The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-18
GERMANY WILL BE
 DEMOCRATIzED

oughly democratiZed, but he Is con- ident that such a condition is solely contingent on the absolute defeat of he German armies and in some meas ure on the salutary effect of war carried by the Allies to German soil
 The germ of democracy is in the nation, he believes, awaiting only the right influences which the United States and the other free peoples can exert to bring 1t to fruit. He out lined his opinions last night in an ad- dress at Cooper Union, in the course of big Liberty Loan rally.
 Referring to President Wilson's ac- lion in going over the heads of the | German government and to the people themselves in his replies to peace pro- posals, MT. Morgenthau said:
 "This attempt to differenuate be- tween the German government and | the German people is nothing new. 1 President Wilson drew his distinction | In the very address in which he asked | Congress to declare war. His insist | snce on this point has irritated many | observers, here and abroad, who have | insisted that no such difference exists; l that the people are as bad as their | Kaiser; that they approve the dastard- | ly crimes of the German army and i . the German navy, and are just as lust ful of military conquest as their im- perial masters. q believe that those who refuse to see much difference between the mentality of the people and their gov- ernment are right. They have work ed as a unit in this insane enterprise of conquering the world. This fact, however, does not affect the wisdom of the Presidents policy. It does not mean that the people cannot be sep arated from their kaiser, that they cannot be led to see a new light, that they cannot be forced even to over throw their whole autocratc system, abandon the damnable philosophy in which they have been so sedulously schooIed, cleanse themselves of the foul crimes which they have applaud ed for four years and reform them selves into a decent, self-respect liberty-loving democracy. Indeed, they have got to do this or perish.
 q shall probably be told that this invokes a transformation in human nature---and that human nature does not change itself. The psychology of a whole nation can be changed and changed fundamentally. I believe this first of all, because I am a be- liever in democracy"
 MT. Morgenthau, in emphasizing this point, traced the freedom of lib- eral peoples today to the old Ger many.
 eve are taught" he said, "that the Anglo-Saxon peoples have a particular gift for democratic institutions. Let us not lose sight of the fact that the AngIo-saxon peoples came originally from Germany. Indeed, great Eng fish historian - Freeman, I think has said that if you wish to trace the Declaration of Independence to its beginnings, you will have to go back to a German forest. All history shows that the seeds of democracy do exist in the German peoples, little in evil denoe as they have been in the last 50 xes,rS." a.,. o,,, ..,.0. .. ,,s tinguished from Prussia, are mainly relied on by MT. Morgenthau to in stitute and develop the new philoso- phv of democracy. He recalled the Baden of his boyhood, and traced the growth of the militaristic idea InTOuEu founding of the Empire.
 At present" he declared, 'I regard the German mind as in a condition of disease. It has been deliberately schooled for 40 years to think in terms of war and of evil. Modern \ psychiatrists have a method of handl- | ing the human mind that has been N twisted out of it's normal course by its Nearly impressionable years. They cal this the process of re-education. Il is a process of substituting healthy thoughts for diseased thoughts, o1 right attitudes for wrong attitudes and developing normal mentality tt take the place of an abnormal men tality. Some such process of re-edu cation must be applied to Germany l she is to cease to be g. menace to tn world-if the world, indeed, is to b. a fit place for peaceful. hberty-lovini democracies, such as are the power kkthat are now overcoming the Kaiser 1egions.
 "A terrible nervous shock frequent ly produces the most beneficial an health-naking results. Nothing woul do Germany 50 much good in th present crisis as such @ shock. Thi ia the reason why complete nilttar defeat is the essential preliminary t ending the war.
 .rhere Is not the slightest dout Hha4 at this present moment, Gol ,ranv still believes she Is superior +ha rest of the world ir war. and ths she regards her present reverses only temporary; serious enough, pei hans. to justify her in making an il oo,,cI,uive peace, but not seriol onoTeIh to dissuade her from her gre' .- o1ternrise of universal empire.
 q %,arn,itted to do so, she will tempo a1aIv lav down her arms, and III
 nadiately begin repairing the 1n1url to her military machine,
 .'Tn Constantinople, l had maj +s,,-s with a typical German Junk and militarist, Baron Voh wage Sasr, He was always discussing | s,o~+ war as though 1t were som +hino that already had been oete mined on. We have failed tfls 'lIl .l hA would say, but we shall no" sto sto
 -, anough cotton and copper
 otber materials for five years WI
 ard next time we shall not fall,
 .9This represents the state or rhi oI cernanv today, The Germ
 naople have not abandoned thelr hal
 Sn rnilitarisn as the finest express1
 of their national life, nor war as th
 first duty as Germans. Cnly ov'
 whelming defeat will ever make th' . see a new light. do not believe u
 any peace should be made until t
 defeat has been administered to the
 'T am emphatically one of thu