The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-03-24
Foeeign Representatives
SMALL SPENCER, BREWER
(Incoeporated)
CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON
Birds of q Feather

few nations are farther apart po-
litically than Nationalist Germany.
rapidly heading toward restoration Of
the Hohenzollerns to power, and So.
Wet Russia, scorning the minutest
details Of what the old German re-
gime stood for. Yet the two are
birds OF feather when 1t comes to
method, at least.
Recent dispatches from the Father
land have stressed q political group
gone mad, almost as much SO as did
the Russians when first they felt the
reins OF government in their hands
ut Moscow.
Neither brooks opposition of the
faintest sort. BY governmental fiat,
enforced by the mailed fist, each has
attempted to control almost the very
thoughts Of its citizens"
Each has placed q tremendous
premium upon adherence to q po-
litical organization. In Russia it IS
membership in the Communist party
whereby few million rule 160 600 900.
In Germany it Is membership in the
Brown Shirt" organization Of Chan
cellor Hitler with its attendant license
to ignore the rights Of everyone else.
In Russia the ruling spirits are
above the law. Unfairness and down.
right criminality are excused on the
grounds that the perpetrators are
actuated by q sense Of political
Righteousness. This Is no less true
in Germany where Hitlerites have
murdered, invaded private homes,
and otherwise preached the rules Of
justice and decency on the pretext
that such doings were political activ-
tiles.
The result, Of course, is to empha-
size the similarity in all relationships.
incidentally 1t Is an important bit
Of history which Is being enacted
in Germany Just now. With the war
reparations treaties out Of the way,
Germany seems to be emerging from
the obscurity into which she was cast
by the outcome of the World war.
The average Teuton, mindful Of
past glories as compared with recent
and present trials. looks hopefully
forward to q change for the better
under a more flamboyant leadership
than the country has enjoyed since
the days Of the Kaiser.
As the Prussian diet opens q Ho-
henzollen prince sits in the royal
box and Is cheered. One political
leader bids for continued prominence
by expressing the hope that the
monarchy may yet be restored. The
flag of the Republic Is cast into the
discard and the imperial banner takes
its place. BY its side floats the en-
blem Of political party which, by
an overwhelming plurality Of prom
ises and show of force, has taken
precedence over constitutional gov
eminent.
In the presidents palace sits old
Paul Won Hindenburg, by whose grace
the Nazis came to power. One OF the
first acts Of the new administration
was to insult him, at least by infer
ence. in the declaration that it recog-
nizes no other power than Hitler's.
It Is . human drama Of the mouse
thumbing its nose at the mountain
which bore 1t.
These things are important to the
United States because Of the possible
tiles for the future. Europe no longer
Is able to hold Germany in chains.
This nation never desired to do SO.
But 1t had no desire that arrogance
and conceit should return to the sad.
de there. It remembers al too well
what tho German temperament can
do when lasaed forward by Wild men
with Wild dreams.
Death 1T ~