Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-20
OLD GERMAN SPIRIT
REVIVlNG FAST; GENERAL
STAFF AGAIN IN CONTROL
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the west bank Of the Rhine for that
matter, if they could grab an empire
to the east. And it can be taken for
granted that When Germany saw
what the peace conditions were that
was the first thing she thought about.
Homage to Old Emperor.
The other day in Danzig | was idling
about the city watching its quaint
ways and laughing to myself over its
Observation-Disclosures, especially 81
squareheaded children. For in Dan
zig they do not even let the children
run gaily home from school. They
march them along in fours, with their
rucksacks on their backs, and denver
them home solemnly. They get mill
tary discipline from the cradle, Even
the little girls are marched in Tours.
1t amused me to follow sixteen little
girls pig-tails along the street as
they were being led by young wom-
an teacher, whose hair was combed
back as smooth and stiff as the little
girls, the only difference being that
her was tortured into a hard little
knot at the back.
Presently they stopped before a
statue, and I passed them slowly, The
statue was that of wilhelm l. At
word from the teacher the little girls,
who were about or s, looked up at
the Prussian soldiers. and as far as I
could make out without appearing to
be too curious were told something
like this; This is the great Emperor
Wilhelm, your own Prussian king and
conquered the rest of Germany and
the surrounding peoples and made the
fatherland. He is the father of your
n n N am
Deutschland Ucbcr Allies.
was still standing bewldered
when along came a small military
parade which struck up Deutschland
Ueber Allies" just as it went by this
statue. was not in DanzIg on n
Sunday, but l am told the whole city
that is to say, the whole of the in
ner commercial city, which is German
comes down and parades around
the statue of it's favorite king and
emperor and thus does him homage,
When travelling in Germany one
| begins to feel the old Prussian spirit
as soon as one starts east from Berlin.
| West of that point the recovery is
getting on fairly well under the sur
| face, but people sing soft and low over
| there 1t does not do to lift the voice
with the watch that IS now on the
Rhine, though 1t seemed to me they
were feeling a little perkier now they
| knew the American soldiers were go
| ing home so fast. For the American
soldier may be anxious to get home,
| but he is not half so anxious as the
! German imperialist is to see him get
| home.
But east of Berlin the spirit is
cocky. There the Prussian is at
home; he has the general staff and
lots of troops around him, and he has
recovered his normal aggressive state
of mind. He never lost much OF It,
to be sure. Revolution made no head
way east of Berlin. But now he car
act on his own and the rest of Ger
many dares not interfere. Did not
Prussian soldiers in the Noske guard
swing around through the west OF
Germany twice and put down Bol.
shevism? Did they not go to- Munich
and do the same thing? Who killed
Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg il
not Prussian soldiers? They nearly
. boast about it now.
There Is a democratic spirit il
Germany. l have known and made
friends of some sincere democrats il
!, Germany this past winter. but unfor
tunately they do not express thu
spirit of the people. The German
:, empire was what it was ecause thu
> Germans were that kind of people
They fitted into the iron skeleton o
: the imperial machine and liked it
= Revolution, the struggles toward de
mocracy, the soldier and workmei
soVets, too. and even the Spartacans
all played a part for six months il
0 trying to get the idea out of the Ger
i man mind that old Germany was al
4 right, but they failed. The averaS
f German decided that he wanted jus
Y that, and he is clawing back into hi
= old rut just as fast as he can.