The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-05

lianCe, but at any rate, virile per- sonality, with a sharp, shrewd sense to read alright the lessons of life, and honesty courage, and energy to ap- ? ply them without faltering or equi- vocation, With the exception of Era- berger, no one has been more bitter 1y attacked. Others have said that, meaning well, and without himself suspecting 1t he became nothing bet ter than a tool in the hands of aris- tocratic officers on whom he was par ttaily dependent for the execution of his policy, But no one has seriously challenged his sincerity, And despite all attacks he has gone calmly on his way acting with instant and tren- chant vtgor where it was necessary, but avoiding precipitation when time permitted of evolutionary treatment of the problem before him. His ayow- ed policy, the sincerity of which there fs yet no sufficient reason to doubt, is to build up for the new army a corps of officers faithful to the Con- stitutfon. This he seeks to do by the gradual and careful elimination of those of definitely counter-revolu- tonary tendencies, But, at the same time, he extends wide indulgence even to demonstration of a pronOuncedly monarchical character, If they have not an "off1ciaf' character, or proceed from officers whose readiness in bark ing is not accompanied by any capa- city to bite
 The campaign against the Minister of Defense recently eliminated in a speech in which Herr Noslle defended his action before . large meeting of Deputies of Berlin, Majority Socialists and won from them a unanimous vote with the ''Reinhard case,' Colonel Reinhard played Q prominent part in the suppression of the Spartacists ris- ings, and has been one of the chief executive weapons of Noske's policy. A week or two ago, however, it was credibly reported of him that in pIi- vate converse ton hs had descriebd the present goVernIn ent as Q ''nlob,' Erzberger as @ good for nothing" and the colors of the German repub- lie as a Jew flag" Reinhard himself did not explicitly deny these phrases, and there seems no doubt that he ac- tually made use of them. Noske's opponents of course, urged that the Governm ent could not possibly con tinue to employ man who spoke in this way of Itself. of one of its most prominent members, and of its visible symbol However, on receiving from Reinhard & categorical assur- ance that he had no connection with counter-revoIutionaTy schemes, and. was endeayoring with all his strength to help the Government to restore or der and tranquility, the Cabinet de- cided to regard the incident as clos ed.
 An OutspoHen Speech. 19, but 1t was only published this
 This declaration was made on Sept of confidence In its blunt colloQuial- ism and the fearless frankness with which 1t castigate6 the sins of the revolution this spe.ch is very charac- teristic of the man He said that his agents had reported to him that Reinhard had carried on no Monarch ist propaganda among the troops, and that nowhere did such conditions of confidence between leaders and men exist in the brigade of this officer IL WAS true that persistent attempts were made to influence soldiers in inc Monarchical sense, just as Lne 1Il- dependent Communists every day tried to get at the soldiers. But the right of propaganda existed, and it could not be forbidden IL was the business of the Majority Socialists to meet jt with coun1er-Propa ganda. They already had the finest freedom on paper and to convert them into actual realities was the business not of the Government but of the people itself. Of their revolutionary attain 1nents nothing would be lost but what they themselves sacrificed '"by the cIumsiness with which they rack eted about in the economic life of the country like bull in a china shop" Many of them had degraded the rev. o1ution to a pure wage movement, but he was sure that their hands would come down promptly to the seams of their trousers the moment they felt the rfst of reaction on their neck3:.'7
 The German revolution would have been ninlaginabIy grand and beautt- fui If the great masses had really had social and socfaIistie feeling, in stead of wanting to get as much out of it as they could for thernselves.'' For hundreds and hundreds of thous- ands the revolution had on-y been an , opportunity for biunder. Men who had never opened their mouths so long the trenches threatened them had. since the revolution, practiced in the factories terrorism, dish ty, and a violation of the opinions of others which surpassed thousand fold the worst sins of their former rulers."
 .'Swankers and Mngs."
 Are we to allow these swankerS and big mugs to destroy Germany? Once, when I put the question to the Danzig shipyard workers, one of our
 
 them stronger" To that, answered them, Defend yourselves. you slack tails" When we tax away 80 per cent. of big incomes the works will be run mainly for the community. When we create factory councils, the yyorknen will no longer be wage slaves but will have a voice in the management. But that will be pur- pose1ess if every 20-year-o1d big mug thinks he can boss round in a business in which millions are involv- ed. The wOrkmen's councils must con 6fst of the most mature and wiseSt. Whoever humbugs the masses by promising them an early fuIfilment of their wishes will quickly find out his mistake if he is called into the Government. If we let things slide we will soon have Russ1an, 1<unsar- ian and Munich conditions. We were not very far from that when I was called to Berlin. Was it We who first brought rifles into the streets? The others terrorized the great majority