Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
the Associated Press
THE GERMAN MIND

THE GERMAN MIND
uERR HOHENZOLLERN'S attempt to
IL whitewash himself in book written 70
prove that world peace and a League Of Ma
tions were being nobly dreamed Of in Bcr
lin before over Mr.. Wilson entered politics
represents far more than the idle diversion
of man on forced vacation.
We shall hear more from Wilhelm.
new act in the greatest of International
comedies is beginning. The suggestion that
influential Germans hope and pray for Il
restoration Of the monarchy was received
throughout the world with inCredulity or
bitter laughter a little while ugo. And
then il was clear that the nations which
fought the Germans do not yet fully under
stand the moods of the people who recently
were their enemies.
The movement for a restoration Of the
Hohenzolerns did not begin at Doorn. II
may be said TO be world wide. and the
former kaiser's book is but small detail of
the propaganda organized to give it mo
mentum.
The people in Germany and Germans
abroad who like to be known as "the edu
Gated classes are forever engaged III
struggle TO escape from the crowd upward to
more or less dubious place on the edges
OF the world in which the aristoCraCy moves.
German universities taught them to love and
respect the rule of authority and the hand
of might. Even the war and the things
that have followed after it did not leave them
with any faith in mass judgment or the
democratic theory.
So the influential fatherlandprs Of all
sorts in the United States and in South
America as we'll az in Germany and
throughout Europe see the present Berlin
government as nothing moro than clumsy
and helpless group Of unskillod amateurs
sparring unsuccesSfully with brilliant pro
fessionals who represent allied interests in
current negotiations.
To the German ruling mind. therefore a
monarch is needed: a monarch and govern
ment organized with the aid Uf the skilled
men whom German mOnarChs always have
had about them. 4 kaiser would know how
70 lead and inspire his land your real or
amateur junkPr believes
The burghers of Bavaria and Prussia and
all the other German states are divided by
tradition. by religion, by economic interest
and political feeling. And YET there are few
of them. even among the rank and file OF
the social democrats and the out and out
Socialists. who have any great faith in their
own ability TO organize and conduct a ma
tional government. Their universities and
their traditions have untitled them for that
sort of responsibility, and it is probable that
even now they would prefer to leave the job
70 others. Give them peace and its simple
routine and they will be content. They
need unity Of feeling and they know they
need it. Their Shrewd leaders know they
need il. and only by the setting up Of a
king can the straniug and pickering between
state and state and group and group b.
eliminated, That is the present view in the
north of Germany aud it is the view Of the
more powerful elements who hcud what is
known as German American opinion in this
country.
The only thing that is in the way Of a
new monarchy is the present government az
Berlin. What the really honest leaders of
democratic German opinion have feared is an
allied policy that would prematurcly bring
about its overthrow If il were 70 fa 20.
morrow. the Germans would become either
nonarchists of boshrvistS at once The
rrend Of events in Russia will deeply In
tiuenCe b@wilderCd Germany. 4 reaction 20
the monarChistic forms in one country would
almost inevitably be repeated in the other
That fact ought always to be remembered
by those who would be willing to replace
Russian bOlshevism with anything else
known in this or other worlds.
The junkers Of Prussia have alwuYs been
active in wars against the crowd at Moscow
They may vet prove to have had much to do
with the present revolutionary activities
about Pctrograd Between the German baron
and the Russian baron Of the past there were
innumerable bonds Of sympathy and material
interest. The misfortunes Of one were the
misfortuuPs Of I'll" other.
They still adhere to n" same point OF
view. They diStrust the masses and thew
taught the masses to disrrust themselves
But it is the schooled mind ot Germany, the
average mind treated and tempted in the
older educational system Of the empire that
reveals the worst consequences Of kaiserism
II is q shrewd mind wthout initiative II