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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1919-05-17
INSISTS UPON ANOTHER DIR.
LEWIS LEADERSHIP.

Doctor, I suggested in my former
letter that since you did so much to
lead out those members OF the Con
vention who later formed tho General
Association, I now repeat the sug-
gestion that You could not be better
engaged than in leading them back
again. Yes, Doctor Lewis, I am
aware that we have been much di-
vided hero, for we have had three
State Conventions to contend with
But We only have two now, and I
feel that after another year, we will
only have one.
Will Editor Mitchell accept my
many thanks for the free use Of the
columns OF The Planet? I am,
Yours ever,
HARVEY JOHNSON.
Baltimore, Md F., May 7, 1919.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1919-05-17
PRICE, FIVE CENTS

on May 10Th for benefit Of the celc--
bration. The Richmond Negro Bust
ness League held its monthly meet
ing in the club on Thursday night
and Prof. c.. II. Russell was the
speaker for the occasion.
Units Of the Boys Brigade were
organized in Fulton during the week.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
ause "Our Head Was Not Made for the Yoke"--

subject. In regard to the white race itself,
Tor which he could not help having some
consideration, since 1t participated in ad-
vance in Tcutonc nobility because Of its
anticipated subiectioh. he could at least
consent to make distinctions. The Latin
would amuse him and the Slav would re-
ceive from him q feeling for organization
and instruction in it, the English could
offer for German exploitation a fine set of
energies; the "ancient God" of Germany
would, by way of Bagdad, cousin it with
Mahomet and Buddha and Vshnu Prop,
erly hammered by the famous mailed fist,
the yellow man himself would end by sub
mittng to his destiny. America, possessing
no army, could be gathered in on the way
back. And so "the times would be accom-
pllshed." since the insuffcency of means
of communication does not yet permit the
extension of the benefits of pan German
ism beyond our sphere
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

leved that they had dearly gained the
happy privilege of hoping that general
enough acceptance of the common rights
of all would assure henceforth the evolu-
ton OF peoples in independence. Germany
decided that in one mad game she would
play, not only against us, but against all
the peoples Of the earth. the chances of
the non-right pure and simple With a
success due to the technical excellence of
her preparations, she has burned. ravaged,
pilaged and destroyed all the homes of
civilization that fortune has offered to her
devastating genius. She has bestally vio-
lated and tortured and murdered creatures
who were weak without ever finding satia-
tion for her fury. She has proved false to
the written text of her faith torn up the
pact of honor to which she had put her
signature, in the thought that the force
of steel was to excuse all, and terrorized
the neutrals so far as to impose on them
sometimes a silence for which later they
may blush
And for a supreme mockery. the men of
"science"-it is the name they give them
selves-having conquered, by their labor,
authoritative prestige, create for us a
philosophical doctrine fitted to the use of
the higher banditry, to explain to US that,
in the necessary order of things, bcstial
brutality is only the manifestation of
higher harmony. They proclaim, IN the
forms of logic, that by the virtue of the
streaming sword blade the law of man must
go and sleep in the tomb of antiquities.
For kind of German pity moves them to
show themselves pitiless in order to abridge
the suferings of the man whose death they
have decreed in their purpose of abolshing,
without delay, the attachment of minds to
that law and justice for which so many
fools have thought it glory to live and die
All this stands written and registered
in acts which no one can undo, and, for
a supreme burst of humanitarian carnage
Germany has found the continuous strength
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Fantastic COnqueSfs
Of Masters

The instrument of this universal con-
quest? 1t is the German people, penetrated
with the spirit of voluntary servitudc for
the fantastic conquests of their masters,
from which they will be allowed profits.
The means? The restoration of the cult
of brute force, concentrated and unified
IN a violent race, untrammeled by notions
OF human right. And therefore there was
needed the revival Of absolutism and slav-
cry In efficacious coordination, with resur-
rection of all instructive brutality sus-
tanned by all "civilzed" poltroonery, for
the installation of the supreme rule of iron
force over the fallen Lar.
And all this was said avowcd. pro
claimed; and it would all come about If
brute force could rule entirely over the
destlnles Of men, by the mplacable decree
OF the German victory arrogantly predicted
but not yet realized
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

"bourgeois mercenary" Ebert, the com
ment in American newspapers is unan-
nous in its estimate of the outcome as a
decisive advance toward the establish
nnent Of democratic republic. The SEN
timent is general that the German peo-
pie, exercising its newly gained right to
mould its destiny at what is perhaps the
crucial moment Of its history, has re-
pudiated eXtremism both in its monar-
chist and Bolshevik form As an edi-
torial in "The Boston Globe" puts it:
"The German elections appear to be going
middle class It is a temptation to add, AS
goes Germany so goes Western Europe for
II the Bolshcvik idea cannot dominate a
field so fertiized by autocracy and unsuc-
cessful war it mas less chance west of the
Rhine
The defeat cf the supporters of the
old order is summarized by "The Wash
ington Star"
"a republican form of government is nre.
dicted as result of the election. There is.
iiucSu, ilo VIllSt lOSlcdl outcome II the cleo
tions express the will of the people The
presence of peoples party ticket in the
field gave them chance to declare for the
old order, and its insignificant showing may
be accepted as proof that the people will
have none of it. Whatever plans the junk
crs and monarchists have for a move toward
restoration of the military autocracy. they
cannot fail to have been seriously upset by
this show of popular dsapproval at an cleo
ton which was more fully participated in
by the German people than any other in the
history of the nation"
The outcome is generally hailed as a
triumph Of the counsels of moderation,
Of gradual evolution toward a genuine
democratic order. "The New York
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

Majority Socialists. led by Ebert and
. Scheidelnann, the party which put the
revolution over" in a very considerable
degree. The only party showing a gain
IN the recent election, outside of the
Majority Socialists, are the Democrats,
successors of the old Progressive Peo-
pies party or bourgeois radicals The
National Liberals. the 'grand old
party Of German industry and finance,
most faithful among Bismarck's sup
porters, have suffered corresponding
loss. the camouhage name Of "Peoples
party" failing to deceive the electorate.
Even sadder is the fate that befell the
Conservative Pan-German coalition dis
gused as the National party This
group, which in the old Reichstag mus
tered combined strength of seventy
one members but exercised an influence
altogether out of proportion to it's num-
bers, has now shrunk to thirty-four rep-
resentatives.
The defeat Of the Independent Social
lists also seems to be settled, although
the tact that as many as twenty of their
candidates were returned is, according
to an editorial in "The Brooklyn Daily
Eagle" a hopeful sign
The Independent Socialists apparently
have drawn new strength from the radical
elements opposed to Ebert and Scheidemann
but this is rather a wholesome sign. since
the Independents decided to use the ballot
instead Of joining with the Spartacans in
their resort to violence. 1t was this atti-
tude on the part of the Independent Social
lists that did more than anything else tosde-
feat the Spartacus revolt by withholding
support from the extremists at critical
time"
Outside of the Radical press, which
elicits much fury over the victory Of the
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

Times calls it even conservative tri-
umph":
"a conservative triumph we might say. if
conservatism in Germany wasn't associated
with reaction A good days work for the
German people and for the rest Of us 1t
will'be interesting to see how many of those
entitled to vote, more than half Of them
women went to the polls"
In the opinion of The New York
Globe
"Germany's present decision is for democ-
racy. Let no one be misled into thinking
otherwise because the most numerous group
IN the National Assembly will be called So
clallsts- Before the way organized social
ism in Germany ceased being MARKHAM The
revlsionsts rewrotc the Erfurt programme
and changed or construed it into one of
political liberalism. The actual platform
of Schedemann and Ebert was about the
same as that on which Colonel Roosevelt
ran and President Wilson was elected. The
popular party in Germany asked little more
than has long been enjoyed in this country"
On the other hand, "The Boston
Transcript" discerns a danger for de-
mocracy in the predominance of the Ma
jority Socialists
There is, however, one decidedly bad
sign in the German situation, and that is
the evidence that the Majority Socialists
actually received credit in the eyes Of the
nation for being willing to let the Con
stituent Assembly meet This meeting. we
are told AIessrs. Ebert and Scheidemann
and their party have decided to permit
and public sentiment applauds the permis-
sion. 1t is needless to say that in any coun-
try which has had the benefit of democratic
institutions there would be no question of
permitting the meeting of constituent as
semby elected by universal suffrage"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

SO there burst out the greatest and most
furious battle between men upon which the
sun has ever risen. A whole people ignobly
trained to understand nothing and TO love
nothing but the savage force of which they
consented to remain the victim for the Joy
of being the instrument of it against others
was let loose upon Europe like an irresist-
ibc army Of machines of death prepared to
shatter all before them.
Let US do them the homage of saying tn at
they played their role to perfection Cities,
with their finest historical monuments and
their most precious treasures of science
and art, have gone up in flames before the
torch of destructive Kultur. Destruction
of the humblest home as we'll as of the
noblcst ediices, pllage, robbery, assassina-
ton, massed murder following nameless tor
lures of educated barbarism, the most ex-
ecrable outrages upon human beings, the
most revoting, shameless acts Of beasts in
delirium- such, in plain terms, is the rec
ord of these brutes in their work of "kul-
tured' Tcutonzation. Have they not
martyred and butchered women and chill
drcn? Did they not mock with the retch-
ings of their unspcakabc banter the pas
sengers Of the Lusitania sinking under their
piratical torpedo? In their record will be
lacking disgrace or degradation
How should they understand when we
reproach them for having violated the neu-
trality of Belgium and of Luxembourg,
when we try to explain to them that
without respect for treaties, without the
observance OF sworn faith, there is no
longer any law and justice between the
nations nor any honor among men? They
could find but one answer: 1--WE were the
strongest" Brutcs that they are, they
know not even that brute force itself is
subject to reaction, as we are in the act
of showing them.
The bloody tragedy has followed it's
course. At time when our fathers be-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

which has permitted her to conduct, after
half century OF preparation. the greatest
of enterprises for human debasement under
cover OF supremacy of "intelectuality."
The old despotsms of Asia had at least
the excuse that they were the beginnings
OF civilization. This despotsm asbres to
put an end TO the painful work of the slow
emancipation OF the mind by repression
to the bestalities of ferocious savagery.
Man would have risen out of unthinking
matter only ia experience the revolving
sensation OF an effort at nobility rewarded
By debasement new in the scale of deg
radations. SO many centuries of unre-
membered wretchedness and Of glorious
sufferings would have passed in the uncer-
tain hope of higher things, only for men
to see themselves cast back at one blow
into bottomess CULTS. The insolent com
mand is addressed to us to receive, to
solicit, as benefaction, the stigma of
supreme subiecton for ourselves and for
those who viii come after us. Give us all
aspiration for glory, for grandeur. for
hope? We have not consented: either the
German must therefore bow his head or
We must. Ours was not made for the
woke
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from me the verdict of Judge IN
b;s imposing ermine, or even the learned
dec;sion Of a Doctor at The Hague. II
simnle-minded folk, too easily contented
with sppearances, should come to look be-
vond what is shown their eyes they would
ouickly discover that the judge, in his high
seat, does nothing but formulate the DEGREES
Of an elastic justice whose laws are made
out Of common human judgments rendered.
in the accidents of circumstances, by those
onlookers who derive their authority from
tho free exercise of an Independent con
science.
Let me be permitted to be one of those
onlookers; it is my title to hearing. !
have the temerity to find it sufficient, since
no one. IL we consider closely, can claim
anv other I am a man, think, and
sneak. Let anyone who can, do likewise,
and let the wcrld decide. The sources OF
NV information are limited, and so are
nv powers of understanding, my standards
of value. must content myself with them,
because against the chance Of a superior
arbitrament I foresee only centuries OF de-
bate
What do we seek for here below? The
hest use OF a nceIiuS c-NiSeSi'SS'
shall we find it if not in balance of
forces, within US and around US, which pre-
supposes an equilibrium of activity within
us and without? A rule ?-the limits OF
liberty fixed by those conventions called
The latv, which specify the prerogattves uni
formly granted to each one. Beyond this
are the fatal facts of man and OF nature.
Fortunate eventualities-man sacrifices him
self for his equals; unfortunate-he tries
to sacrifice others. whenever he can, to
his own advantage.
All the efforts OF righteousness and all
the crimes of selhshness are spread out
in a long series of benevolencess on the
one hand and Of abuses on the other, from
the simplest kindness TO the noblest sacri-
fec, from the most specious rudeness TO the
most brutal atrocity.
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dence of the crme-it is the indictment and
condemnation of the man still red with
the blood he has spilled
They attempting death blow against
all that l treasure in life, against my at
tachment to the soil and my love and
ideals for my country-a death blow 20 my
worship of the glory of nation manifest
ing, in the dignity of fraternal living, a
legitimate pride in being a people of many
minds welded into unison.
They are attempting p death blow agsinst
my right to existence, against the virtue
Of the blood in my race, against my ire
pressible need to advance, through the
course of the ages, following the traditions
and the principles of n history in which,
through my fathers. have had part-a
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Remaking Our World
{ Continued from page onc)

They recognize the revolution without
reservation and will in no way and in
no circumstances aid or give counte-
nance to any attempt at counter revo-
lution.''
The proposals were sent out by wire
less, and the recent attitude Of the Boil
shevlst leaders toward cessation Of
hostllltles makes journalists at Paris
anticipate a speedy acceptance by them
of the invitation
Other Russian leaders do not however
look so favorably upon the action of the
peace conference. Sergius Sazonoff rep
resenting the Siberian government at
Omsk is quoted in an Associated Press
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

probable, and would be under the crcum-
stances the best pledge Of the success Of
the National Assembly"
s'The New York World has words of
high praise for the unexpected political
maturity displayed by the German neo-
Pile:
eminent Junkers like Prince Won Bulow
were fond of demonstrating that the Ger
man people had no capacity whatever for
self lf-government and that republican ins.itu
tlons must inevitably fail there. The owl
dence OF the last three months is all 10 the
contrary, and although three months is a
very short time in the life of nation. it
often furnishes reliable index to the mind
and temper of a people in meeting q SUI
preme crisis
NO great revolution was ever carried
through so swiftly and systematically az
the German revolution"
la1e dangers of false sense of secu-
rlty are, however, pointed out bv The
Tribune, which observes:
1T may be taken for granted that Hin
denourg still dreams of becoming the Gen
erai Monk OF that delicious German edition
or Charles ii, the recluse of the rsle of
Wieringen.
me Constituent Assembly may now get
ready for business. The trial of what Ger
mans like to call the New Germany, opens.
for the Allies the only possible attitude is
that of watchful waitng~-with emphasis on
the watchful A consolidated GERMANY NAV
DC preferable to an anarchist Germany
pu' " makes strong Wacht am Rhcin,
edition. foch, none the less imperativc.'
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

history which is not the least nsh,s
tion' perhaps, OF the deeds of the huns,
race.
They are attempting death blown -.
most radiant of the hopes that guide w.
through the perilous mszes of a dss,;ss
the riddle of which is possibly in the s..'
that 1t is only what it is but which :.
the more precious to me, nevertheless on
account of my attempts to honor it.
France defends herself, and others d. ;.
with her-all those who have been :,
guides and supporters of mankind. the H..
ers OF thought all those who because tbcy
are worthy to live the highest life, csnn,,
die death which, together with the sd
downfall of the neutrals. would mc,, *.
extinction of civilized man.
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Warnings That
Went Unheeded

For half century have seen the. men
ace of bloodthirsty people rising against
us. | have uttered warnings without num-
Der against it to the unsceng men who, up
to the last hour, refused to recognize the
truth and who, by the authority which
their lack of foresight gained for them, now
refuse me the right to point out the con-
tinuation of the faults of yesterday in the
faults of to-day. And when the bloodthirsty
people started the actual slaughter and
the violation Of all human rights | pur-
sued my task, kept speaking kept crying
out. The cry of the victim is the first evi-
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

man elections show that the
IA Ebert -Scheidemann government
will appear before the Constitu-
ent Assembly with the backing of sub
stantial plurality Of the total member
ship, with 164 out of 421 members. The
Assembly will meet in the near future
at Weimar, the Thuringian "Kultur-
centrum" associated with the memory
Of Goethe
The elections proceeded-if we disre-
gard few isolated attempts at rioting
oy the hopelessly outnumbered Sparta
Gus people-in perfect order, with an
parently an unusually large percentage
OF the electorate voting. In particular,
the women seem to have availed them
selves in large numbers of their newly
acquired right of suffrage. Outside of
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
The Tribune says:

"of all the bourgeois parties the Demo
Gratis are probably the only sincere anti
monarchists Their cooperation with the
Majority Socialists and perhaps with the
more progressive, or, rather, more cleverlv
opportunist wing of the Centre is highly
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

7 : III
comparison with the strength of
parties in the old Reichstag is enlight-
enlng. The figures below refer to the
party groups as they existed on March
/, 1917, according to the Statesman's
yearbook, the names in parenthesis iden-
tlfying the parties according to the new
designations adopted after the revolu-
ton:
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

Great w ar. From the
eloquent introduction
we quote the follow
ing paragraphs:
1t is obvious that
my position on these
issues is not a dlsin-
terested one, and |
be sorry indeed
if anyone might think
so. I understand that
M one will EXPECT
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

Coalition rule is predicted by The
Philadelphia Enquirer" and The New
York Tribune, the former declaring:
1T the Assembly viii apparently be
dominated by coalition of the majority. as
distinguished from the Independent Social
is's' with the Democrats, who developed an
unanticipated strength, but there viii also
be a considerable infusion in its member
ship of those more conservative clements
represented by the Centrists and National
'5 'stS' and the moderate POLICIES with which
me provisional government Of Ebert and
Scheldemann are identified will noucs,ion-
ably prevail"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

the unexpected strength shown by the
Democrats in Berlin and other large
cities, there was hardly any element Of
surprise.
According to the latest reports avail
able the 421 seats of the Constituent
Assembly will be divided among the diff
ferent parties as follows:
Majority Socialists ............ 1854
Democrats NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. II
Christian Peoples party .... SO
German National party ......... "a
Peoples party Observation-Disclosures, %
Independent Socialists ...... "a
Iuelis ......... ...............,.
Bavarian Peasants League ...
Wdrtemberg Bourgeois party $500
Peasants and Workmen's Demo
cratic League ................
'o'"l AL
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

\RANCE Facing Germany is
II the title of most important
n and stimulating volume is
sued last week by Z. P. Dut-
ton. which contains a series of speeches
and articles by NJ. Clemenceau, Premier
of France, written mostly during the
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
Democracy Sweeps the Poles i'm German

! ME complete returns of the Ger
n man elections show that the
n Ebert-Scheidemann government
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

probable, and would be under the circum
stances the best pledge of the success Of
the National Assembly,"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

ne Echo de Fans says.
"insensate as may be tho settlement nov
proposed. it has at least the merit OF rii
ding as Of the still more harmful soIu,ioa
Of bringing the Bolsheviki to Paris and
giving them the opportunity of repeating
on Allied territory the Brcst-Litovsk prop,
ganda"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-05-21
Great Scott.

An Indianapolis woman had her Fin
experience with a garden last yea
She spaded the plot herself and the
planted her seeds. Everything caH
up fairly well in due time except ID
potatoes, and they didn't come at al
In desperation she went to friend. I
her she told of her failure to grow p
tatoes. 81 bought such nice, SmOOt
ones" she ended her plant, "and
peeled them as nice as l could"
peeled them!" CALCULATED h
friend.
Eyes" agreed the amateur gardens
81 peeled them as nicely as could al
cut out all the specs just as If WEI
going to cook them. I did hate TO p
those great white beauties in b
ground but I did and they didn't CON
up, and -"
"Great Scott" calculated the friel
And that was all.