Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-16
By MAXlLLIAN HARDEN
Germany's Foremost Publicist


Special Correspondent of Great Falls Tribune
| Copyright. 1872. by The Great Fall. Tribune
Berlin, July 15.-Walter Rathenau
and | once sat beneath cypress tree
near Fiescle, dreaming of our own and
| of Germany's future.
While a painfully overwhelming con-
viction forced me to break with Rattle
nau in 1919, for % years he always
! called me his best and his only friend.
! He contemplated abandoning industry
and finance and going to Paris TO
! develop the painting talent which he
had. With his always flatterlng elo-
auence he possesses the hope that some
day Wilhelm III would be forced to
entrust me, whom he hated. with the
ministry of foreign affairs. This was
,o bappen as soon as Germany had
a constitutional government like Eng
land.
The prophesy naturally sounded fan
tastic to me. for | had taken this
Italian holiday to recover from the
effects Of imprisonm for lese maj
esty.
But now what has become of our
dreams in Fiescle? He who, enthusl-
astically supported the monarchy and
Prussiauism and aristocracy. and who
was unhappy because his Jewish blood
prevented his becoming an officer,
finally. after hard striving, attained
the office he had prophesied for me,
only TO be shot by boy criminals.
A few days later and a few minutes
from where he met death. equally
Young but more cowardly bandits at
tackled me from behind. and with eight
frightfully painful head wounds. am
scribblng these lines for the cable IN
the hospital Of Professor Moritz Borch-
ardt, one of Germany's greatest sur
geons .
mocking bird is singing in the
garden. What does it say!
Tale of he Bird
Because you disputed Wilhelm's |
divine rights. the imperial governme ent ,
twice threw you in prison and tried ,
10 ruin YOU physically and materially |
by a series Of criminal prosecutions.
Because you could not believe there
WAS a world wide anti-German conspir- /
acy in 1914. nor swallow victory deli
rum; because you disapproved finan- I
cial invasion of Belgium and ruthless
submarine warfare: because you did
NOT helieye in the devastation of north
ern France and of Holland and because
Won disspnroved of all the miltnrstic
acts from the lying ultimatum TO Ser
bin to the extorted Brest-Litovisk
treaty the military censorship twice
your weekly newspaper for
five months and almost ruined you by
n hundred ronfiscations and petty per-
secutions.
Because you maintained the convic
ton that the newborn republic was
mindless and soulless. you are hated
bv the new powers as by the old, who
now hire scoundrels to murder you.
..The republic has not protected you
and has not punished the assassins?
You have been infamously slandered in
he official newspapers and even now
thew have no SINCE word Of regret
for the shameful deed Of July 3.
Manv Flowers From Friends
But look. your sick room is full
IF flowers sent by sympathetic friends
he world over. including many un-
Known to you. and the flood of let
.ers and kilograms mounts higher and
higher.
"Your government. however. does
lot betray directly or indirectly the
slightest grief or shame that only by |
, miracle writer of world wide repu-
alton has escaped death hy assassi
lation under the very eyes of its
ponce, anu may peEhhps never nope
20 be entirey healed. The pubic
prosecutor demands fine of only 800
marks "a dolar) for nn nccomplice
o murder and the grotesque reward
# 10000 marks $500 is offered for
he capture of murderer. Obviously
hey do not desire the criminals
aught Don't you realize now what a
itifully useless fellow you are? Why
ron't you learn from Swift that neither
n the land of giants or dwarfs does
be truth teller get anything but dis
ress for his reward"
Dear mocking bird. have learned
~ lesson. Num5erless times / have
cen threatened and warned, hut I
ave always thought why should a
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