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Germany Is united aa to the war
and the peace which It I determined
shall follow the war. The German
nation la not seriously divided either
as to foreign policy, peace terms, or
anything- that concerns Its relations to
other nations. The German nation Is
divided only as to purely Internal
questions the method of conducting;
the war, the division of food and
taxes, and the degree of free speech
that should be allowed.
Of course there are a few extrem
ists at both ends of the social scale
who advocate a peace poltc at vari
ance with that of the overwhelming
majority of the nation. But all these
extremists together probably do not
represent ten per cent, of the German
nation, and certainly do not repre
sent twenty per oent.
The leaders of the revolutionary
socialists Llebknocht, l.uxembur
and others are nearly all in prison.
They are politically utterly insignifi
cant, having only one member of the
relchstag out of 400. Nor Is their
power increasing. They are to be
sharply distinguished from the mi
nority socialists, who have a consid
erable following, but are neither rev
olutionary nor effective In their op
position to the kaiser. And the peace
policy of this minority does not dif
fer In any essential particular from
that of the other parties, which con
stitute the overwhelming majority of
the German people.
Other Extremists.
At the other end of the social scale
Is another body of extremists, who
can lay no claim to represent the na
tion, but have exercised a very con
siderable and sinister influence over
the kaiser and the government This
Is th group of junker extremists
neaped by tne crown prince, in trie
IruiuimuiE urcy rawi reiy upuii uio sup
port only of the conservatives and of
a handful of members of other par
' ties. They are not even able to ee
' cure the entire support of the junk
ers or conservatives, and probably
do sot constitute more than fifteen
per cent, of the nation as indicated
by election returns. This group is In
favor of a military dictatorship, and
believes in curtailing the power of the
retohstag. Naturally, Its support in
the relchstag is not great. Many
junkers and bureaucrats, like Beth
man n Hollwek, oppose this group.
and even the kaiser has only followed
its advtoe intermittently. The point
about these reactionary extremists is
that they can not and do not claim
to represent the nation, but only en
deavor to control the kaiser and the
government, which ie solely responsi
ble to him In war time.
All the rest of the nation ia thor
oughly united as to the war and the
peace terms that are confidently ex
pected to follow within the next few
months. These parties Include both
wings of the social democrats, minor
ity and majority, the radical party,
,a part of the national liberal party,
and the center or Catholic party
only to mention the most Important.
These parties alone secured over
eighty per cent, of the votes at the
last election (in 1812).
It Is not necessary to compare the
peace . program of all five of these
groups; It is sufficient to compare
the most radical and the most con
servative of the five, namely, the cen
ter partv on the one hand and the
minority socialists on the other. The
position of the center timy be defined
by their almost universal sympathy
with the peace policy of the Austrian
kaiser and the pope. It is this goup
also that stood behind the so-called
peace resolution of the relchstag and
the German government's reply to the
pope. At the other extreme we find
the German minority socialists, whose
position we can obtain from their
own statement Issued early programs
of the Stockholm conference and the
Russian Council of Workmen and
Soldiers. These last-mentioned pro
grams were issued in October, after
consultation with the German minori
ty, and are endorsed by them.
rracueaiiT iaenw
Tf we ranldlv 'compare the peace
policy of the German center and that
- . . I-,S4 (1 .f .t,n.
oi we minority Bocmwa, w wi.t
they are practically Identical, and the
Intervening paryes, me majority m'
ntallata and the so-called radical par-
v f course take a similar position
All these parties agree in the claim
that they are in favor of "peace" and
that the democratic nations, England,
France, and America, are "prolonging
the war." All agree In supporting the
. . 1 I AMnn.M tnllr
ierman fovvrDurem i. v
of "disarmament." All reject the Idea
of a league to enforce peace or a so
ciety of nations, as favored try nearly
alf parties of England. France an
Am.rtn. The Germans favor a so
called disarmament, because their vie.
torles in the war have been due main
ly to their (Immensely superior ca
pacity for producing armament, wnen
.nmomi tn the other national of Eu-
rona. If all ' existing- supplies of
armament were destroyed, the Ger
mans, with their superior munary or-
nniullon and nigher aegree oi in
!,, -li nrra.nlxa.tion and greater Pro
ducing power, could overwhelm Eu
rope even more easily than they did
this time. It was by a similar process
of reasoning that certain uerman
militarists before the war proosea
that the term or military service ior
all European nations oe reaucea io
en year. The argument was that the
nimn mtlltarv machine) couia pro
Ahm mnnd soldiers in less space of
time than the outer tnniwry m-
ohtne and that .ucn a meunou
would Increase the reiaxiv. minxary
superiority of Germany.
The overwhelming majority of
Germans of all these parties are op-
a hsarue to enforce peace and
a society of nations, because in such
a society Germany would be la a mi
nority. There Is no method of reck
oning by which eh. would count for
something more than one-sixth of the
total voting power. Even with her
alUea and the little neighboring na
tions under her eoononvio and mili
tary domination the forces against
her would be more than two to one
In anv such organisation. In this, as
In all ether - ortant points, the -M-oorlty
socialists are in absolute agree
ment with the center and even ,wlth
most of the national liberate.
Substantial Agreement.
All these Parties are In substantial
agreement also on nearly all the most
important territorial questions. They
all stand tor the restoration of the
territorial status quo ante with cer
tain modifications. . They all reckon
npo the continued econonvio domina
tion of Austria. Bulgaria, Turkey,
gweden. Denmark, Bwitserland and
Holland ty Germany after the war.
They ett demand the restitution of
the German colonies. They all de
mand that German and Austrian Po
land shall remain German and Aus
trian. On the question of plebiscites In
(imputed territories there are many
shades of opinion, but the prevailing
ouinion Is that plebiscites may be
safely demanded under such condi
tions as will make a pro-German de
clslon absolutely certain. For exam
pie, the Stockholm conference wishes
a plebiscite In Alsace-Lorraine on the
basis of "the voting lists of, the latest
election in AHwce before the war.
There is no reason to suppose that
any of these parties will refuse to ac
cept this principle both for Alsace and
for . certain other territories, where
non-Germans have been driven out
and sufficient Germans substituted in
recent years to assure a German ma
jority. On the other hand, the refusal of
the right of self-government in the
case the subject peoples of Germany
and her allies is reversed and turned
Into a demand for complete inde
pendence -in the case of Finland and
Russian Poland and other entente
territories. We find these demands
asserted not only by the German lib
erals, but also by the Stockholm con
ference and the Russian Workmen's
council. The former body has added
a demand for Independence for Ire
land, while the latter demands the
"re-establlshment" of Persia. The
Stockholm conference even indorses
the demand of the German junkers
that Belgium be divided Into two au
tonomous provinces. The Russian
Workmen's council does a similar
service for the Junkers In demanding
the "neutralisation" of the Sues and
Panama r-anals as well as the Darda
nelles. We saw what neutralisation
amounts to In the cose of Belgium.,
but this does not dinturb the solf-ap-polnted
agents of German socialism
In Russia.
There are also several shades of
opinion about indemnities. There
have been well-substantiated reports
that a number of Influential groups In
the German government are prepared
to grant a nominal pseudo indemnity
to Belgium In order to quiet the in
ternational clamor about the wrongs
done to that country. All the Ger
man parties mentioned favor this
diplomatic subterfuge. The Stock
holm conference and the Russian
Workmen's council agree that the rel
atively Insignificant part of the
wrongs done which can be denned as
"contributions levied during the
war" shall be Indemnified. No
further Indemnities are to be paid
by Germany; all other waste, destruc
tion, and wrongs to civilians done by
German armies are to be repaired
from an international fund, to which
Germany's vtfethns and their defend
ers are to contribute equally with
Germany! These two principles, cer
tainly unobjectionable to the majority
of German liberals and centrists, are
to be applied generally as well as in
Belgium.
Haase and Iede'bour and other
leaders of the German socialist mi
nority have secured a certain prestige
in the entente countries because of
the strong verbal opoosltHon thev oc
casionally offer to the kaiser when
home affairs are up for discussion In
the relchstag. It Is assumed by In
numerable editors and publicists In
this countrv that because these men
represent the German socialist mi
nority their view of the war and their
peace terms are probably the oppo
site of that of the Gwrman socialist
majority. The truth Is that the two
peace programs are 80 per cent, the
same, and tnat on am me mom. es
sential points they are Identical.
The underlying motive ana psy
chology of the minority may be shown
by the following sentence from their
July peace manifesto: "National and
social liberation cam not be achieved
by the governments at war; it can
only be done by democracy." This is
the phrase by which this parly covers
its unwllltngnees to demand self-government
for such of the subject na
tionalities of Germany and her allies
as desire It as an essential condition
of the coming peace. But while de
ferring the demand for national Inde
pendence to the coming: of democracy,
this same party refuses to allow that
the demand for democratltatlon
should be made part of the peace
terms! Together with all the German
political parties above mentioned the
socialist mlinority dert'les that democ
racy ts in any way an Issue of the
war!
Loyal to Kaiser.
That the leaders of the German so
cialist minority are absolutely loyal
to the kaiser in the war they have
repeatedly "demonstrated. Perhaps
the' most conclusive evidence may be
gained from speeches made by the
two moat important loaders In the
relchstag since the Russian revolu
tion. Both Haase and Ledebour. ad
vocated In the relchstag a separate
peace with Russia, wltb the full
knowledge that such a peace would
leave the kaiUrar as absolute dictator
of peace terms. There Hs not an In
telligent and honest. Individual m
Russia, America, or any of the en
tente countries who does not know
what such a separate peace would
have meant. Haase and Ledebour are
both Intelligent and entirelv well In
formed. They ware w tilling last sum
mer, and are still willing today, that
the war should be Immediately set
tled with a complete victory of kale-erism.
The time has arrived when Ameri
cans should understand that at the
present period of the war when no
stunni"- defeat of Germany has yet
occurred there is no important po
litical party In the German empire
which has the slightest "mpathy
either with the democratic peace
policy and peace te- of President
Wilson or with any other just or
democratic peace program.
We can see now why the socialist
' revolutionists of Rusa'la who speak for
the peasants and for the vast bulk
of the nation reject the peace pro
gram of the Workman's council. For
it is the program of the German ad
vocates of a separate peace, which
the Russian nation, including the
council, has pledged Itself to renudi
ate. Katherine Breshkovsky, "Ba
bushka" (the little rrandimother of
the revolution), has clearly voiced
their understanding of the fact that
the world's democracies are at pres
ent fighting not merely the kaiser but
a untied Germany.
"The Russian army, the sentiments
of whldh I know," slue declared, "also
stands for war. The spirit of the army
Is flrnver than ever. That Is because
the soldiers who formerly believed
that only the German emperor was
guilty., while the German nation i
Innocent now see that the German
nation 1 solidly for aggression, and
therefore the punishment of Emperor
William 4s not eumclent the nation
Itself must suffer the stings of do
feat"
Russian democrats still believe,
with the democrats of all other coun
tries, that the day will come when
Germany wtll no longer be united and
the German people will overthrow au
tooracy and militarism. But that day
will not come until the German pec
Die have eilffered the stings of defeat-
or have seen that they can not im
pose the will of the German auto
cracyor any part of that wUl upon
this united free peoples of tne earth
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Napoleon's Famous Statement at St. Helena Is Re
called. Prussia Has Always Believed in the Might
of the Sword and. in Taking What Was Wanted. ,
(By W. H. Gardner.)
Member Board of Trustees, American
Defense Society.
(Copyright, 117, ty American De
fense Society.)
Truly, Napoleon the Great had
vision when he said la St. Helena af
ter his fall: "
1 made the mistake of my career.
when I had the opportunity, inai i
did not remove the Hohensollern.
mt iii. tiirmie of Prussia. As long
as this house reigns and until the red
cap of liberty to erected In Germany,
Khmrm. ui h. no Teac. Ha Europe. In
reviewing the prorress that has been
maae in inis prewam wm.
Ly the kaiser of the German empire
u U wu in review the historical
prorrees that the Prussian Hohensoi
lerns have enjoyed.
Ths Germanic empire is reany an
off-ahoot of the Frankum empire,
founded on Christmas Day, A. D. 100,
bv Charlsmame. whose realm Includ
ed France, the Lowland, North Ger
many, Bouth Germany, owiueriana
and. In Austria, tne areas ox warn m
today known as the western part of
the German empire and a majority of
Austrfa-Hunfrary.
In the middle aires, under tne naps-
burara. tha - Germanlo empire com-
nrtoed essentially the areas m the
now eastern front of ths German em
pire as well as that section later
known as Poland, the Polish territory
between them and tftneir present boun
dary between Austria and Hungary.
The northeastern oounoary or in
Germanic . empire was just east or
Berlin, where until H the Hohen
soHern dukes of tmy Brandenburc
fought off "the paa-sn Prussian and
Iithuanlan hordes." By X00 the
Hohensollern had conquered about
all the territory oorderlns" on the
Baltic sea, the Polish territory be
tween them and some of that border
In r on the North eea, this alt having
became the Prussian kingdom and
vassal to ths Hapeburgs who still
controlled the now eastern front of
the German empire as well as inai
section later known as Poland,
In 1(64 Prussia, with the support
of the Hapsburgs. took Hen leswig
Holstein from Denmark, and In ltt$
turned upon her own allies, drove the
Hapsbursa out of uermany, aDsoroea
North Germairy "d conquered the
South German confederatioa.
Primarily to divorce these South
German state, from the Hapsburgf
and. weld them to Prussia, B)smarck
forced them to Join Prussia In con
quering Franc, m 1871, from' whom
Prussia proceeded to take Alsace
Lorraine and 1.000,000,000.
Then at Versailles the Prussian
king was crowned emperor of th
new-born German empire and Prus
sia mad. secure her most important
objective in the Franco-Prussian wat
her permanent dominion over South
Germany.
Truly "Hie chief Industry of Prus
sla cmkfVng war" had paid hand
some dividend, to the Prussian Hon
ensollerns, who had first got all Eas
tern Germany, then In three thrae
many, the Hapsburgs have been simi
larly employed in Austria, which for
a thousand years haa been ths battle
field between German, Magyar, Slav
and Turk.
The Tchecho-dovae kingdom of
Bohemia antedated Charlemagne and
at on. time extended north to the
Baltio sea. But if or over three hun
dred years the Hapaburga have held
this foreign vrac. under harsh mili
tary dominion, so that today, In Aus
tria's time of trial, there la a sup
pressed revolution seething among
the 8.600,000 TcnecbiO-Slovaos.
Between 1650 and 1700 the Austrl
ans drove the Turks out of Magyar
Hungary, and than the Magyar, end,
Austrian, conquered tne Roumanians
or Transylvania to the west of hou
mania, which latter, having endured
am a nation for. over 1,600 years, com-
pieteiy regained her national lnde
pendence from Turkey only in 1878,
but haa never been abl. to liberate
her 8,000,000 brother Roumanian, in
Transylvania.
Only In 1908 did Austria-Hungary
take Bosnia and Herzegovina, pure
Jugo-Slav province, linked by every
tie or biood and custom to Serbia,
And all this I. held by the domina
tion of 18,000,000 Austro-Oarmans
over 10,000,000 alien Magyars, who in
turn dominate over 8,000,000 Rou
manians and over 6,000,000 Jugo
slavs, while Jointly they hold m sub
jection 6,600,000 Ruthenes, who are
of Slavonic blood, and. nearly 1,000,
ooo Italians, ,
How Arm today Is ths "ramshackle
empire ? '
In 1848 the great Hungarian pa
triot, Loul. Kossuth, the idol of
America, would have won the mde
pendence f Hungary from Austria,
except for the autocrat, Metternink,
whose diplomatic ability almost sur
passed that of Blsmarclc.
Today in Hungary there Is a very
strong Magyar party working for In
dependence from Austria, Tbey want
Magar Independence for tnwnseives,
but they won't hear of th.lr subject
Roumanian, and Jutfo-Bisv. oema in
turn free to Join themselves to their
brothers in Kou mania ana Hernia.
And this Austro-Hungarian empire.
a conglomerate of conquests, with re
volt seething nn three-quarters or it.
population, is what the Kaiser trappea
mtt Hanlaritis' war on Serbia and so
bringing Russia down on herself, and
thus enablm Germany to declare war
on Russia, which opened ' th. latter'.
ally, France, to uermanya aitacs
throus-h Beirtum. ana rnus orouEni
niwt Rritada tit and finally Turkey
and Bulgaria with th. Teuton ana
Japan, Italy, Roumania, Portugal and
the United Biases against mem. i :
Thus Prussia merely repeated on a
grand seal, the war politic whMh ens
used when She forced South Ger
many to flght Franc with bar so
that She herself could get permanent
control of South Germany. By di
plomacy, which forced Austria-Hungary,
Turkey Mid Buiaarla to Join her
cornered wars. In lass than ten yean
(18(4-71) had kicked the HapSburgi j m a war against others, Sh. now has
out o ueranooy, conquered tne boui. I established her own aosoiut. military
Germane and then the French, j control over them, and is now seek-
But note that th. North Germans, Ing to make this control permanent
the South German, and th. Austro
German, are of kindred blood and
had been under a common rule tot
over a thousand years- since Charle
magne in A. 13. 800! wheraas th
Prussians were an alien race of pa
gan, only 400 year, ago whan they
came aoder the leadership sf th.
Hohensollern s. . Note that while
Prussian influence has been atronr In
North Germany for a hundred years,
Prussia', dominion over Bouth Ger
many I. but fifty year, old! nor Is Ba
varia's wound. of 16(8 yet healed, al
though again bealda Prussia ah. is
forced , io ftcht France.
Some year, ago at a table fai fh
Munich Hoffgarten were some of th.
Bavarian army staff. Soma Prussian
army officers want by, and th. head
of the Bavarian army spoke of them
by th. term usual in Bavaria 1. .
"Stlnkpreuschen,' that Is, "Stlnklna
Prussians!'' (General von der Tann
made this remark to the writer who
was sitting with him.)
In 111 a pamphlet was published
In Munich advocating the abdication
of the HoheasoUern. in favor of th.
WItteiStack. of Bavaria, ru order to
secure peace!
. While th. North and South Ger
man, have followed Prussia in vic
tory, would they not prefer freedom
from her to defeat with herf -Tha
AssUo-Hamrariaji EmplrS.
While such ha. been th. career of
tt. Trussiaa Hobsnsollera. In dar
by obtaining peac before they are
conquered by the allies and set free
from her. If the kaiser can get such
a aeaee Austria-Hungary and Bul
garia will permanently bear the earn.
relation to rrusoia wm wjuip -vr-many
hs. for the past fifty years.
Then th. Mlddle-Europ. empire will
succeed the Germain empire, and the
Hobensoilems, Instead of having only
70.000.00-0 subjects, ' wUl have over
170.000.000 subject. wherewith to
carry out th.lr plan, for future con
quests But not that this Austro-Hungarian
empire of 48.000,000 U con
trolled by th. Hapsburgs, who were
beaten and driven out of Germany
Just fifty year, ago by th. Hohsnsol-
'Uk. th. Bavarian, undoubtedly
the AMtro-Oerman. would gladly
share victory with th. Prajslsns. But
now U 1. evident to ttx-m that it O.r
many win, th. Hapsburg. and all
Austria-Hungary wail become appen
dages of Berlin, and K Germany
lose i ' '
Knowing all this, and volumes
mor th aWe. replied to President
Wilson. c not. of Deca-er is.
HIS. as follow.: '
Th. civilised Id know, that th.
Am. of the aMle. Include . . . the
reorganisation of Europe guaranteed
b7 I stable settlement - baaed alike
upon the principle af nationalities and j
mTlx rtut which a peoples, wheth
er small or great haws to ths enjoy
tnSnt of Tull Mcurlty and free eco
nomic development,"
And In turn President Wilson, re
ferring to. Germany, Austria-Hungary,
Turkey and Bulgaria, addressed
Russia aa follow, when th. latter
took a paotflo turn: , , , ;
"Government after government
ha by it. (Berlin'.) influence, with
out open conquest of Its territory,
bean linked together 4a a net of in
trigue directed against nothing less
than the peace and liberty of the
world. Ths meshes of that Intrigue
must be broken, but can not be brok
en unless wrong, already don. are
undone,, and adequate measures must
be taken ? to prevent it from vr
agaht being rewovsn or repaired. .
"W. are fighting for th. Mb.rty,
ths eelf-g-overnmeat and the undil
uted development of all people ami
every feature of th. settlement that
concludes this war must be conceived
and executed for that purpose.
Wrong, must first be righted, and
then adequate safeguards must foe
created to prevent th.lr being com-
emitted again. Wa ought not to con
sider remedies'1) merely because thev
have " a pleasing (sonorous sound. '
Practical questions can be settled
Only by practical mean Phrases
will not aocomipll.h th. result Ef
fective readjustment, will, and what
ever readjustments . are necessary
must b. lnad.J ;..'"-;:-. ..
"But they must follow a principle,:
and that principle i. plain. No pe
pi must be forced under sovereignty
under which it doe. not wish to live,
No territory must change hand, exr
cept for the purpose of eeurhg thosa
who inhabit it a fair chance of I If o
and Hberty. No indemnities must hi
insisted on except those that consti
tute payment ' for manifest wrongs
don No readjustments of i power
must be mad. except such as will
tend to secure the future of the world : '
and the future welfare and happi
ness of It. people" '
When Germany or Atwtrla-Hungary
or Bulgaria or - Turkey talk peace -term.
w. must remember that a. long
as . they are united th will and the
voice will ba that of Berlin no mat
ter whose mouth speak We must'
remember Primulas centuries of faith,
lee. Intrigue, and ruthless aggressions
crowned .by . her' devilish deceptions
and barbaric cruelties of this last war
of 'her agfTSSsisn.:
we snail see Der oner to free and
Indemnify Belgium, tore. Poland, to
return Alsace-Lorrabne to France
But always th. kaiser Willi evade th
freeing of th.' Jugo-Slav. and Rou- '
manlana slowly because th. Integrity
of Austria-Hungary Is th. necessary
link between the European and th.
Asiatic parts os? th. middle Europe
empire. --..- r-. .
When peae.Oalk 1. loud remomber
that Prussia', essential nurpoas lit
tha present war.ls to clinch her pree
it notd on these vast nd continu
ous domains of Austria-Hungary, th.
Balkan, and Turkey, if- the kaiser .
can do this he will really have won
th. war, even though he retire from
France. Belgium and Poland and in
demnify them.
WWl. , Austria-Hungary. Buigarea .
and Turkey are -dominated by Berlin,
w. Should see them only as slaves to
the kaiser', will' and fight them as
such, When they cast off his o-ln- .
ion or when tha allies ahak. fro. his
grip .n th not one of their peo'
pleai must be forced under sovereign-.,
tv under which it doe. not wish to .
live this for the kaiser, tool aye,
Including not on4y the Austro-Ger-
man but also their Dtooa brotnen
the south 'German, and the north .
German whe Jointly may grasp their .
chance Ni cast off the .hackles Prussia
has rlvete on them in tne tast lvu
r .,....( v t-.
Then to the Pruwtan autocrats and
b their kalserr who -ve caused thr
war and enslaved an th. people, ot
th. middle European empire m order
to enslave the world, to them:
unconditional surrender.
This la essential not only for the
ty of eur dtnoracie but for
th. freed'- . of north Germans and
of th. ' south Gerr-.n. and of the
Auetro-Oerraan. and ot all their sub
jugated nationalities from the yoke
of th. Prussian kaiser.
Fnder htm they are as on docile
to his will tor war and -ace, and as
on. middle Europe empire we mt
war on all of them until they revolt
or w. free them from th. kaiser, to
Wqot-i our only term, must be on
eoaaltlonal surrender