New-York tribune., 1922-08-27
Ensblenas OF Imperial
Majesty Are Display
ed on Streets and in
Schools, and Press
and People, Especial
ly in the Agricultural
South Are Contemp-
tu0us of Democracy

cent of their people are monarchists; the lead
er of the Peasants party glories in being
known as rnonarchist, and only few days
ago the former Prime Minister, V. Kahr, new
at the head Of provisional government, boast
ed Of his intimacy with the pretender Rup-
precht, who lives in regal style in the Bavaran
Alps, where the population delights in accord
ing him royal honors whenever he appears on
public occasions
Secession is in the Bavariar air However,
they do not call it secession. They speak of
'the north preparing to separate from US"
How strong the anti-federal and anti-republi-
can sentiment mas grown here may be inferred
from the incidents attending the recent visit
of President Ebert to Munich Despite the
extraordinary precautions taken by the police,
the president was hooted and insulted on his
arrival at the depot and in the streets. The
republican flag was torn from its staff at the
depot with great regularity until the railroad
men have now put it up SO high that it is in
accessible to the monarchist despoilers. The
press of the right has no word of conden1na
ton for this proceeding, declaring that the
hosting of the republican flag was an insult
to the sentiments of the great majority of the
citizens.
1t is quite true that Bavaria is q small
country, representing but one-sixth of the
population. 1t is also quite likely that all this
monarchist turbulence may vanish at the first
show of armed force on the part of the fed
eral government, though it is quite apparent
that for some time to come the federal gov
ernment will have neither the means nor the
desire to show its teeth to the nullifiers. The
Importance of Bavaria in the present troubled
and apparently hopeless internal situation Of
the German republic is to be found in the fact
that it serves q rallying center for all the
reactionary forces throughout the country.
The German National party, aggressively mon
archistic and bitterly opposed to DIR. Wirth's
policy of reparation and fulfllment, is SUM-
porting all Of Bavarias alleged claims to state
sovereignty. The police here openly shelter
all the "emigres" from the more progressive
and republican north. Munich is the chosen
refuge of Ludendorff, the great gambler in
human lives. He is not here for his he$lth,
nor has he lost his passion for gambling in
human lives.
There may be plotting here, but the
roll call of the plotters is complete enough.
Only recently the leading royaist paper be-
walled the destruction Of 5000 rifles thaA had
been cleverly hidden after having been brought
in from Holland. The same paper printed
lengthy article of the notorious Captain
Ehrhardt, who boldly signs himself "imperial
naval officer at the disposal of his majesty.
commander of the former second marine di-
vision" 1t will be remembered that this man,
whose soldiers fired upon defenseless citizens,
is now an involuntary exile somewhere in
Austria. He also was the founder of the
secret reactionary organization known as
Organization c." &c. standing for consul
He says in his statement that the orgariza-
tion, into which the assassins of Erzberger
had been clearly traced, has now ceased to ex-
ist, but has been succeeded by the "New Ger
man Union." which he declares is being di-
rected and governed by himself. He says one
of the objects of the union is ito supply
armed force wherever the state fails to protect
society" He concludes by saying that the
spirit of his organization "can never be
crushed" and that its members "will always do
their duty
70 sum up, it seems plain on the facts as
they exist and as they have here been set
forth that the existence of republican insti-
tutions in Germany is most precarious, that
civil war is an imminent danger, that its end
VIII mean either the resurrection of militia
rism in its most odious form or the worst ersp-
tion OF bolshevism the world has yet seen II
the Treaty of Versailles were revised fo-nor-
row and the burden of reparations lifted from
the shoulders of Germany it would not affet
the internal situation in the least degree. IL
country alleged to be on the edge Of eco
nonlic disaster is divided against itself the in
ternal difficulties viii only be aceentuated
when the external danger is removed.
The key to the situation is to be found in
the strange psychology of the German people.
About half of them want to be drilled, to be