Evening star., 1923-06-03
HITS PLOTS BEHIND
/ RUHR RED TERROR
Harden Says Conflict Could
Have Been Prevented; d,
Lesson Obvious.
FLAYS HIGH OFFICIALS
Permit Revolt to Show Need for
Monarchy and Arouse Hatred
for French. .'.
FLAYS HIGH OFFICIALS
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN.
Germany's Foremost Pubiicist.

Bv Cable to The Star.
BERLIN. June 9-The Bolshevist
demonstrations of the week could
have been prevented. The lesson is
obvious Under the French military
and civil masters in the occupied ter-
ritory are some short-sighted indi-
viduals who think the recollection or
their own misdeeds can be oblterated
by such a development and believe
this will prove to the world the ne
cessity of occupying land whose
government is unable to subdue its
revolutionary forces. Then, again.
the German government itself, which
would rather have monarchy than
a republic, hopes tina this recurrent
Bolshevist spectacle Will impress
other nations as being the result OF
the Franco Belgian invasion, which
menaceS them as well as the Berlln
control. This, it is thought. VIII en-
gender anger against the invaders.
It is striking fact, however, that
this government, which has not a
single socialist in it, went tarther
than any socialist official would have
gone in it's desire to please Moscow by
permitting an imposing and almost
official demonstration for the MUIR
dered Vorovsky, including "A pig pa
rade with soviet banners. one re-
calls. futher,. that our taScists' t WHOSE
number is increasing daily. expect
that proletarian and terrorist pru, y,
tality will cause the Bourgeois ana
trades union elements TO regard a
fascist revolution as their only sal
Yation.
Communists Weak.
Our communists are weak and with
atle. however, that If they SelZe thell
opportunity when neither the govern
ment nor the foreign masters ot Ger
man soil want 10 move against then
they may at any time cause demon
stration such as that just put down
The chief purpose of their demonstrators
was to show they still existed. First
class agitators, who came from BERN
allegedy for the Norovsky funera
demonstration, undoubtedly replenlshec
the empty communist chest, and thus
reinvigorated the desire to make I
soviet parade.
From the friction of French national
ism against German nationaliSm there
arise sparks which glow into flame, hu
1t is only a straw fire in straw brains
and hopes based thereon won't be ful
filed tomorrow. The German working
man is too busy making bare liveli
hood and too bitterly disappointed b!
his own leaders to be mObilizable foI
anything but his own struggle. Th'
attacks of the employers against th'
eight-hour law continue, and since thu
socialists have demonstrated they arr
less able TO do constructive work thar
to criticize, their party's attraction ha
grown smaller and smaller. Fraterni
zation in Hamburg and reconstitutiol
of the second fnternationale won't re
store the former enthusiasm.
The German republic itself mus
bear the main part of the restoration
of the country through guaranteeing
reparations If the latest proposal be
comes effective. 1t must pledge it
railways. it's posts and it's state
owned real estate. which, unde
yearly profit of from 600,000.000 t.
1000, 100000 gold marks. This il
the estimate of our best industria
leaders. They suggest that, in addi
tion, a second guaranty shall follow
carrying O0,000.000 marks yearly, g.
per cent of which is to be borne b,
agriculture, banks and wholesale in
dustry and the remainder by othe
industry. This would guarantee from
1,100, 900, 900 to 1,500, 100000 yearly fo
thirty years and could be increaset
when fugitive capital is returned.
This offer comes so late that tn
French will regard it as marking TIL
success of their Ruhr action. but 1t i
not too late to destroy the dangerou
legend that only heavy industry ha
been hindering the settlement Of TIL
reparations problem. People who at
tack SHINES as behind the propose
believe it is part of his plan to ge
the state undertakings into his hands
But 1t is merely a question of leas
ing, not selling. the railroads.; and i
private ownership can make profit
where the state has only deficits thi
defeat of the bureaucrats can onl,
be of advantage to the public an
cannot damage the workingmen. A
McKenna told the Americans, a stat
can pay its debts in the long run onl,
from the surplus of it's trade.