The Washington herald., 1919-10-13
NEW GERMANY BEL IEVES
FOES READY TO FORGET
Harden Longs to Welcome the Foreigners
! Who Are Willing for Brotherhood and
Who Will Speak Humanity, and Tell
Why the War Was Lost and Why
It. Had to Be Lost-Honest
Democracy Must Prevail ..

Is no calculation to be made with
out the proletariat- And calcula-
tion with an unknown quantity. an
Z Is uncertain.
The human masses rolled together
by the kultur reform Of Industrial
ism have become conscious Of their
power. What one, a dozen, a hun
dred. could never achieve in the way
of wage rights or co-determination,
10000. 100000 achieve in the FIRST
man state can Jail, perhaps even ex-
ecute a hundred. but with thousands
II must negotiate.
Labor Is Getting Power.
That the manual laborer attaining
power in revolution Cor what he calls
such) sees in first line a wage move
ment as ladder to q higher standard
of living Is undesirable. Likewise
that at a time when the German
mark in Holland Is worth 11h Dutch
cents, the dollar in Germany worth
20 marks. the German workingman
wants to increase his wages in the
purchasing power of the former.
nominally much lower, money; and
that the science of his special eco
nomics is not ripe enough to recog-
nize that the cost OF mass consump-
ton increases just as steeply as the
increase In mass wages.
Tho workingman has experienced
two intimately connected disap-
pointments-the hoped-for blesset<
ness Of Paradise has not come, not
even the promised liberty (for sup
preston of newspapers, forbidding
OF meetings. preventive arrest and
imprisonment blom more exuberant-
ly than ever before). and the lead
ers, whom he followed credulously
for so long. pursue an anti-Social-
istic policy.
They must do SO: for the "sur-.
plus" value from the distributA, Nm
OF which the doctrine Of the great
rebel Karl Marx expected the pros
perity Of the proletariat is so slight,
after everything necessary for
maintenance and expansion of plant
enterprises is deducted. that par
ticipation in the profits. s0cializa-
tion. communication. even il our
seriously sick national economy and
the Treaty Of Versailles 10 rnitted
Il. would hardly give the individual
worker as much per capita as the
shortest strike has brought Nim In
the form of increased wages.
Danger In Disappointment.
In this disappointment lies the dam
ger that the proletariat will turn to-
ward other more radical leaders who
will promise them more, but who be-
cause they can't conjure and practice
witchcraft, must necessarily also give
disappointment as responsible, mem
oers of government.
They must disappoint in the world
Of the material This. however Chat.
too. has too long been misunderstood
in Germany, must always be beaten
in competition with the world of the
spirit. In the German proletariat
there works underground and strug-
giles and presses a mighty yearning
greater comforts of life, but true. up
right. honest democracy; elevation
from being merely a cog in the ma
chinery and a tool to full co-opera-
ton in the determination OF the pro-
duction process and the rules and
regulation Of enterprises; equality in
and equipment at the be-
ginning of the struggle for life. for
all. rich and poor, the uniform school,
which makes possible a sensible, prac-
tical. moral selection of the f1t.
The German manual worker grits
his teeth angrily when his party COM
rades, who, through pathetic speech
flying for liberty and against the
sabre regime, having come to the top.
now as governors employ all the
means and methods OF the fallen
generals and other militarists; and il
he had only he choice between the
type of Lenine (whom he doesn't
love) and the type OF Noske twhom
he loathes as an apostate and trait
orr. he would In the long run always
vote for Moscow. against Moscow.
Must Have Mercenary Army.
There is another choice. Germany
would be lost II it could not exist
without a mercenary army, which
captures" this industrial town to-
day and that one tomorrow, and
whose leaders In the Baltic lands and
in the war against Soviet Russia seek
only the roundabout way by which
they can again import into Germany
in the dark their ''order"-monarchy,
feudal- lords rights. He
who blocks the way for these ele-
ments, every way. promotes the good
cause Of the Second Germany, which
is still smaller. but to which the fu-
ture must belong, because on its col
lapse would follow the ''Goetterdaem-
OF German fate.
The vital Germany, capable Of
living, wants to mold its own fate
and destiny in light and justice,
under the rule OF swordless reason,
strict in wisdom, mild in strength.
1t needs the internationale
of the soul: 1t needs the foreign
ers" to tell 1t how the war orig
mated. why 1t was lost and why it
had to be lost. why the German ma
ture is distrusted. and how happily,
how gladly, the world. Europe and
America would bury this mistrust
on the gigantic field of corpses of
the world war.
Where is the Hoover who will or
ganize and order the economy of
the spirit. the soul of Europe, and
make assused it's food? Send us
those who are most willing for
brotherhood, send them by rail or
steamer or on the wings of thought.
and bid them speak humanity to the
New Germans Et hic dii sunt.
Here is a Germany in which Erda
and Christ could breathe freely and
whose dispnvarer xunnIH