Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-06
HUN GOVERNMENT
BEING THREATENED
BY MONARCH|STS
Macmillan Harden BIames
VaciIIating Policies for Nu-
merous Political Assassi-
nations in Republic
BY MAMMALIAN harden
(Germany's Foremost Public1st.)

BERLIN, Sept. 3.-Number 3l6 on
the list of political assassinations
Matthias Erzberger. member of the
reichstag.
Which means that since the Ger
man republic was proclaimed. BIG
members of the republican parties
have been treacherously murdered
Of the perpetrators and instigators
of these crimes, only five have been
convicted and none has been sem
fenced to death. Count Arco, who
shot the ideayist, Kurt Eisner, in the
back, was sentenced to life imprison-
ment in fortress. while the Ba-
varians call him a saviour. The to-
tai of all other punishments amounts
to 81 years for 315 murders.
Generally no trial has followed
these political assassinations, but
when a trial is unavoidable, the pris-
oner is either allowed to secape or
is acquitted. The real instigators
are never seriously sought.
During this same period there have
been fifteen murders by commn-
nists and socialists, ten of which
were reprisals for monarchist muir
ders. The total punishments for
these Is murders has been eight exc
cutions and III years in prison.
Revo1utionists Shot
The soviet dictatorship attempted
at Munich cost II lives and these
only after the shooting Of unarmed
red guards and relief workers, eXcit-
ed in a spirit of revenge. Then
when the government troops entered
Munich, sos prisoners were shot
without trial and 1913 adherents of
the Bavarian soviet were sentenced
to a total of SIS years.
No leader of the Kapp rebellion to
restore the monarchy has yet been
tried, and none of the IT'S officers
who participated in that movement
has been punished. Most of them
are still in the army.
Of fifteen communist murders
only two have been unpublished, Of
316 nationalist murders, 282 remain
unatoned.
These eloquent figures are incom-
plete without two additional facts.
A weak and cowardly governement
flirting with all parties, has engen-
dered the shameful belief that ev-
eryone, who does not swear that the
imperial German government was as
innocent of starting the war as a
newborn babe and that the brave
German army, ION the point of final
victory" was stabbed in the back by
social democrats, the Jews and other
terrible monsters, is an enemy Of
the people, and newspapers and
speakers at public meetings are en-
titled to say his demise was good for
the fatherland.
The second fact is that not only
are Count Arco and the Junker, who
previously wounded Erzberger, called
patriots in court, but the editor of
an obscure paper, who twice publicly
demanded the murder of Harden,
Forester, Gerlach and Albert Elm
STEM" was sentenced in Berlin to 4
fine of one thousand marks (about
eleven dollars) because of consid-
GRAFTON for his patriotic motives"
AS a matter of fact he advertised his
paper to several times the value of
the fine.
Erzberger was no great or blame
less statesman. He rose from his
position as a Wurtemburg schoolmas-
ter to be leader of the Center par
propaganda chief he was our Ger
man Northcliffe during the war. This
once obscure journalist could spend
countless millions in the export of
innumerable lies and in doing SO he
soon became accustomed to acts not
good for his character. He was
wrong, of course, not to steer clear
of certain business connections,
which, however, really Melted him
but little profit. To call him corrupt
would be stupid, for if he had been
he could have anna ssed millions dur
ing the war easier than almost any
one. else.