New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
The Nation That
Talks About
Freedom!

DNHOUGH the most remarkable and
significant parts of it certainly
~ have been suppressed by the
kaisers censor, q speech recently
delivered in the Reichstag by Deputy
Hugo Haase, minority Socialist leader,
representing the district of Konigsberg,
Exposes the hypocrisy of official Prus-
siandom, which prctends to have set out
to hberate the nations of Europe while
in reality it is trying to crush every par
ticle Of independence within the father
land. Eaase said:
''The government Will continue treating
with contempt the demands and wishes of
the Reichstag until the Parliament decides
10 resort to the {orcefu means at its dis
posal.
"The Secretary Of State was very excited
because the Rheinsche zeitung had said
that the workers are being enslaved. How
does the enslavement manifest itself? The
Secretary of State may take at random
sincle worker, and he win be told that the
wage earners have never before been under
vidng that civilians may be compelled to
work has been converted into uuhearable
shackles on the wage earners
thousands of workmen, who had not
been conscripted into the nrmy because they
had been claimed as necessary by their
ployers on account Of their special skill, but
subsequently demanded larger pay, we're
taken from the shops and sent to the front
The Secretary Of State must know that az
ter the most recent strike. many hundreds
of men, many OF them cripples, have been
put in the army and their names in the
lists marked with the infamous BIS And
any man thus marked knows that he must
expect the worst while with the army, even
if he is not fit for military duty. He IS out
lawed from the outset.
"On March II public mass meeting to
be held at Stuttgart under the auspices of
the Independent Socialist party was pro-
hibited because. according to the official
statement. Reichstag Deputy Vogthcrr, who
vas scheduled 30 speak on Peace favored
peace without annexatons and ndemnites
and in accordance with the principle OF
autonomy OF the individual nations, as he
had outlined in the manuscript OF his
speech, which he had to submit to the police
beforehand Such speech, the public au-
shorites declared, was not in the interests
OF victorious war. By this statement the
censor gave away his true motives. He who
fayors annexations may talk as much as he
likes, but ne who goes only so far as the
Imperial Chancellor has stated that he
would 60 is silenced.
Bavaria has not only been Prussianizcd,
Bavaria they dared to take two women away
from their children--one woman from her
baby Of one year and the other woman from
heTS child OF five years. One Of The two
mothers was born in Bavaria and had lived
there during al her life. The two women
we're placed aboard a railroad train, and, ac-
companied by railroad officials, deported to
Saalfeld. town situated in another federal
state. The Saafeld authorities didn't know
what to do with the women
"Reeently special kind OF censorship
made is appearance. The Berlin War De-
partment has established q special bureau
the purpose Of which is to spy on the cor
respondence o. the prisoners Of war in or
der to find out their political sentiments
The names of those prisoners whose polit-
ical opinions are disliked are entered on
iists which arc made the basis of persecu-
ZION.
"An order issued on May 16, 1918, by the
acs.ls commanding general of Altoona reads
il part as follows: The Entente, especially
England and the United States OF America.
Systematically try to incite the German pris-
oHeIs Of war against German monarchistfc
patriotism and continue such efforts even
q CO...
'n'ernsd IN neutral countries. 1t is hereby