Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-29
MILITARY AUTOCRACY RULES .
GERMANY. REICHSTAG TOLL
Deputy Haae Bitterly ndicts Government for Army and
Foreign Pocy-Ludendorff Real Chancellor
Americans Huge Factor in War
Special Cable to Epening Public Ledger

Special Cable to Erening Public Ledger
Copyright, 1918. BY Ne,o York Times Co.
London, June 90.
The Times Hague correspondent sends
the following text OF Deputy Haase's
speech in the Reichstag on Tuesday:
This House has today witnessed a
scene such as never before has been
enacted within its walls Herr Won
KuehImann has obediently agreed to his
execution and obediently allowed the
halter to be placed around his neck. He
has. in no degree, known how to die
beautifully.
THE Chancellor has repudiated no
word of Count Westarp's concrete ex-
pression of the conditions of power of
our Imperial Government. We see now,
with amazing clearness. that military
autocracy, for which Count Hartling and
Herr Won Kuehlmann are but fig leaves,
rules over It solely and alone. cloud
laughter)
IudendorfY Real Chancellor
THE man who really governs, namely.
General ven Ludendorff should be placed
in the Chancellor's chair. The anneXa-
tlons must be completed, the conflict with
England fought out to annihilation. That
is Count Westarp's gospel. The conflict
must be fought out. even though the
German people go down in the process.
(storms of dissent on the right
Herr Won Kuehlmann should have
looked through all the panger literature
IL he thinks that no intelligent man in
Germany thinks of world domination
As he will now have leisure to occupy
himself with it outside Of office, I am
he a taria1 at Il
posaL
Sees American Factor
Herr Stresemann also has spoken of
our victory. How often have we heard
this prophecy? Herr Helfferich and Ad-
miral Capello told US in committee in
1917 that America could not enter the
war, and that her military significance
was equal to nil. Today 100000 Ameri-
cans stand on French soil, and one
hears no more of the U-boat booty re-
sulting from the hunt after American
transport ships.
I'VE can only therefore. regard with
the deepest distrust Westarp's and
Stresemann's announcements that Kuehl-
mann's speech of yesterday has been
completely smashed down by the Chan
cellor's of today. Have the plans con-
cerning Longwy and Briey and frontier
adjustments in the Vosges been given
up? We have no ground to assume that
the Imperial Government has uncondi-
tionally rejected them.
No Word OF Belgium
NO word has been uttered concern
ing Belgium. That attack was not to be
justified. not even by Bethmann- Hol-
weg's proclaimed right of necessity
The declaration of the Council of Flan-
ders is an imposture (machwerk). Every
intelligent Fleming turns away from II
with contempt. (Great disturbance and
cries of shame" This fact cannot be
abolished by any cry of shame
THE peace resolution was stillborn or
July 10, 1918. (Laughter) II has not
| lived. The Center and the Progressives
have openly declared their abandonment
of II.
Has the Government done everything
to win confidence in its respectability an6
chivalry from it's adversaries? Russian
prisoners of war are still treated al
hostile foreigners, despite the Bres
treaty. What has happened to aton'
for the unheard-of act of violence ccm
mitted against the Ukraine rada ane