Evening star., 1918-08-10

upon which the German empire rests
today lies, In my opinion. in the fact
that the loyalty of the people has
fsprsssntaeion. @ Ever ssasS1 since the The WAR war
started the govefnrnent has been
people have accepted them at their
face value. What win happen when
government has wickedly deceived
them? :. 100 -
With the soldiers returning from
the front on furlough and the propa-
ganda Of the allies slowly but surely
beginning to calculate among the peo-
from the German people becomes in
creasingly dimcult. Already the peo-
pie are becoming restless. Ii It pos
sibls that they are about to wake
What will the people do when it be-
gins to dawn on them that the war
was started, not by the European
powers to -strangle Germany. but by
the kaiser and his war lords to domi-.
nate the world?
What will they do when they realize
that the success of the U-boat cam
paign has been woefully exaggerated
right from the start?
What will they do when they
realize that America came into the
war out Of the purest motives that
over inspired d Hdtious
When They Know American Power
What will they do when they learn
that Americas power. growing every
day. will eventually be great enough.
In combination with the allies, to
smash the German empiref
What will happen when the German
people realize that they have been the
pitiful victims Of the Unsuitable thirst
Of the kaiser and his supporters for
world power, and that the sacrifices
they have been compelled to make
must Inevitably prove futile?
What will they do when they begin
to understand that four-fifths Of the
world is arrayed against Germany,
not to destroy the German people. but
to emancipate 1t?
The kaiser and his supporters have
used very effective tools in their ef-
forts to keep the truth from the peo-
pie. and up till now they have been
How cIeveriy they have used Maxi
milan Harden. the ostensible cham
pion of republicanism. to fool the
people has perhaps never occurred to
the outside world, but / am firmly OF
the opinion that this vaunted pillar
Of democracy is to a great extent q
wolf in sheep's clothing.
His fearless criticism OF the gov
ernment from time to time has natu-
rally stamped him in the eyes Of the
world as the most o0tspoken OF Ger
man socialists and the bitterest of
enemies OF the HohenEollern regime.
Unless am very much mistaken.
however, this able writer has been
one of the most valued tools of the
government. ana has been used to ac-
complish the kaiser's ends while os-
tensibly working to frustrate them.
Has II never occurred to the Ger
man people that unless the govern
ment wanted Harden to talk in the
way he does 1t would very quickly
shut him up? Has II been forgotten
that the government did suppress Die
Zukunft, his weekly organ. for the
duration Of the war. but that 1t is
now appearing again?
When, only a few weeks ago, the
peoples champion wrote in Die Zu-
kunft. the weekly which the govern
ment had previously suppressed:
international law forbids Germany
to retain even one pebble OF Belgian
streets and commands Germany to re-
store Belgium to the conditions be-
fore invasion. Is Belgium, as chan
cellor, a state secretary and an am
bassador have confessed, an innocent
victim of German self-defense? Then
we have to ask its forgiveness and
not force conditions upon 1t. This is
question Of the decency. morality
and honor OF a nation
What did 1t signify?