The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-31
HERD OF STUPID SHEEP"
NOW TUNED TO WOLVES

London, March 2e.---The condition
"i Berlin grows steadily worse. apart
altogether from the chaos arising
from political conflicts, the state OF
the streets has become appalling. Vice
and crime arc supreme, and there
Is neither law nor order. Tho robber
stalks his prey by day and by night,
and no one has any longer q right In
his own property.
To this anarchy, according 10 the
Lokalan2eiger, has now BETH added
a new element:
Street lrafficking OF the lowest
type is increasing to alarming proper
lions in Berlin. The situation Is sim ply
scan dalous.
Almost at every street corner one
comes face 20 face with perambu-
lating gambling hell on wheels. These
cars, not of Juggernaut. but OF Ger
.1la9ay's share are constantly followed
and surrounded by troups of gam
blers who keep the roulette wheels
in unceasing action Until the small!
hours of the morning.
The consequence is that street
brawls and fighting are making Ber-
Inns night life hideous. while adding
largely to the already prevailing in
security of the streets which are
Stunned by all decent people after
Like Stupid Sheep.
An interesting chapter or past hts
tory is recalled by the Fiensbers
Volkszeitung:
In answer to the question addresses
to him in July. 1917, whether II reyo-
luton were possible In Germany, Max
Nordau said:
Bread riots are possible. but a rev
oluuon is out of the question. The
German people rejoice in their
slavery and are proud OF Ii. Their
lords and masters have been shrewd
enough to endow this situation with
fiattering names. The livery is called
uniform the servitude organization
the blind. deadly, obedience. discipline
the abandonment OF all rights. all dig
nifty. all character Is called heroic
self bnegation-
The Judgment OF the German PEG.
pie Is strikingly correct, 80 far a,
least as the middle classes are con.
cerned, the folk who could not or
would not see that the government
in alliance with the military lords
sold and betrayed the German people
nor that we owe our utter collaps tc
the insane militarism which has held
the helm of the state in its iron grip
for so many years.
yet, incredible as 1t may seem to
any one not a German, the people o:
this country, even after the rotten
bankruptcy of the firm of Tirpitz. Luz
dendorff & Co, are actually again
lending an ear to the insinuations and
suggestions OF the PanGermans, who
are once more anxious to go on the
warpath, or rather to induce their
stupid, unreasoning victims to do SC
for them. regardless whether 1t lead
to their complete humiliation at the
hands OF an ali-powerful adversary.
"Nordau was right. the Germans are
as whole a herd Of stupid sheep"
People Lost Faith.
The Hamburg Nachrichtsn stiu
clings firmly to the home-traitors the.
DRY of Germany's defeat. and not all
the military and naval experts in the
world win apparently change it, con-
victtons:
What ID II that has brought abou,
our downfall? Not the enemy's mill
tary prowess, nor even his tremen-
dons numerical superiority. but the
weakness OF our government. to which
is due the temporary loss of our pco-
pies faith In their emperor.
Even the finest soldiers In the
world have their limitations. and
when our field-grays, who constitute
| indisputably the most magnificen,
military element the world has evel
seen. became aware OF the tragic be.
travail OF the imperial house on the
part of the hone-stayers. their strong
arms were paralyzed. and as an inevi.
table result their efforts to crush the
foe relaxed and the ignoble surrendes
from the effects Of which we are now
suffering was rendered possible.
Even now. however, though the
foreign enemy may fetter ug, she can.
not destroy nation OF seventy mil
lions unless we ourselves render him
executioncr's service. Meanwhile oul
sorry fate is not to be lightened by
prayers and entreatiee directed to thu
euemy. but only by prom9tinH
throughout the empire the Arm viii
for national union and by inspiring
the people with . strength that viii
create new and more vigorous stats
from the present ruins.
What ia necessary Ii courage and
the indomitable witt to rise superior
to our destiny. and to repay to the
foe n thousand fold the humiliations tc
which he ~ now subJecting U.S.
British ssWicakedneag.''
Tho Berlin Kreuxzcitung returns
once more to III favortte theme. the
wickedness OF the British:
ITO win the war every means al
T.. q. al