Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-05
GERMAN SURGE ON
URCESOvERTHROW
OF HUN MASTERS
Prof NicoIai, Who Fled to
I, Denmark in AeropIane Rath-
er Than Fight for Kaiser,
Pleads With Countymen.
Especial Gable to the New York World
and Albuquerque Journal)

Especial Gable to the New York World
and Albuquerque Journal,)
London, Oct. 4.-The Times pub
fishes today the first installment of
an appeal to the German people by
Prof. Nicelai a German physician
and professor of medicine at the I'm
iversity of Berlin, who fled to Dem
mark by airplane last June.
Prof. Nicolai was originally at
tached to the army as a civilian ply
sicion; then an officers rank was
given to him. But he was degraded
by the military authorities because
of his disapproval of German meth
eds, of warfare. and then, as punish
ment for opinions expressed in his
book, "The Biology of War" he was
employed in mental tasks in distant
parts of Germany.
When it was decided finally to
place him in the army as a private
combatant soldier. Prof Nicolai found
means to escape by airplane to Dem
mark with several companions. Now
to vindicate his own conduct and to
urge his fellow countrymen to over
throw the great unknown" author
ity that is hurrying the German en-
pire to its destruction, he has issued
his appeal. He says:
shameless Policy"
Precisely because / am German
because | feel myself n spiritual de-
scendent of great humanists, be-
lieve it to be my duty to win back to
; lis Germans our own rightful and spe-
cial place in the council of nations
and to defend it against those dictat-
ors of the moment who, in their lust
of power, have dared to tamper with
the most precious achievements of
the German spirit and have seduced
the descendants of a Goethe and a
Kant, leading them to pursue
shameless policy fit only for Tartars.
81 believe that international Ger
mans like myself, embody the spirit
of Germany better than any Luden-
dorff or any other parsonage who
openly or secretly holds the reins Of
government. / know indeed, that
thousands, even millions, of the best
of my countrymen secretly share my
feeling.
Il know that there is nothing in
the whole world they so ardently de-
sire as that those who control Ger
mahy's destinies today may fail to
achieve any lasting power, and that
our military party may find itself
balked of it's disastrous victory both
at home and broad.
But In a constitutional state there
are definite, appointed methods by
which olane the individual Is entitled
to express his will, and the method
selected was not one of these The
question therefore arises, Is Germany
a constitutional state?
The Mysterious Power
Here power is welded solely by
the sword held in the mailed fist and
no one knows for certain who is ac-
tually bearer of that sword Assur-
eddy it is not the German Imperial
Chancellor although he is respons-
fble for the Imperial Constitutitt,
and no less assuredly 1t is not the
German emperor, for his speeches are
subjected to at least as strict censor
ship as are the utterances of any 9TH
er less illustrious demagogue.
Hence one cannot say that the
present state of things is necessary
result of the state of war for the
very provisions which were intended
by the Constitution to adapt Ger
many to state of war are being vi
olated. But If in any country the
supreme power is in the hands of an
anonymous dictator of this kind a
dictator omnipresent but everywhere
elusive, ruling not in Virtue of law
but simply in virtue of that power
which the well armed man -usurps to
himself over the unarmed. then we
have o situation directly opposed to
what is called a constitutional state,
Germany, therefore. is de facto no
longer a constitutional state.