The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
America, Germany And The Red;
 Leader Breaks Long Silence

erts, took it on itself to write: Tt is our firm will that Germany shall strike her war flag forever without having brought it home victorious for the last time."
 A leader of the German socialists said in a speech in Leipzig: T know no fatherland called Germany" The expression was applauded; the name of this man could even be considered later on in connection with a cabi- net minister's posti
 What do you Americans say to that? l believe that a countryman of yours who should write such damnable words as those of the Vor- waerts in time of war, or who should make such an utterance about his fatherland in public gathering, could consider himself mighty lucky if he escaped being tarred and feathered.
 And do you know that socialism in the Ruhr district wanted to shat ter Frances will to destruction with the sole weapon of passive resist ance, and thus committed a new be- trayal of the people?
 What would you have said?
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 Russians In Berlin Procession.
 Paragraph 2O95a of the New York penal code prescribes fine and inn prisonment for persons who display the red flags Gin any public assem- ply or parade" But we Germans, who are inspired with the same spirit of love for country that dictates this paragraph. must not merely suffer that thousands of these symbols of the negation of the fatherland are borne through the streets of our cities, but we must also suffer that patriotic men are attacked and beat en to death if they carry the old German eolors. In America foreign communists are deported, native com munists are sent to prison. In Der lin, the capital of the reich, commit nists, among them hundreds of Rus sians, marched through the main streets some time ago with soviet flags, accompanying the funeral pro cession of the murdered Vorovsky, and every passerby had to take off his hat when the red-draped hearse went by. If one did not do so, ones hat was knocked off. And all this time the red flag, tn~ mere display ing of which means fines and impris- onment in New York and other states in America, was floating above three soviet buildings in Berlin.
 But when patriotic Germans rise up in protest against this, you say they are "reactionary." Could there be a greater example of measuring with different standards?
  newspapers published a report about the great increase in the membership of the churches during the year just passed. It was recorded with pride and satisfaction that more than ninety million Americans were be- lievers. Do not you Americans, who are such a religious people and cher ish your churches so highly, know that the German socialists-indeed, the socialists of all countries-carry on a bitter fight not merely against the church, but against all religion whatever, which they term "a process for making people stupid?" Do you not know that as result of this fight many churches in socialist ruled Saxony have already had to pc closed and many clergymen are com pelled to earn living by hard man ual labor?
 Religion And The State.
 see in this battle against re- ligion mighty facot working against the state. If the Lord keep not the city, the -watchman waketh but in vain. A goddess state has not the ideal of our fathers; it is not our ideai If a firm belief in God and a ? glowing love for our country are Treactionary," then we are reaction ary. But then you Americans, too, are reactionary.
 The socialists in all countries strive further for the state owner shin Of all property, and they de- stroy every economic system by the | Marxist and communist false ooc- trines. They are, moreover, danger ous missionaries of the dissatlstied' the incompetent, the indolent, the dishonest. Regard the example which Russia furnishes us. The people there are being literally destroyed by these false doctrines, but the canting world refuses to see the murder and starvation of millions of Russians. It is true that the rulers of Russia are those extreme socialists who call themselves bolshevists, but the par titions between the various species of Marxists are very thin, and these species whether moderate or radical, are enemies of religion, of the state, of society and of free economic en- deavor. That Germany has sunk so low as is the case IS que not merely to Wilson the infamous dictate of Versailles and French sadism, but also to Marxism and communism. DO you want to take the same path!
 A great part of the Germans take the same attitude toward these false doctrines and their advocates as do 90 per cent of all Americans re- gard this as patriotic and healtntuI in Germany as well as in America. And, therefore, I do not understand | why many Americans regard this, as have already said, as reaction" It is-just as in America-love of coun- try.
 If Marxist socialists in America are dangerous enemies of the state, so are they also in Germany danger us enemies of the state. The danger, 1 moreover, Is much greater here than in America, because the Marxist poison has infected great part or the people, while the overwhelming majority of all Americans still think practically and nationally. Marxists and communists have brought a schism into the people and hinder their union, that is now so necessary. ! The union of people can be achieved | only on national, not on an inter- national, foundation.
 Therefore. we war on Marxists and [ communists, and would put in their | place united German people with strong national feeling.
 And you:
 You must not measure with two | standards.