The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-14

TODAY he is making his appear
ance once more, this time in blood
red cloak, in the attire of executioner
of his own people. Who will snatch
the German people from the claws
of the betrayer?
'"Perhaps the only salvation for our
people consists in this: Help thyself,
then God will help thee. Otherwise
Satan, the destroyer, in the garb OF
Judas, will send us to destruction and
to shame.
Remember, oh We Germans, on the
banks of the Thames and in Wall
Street Lucifer is already rubbing his
hands with glee! He has found his
Internal helper; his calculation is of
the simples-"Yonder in the German
land the revolutionary collapse will
come long before the military and ma
val collapse sets in here" That is why
the war still goes on, why blood still
flows in torrents.
"Arminius, the incompatible Ger
man must be bled white at the front,
until he breathes his last. This is
the will of Judas-the Democratic
Evil Genius of the German people,
who remains what he always was, for
two thousand years ago he was-a
scoundrel'
However all Socialists are not
traitors to the Fatherland. These are
many good ones, and here is one of
them. Herr Conrad Haenisch, editor
of the Socialist "Glocke,'' has been
lecturing in Cologne to a large as
sembly of tame Socialists on Peace"
The "Kolnische Volkszeitung'' re-
ports him as saying:
Social Democrats do not desire
peace at any price. They insist on
peace which will secure Germany's
honor and her political and economic
independence. We will not have a
peace of remuneration or a hunger
peace. We certainly do not demand
that after the war the map is to be
the same as before the war. In the
East we must have fresh territGry
for settlement which will protect US
from British attempts to starve US.
German Socialists desire a separate
peace with Russia compatible with
our political and economic interests,
and nothing less will satisfy u.s."
Germans and Hungarians
The "Pesti Naplo" of January IS
reports an interesting and important
debate in the Hungarian parliament
on the proposed customs union with
Germany, arising out of an interpret
lation by M. Paul Sander, a leading
authority in the commercial world.
M. Sander declared that Germany was
! not a trustworthy partner in econom-
il a nrnonnanIs
Germany hampers our commerce
with Sweden, and will not even allow
our commercial travellers to move
about freely. Germany is still car
rying on her brutal economic policy.
No doubt peace without annexation
will eventually be arranged, but the
trouble is that Germany wishes to an
mex us with our whole economic sys-
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M. Sander then made a statement
which, in view of the fact that it was
made by a Hungarian statesman in
the Hungarian parliament, is very re-
markable. If he had to choose he
said, between English and German
Imperialism, then for economic reas-
ons he would, without hesitation,
choose the former. In a customs I'M
ion with Germany he saw the gravest
reasons fer anxiety. He added:
| '"The Entente is strongly opposed
to Central European Customs union,
and even if we win on the battlefield
we shall lose on the field of COM
merce because we shall get into the
clutches of Germany"
| M. Sander asked the Prime Minis
ter if he would inform parliament as
to the contract contemplated with
| Germany. DR.. Wekerle replied that
negotiations with Germany were still
in the tentative stage, and no defin-
lite statement could yet be made as to
a contract. Discussions had ranged
tariffs, while certain goods would
probably be free of duty, but no deci-
sions had been arrived at.
Austrian Peace Party
Harassed as they are by the censor
the Hungarian newspapers find it al
most impossible to express their SEN
timents-three whole pages or the
''Nepszava of January 9 are absolute.
" blank-so they resort to quotation
from Viennese Journals.
The Pesti Naplo of January IS pub.
fishes in italics the report of a SEES.
sion of the Vienna Reichsrath, al
which a member, Herr Zenker, after
; pointing out how many items there
were in President Wilson's speech
which might serve as a basis for dis
cussion, warned his hearers agains
endangering the negotiations at Bres
Litovsk by high-handed methods anC
too much sabre rafting. Anothe
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sharply the action of General Hoff
? mann, and said that such behavio
J must not be repeated, and that Gen
erals ought not to interfere with thu
: negotiations. He demanded that thi
: wish of the Hungarian parliamen
) should be made known emphaticall,
at Brest Litovsk.
Count Tfsza the Junker
The Pesti Naplo alludes to a speecl
of Count Tisza addressed to his owl
5 party, in which he repudiated al
peace talk, which, he declared sar
! castically, was INDUCED in only b.
those who had not been to the front
: The paper in question finds nothin,
$ to be ashamed of but rather some
, thing to be proud of in the fact tina
: human feeling is so strong that evel
those whose lives are not endangered
; by the conflict, including the highly
paid munition workers, are unani
nous in holding that there has beef
enough bloodshed. Proceeding, tn
writer says:
I'VE would ask if it would be j.;
good thing for the world if Junker
dom which plays at soldering, but il
reality shifts all military burdens OF