New Britain herald., 1919-04-04
SAYS HOHENzOLLERN
 WILL RESUME RULE
Berne Newspaper Prints Story Of
 Alleged Conspiracy

Writing on the subject ot the mur- der of Karl Lie cbllnccht, in a leading article in the Frcie ZcitunG of Bernc of Jan. 22, Dr. Hermann RoescmeieE, the cHpatriatc German publicist, who has been one of the leading cham pjons of German democracy through out the war. prophecies that the Pots dam forces of junkerdom and ntutar- ism are back of the present German socialist government and that, unless baked by a popular storm, they are counting upon restoration or the Hohenzollern. He Says:
 Not for the sake of democracy have officers of the inability and others battled for the Scheiden1ann- Ebert government. It was not for the ma Jorty socialists that tho Potsdam diTl- sions fought Behind the yictors over the Spar 1 tacus stands the junk nker-nilital'N- 1 court party. Just as in the Barrocque time, in the year called 1872 Of the Lord, it stood behind the enemies "l 1 the De Wits in Holland. It was not Crassus that conquered Spartacus. Not the bourgeosic, and not the ma jority socialism, but Pompcy, Whlch means: the army.
 And Pastor GottIieb Traup ho"is It triump phantly to all the Wlhos' saS Ing that this is the case A'1N "luiu thunderous applause he SehuS 'ile greetings of an assembly ol many thousands of German an-nat'onals from the Circus Busch--the SLUG or the agrarian carniVals--to our Gefmah Kaiser Wilhelm In German: the De- scrter of Amerongen.
 And with equal thunder the as |, h in II ra n Hindcnburg and Ludendorff.
 The carnival is no longer very far off
 The writer of these lines is not a Bolshovik He looks back upon pleas ant appearances in the Rerliner Nolks- ha.us with Radak- -SobeIsohn and Ap- feIba um -Sinowjeff But at this mo- mont, while we stand deeply shaken beside the corpses of Rosa LuNen- burg and Karl Liebknecht, when Franz Pfemfert and his brave wife
 have gone to prison, he confesses to all the world he is proud of having been a friend of Franz Pfemfcrt and Frau Pfemfert and at least to have been nCouainted with Karl Lieb- llnecht. And he accounts it among the the proudest emories of his life that he spent the last evening before
 
 and his wife and with Franz Pfemfert
 and his wife. Prof. Nicolai, too, was | at that lime one of Cur little-company. "The world revolution, We of the F'reic Ieitung do not desire it, We 1 trcmble at the thought that the world 1 revolution might destroy what cultur- l al values the world war may have 1 left spared. We stand on the other
 side of the barricade.
 'But every one who has taken a 1 hand in this world war against Prus-
 sian imperialism and miIitarism as l nacitist, dem ocrat, Ententist, Euro
 pean, or cosmopoite. must pay rev 1 orent tribute to the spirit of Karl 1 Liebknecht
 Carl Liebknccht early became Iimmerwaldst, Kienthaler But 1 his original conception was a different | one. He took part against the war | because the war was made in Pots- 1 dam. He took part against Germany 1 because official Germany had hurled 1 the world into this nameless misery l He took part on the side of France 1 because France was the side that had i heen attacked invaded Let that 1 never be forgotten. And lot if never 1 be forgotten that Karl Liebknecht and i Rosa LuXcmburg endured and suffer- cu 1oF rRClr convictions. Perhaps Rosa I-uNembItrg even more than Karl Lebknecht, in her life and in her death And let it never be forgotten ! that Karl Liohknecht, In private life, Was the best COmrade, the most self sacrificing friend.
 ''Therc are human beings who con sume themselves, who arc consumed by internal flame: beings in whose case, as NietzSChc saya, all that they touch becomes tlamr. Karl Lieb- knccht belonged to these. The Spartacist coup in Berlin? Ab- 1 surd, even if it had won out Berlin Is not Germany--far, far loss even 1 than Paris is France; and the Paris Commune of 1871 Was also an ab- 1 surdity-NOllmar said it as long ago ! as 1898 at tine party convention in ! Stuttgart, and said it with truth. 'Only 1t was a pity that it was true. 1 Innsmuch as the German social ! democracy became too sober, heavy, 1 prOsair. world wise. and sensible, it l lost the power to prevent the world ! war. Leopold Rankc before he be- | caINo a, von Rankc, said of Robert WaipOle: Tn him there was nothing ! that could cN< the spirit into higher | spheres.
 The Eberts and Schcidemanns are the Walpoles of the German so- , and Luxemburgs were it's Sidneys.
 But AIgCrnon Sidney was executed,