New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Germany Rent by
Political Parties
of Varying Ideals
Nelo York Tribune
WUcJ IN rfo,, R,,,.,.

WASHINGTON, May "a remark
able discussion of the various nartios
IN Germany, published in the "Journal
de Geneve," and written by Hermann
fernau, a prominent German write,
and refugee in Switzerland. has been
received here through diplomatic chm
nels.
The way in which the revolution
IN Germany has been effected has not
been criticised without cause" he
writes. Zone wonders. in efrect
whether the German republic is really
republic in flesh and bone or merely
republican puppet controlled bv
monarchical strings"
In answering the question, "What do
the German people think and want p,
fernau defines the various political
parties who voted in the election OF
January 16 as follows:
The German National partv Of tho
people is the nobility, the country
esqulres, the dignitaries, functionaries
Oh courts, the generals and officers. tho
lnnumerable excellencies and coun-
clllors, who say: we are still the
first people of the world; we shall
prove 1T next time. This is question
OF reestablishing the monarchy and the
army as quickly az possible and of
preparing Tor the next war more ser-
ousiy than the preceding one. Off with
me t,, republic! Death to the Ententel'
The party of the German people is
composed Of liberal professions. The
monarchical regime is not worth anv-
thlng, they say, since it did not sue
ceed William II is not a fool. since
he allowed himself to be beaten. Down
with militarism! Woe to the German
government which may again attempt
to start warl Hurrah for the Ger
man republic! We shall pay all the
lndemnitics that we can, but pray, re-
sumo business with us, otherwise stag
nation, poverty, Bolshevism, reaction.
The Socialist majority party: Work
ng and middle classes, revolutionary
traditions, reformist attitude (the
radical Socialist party in France) fWe
have at all time struggled against mil
ltarlsn1 and the war they say Help
us IN strengthening the republican re-
gime by giving US food and work the
soonest possible. Hurrah for disarma-
ment, international arbitration, and the
equality of the German nation in the
bosom Of the le0gue Of nations!'
The independent Socialist party saws
the Majority Socialists are traitors be-
cause they voted war credits to the
German capitalists in order to make q
war OF conquest; because it is we
who made the revolution, and that II ia
they who made a profit by it; because
they botch Socialism. Germany is over
mead and ears in debt. SO it is capital
ISM which must be punished by being
totally abolished. Down with canita1ism
or lndustrials, furnishers and protitecrs
OF the war, fnanciers, dignitaries of
rrotestant and Lutheran churches. M
tlonallst and anti-Semitic intellectuals
people of the German Kultur.' and oe
the race Of scientists.
Inc Christian party of the people
lthe 1"rmer party Of the Centre), com
posed manly OF farmers of the South
ana Roman Catholics of the workinp
and middle classes =
Since we have been unable, oroo,d
ing TO the wish of our great Erzberrcr
10 destroy London by shower of fire
ana sulphur, since God has not MN
ished england, it is better to accent
the programme Of Wilson, is +ho;r
view '"e-r
If the conditions be not anti-cler-
icaI---a KING governs constitutionallv
and ABOVE all In accord with the Roman
S"o.i~ NhuINii, we 40 not see Qnv
objection to q dynasty (Roman Cath,
olic, Of course) being reastablished in
Germany
"The German democratic partv.
Here is the Liberal and Progres ssiye
democracy, people OF business, Jews of
large and small finance, and 'on with
the universal Socialist republic thew
shout
Tho Spartacus German communist
working party: Bolshevist programme,
negation of the state and Of parlia-
mentarism, communist ideal based on
worklngmen's and soldiers councils
"'All middle class governments Chat
Of Wilson includcd) are to be dis
solved, the workingmen must be the
master Of the world they say. The
dictatorship of the proletariat alone
will save humanity On principle. that
party refused to join in the elections.
Consequently it Is impossible to sav
how many partisans it is grouping in
Its programme. Nevertheless, This
party is INCREASINGLY growing, being
sustained by Russian money and an
excellent organizations; because the
Entente, by the maintenance Of the
blockade, is creating and ugmenting
constantly the stagnation. poverty and
despair in Germany"