TYRANT MERCENARIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 July 1918, Page 2

TYRANT MERCENARIES

GERMANS FOR 70 YEARS. “EXECUTIONERS OF FREEDOM.’’ SOME TRUTHS BY KARL MARX. (Following one of the little known philippics against Germany by the great prophet of tho Socialists, Karl Marx. It was lirst published in tho - “Neuen Rheinischon Zeitung,” and republished in the collected works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, in 1850. The translation is by Louis Tarcai, in the “Chicago Sunday Tribune.”) Inching the people against one another to use one for the oppression of the other, and so to provide Lithe perpetuation of absolute rulingpower; this is the mastery and function of the potentates and their diplomats hitherto. Germany has distinguished herself along this lineReviewing the last seventy year;?, Germany gave her lances to Britain for English gold, to light the North Americans, who were struggling for independence ; when the; first French Revolution broke out it wasi again Germans who, like, n: pack of mad hounds, incited themselves; against the French ; who, by their brutal manifestation of the Prince of Braumsebweig, threatened to annihilate the whole of Paris even to the last stone; who, with the immigrant, aristocracy, conspired against the new order of France, and for so doing, under the title of subsidiary, * obtained remuneration from England. When the Dutch, in the last two < centuries, conceived the first sensible 1 idea of putting an end.-to the man- 1 agement of the House of Orange, and making their country a republic, It i was again Germans who acted as * executioners of their freedom. Switz- 1 erland also has a song to sing about her German neighbours: and Hungary will slowly rescue herself from C the damage done by Austria, and the German Raiserhof. Yes, into ,j Greece groups of German hirelings p were sent; they had to defend the g throne of their dear Otto—and into y 'Portugal were sent German police- T And the congresses since 1815 ; the campaign of Austria against Naples, Turin, and Romagna; the arrest of .

Ypsilantis, the oppressive war of Franco against Spain—all of these were forced by Germany; Don Miguel and Don Carlos were supported by Germany—the reaction in England was armed! by Hanoverian troops; Belgium was' divided and parlaysed by German influence; into deepest Russia Germans were the chief supporters of the one big and the other smaller autocrats—all Europe overflowed with Coburgers. With the help of German militarism Poland was robbed and divided, and the Cracow insurrection assassinated. With the help of German money and blood, Lombardy and Venice were enslaved and exploited; indirectly or directly, in the whole of Italy, every movement for liberty was choked by the bayonet, gallow*> gaol and galley. Tiie register of crime is much fuller, but let us close it. The responsibility for the infamy committed with the help of Germany against the ether countries.rests, not .only on the shoulders of her Governments, but in a great measure on the German people, too. Without their blindness, their slave-sense, and their willingness to be lances and “cordial’’ bailiffs and tools of the master “with divine rights,” the German name would bo less hated, condemned, and loathed in foreign countries, and the peoples oppressed by Germany would long since have arrived at free development toward normal conditions. Now, when the Germans throw off: their own yoke, all their policies against foreign countries must be changed, or with the shackles with, which thee, bind strange peoples they will bind their own youth and put an end to their almost wholly imaginary liberty. In so far a,s Germany leaves other peoples at liberty she makes her own liberty.