New-York tribune., 1919-05-09

found among the soldiers Of the old army.
Many Of them refuse to be disbanded, be-
cause they do not want to work At some
of the barracks in Berlin the men have
even moved in their families and settled
down to stay. At the same sitting of the
National Assembly one speaker told of the
officers and troops at the two camps of
Doeberitz and Adlershof, both near Berlin.
He said they were costing the country
50,000,000 marks a year because they re-
sisted rehabilitation with all their power.
Yet there were many workmen among them
badly needed in various industries. "Play-
ing soldier" added the speaker, "has be-
come profitable business"
DR.. Suedekum, the Prussian Minister of
Finance, added an interesting contribution
to illustrate the most modern methods
adopted by German workmen for forcing
increased wages. He told of one great
manufacturer who confessed that he had
to grant unreasonably great advances in
wages because he feared that he would
otherwise be killed.
But the workmen are not the only un-
reasonable people in Germany at this time.
Many men who are of far higher intelli-
gence that workmen are running to ex-
treme views and are saying some remark
ably queer things 1t is chiefly in regard
to Bolshevism that their mental aberra-
tion displays itself, and intellectual Boil
shevism" is the latest fad among so-called
progressive people There are two dis
tinct types of intellectual Bolshevists.
First, there is the Bolshevist who merely
toys with the theories of Lenine and
Trotzky, or maybe will even try to put
them into practice
Conservative BOIsheriki
But there is higher type Of Bolshevist,
or at least men who indulge in Bolshevist
talk These are struck with despair at
Germany's dismal economic prospects, It
is surprising to find how many men resign
themselves to the thought that Germans
should turn Bolshevst as q means for
escaping Economic servitude."
The press just now is busiy discussing an
article by Professor Paul Eltzbacher presi-
dent of the Berlin Commercial University,
and we'll known writer upon economic topics.
He is a member of the old mossback Con-
servative party, which finds it so hard to
adjust itself to revolutionary Germany. Now
this highly Conservative scholar has just
astonished all Germany by writing that "Bol-
shevism is the only thing that can help u.s."
He says further: eve must boldly take upon
ourselves all the evils with which Bolshevism
threatens us in order to escape enslavement
through our enemies, and we must unani-
mously to it ourselves that Bolshevism
shall come, in the conviction that in
the moment when Germany processes Bolshe-
vism the ways Of Bolshevism will
irresstibly submerge Western countries and
sweep away Clemenceau, Lloyd George
and all others who think that the worlds
cup of misery is not yet full enough" He
takes comfort in the fact that "the Entente
cannot squeeze billions yearly out of Boil
shevized Germany" He proposes that social
ization proceed without compensation to
owners, and that would involve no danger
to Germanys economic interests, "since they
cannot be damaged worse by Bolshevism than
by the permanent blood-sucking threatened
US by the Entente"
Flirting With the Abyss
In similar strain DR.. Dernburg has re-
Gently written: "In the long run it is all
one; whether Germany be ruined under the
inhuman oppression and the hunger blockade
of ostensibly civilized Western nations, or
under the raging flood of Bolshevist ideas.
Those are ideas which, however falsely de-
duced, aim at leading all humanity through
blood and terror to a better existence, and
if Germany goes down under such strokes
it will have the satisfaction of Samson, that
the ruins of the temple will carry down into
the abyss also the guests at the banquet
table,"
And Professor Hans Delbrueck, the we'll
known historian of Berlin University, who
also is not Bolshevst, also can contemplate
a Bolshevist breakdown in Germany with
certain grim satisfaction. He has just writ
ten this: "Reason must admonish US to hold
fast to the Entente for jointly protecting
and saving the thousand-year-old Teutonic-
Latin civilization; but revenge, hatred and
blindness in the Entente threaten to force
US into ways that contradict all reason and
vet seem inevitable. If the Entente
threatens to impose upon us conditions that
shall kill us as badly economically as politi-
cally, then we have only one answer: Very
we'll! Then you shall at least sink along with
us into the abyss"