The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-04


 Ase political assassinations but Zen a trial is unavoidable, the pris- Rr is either allowed to escape or never seriously sought. During $ same period there have been IS riders by communists and social t, 10 of which were reprisals for harohists' murders The total pun Iment for these 15 murders has In eight executions and 1f7 years lrisonment.
 the soviet dictatorship attempted Munich cost l2 lives. and these N after the shooting of unarmed < guards and relief workers excited kpirit of revenge. Then when the Eernment troops entered Munich. 2 prisoners were shot without trial | 193 adherents of the Bavarian liet were sentenced to q total of { years.
 No Leader Tried
 10 leader of the Kapp rebellion to lore the monarchy has yet been td and none of the. ITS officers who Eped in that movement has been kished. Most of them are still in I army.
 f 15 communist murders only two ke been unpunished. Of 316 nation- E murders 2S2 remain unatoned. Enese eloquent figures are incom- Ne without two additional facts. A and cowardly government t. ling with all parties, has engen- I'd the shameful belief that every who does not swear that the inn Nal German government was inno-
 of starting the war as new E babe and that the brave Ger army, lon the point of final vic-
 was stabbed in the back by the 3al democrats. the Jews and other M ble monsters. is an enemy of the Mle and newspapers, and speakers Wublic meetings are entitled to say ...n.s- was good for the father Called Patriots
 Hle second fact is that not only 3Count Arico and the junker who Niously wounded Erzberger called 4ots in court. but the editor of an 8ure paper who twice publicly de- Iied the murder of Harden, lister, Gerlach and Albert Einstein Esentenced in Berlin te s fine of 3 marks (about $11) because of Alteration for his "patriotic mo- M as a matter of fact, he adver-
 his paper to several times the X of the fine.
 perger was no great, or blame Mtatesman. He rose from his lon as Wurtemburg school N CT to be a leader of the center
 by intelligence and industry. Eropaganda chief he was our Ger
 Northcliffe during the war. This
 obscure Journalist could spend tless millions in the export of merable lies and in doing so he
 became accustomed to acts not
 for his character. He was g. of course. not to steer clear krtain business connection, which Hver, really netted him but little It. To call him corrupt would be Id, for if he had been, he could IA amassed millions during the Eeasier than almost anyone else.
 Was Almost Pan-German
 jszberger formerly was. an annex Hist, almost pam German. But las convinced by visits to neutral Fries, especially Americas en- Ne into the war, that victory was lfssible. Therefore. he sought anI fiated the peace. Optimism often Ifed him. His blunders were nu- Jus but this ardent catholic was Pnest, passionate patriot and an St energetic democrat Incite-
 was carried on against him
 1.-the dirtiest weapons-lies in
 and caricatures = especially
 he shifted heavy taxes to the pourgeoise.
 zee shot at previously. Erzberger
 mDed to the third attack. The
 IT verison, which is never quite
 but seldom quite wrong, says
 Is murdered by the rich because
 lnted to make them pay the war
 ,Of course, it is not so simple At. But recent impudent demon ions by the militaristsl and the Nalists, who go so far As to read H'ams from the all-highest com Yer in chief, ,who fled across the \ Ter at the moment his army was