The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-14
WARNS AMERICANS
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Germany's foreign peace program in
| the direction of moderation, many well
| intentioned men from all classes Of
society thought it their duty to for
| ward the step in order to save the
| fatherland from these misleading
| democrats"
They are good at patriotic catch
| words and think themselves possess
ors of patriotism's true gospel, but
| when you know who the Fatherland
party's organizers are and whence the
I money to organize the machine comes.
| you Immediately see il Is far from
representing a holy crusade solely
against Germany's foreign foes, but is
meant to be a popular modernized
supplement to the antiouated National
Liberal party.
Tirpitz Party Leader.
At the head of this new party
stands Admiral Won Tirpitz, Who pro
claims that party does not intend TO
interfere with inner politics: it only
wishes to unite all elements believing
Germany's destiny Is imperiled by &C
ceptance Of the reichstag's anti-anneE-
ationist peace resolution Of July 10.
Tirpitz and his colleagues declare
acceptance Of this resolution due on
one hand to the democratic social
istic influence and on the other to the
government weakness in bending to
inf1uene.
The left wings moderate peace pro-
gram, which, it is important TO re-
member, is supported by the power
full Catholic party, or Centrum, is in
terpreted by Admiral Won Tirpitz's fol
lowers as an ignoble self-abnegation,
hence the program OF AnneXationist
Tirpitz, who demands the duel be
tween England and Germany be
fought to q finish and warns against
concessions concerning the Flanders
coast, appears concerned only with
the foreign policy.
Backed by Rich.
But looking deeper you discover
that those so richly financing the new
organization are no other than the
captains of industry financing the Ma
tional Liberal party.
The new democratic socialistic lead
ers says the conclusions to be drawn
therefrom are obvious and that only
the blindness and political innocence
OF a certain cotere Of professors.
schoolmasters. civil and political fune-
tionaries Of all classes. and a mass OF
well intentioned but unQuestioning
patriots prevent them from seeing the
connection and realizing by whom and
for whose purposes they are being
blended into mass of National Lib
eral voters.
For Admiral Tirpitz Germans in
ner policy may indeed be a side issue.
He is absorbed in the issues of a great
foreign policy, but the financiers of
his pet organization feel and plan
otherwise.
To their sorrow they already have
been compelled to reckon with their
workmen and therefore to realize the
extent OF what they call the democrat
ic peril and OF the socialistic influence
which causd the vicious moderation"
Of the governments foreign program.
Therefore they wish to enlist as many
persons as possible IN their voting
ranks.
Being proprietors OF war industries.
money is no objet with them. That
their party is Influential, It would be
foolish to deny. Its press organization
is excellent: numerically it is large
among the bourgeoisie. but does not
enlist the masses. The masses en-
phatically side with the true liberals
and democrats.