Evening star., 1919-11-11
RED RADICALS BIC
MENACE TO j. s,
SAYSGEN. HARR|ES
Officer at Board of Trade
Meeting Tells Americans to
Help Enforce Law.

| Red radicalism is the greatest men
ace to the United States today. Every
American should consider it his high
! est duty to promote law and order. to
| help enforce the law of the majority,
to believe in and work for constitu-
tional law. A mans life belongs to
| his country and he can devote it to
no better cause than the service of
| the nation.
These declarations were made by
Brig. Gen. George H. Harries, who
was head of the American military
mission in Germany, to the members
of the Washington Board of Trade, in
annual session at the Willard Hotel
last night.
Germany Welcomes Disorders.
'"Disorder elsewhere than in Ger
many is viewed with pleasure by the
Germans as their best hope of re-
gaining ascendancy in Europe. The
chief organizer of political propa-
eanda in the imperial military secret
serv1ce-a man who gained consid-
cradle notoriety by his works. busy
row and has been busy for months
iomentlng the revolt spirit in allied
countries" Gen. Harries said
Il don't believe you realize the ex-
tent or Germany's propaganda in
, favor of Germany l doubt if Ger
many has had since 1S49 a real social
lst- OF course she has had many
11.o2ctrinaires but they were all tame.
w hen the crisis came, they shouldered
their guns and went off to war just
like the junkers. But the Germans
wanted to create a real socialism in
other countries
The imperial government financed
of supplies to wreck the Kerensky
regime Aided thus both materially
and morally Lenin crushed Kerensky
/ and started on his wild career The
thlng was so loosely carried on, how
ever, that as late as last January a
division of good soldiers at war
strength-say. $4,000 men-could have
crushed bolshevism in Russia
Failed to Recognize Disease.
But at that time the doctrine of
elf-determination was having free
play wherever it showed signs of life.
SO nothing was done about Russia.
The allied nations. the optimists,
didn't recognize the thing as a disease.
true anarchist, Lenin, having turn
cd the Russian world into chaos. set
his force upon the very source of his
strength. He double crossed Ger
many by introducing the Spartacist
idea there and he certainly introduced
lot Of trouble.
i have seen several revolutions in
europe 1 am unable to picture how !
terrible they are. I think it would be |
good thing if you could witness a |
revolution in another country than
our own. 1t would bring home to you
as nothlng else the precious thing we
nave In our American government.
Il saw TlOtlnR and ki11ino sn
Wnere small body we'll organized
Spartaclsts, with purpose-with an
IDEAL. even though a low ideal-and
with aggressive determination, chased
aoout z40.oOo social democrats all over
the city and suburbs of Berlin. 1t was
an instance of what an organized mi
nority can do to loose, defensiye ma
yority; saw rioting and killing in
Ruled by Lust of Killing.
But in Riga I witnessed the full |
nrnss norrot or revolution You couldn't |
out stepping on the bodies Of dead and
wounded men and women. Think Of IL |
:Z5,000 men and women and children
R'iied XII IN four days. for no reason at |
killing. -
Now, that disease of bolshevism in |
eome way seems TO nave crossed the |
ocean. Let me tell you an incident.
When Ambassador Francis and his
STAN left Russia. by accident one of |
the party was left behind. He was ar |
rested by Lenin and for months was j
tortured with daily threats of exc
cution. Through influences which I
possessed, 1 asked Lenin to release |
this man. Lenin said he would do SO |
on condition that l obtain the release !
to him of man serving sentence |
in the United States We'll, guess who |
that man was? Eugene v. Debbs, / |
suspect it takes no Sherlock Holmes |
to see the connection"
Armistice Called a Mistake. i
Gen. Harries began his speech by |
declaring the granting Of the armis- |
tice badly advised move. If the |
plans of the commander-in chief had !
been adopted there would soon have |
been a surrender in the field, and |
great amount of the subsequent trou- !
ble-suffering and disorder and mis-
understanding of the true situation
would have been averted.
More than all-the German people |
would have known their army had !
suffered dtfeat," the speaker declared !
teaching the children their army was
not defeated that it simply returned !
home because of the weak-spirited |
civil population. The schools there |
Will continue TO teacn tnat.
'I was in Berlin when the German |
army returned triumphantly. 1t was |
a real celebration they had-oratory, |
music. flowers, business of hailing the |
heroes. They even sang Der Wacht |
am Rhine yet not one of them could !
90 within thirty-fve kilometers Of |
the Rhine without a pass from me.
Describes German Psychology.
."rba Carmans have a unioue psy-
chology. At short range they have |
no knowledge of dimension; no ap-
probation of proportion. Imagine !
the order of the head Of their peace |
mission to Versailles to the Ameri-
can military mission to wear civilian
became known the wrath of the Ger
man people would spend itself on the |
members of the mission.
II told the messenger from the |
when the Germans could dictate the !
kind of clothing I should wear. Gen.
Pershing simply sent word the Ger !
mans would be held to strict ac-
countability for the safety of the |
mission.
Imagine Bernstorff's wanting to go i
down to Versailles with the German |
mission and confer across the table |
with President wilson He simply |
couldn't understand why it wasn't |
quite all right.
"And then imagine the point of view |
of the great number Of German off, |
GERS who wanted to join the Ameri-
can Army-their applications were
great bother to me. Most of them
wanted to be instructors; l said to
one outstanding young fellow-a pro-
fessional soldier-'Why should ma
ton that hasn't been defeated receive
instructions from one which has just
suffered a great defeat?' He simply