The Washington times., 1922-02-17
PLOTSHATCHED
IN BAVARIA FOR
GERMAN RISING
Monarchists Find Shelter in
+ Southern State, Son Of
Ebert Asserts.

Ebert Asserts.
BY FRITZ EBERT, Dr.,
Son Of the President Of the German
Republic.
Written Expressly for International
News Service.
| (Copyright, 1929, by the International
News Servioe.)
BERLIN, Feb. 17.-No German
state has claimed the political atten-
ton of the world 30 much and so
frequently since the war as has
first republic was proclaimed at
Munich: Kurt Eisner. a widely.
known publicist and independent
Socialist. was it's first prime minis.
ter. In February, 1919. the life Of
this lofty idealist was ended by the
bullet Of a fanatical aristocrat.
| One hour after the crime re.
volver battle was launched in the
Bavarian Diet by the victims fol-
lowers. Several deputies were killed.
This day Of horror was at the saDSS
time the birthday of the first and
only German soviet republic, which
was short lived. All the world re-
members the bloody deeds which the
whippedup passions achieved in that
battle revolving around the rule of
! the soviets.
! A democratic government under
the direction OF the Majority Social
list Hoffman was unable to prevent
the bourgeoisie from organizing
home defense forces as an answer
to the soviet rule of the. Com
munIsts. These home defense forces
| nj 1a m A
rest of the empire and were dis
solved only by the pressure of the
! entente.
Bavaria Seat OF Reaction.
The kahr government, which took
office after the Kapp revolution, has
allowed Bavaria to become the
stronghold OF reaction which has so
| often menaced the domestic peace
and unity of Germany.
Munich became the hiding place
for all those elements which con-
slider 1t the main task of their lives
to remove political opponents by the
route of bullets.
In the early summer Of 1921 the
independent socialist Carols was
murdered. Erzberger's assassina-
ton had its genesis in Munich. In
| that city the German monarchistic
| hired assasslns found a hiding
place and thence they managed TO
| flee to foreign lands. Again, that
murder was followed by the abor-
! tive revolver attack upon the labor
leader, Deputy Auer.
The last great manifestation OF
| the monarchists assembled in Ba-
| varia and of the clique of murder
, ers harbored under their protecting
wings was at the funeral of the
former Bavarian royal couple. OF
| late conditions have somewhat i'm
proved. but Bavaria Is even today
dark spot upon the shield OF the
German republic.
Second State in Nation.
Next to Prussia Bavaria is the
greatest member State of the Ger.
man republic. About two.thirds Of
Bavarias inhabitants are Catholics.
The industrial centers are Nurn-
berg and Augsburg. Bavaria has
iron and steel works. gold and sill
yer plants. glass and china indus
tries. the famous Nurnberger toy
| factories and the celebrated beer.
From 1850 till the revolution OF
1918 the country was ruled by the
House OF Wittelsbach. In 1893 IL
! entered the German Tariff Union.
! In 1870 Bavaria became a member
of the German federated empire.
An old Bavarian folksong praises
the land "a q mobile pearl in the
German crown of Jewels" h
| varia is truly a pearl, riIh in scen1c
| attractions. a
Inhabitants "Gemutlich."
states famous city, Munich-caltn,
Snug and "gemutlich." They love
their beer. their "weisswurst'
white sausage, and-their rest.
But they distinguish themselves by
| industry and energy.
1t IL not the fault of the Bavarian
people that during the last two years
the relations between Bavaria and
the rest of Germany have often be-
| come 80 tense that an open conflict
| threatened. 1t Is Prussian generals
| like Ludendorff and Bauer, Prussian
| capitalists who bought up big Bava.
rian newspapers and put in Prussian
editors to run them-it is these men
| who antagoniZe the Bavarian people
against Prussia and the Reich"
The same clique which during the
| reign of William III dominated not
only Prussia but the whole empire,
with headquarters in Berlin, the
clique which crushed, trampled under
! their curaissier boots all rights of the
| individual and of the separate states
this clique poses today as the
guardian of Bavaria's rights. The
Bavarian people are merely the tools
# these constituencies elements. But
he Bavarian people have already re-
allied that a new monarchy In Ia.
varia is possible only under a French
protectorate, and they have no taste
for any such future. Sooner or later
the bacillus Of disturbance which
has neaked in from the outside under
der the Kahr government will be
| eliminated.
When that time comes Bavaria will