The Washington herald., 1919-10-06

tianity. The big slave dealers.
merchandise usurers of Germany's
northwest water front, the peas
antry destroyers and labor exploit
ers of the big eastern estates, the
grandfathers OF our industries,
vampire-like. sucking human blood
in mines. iron works and factories.
these first became contemplate
when they sank into affectation of
piety and misused the crucifix as
lightning rod, to lead the lightning
of the wrath OF Heaven away from
their house roof or ships deck.
The denantly pan-German doesn't
indulge in such hypocrisy. For him
the son Of the Virgin Mary Is the
most dangerous of pacifsts and spoil
ers Of war spirit: and out of the UNI
versal Church of Christ, Of which the
Apostolic Greed speaks and which
never can be the church Of one nation,
one state, nor ever hostile to Christ
ians Of other countries. no breath,
into their hearts.
dug the Grave for Empire.
This host of men produced q large
part of the strength through which
luc NTCFulAn EAIuphCs Win oeSh ~-Ao~
ing rapidity, could raise itself to pow
er, preponderating power. That IL
certain; equally certain, however. that
they dug the grave for this empire.
because they remained stubbornly
true to their gods and goals in a
completely changed age.
Out Of this layer Of society. and
not. as superdciality believes. frst,
from Treischke, Nictzche or even
the little Gen. Bernhardi twho were
little read before the war;. came the
men for whom strength Is every
thing-might the generator OF right
craftsmanship empty phraseology,
IDEAS nothing-and who, when it ap-
pears necessary for their purpose. do
not hesitate to raze away from the
face Of the earth blooming provinces
Of a foreign land
This layer wanted to maintain the
old order at every price, saw tn
Prussia the most enEient federal
state in war and industry. but whose
principal industry Mirabeau had al
ready recognized to be war. the
crown. almost the purpose of all crea-
ton, and after the victories Of Fred
erick the Great and Bismarck not for
a moment doubted that every war
Germanic force and without conscien-
tious scruples must necessarily bring
benefit
They had eyes and saw not. ears
and heard not; they defended the
basis OF the state. grown rotten. and
did not notice that without. as the
very consequence OF their war, world
revolution developed.
Thirty millions of Europeans were
and remained in motion, flooded over
the earth more wildly and farther
than ever their dreams before: yell
low, black, brown men, in addition
to swarms OF emancipated women,
titled Europe's fields. turned out Eu-
ropes shells, and all now, man and
woman, in their citizens existence,
demand the same equality which
they had for four years and more in
the trenches and in the mines.
Want q New Battle Chant.
Our only Germans, however. thought
that at the beck of a helmet plume,
at the order of some authorities or
other, the primitive forces of man
kind would quickly duck into the old
tried order of things. But woman.
Slav, Tartar, the colored man. the
kuli, everything once most patient
under slavery and exploitation, had
arisen. had become awake in the in
nermost; the proletariat Of the globe,
as yet not contained or containable
in any organization. had loosened the
chains under the harness. Earth
quaked under the unison Of the
marching feet of the proletarfat and
engulfed the glory of the German
empire.
That it has sunk forever the Ger
mans-to-the-core, the Wotan worship
pers do not believe. They are today
monarchists as yesterday; they send
kilograms OF loyalty to Amerongen:
they hope that the entente's fear OF
Bolshevism will permit them to delay
disarmament stin further. and fear
no hell If they can keep an army on
its legs, secretly Increase it and drin
1t with the old arts for q new Bar
dituss-new battle chant
To them belong a large part OF
the university world which. old and
young. Is almost entirely nationals
tic: the majority of the great in
dustries and big business, the old Of
ffcers' and non-commissioned ofhcers'
crops and the school boys. brought
up on the teachings Of false gods.
false idols. who even on Sedan day
of this year stfn marched with
wreaths and flags before Kaiser mon-
uments.
But the Chaukes too have not died
out And only among them Is Erda.
is Christ AZ hoYne