Evening journal., 1919-02-11
KAISER'S finn PALS
SHOOT RADICALS
Here's Kaiser's Speech of
Blessing for White Guard
Government
BLOODSHED HAS
CEMENTED PEOPLES
BY CARL sANDBURG.

n. E. A. Stan Correspondent Just
Arrived from Northern Europe with
Pictures and Documents Never Before
Published.
In Finland the trades unions, social
lists and farmers leagues all worked to-
gelher. They built and owned more
than 500 labor temples, or peoples
houses. Libraries, furniture and all.
they were valued above 100000. Il
was known as the least illiterate. and
ione OF the most notable labor move
ments In the world.
Now it's gone. The 500 peoples
houses are drill halls and arsenals for
the white guard. They are the homes
Of the "Finsks Bataljonens," who
came back IN December from service
with the armies Of Germany.
Right Of workmen 10 organize OF
strike Is gone. Upwards OF 1900 per-
sons are held In convict camps, accord
Ing to 2 government Official report,
while Hialmar Branting's Stockholm
daily. the Social-Demokraten, reckons
10000 butchered in mass executions,
1900 starved to death, one colony Of
10000 moved 10 Russia, and other
frontiers.
All labor and Socialist newspapers
are suppressed. Censorship Is rigid
Facts such as the foregoing get out
from Finland IN ways forbidden by the
present government.
Only by an eyelash. Finland missed
having a son Of Kaiser Bill FOR Sing.
The gang now running Finland sent
word to Berlin, October 10. that Prince
Frederick Carl was, elected king by a
parliamentary ballot Of 81 20 a. and 10
come and put on the crown He an
swered he couldn't come unless the
vote was unanimous.
When the wreckllng Of all trades
unions. Socialist parties and farmers
leagues IN Finland was well finished
last summer-and the war for Finnish
freedom" ended with 10000 Firms in
prison camps-ex-kaiser William show
ed his personal satisfaction with the
hob. A deputation Of Films. headed by
the new Ambassador Enckell. met the
Kaiser in Berlin and Wilhelm made
speech that gladdened the Finish |
iunkers.
According to the Swedish telegram !
bureau, the Finnish Liberty Cross" |
was bestowed on the German emperor.
and he pulled this very Kaiserisn
speech Of acceptance.
1T Is a great pleasure to me and a I
deep qualification 10 receive from your
hands the Finnish Liberty Cross" and /
thank you from my heart for IL
4 accept the bestowal Of the cross
upon myself as a symbolic expression
of the emotions which bind together
the Finnish people with the German.
This consciousness Of sympathy. /
which from ancient times has been
formed between these two peoples. has
been strengthened by the joint warfare (
which the Germans and the Films have
waged on the soil Of Finland
The blood they have shed Jointly |
cements them together. and the more
particularly because this blood was
shed for so high and noble a cause as
the Finnish and German struggle for
IL is glorious accompanying n
in this great struggle Cor n
existence and for its own freedom and II
self-determination, that the German n
people, with Gods help. under unheard-
OF difficulties and suffering and with
tireless will and powerful deeds. are
able through their victories to help
other peoples also struggling for free
dom ana for their national Inheritance