Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-14
KuNS STILL LkWAI LIKE
BERLIN RIOTS fRCVE
Only Under Tight Bonds OF
Military Discipline Will the
German Fight.

The Rolshcvist uprising in Berlin Us
tempered by German psychology, heriih
n not citv of revolutions. There hss
been no insurrection there since The days
of lsas, when the students and hour,
pco,s,e. not the proletariat, surrounded
the roval castle, terrified King fredefieh
William " compelled hun To iraternlRe
with them and to apologize ahleetiA Tor
having ordered his troops to shoot down
the nOtcrs
The rising of 1918 ended III a gro
tesuttc comedy of reconciliation. losslhlN,
since Ilchkuccht II nov reported dead
and Icdel our negotiating with the f'ler
government for settlement, the Ihuc-
pendent Socialists VIII again atla'h
themselves to the MAJORITY Socialist gov
rrnment and leave hackslidne Rolshc-
ylSm tu lts late.
Thcre rs no sien in Berlin ~ far OF the
tplculcnrr Which marked the opcrstlo
of IN, Commune ~ Paris IN 1871. foih
~, smart acids.~ and the Ebert -Schcldc-
mann ruup arc merelv PLAYING at mutt
tarV ruthlcSsnrss Hand organs grind
IN th, STREETS of Berlin and slght~ccrs
crowd the central section oi the citY
while chtirr gncs on tor the p'SS' ssl"n
AT pubhr buildings and newspaper ol-
hces There IS httlc blood SHE'D ami no
inccndmrtsm.
Tho government would only have to
lit rs hneer Ia call ~ lirndenhurg or
Groener With artillery which would hlnW
the spartacan strongholds to pieces l'ui
II N using machine guns and me bose
instead Ihrrt Sehedemann, Noske
and Iandhcrc say ~ a proclamation TO
the Bcrners "llavc patlCnceior y't e
Ettle Willie. BE confident ~ Ne arc con
hdent Take your places with irmncss
beside those who bring YOU freedom and
order. The organized might Of "a, pco-
ple will make an end Ol Suppression aud
anarchy
But the Organized might Of the peopl
a not helng supplemented with any
Nspoleonie whit of grapeshot Nnd
newspaper correspondents and other mi
vertiaators have to look clusev e. dis
cover the bullet marks on the buildings
IN Inter den Linden ami Wilhelm
stras.e.
The German proletariat i still unwar-
like N rts HABITS DR. Muhlon said that
The whole German nation was essentially
unwsrhke II IS 50, whc never 4 Is ri
leased from the honds oi military dls-
ciphne. Dr Muhlon also saId, discuss
rne the German atrocities IN belgium
that the average German could NOT COM
prrhend the impulse Which lea , cNann
IN occupied TERRITORY to oiirr resistance
of sny sort 10 the nv ~ occupai lon
The average German is sprllio ound ~
fore the insignia 81 authority
Ii J. probably only bteau~c thr leri
government has hcen + a.kne q tt,
outwaru manifestations 81 HlhorN
that lichknecht ami th, >raria.ti.-
have hecn ablr - mas, ho h'fs'RaN
they have made against i' ttAf si
Seheidcmann rruuUnsei ID. a>, nl 'rst
- long that the punN i l~h,f H. Hi af-
ltN became arrogant
Net force y thc an, ilH4 tlt.a t,
German nlnd in'utNeN r-lr..'
kaiser became = pato-stf.tt il-t'No
forgc,iul of dignt .ue tfsra l-
p,aranet when hc 81 hEN iu1a II l'
H. ws IN the power y tt. h.it- "A.
Rarln BolshtVIst mo- ,s4t
arlh III heart il Is a.n t..ftH-
surrcetion which smrt fpe- 'hs f,Iff
ism II the PcfragraI ud Nj uA n'''t-
tarlats
EVldertlv fhi- Irsrrrcrf'un .nr'fu 4
t. hold 4 placr on the frst pagcs 81 iht
newspapers 'argely hcc; ise th, rnNt rn-
uepi Al which II Is directed -, i3Ck~
confidence IN itself and ~ tortuiioI> 4u-
thority Mob and governmcn, alike nave
the characteristics Of What Nualou crllcl
the great German herd, still dominated
bv docility and fear and eoaded INTO de-
s,r,lrtlvenese only when rs tInudity q
aggravated INTO panlc.-New York Iri'-
una.