Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-08-27
BRINGING HORROR and woe
Says Hdxlmllidn Hardin, Of German
Policy 10 Russia.
Big DEEDS OF CAR NICHOLAS
Not Dead Yet," Editor Tells
Germany-The Brest- Trea-
ties Crime Of ustro-Hunsarian

/ huoetd tN0t SSdu bSet SoihSi bS'o
Germany-The Brest- -Litovsk Trea-
ties a Crime of Austro Hungarian
Diplomacy.
Maximilian Hardin. in an article IN
his paper, the Zunkuft, on THE Will
/ to Right" moralizes on the life and
death OF cx-CZar Nicholas. dcsiny,
he suggests, with which the fate of
! Louis XVI compares az Vatican
compares with Ncnling. saws Lon
don dispatch to the New York World.
"Thc world" he says, will not for
get 1t was Nicholas who procured for
the idea OF disarmament a resound-
ing annunciation and that the open
Ing OF The Hague conference was for
him as the dawn of life. Retrospect
may discern in his character many
signs OF Pickering weakness but no
ignoble trait of will.
IF the second Nicholas ever had IL
programme, it was to be mindful Of
the injunction of his namesake be-
fore him, to do, on the throne, all that
in him lay in order to win from the
masses that looked up to him forgive
ness for the monstrous prerOgatives
of the crown.
Cars Three Big Deeds.
Nicholas Alexandrovitch sought to
establish peace firm as Il rock. sum-
moned the nations to dIsarm and
banned alcohol from Russia. That he
willed these three things history will
some day write down TO his credit In
her book.
His conQuerors. who gave them
selves out to be the saviors of man
kind universal Messiahs - have
worked in eight months more horror
and woe than he wrought in eight
years. All their attempts to trans
late the great French Revolution into
Russian have merely landed them so
deep in blood that they imagine they
can earn Gernany's commendation
by reporting that so far 13O per-
sons have been shot on the suspicion
OF completely in the murder of the
German envoy to Moscow.
but Russia Is not dead yet. Never
forget" Harden continues, that the
might Of Russia, still ungainly and
like a child. cannot be broken from
without, nor, as our generals testify.
has 1t been broken even in this war
by any superior strength Of Germany.
Only from within has this power been
paralyzed for season by an incom-
prchcnsiblc miracle, or, If you will, by
the poison of Leninite world commun-
ism.
Brest Treaties a Crime.
"The Brest Litovsk treaties" Har-
den declares, "are crime. an unre-
deemable sin Of Austro- German di-
plomacy as represented by Count
Czsrnin and Herr yon Kuehlmann. If,
as Count Czernin once glibly sug-
gested. the two belligerent groups
were to submit their respective de-
mands to the arbitrament Of neutral
states, the first demand Of the west
ern powers would be the annulment
Oh jill lUc tiS<LtiSo' os' s''>.'
survival would amount to the creation
of a supremacy akin to world hege-
mony and as they are Indignantly re-
iected by the sentiment Of Great and
Little Russians. of Roumanians, Let's.
Lithuanians and Esthonians. and Of
most of the Poles and of the Finnish
proletariat.
"Thc advocates Of the Brcst and
bucharest treaties have exhibited no
trace Of serious political morality he
says. Nowhere have they manifested
either n spark Of intelligence for the
sacred value of the personality of peo-
pies or any sense of the objectionable
wantonness of gambling with nations
In order to meet the interest OF
temporary bill. They have nothing
but rhetorical tricks. fit enough to
be devils advocates.
Wanted No Union With Germany
False Is the statement" Harden
declares, that in the Baltic land the
mass of the people desired a union
with Germany. Their wishes have
not even yet been consulted. The
Slav tribes of the Baltic region have
hitherto been so hostile to everything
German that the ruling Bolsheviki
may be sure of losing their Lettish
guards on the day that Livonia and
Esthonia are in any way attached
to the German empire.
"a hollow and repugnant mockery
is the assertion that Roumania Is
satisfied with the treaty Of peace
which has circumscribed her within
limits even narrower than those by
which Prussia was bound under the
treaty Of Tilsit.
"L.enine's successful coup accrued
to the benefit of the Quadruple Allies
after the utmost military exertions
on their part. like a grand prize In
lottery" Harden continues. Had they
honestly conceded all the idealist de-
mands Of the Leninites, had they
concluded large handed peace. then
from Lake Pelpus to the Black sea
all the troops and not, as now. mere
ly a majority Of them, would have
been made available for service else
where.
Would Have Opened Door.
Then, indeed, all raw materials and
foodstuffs 30 urgently needed would
have been had for the purchasing" he
says, "and the people. peasants, work.
men and traders, spared and treated
with consideration by the invaders.
would have become firmly reconciled
with the German spirit.
such a peace. at the same time.
would have opened the door Of the
west and might, after brief inter
val. perhaps, have borne back to US.
either from the whole house or from
the camp Of the Allied Socialists some
echo such as this:
"'Since the Germans are 30 mani
testify resolved to restrict themselves
within the bounds OF good sense and