Evening star., 1924-04-08
PARTY OF PEOPLE
SUPPORTS JUNKERS
IN NORTH GERMANY
Masses, Fired With Hatred
of Jews, Uphold Hands of
WarIike Mobiles.

Sts-ripdl of republic IN Germany
depends ON the forthcoming elections
III that country. William E. Nash OF
the European staff of The star and
Chicago Ddik,, Netrs is making q tour
of Germany. and his dispatches 1otil
shed important light on the attitude
of the people tot1urd the republic
aud the Preparations question. the
foremost toith ,ehich any government
in Berlin must 9rappIe.
By WILLIAM f. NASH.
BY Radio to The Star and the Chicago Daily
News. Copyright 1924.
SCHWERIN, Capital of Mecklen-
burg-Schwerin, April s.-The cam
paigning for the reichstag, which
opened here this week, shows the two
government parties are working to-
gether for the overthrow of the re-
public.
Mecklenburg- -Schwerin is consoli-
dating rapidly into a center of reac-
tion for north Germany, as Bavaria is
for the south and Cassel is for the
west, with prospects of trouble ex-
cellent If things go wrong constitu-
tionally.
Berlin is only four hours from
Schwerin by rail. A '.putsch" from here
would be much easier than antoher
putsch from Bavaria. The junkers
who control the government of Meek
lenburg, were brought in by the local
diet elections last February through
IF nj nj, 4i<.,,
called the 'landbund," land league
which groups all the principal agri-
cultural interests of North Germany
and which, denials to the contrary
Notwithstanding, plays an important
role in politics. (The word "junker,"
in the proper sense, means simply a
large scale landed proprietor).
Landbund Power Spreads.
From Mecklenburg the junker land
bund is spreading out it's influence
over the neighboring provinces of
Pomerania, East Prussia. Branden-
burg and parts of Hanover. Each big
junker estate is said to have several
sturdy "watchmen" who took part in
the Kapp- Hitler putsches quartered
somewhere on the premises
Junker rule is minority rule. how
ever, maintained in power only by the
benevolent neutrality of another fac
tion called racial freedom" or the
"Deutsch Vollkescher," party. which
is remarkable for it's proselyting abil-
ity. 1t is this racial freedom group,
allied with the Hitlerites of Bavaria,
which furnishes the great new ele-
ment of interest here.
Like T<y,. Here
This group made enormous gains
in the recent landtag elections and
bids fair to make big further strides
in the reichstag elections May 4.
Like the ku KIux KIan. it claims
to be 100 per cent patriotic, anti
Semitic, anti-socialist, and anti-par-
liamentary. 1t works with signs
symbolic, such as the Swastika,
death to Hebrews" which appeal is
Irresistible to the masses. No Jew
German officer or German govern
ment official or, Furthermore, shall
be allowed to practice law or medi-
cine. il they win out. say the
swastika boys. Jews must be grant
ed the right to live, they admit re-
luctantly, but not the right to domi-
nate.
Everything Jewish must be elimi-
mated from German life" said a
promir ent Voelkischer leader to the
correspondent. Even religion must
be purged. The Old Testament is
predominantly Jewish, and therefore
corrupt"
I'VE have a cult of old German
gods, including Wotan, Siegelind and
Valhalla, which can easily take its
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