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Methods in Strike Crisis
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dler When It Appeared Munition Production iMight Be
Crippled Rings Strikingly Like That Heard in.England,
HERE METHODS DIFFER IN TRANSPGKTATION
(Special IVespateb.)
LONDON. Satday
Tell an Englishman that after all there
great similitude between German and
Htish m?Ui'iu of rroTaeanda. and he
Sht get ri,y forthwith to discuss the
v.-ith tlio cloves off, until it was saS
9ted to him that in both one sees the
iterated protestations that-each side is
pting ffr tho maintenance 'of its "lib-
ties"
aj;ai!i,:t. enemy aggression.
One sr.Ts in thf-m the counterpart confi-
pnce on iiltir-.-uito victorv. in . the claim
be chnn'.if,ning the rause of ths smaller
Ptionaliti..:, i,, the recriminatory charges
outr;iSr, in the maemifyine of the
ferny' s (!iffii-,,:tif. mil itn.rv. financial
In short, except for the
-"Whists, in other words, the
! the professors, the German
of the British pretty much
i 'lif-ves of it. Transpose
! Mir utterances and Press4 of. labor patriotism
'fi-r side would do equal ser
tri.-r.
ilf;nt.iful evidence of this
ni' thod in the latest German
in. Still more recently
s 'no?. ; itsrlf in the strike move-
ent. Wlii,, ,..1.. li.11.. .r.loHTot
jfiat th.- f. of its assuming wider rpro
firtifins wu. i... An.-ainrl -even in
lllL'hr . . i,.,.la t olmtulandv clear.
tni; c-i,,,!,.,, .,.,tir.n tVio atrikers. as
e'l as th viiirnis tn tViA -nntriotism of
P.6 W('rt:or.-. rirurs sinmilarlv like that
" ni:aiu 111 .T.J11&1CX111A
pa efonon.i
"iUcians :ir,
Won l,pi....-r
hat tt,,. .,,;
ce for tin- ,
Thero v, .
n)ilitufl.-.. ,,1
v loan
. It is the contention of military expert, that if combined and repeated aerial attacks were made on naval and
military basest Germany the great world war would be ended in a Wy short time. With Un. end in ew
the United States, England and France are turning out thousand, of aeroplane, every week and are estaWtshing
training camp, for men to fit them for .ervice in the air. It was just a few day. ago that the French War Of
fice announced that a monster air fleet, comprising eighty-four machines, took the air and made raid, on citie.
and coa.t town, of military importance. According to official statement the result, Vere highly succe,.
Zl. An idea of what a raid of thi. magnitude wmU lcok iiU U .how b, G. A. Coffin, who.e illu.tr.bon. of
thi. efcracter art, well known to our reader..
ureent necessity of an increasing flow of
munitions for the successful prosecution of
the war which has been forced upon us.
Chancellor Denounce "Treachery.
Herr von Bethmann-Holweg, who never
torgets to play the German lamb, to the
pintmA wolf, denounced the; attempts
being made- in various industries essential
to the national Jetence vto jnuuue ueaoo.
tion of work, expressed his confidence in
the patriotism of the workers to resist
these appeals, and, like General yon
Groner. reminded them of the penalties
which would follow recalcitrancy. He
hv leaprtinar his work." the Chancel-
lor said "treacherously betrays our brave
warriors in this holy struggle places him
self outside the national community and
shall be made to feel the full weight of the
law "
Among the exhortations, too numerous
to note, of other public bodies that issued
by the Associated Christian Trade Unions
aonv mav be cited as an example
Ul ,. :t
briotism. rnis bsswiuuii,
declared,, "declines iau
the .trSkesrw.. Ever, w .a
" All EYE FOR AN EYE," LONDON'S CRY
AGAINST PRUSSIAN AIR RAIDERS
nl'nl(Iir
more ,..
hoiitir-x w
'Jtlook. J
Nrsfj'i,,
r-n. v..:.
V the !,:.
evcn the .'
'!! ri.f,., ..
Wood."
The r).l,.f
n thiK
Ked uiio
if,.. .
uun. 1 ' 1
Ftead
v.ht- nrolones the war.
C 1-?'".? .-Sf
heroes must pay """"" "ST
(Special Despatch.)
LONDON. Saturday.
"Reprisals," "Vengeance," "An Eye for
-an Eye," "A Tooth for a Tooth." fanned
by the chalked blackboards of certain sec
tions of the press no printed paper pla
cards bping permitted have become the
great popular, chorus since the recent' air
raid: on London;, And as more attacks are
to be expected : the cry may have 'oecome
louder and more insistent before these
lines reach your side.
Of course, there are pros and cons, ac
cording to the different viewpoints of the
British public. The same cry arose after
the first great Zeppelin raid on London,
but the argument that because the Huns
waged war on defenceless women and
children was no reason why the English
should also make brutes of themselves
prevailed and the cry subsided.
But it is different to-day. The popular
cry is not so likely to be silenced by any
argument for humanity for German wonii
en, arid children. For you often hear the
query : .'Have not the; German women re
joiced in the wholesale slaughter of Eng
lish children? way, men, nave mercy on
them?" . "
Colls for Reprisals. .
Warns Workers.
doubt that the German au-
: f-i riouslv alarmed at the
d.-nburtr himself had re-
-. to him, unaccustomed
in, rtnd in his letter -to
! ' orur, in reality addressed
in workers, warned that
Tontly most inconsiderable
' rk meant -a" weakening: of
.-drr-ith, and was an in
" against the soldier in tha
' had to pay for it with his
i" t ho Var Office, In passing
'or public consumption, im
i!n- Fi..id Marshal's literary
! " i'iable tfuilt." he declared,
those at homft who play
r.f . . . . .
Vij ""uig'.iior your crime our
r on si vii... m
he fn. , 'ong as our army iaceD
iTisr '"' ' hc worst enemies are
r. tt.ii, ""' vvnu mciie Liie wui ivci a
Ihom J,', -"wnras those who list;n tc
in . -,,..i,ni Uq Dranaec Deiore me
read ''Ui l lose comes a warning-to
ain lnnt "S- R:) nf the Criminal Code or-
lo v.. " t'cry to-the realm," fol-
I:... " a. Di.-lin tnnf.4V..t 1 -Ka
iiiriafv . ",,t:ll lucul- Ltito vv w
I w V (IT..
- in its application. t
r. in his circular letter to
t strffcere at home.
German workmen-wlu have the, courage
?o incur this fearful blood guiltiness? The
tn SSmany bJS of . giving him this
forces which wuld-mftlce the food emer
gency a pretext for advancing their revo-
1Uii0Jludyy o?5LSKl of the two
A "L7y lJrihnt-Oftrman-or British,
coumneo --- . my. the
working class numan ;
Sameiauuu.. ",-- ,v. m,rHn of
the matter oi mumuou -safety
is as narrow In Germany as it is
?atyJ:J n,ithat th briefest slack-
the one side as wr
niTivl In Transportation.
One must be struck by the fact that,
One must u? food posi.
tion la in tyie Teuton is
pe or rauw - - Whlle rail
ovoiiiTiir In. the
way . "
tern!.
n., -
J-ne ci .
United Kingdom
travel... s . - , ... TOint.of
has. been prougM. rrj ;i - .
tOtaT prohibition o.- "3mr of new
wa-ii-:- ftfth placing
tM- wrnuw, - ,tv. service, in
and addmonaKu -
eluding long a.-- Is "just announced
expresses. OnsucnB
between oserim. 4,ftv
cheauiea iu rt At Easter
SiiaSTaS wauhusualiy heavy
the holiday tramo , --f- were
y- t ,nvoia! trains .were
and lance numoera- v.-.r:"r: " -
spe
I-
oru '5 -:X ""n'nnnrrf for Wbitsun
many - such u . , : :,
: laree cities , to
nWni country resorts. Already
neighboring . f ouw y . tvaiitsun-
Leading the demand for such drastic re
prisals ' on .German towns, the Daily Ex
press, which says that it has received let
ters from an overwhelming number of cor
respondents warmly supporting ( me ae
mand for drastic air reprisals, proceeds
to say in ai leading article :
German frightfulness cannot terriry
the British people. It has, however,, filled
them with righteous wrath. The blood of
the ibabies murdered on Wednesday morn
ing in the least end calls aloud to neaven
for vengeance. Vengeance, in this case,
a another name for prevention. Crime
can only be checked by punishment, ucr
many nas ceuoeraieiy cieticu tu yvo.sc
war on noto-combatants. irier aid raias
are not arrecteu- agauiai. lUBcuaio ui
armies. Bombs are scattered napnazara
from the sky, and the joy Dens nng in
Berlin when a school is wrecked or. a hos-
nltal laid in ruins. The German people
are responsible for these outrages. They
could not continue without tneir consent
onnriural. Let the German people
aiiu " - . - - .
bear the punishment, ir uoiogne or.Ktuu
gart -or Frankfort ; paid promptly and m
full measure every time women and chil-
Hmn were killed in England, popular
clamor in Germany would force the gov
ernment to . put an end to a form of so
aiieri 'warfare' wmcn cannot' yieid any
t military advantage. We call for re
prisals because we . know that reprisals
will save the lives of British children more
fortainlv than any other meuioa.
, We; svmnathize with those whw ; depre
att the adoption of Germany's ruthless
npssL ' Unfortunately, ..we are forced by
dire necessity to fight this war as Ger
'many has . decreed. It waa .the enemy
who invented the horrors of poison gas
and liquid fire. Now. they , are perforce
used against him. It was the enemy who
staggered humanity by slaughtering non
combatants. . With what measure they
mete let it be measured to them again!
It is the duty of the government to pro
vide air defences as powerful and com
plete as they can be without weakening
the' air service at the front. Defence,
however, is not enough. We must hit
back where the enemy. Is most . vulner
able." To Impress German Mind.
; That the "reprisals" ' hitherto attempted
by the Allies are of no use whatever, and
that it is impossible to convey to the Ger
man mind that England , will , never be
terrorized . by such methods as ' theirs,
that by persisting in air raids on -London
and other so-called "forts", they will
never create a revolt - against the war
and a. popular cry for peace at, any price,
is the decided opinion that - has at last
taken possession of . the slow to iriove
Englishmen, excepting perhaps a few of
the ultra-humane. Mr. ?Will Crooks, M.
P., for instance, who went to me scene
of murder of the little- children m me
bombed school in East London, said: j.i
we bomb Berlin or Cologne we shall have
to kill some of their children. I couldn't
consent to the harming of any man s
child, hot even a German's."
Nearly every leader writer who maKes
reference to these remarks does so wit;h
sympathy without indorsing them. io
quote the Daily Sketch, whose "Man In the
Street majr be considered to represeui
the views of .the class he addresses :
There-speaks the natural, proud-mmo-
ed Englishman tne nmgiisnman -wuubc
psychology . Germany is supposed not to
imrioratnnri. but on which she is really
hnsinsr her one remaining hope of triumph.
"A" hint from the enemy is sometimes
worth Considering; Germany has tumDiea
tn manv a hint from our side or tne neoge,
and on the whole she hasn't done so badly
out of them. Where would sne xe ii we,
the stupid, unheroic- isngusn, were io
adopt Wilhelm's -'one thought' - and Iiy
risht in to break the will (and the hearts)
of his 'magnificent people with the -weap
on he has himself chosen . ..
"It wouldnt want much doing, - either
Tn OPrtian 'will to War' is not the. Eng
iuh will to war. It is built four-square if
you like, but, the foundations are on the
aand and not on ,tne r0CK. -mere is no
moral force behind it. A month or two o
Folkestone and London for the German
people would give them furiously both to
think and squeal, and, in my opinion, they
would think only . one1 thought' namely,
'Peace on any terms,J and squeal only , one
squeal, namely. 'Mercy, , karoerad -
"From the German point-of view the
Taube raids . are war. ' From the' English
noint of view they are nothing, less, than
murder. Sooner or later we shall have to
call ; them war. If we content ' ourselves
War
Time
Religious Strife
Germany in
Repeal of Restrictions Against the Roman ;Gathpli-'A:ruf .
OIL LCI ppuolllUii i.iiiV7i. . x ww.w ...
and the Orthodox: Evangelists.
f;i 'i
'.to
with mere defence against them we are
undone. No matter how repugnant it may
h to ns. there has- got, to be an air or
f ensive, and it will have to be an offensive
similar in kind and degree to the enemy
nf fpnsive.
"That Is what is coming. The only
question is, 'How long shall we hesi
tate?' ' , i
Hali'Calne Joins Cry.
But perhaps one of the most notable
converts to the ranks of the advocates
for "ruthless" reprisals is Mr. Hall C&ine;
who until now has never been an advocate
of such measures. In the course . or a
long article In- the Daily Chronicle, - Mr.
Hall Caine, after referring; to Mr. Will
Crooks'; ,plea for the lives , of German
women and children, says:
"Because' English mothers weep In the
streets of London for the children they
have lost- by a cruel .outrage, , a good
hearted Englishman says he could , not
see German mothers weep for their chil
dren in the streets of Berlin. That feel
ing would be true and right if it con-
UoniPfi auf ferine which eitner race or
mothers had in any way imuiaeu, ui
aDiiroved of being inflicted, upon, tne
other if, for example. It had been , the
suffering that comes of a desolating
earthquake, eruption, tidal wave or sim
ilar act of nature In her terrioie ana in
scrutable wrath. Then the true hearted
man, knowing that motherhood .has the
same divine love of its offspring in all
races, almost in all species, could indeed
sav In the deeo sincerity of his soul.-
God save all mothers everywhere irom-
such sorrow and suffering as I have wit
nessed to-day.' ,
But the ' present is "no such case of
natural calamity, shared in a, common
conscience. Let us dear our hearts oi
confusion and our tongues or cant ana
say plainly, what .Is plainly true, that the
oir raid nf Wednesday was an atrocity
oiihcyotciv inflicted hv the motners oi
Germany on the mothers oi . ngiauu.
Can a n v reasonable mind doubt that If
the German woman . had from the first
condemned the bombing of London as an
outrage on the .instincts of motnernooa
London would never have been bombed
"Even admitting that the German worn
in. notwithstanding her education and en
He-htenment. i a not. and never .has been,
a free woman in the sense and In the
measure in which the English woman, the
American woman or the French woman la
frA can it be thought' that if she had
uhTnriv nnnnsed a. form of- warfare
which made the destruction of child life in
the country of the enemy a probable and
Cvon on inAvitAbl conseauence. the most
arbitrary' "government in the world would
have dared to practise it?,, 5ucn a suppo
sition is Imnossible of acceptance. Mother
hood is a force which pjoughs too deep
into national welfare to be defied by any
Katserism or any military despotism what
soever, , -
i " (Special Despatch.)
UONDON. Saturday.
The days are - past when the ; German
could proudly boast that his country pre
sented to the world the spectacle of a
united nation,. in which the voice of party
strife had been stilled in. the presence of
the. foe, while the enemy countries were
distraught by contentious ; legislation and
Ministerial crises. To-day in none of the
belligerent nations, Russia alone excepted,
Is the internal political situation so dis
turbed as in Germany; the: recriminations
of- the - press ' surpass in ; Volume and In
hitterness; anything - that has been wit
nessed in England during the course ; of
war The spirit of Teform"'is ram
pant in the land, and those who sit in the
seats . of tne migaiy ore uiuuoujr
alormfid.
That was shown in the Kaiser's , now
famnus Easter edict and the 5 formation
nf tha "Constitution Committee" to frame
o MiAme of franchise reform for Prussia
Now it is the Roman Catholic subjects of
His Imperial Majesty who are to be
placated At last, after four years, . the
'T?iTidinrn.t Or - Federal Council, has
deemed the moment opportune to ratify
the resolution passed by the Reichstag
in February, 1913, repealing the so-called
"Jesuit Laws," whereby the activities oi
that order were' placed under the severest
restrictions. . . '
Action Almost Unnoticed -
Somewhat unaccountably, the action of
tie Bundesrat, of only a fortnight since.
his passed almost .unnoticed, in. the. Eng
lish press at any rate. .rossiDiy xne Orn
ish public is incredulous of the degree of
religious intolerance biui tsjs.ioictn. iii
la nd of "Kultur." In the German (press
the event has "evoked universaJl commentr
and much diversity of verdict.
The radical-newspapers nan tne act as
one of long overdue justice. Herr Erich
Dombrowski,- well known Polish, political
writer and Reichstag deputy, in a spe
cially contributed article to tne .neriiner
Tageblatt, calls it "A Payment' on Ac
count," one or the series wnicn me gov
ernment, now that the reform movement
is in full blast, is timely making. .Piece oy
piece, he says, the repressive particularlst
enactments, directed against Poles, Jews,
Jesuits, are being pulled down.
Laws Date from Bismarck.
These Jesuit laws date from Bismarck's
time, and embodied that statesman's reply
to -'the '.papal edict -enjoining", the Roman
Catholic- Episcopacy of Germany to place
duty to the Church above obedience to the
State. Among other pains ana penalties
the laws prohibited any settlement of the
Jesuit order within the Empire, rendered
its members liable to expulsion or intern
ment., and proscribed" the use, of foreign
languages at its public meetings this last
neine' levelled against . the ..French', and
Polish emissaries of the order.-. Naturally,
the "Centrum' which forms the Roman
Catholic bloc in the Reichstag has un'
ceasingly striven for the repeal or at least
the amelioration of the laws, and on sev
eral occasions in 1873, 1S99, IMS and lastly.
in 1913, It has carried the Rlchjstar Trtth, 1 V
only, however, to tree 1U wwtjdonaHre-r
jected by k the Bundesrat. Nwfi at, last.-
and owing : largely to tae, uuwenco (
Count von Hertling, the BavaxlaJv Prumler.
even thi? most autocratic body ha grv." , .
way. . ' , " ; y ' y-'''- ''
"It is to ". be . hoped,V . says Herf ttom ;
brbwski, "that .the governments ;otStt .
federal States will henceforth pursue this
policy of grace toward the 'Jews aAdJXHa-
septers wherever these are subject to 're
fcial disabilities, anfi . that a new .: era of
religious tolerance, suoh' sa httherto. the , ,
Centrum has striven . only to bbt4in from '
others may hecom, general,, throughoa.-
Germany."" . y , ; ' ' v; - V-
i; Many Protefjn ; Heard; . , .. ; ;
t It ' may ' be doubted if OetmtixfTj t .'
in sight of this era. Already the jgor ,
ernment of Saxony v has declared that -4 z.
will not accept. the. decisioin-of; the Bun-
desrat and that tlie act of itjpeal ,wfil;Bdt .
run in that kingdom. - , : 1 -The
Prussian Junkers, whose PpotcBtapJ?
ism is so little distinguished ft6m--Pitai-.
ism. are up in arms against it.' . Of ..their :
principal organs, , the ? Deutsche Tageszei- .
tung can only grudgingly and- .deubtedly ; .
express the hope that- "in uture : the
Jesuits may, by their conduct, prove thltt ; .
the deep mistrust with which' they. ara , v
regarded Is no longer, grounded' ,-' - Vi '.""
' The. Tagllche Runascnau is more.Ditier .
It denies the necessity,, for "the vnseemlyi
haste of this bartering of thor 1a remain- ' ;
ing ' national ' safeguard. -1 If-" the . ,party "
truce' is to be invoked for such a piinos'
it says, Vthen the Hruce'.'eisis'ts bnly; for ;
the benefit, of this particular party.-v. jli, .
the delegates of . the .working classes, ;dur- ;
ing the .frivolousand alsgracerui' siriae, -u
were - deemed u worthy - of ..prolonged audi- - -v
ericesi with i the authorities, then' atrleast'
nurman - Protestantism ; ; might . - have.' ,
claimed the right -to be heard .upon'au.cli i
a vital question as tne reaamission .i;me
Jesuit order. . The. dreamf of r.a, re-.
iieious .truceia iover; governnaentwana
Reichstag must -bear ;the ;blama,tn;XUlr
tion will have to bear the damage. 4
' ' XuOierMa'.Aasieaaare;!?-..
The Berlin' Relchsbote la the centrat or
gan of the orthodox Evangelists,' or Luth
erans, who form -the .bulk of the- National
Liberal 'Party, which, has consistently 0P7
posed all show or tenderness zor me ito-man-
Catholics. This Journal openly, de-r
plores the relaxation' of the anti-Jesuit
measures, which, it says celebrates with
fine irony the year of , the fifth centenary "-1
of the Reformation. .It adds:1.. -
;We, deplore the act In the Interests of -
the religious truce.' -jThe influence " of. the r .
Jesuit Order, carrying" with It, as it does,
the censtant tlger"of;an :anU-Reformr
tioiii Is Its'ewh condemnation' Its ihatura .'
cannot and, will not change. We fean the.i:
consequence will be that once again1 . we s ;
shall have to go through bitter experiences " o
thatwe liad' hoped were behind, us ;for
ever. ' --. ' ?- 2 '. '.'.- t-'. ;;.
. That Is jtot in - Ireland, - but? tnxthe ''great ' :
"Kultur-StoaVVof?modern Germ'aay If ao v i
much .religious rancor can break out at a
time of hatlonal stress liJE'-JtC'3rtKentW
surely it does ( ill "for. the Vpeaoa-i p -.
ratherland when tha waf l-iwrar-ij-v :
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sovtrnments. emphasized the
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it