births,
food boarding and graft. 1t con-
cludes with the deduction that the
evil Nietschean philosophy of Ger
many has come to roost and that the
war-weary country, harried in bat
ties on foreign fields, faces disorgan-
ization and anarchy at home. F
People Payi -g Piper
The plain people OF Germany, tax
ridden beyond all precedent in his
tory, are paying the piper. Until re-
Gently, they paid without much MUIR
muring, but the terrific battle losses
sustained on the western front COM
ing in connection with the ferocious
attacks by some of the bolder news
papers upon the grafters have bred
in the people a sullen, smoulderinS
anger that threatens daily to break
the barriers of autocratic restraint.
These crimes against the people by
the profiteers of Germany are symp-
toms of the social disorder in the
larger communities. There men and
women of criminal instincts, released
from the overawing influence of the
strong men who have gone to the
trenches, are taking the laws into
their own hands. They have proved
entirely too powerful for the aged
and infirm men who comprise the
present police forces. These lawless
spirits, knowing the example set by
the profiteers, are running riot,
preying upon the weak and taking
what they please.
Most appalling of all the statistics
are those showing the astounding in
crease in the suicides of children.
While the Kaiser, his cabinet and
medical advisers have been exerting
all their suasion in an effort to in
crease the birth rate of the empire,
the hapless children of ages ranging
from s to IS have been killing them
selves by drowning, hanging, shoot
ing, suffocation by gas and other
routes leading away from the dread
hardships and harsh discipline of life
in Germany to-day.
Tragedy Stalks Through Streets
A widow receives an allowance of
25 cents a week from the old age in
surance fund. but widows of soldiers,
and they are everywhere in Germany,
receive an added amount. They are
being urged and the urge is virtual
ly an imperial order that they might
forget their grief at the death of
their husbands and must somehow
anyhow bring into being more chill
dren for the glory and defense of
Germany. ..
Tragedy stalks through the
streets, sits at every table, Germany
to-day is like a wounded rattlesnake
that, striking venomously at it's foes,
turns and buries it's poisoned fangs
in its own flesh.