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MONDAY. MAV 19th. 1919.
POLITICAL MEDDLING
In the view of many of those who believe in clean politics, the de
lc.it of the Sundbaek hill directed against political meddling by government
Olllc* holders in the Territory and providing punishments therefor, was one
of the most regrettable developments of the recent legislative session.
Political meddling by both Territorial and Federal officials lias long
Hardly ai; t election occurs that the propensity is not displayed in one form or
another l>y some or many of the office holding gentry. Fven in our own in
significant civic elections, the interjection of the official pull or knock is dis
played in the most brazen manner and without apparent regard for the l'.et
that such practices are banned by government regulations. In some instances
it lias developed that officials have even had the tenuity to carry their political
machinations to the very entrances to the election booths.
Since the beginning of the period of machine domination of territorial
polities, the practice has become scandalous in the extreme. .The machine
office holders, who. by the way, comprise about seven eights of all the Ter
ritorial office holders both'federal and local, appear to feel so secure of their
jobs that they no longer attempt to conceal their political activities and pro
ceed to use the influence of their office with an abandon suggesting that
they have not the slightest apprehension regarding the results.
Hacked by the overwhelming influence of the machine, they apparently
care not a tinker’s darn about department rules or restric tions and utterly dis
regard even the horn book of honor in their political manipulations.
When official political activities reach such a stage as this it is time
to call a halt, hence it is a deeply regrettable imUter that the effort made by
Senator Sundbaek to abolish it has failed. It is true that the passage of any
form of legislation would hardly banish the practice entirely as long as the
present machine domination prevails in the Territory. The power of the
machine is so great that its members can to a great extent defy even the
written law with little fear of punishment. With the very machinery of the
law practically in the .hands of the gangsters, it is hardly to bo expected that
any but the most flagrant cases of political meddling would receive punish
ment under any law which might he devised.
At best such a law as proposed by Senator Sundbaek would only par
tially prevent the practice as long as gang rule exists, but it would at least
haw the effect, of making it less scandalous by forcing its official devotees
to display it in a less obtrusive manner.
A SUSPICIOUS WILLINGNESS
The inclination of the Germans to harp upon their willingness to sub.
1,1,1 the German archives as evidence regarding the guilt or innocence of the
-k-kaiser and his militaristic minions suggests that somewhere behind their
oft reiterated offer to display the State documents to the Allies lies an ulteror
something which Germany is seeking to exploit, either f >r her own benefit or
t'iat of the ex-kaiser and his followers.
Germany is so very willing to show the archives of the nation to the
wcrld and has so frequently reiterated her desires in this inspect til rough her
leaders and representatives that one can hardly escape the inference that the
desire posesses a more sinister motive than a mere inclination to see justice
done in the case of the ex-emperor. In fact the so frequent voicing of the
German willingness to show the evidence which may or may not be provid ed by
the state papers seems to warrant the inference that they are trying far
as they consistently can to induce the Allies to accept the ofler. And the
question is why? Does Germany, in spite of her apparent renunciation of
imperialism and the seeming adoption of the tenants of republicanism, still
harbor a desire to shield the former emperor and his rascally crew? Or i3
the so oft expressed desire to display the archives merely an attempt to relievo
the German nation of the opprobrium »f the world and the stigma of history’s
iih.-i enormous crime’
However much one may feel inclined to give the Germans credit for
changing their ideas regarding their former rulers, it has been made plainly
apparent to the world that they are extremely reluctant toward having any
thing to do with the proposal to punish the ex-kaiser and his followers, despite
the fact that they are toe ones primarily responsible for Germany’s present
miser able plight. This has been evidenced many times in the utterenoes of
the moderate German press since the signing of the armistice and now comes
the report from l’aris that the German peace delegates are extremely adverse
to ratifying the provision of the peace treaty calling the ex-omperor and his
military satiaps to the bur of world Justice.
Why, on the one hand, do the Hermans continually harp upon thcl:
willingness to submit the Herman archives in evidence with respect to the
ex-kaiser's guilt or innocence as the alleged author of the world war and on
the other hand decline to assist In bringing him to answer before a world
tribunal under the terms of the peaco treaty?
It is possible, of course, that the Herman people are satisfied with cast
ing aside the yoke of imperialism and are willing to forgive their former
rulers the pains and bloodshed they caused without adding further punish
ments. Hut, Withal, it would seem that when they seriously consider the state
to which they have been brought by the lying duplicity and double dealing of
their whilom master's they would be right willing t«» lend their assistance in
UeteVmining whether they should be called to answer to the world they have,
outraged.
Despite tiie often reiterated desire to show the state archives, it looks
very much as if the Hermans are inclined :o shield their ex-rulers, at least t<*
the extent of refusing to commit themselves to a course which will force
them to lend assistance in bringing them to answer before a world tribunal
and thereby make themselves a party to the determination of their guilt or
innocence.
The evidences that Hennany, despite her republican cont and alleged
democratic inclinations, is not inclined to help bring the ex-emperor and Ills
military lords to book are so patent that all the talk of showing the state rec
ords and welcoming investigation can hardly offset the Impression that the
state records presented to the Allies would probably be carefully denuded of
all evidence which might be discreditable to the Herman nation or fi\ the bar
sinister of guilt upon the pod allied Hohenzollern’s. Kven presuming that
such records as were submitted by (lermany were not tampered with by the
present regime, it is hardly likely that the wily ex-emperor or his crew ol
military rascals would permit them to bear evidence of their iniquitous plot
ting against the peace and safety • *f the world or of the flagrant deceptions
practiced on their own people. The militaristic leaders of Hefinany were too
shrewd types of scoundrels to permit the existence of documentary evidence
which might result in their own undoing, even tho they believed themselves
safe from any form of revelation.
Tin- fact that the archives are being so persistently offered to inspec
tion seems plain indication that they contain nothing which will either damn
Germany or condemn her ex-rulers.
MAN V0HO REFUSED MERCY TO EDITH !
CAVELL REFUGEE IN HOLLAND
TIIK HACil'K, .Ian.— (Correspondence of the Assoicated Press)—Baron
\* a dor Lnneken, formerly Gorman Civil Governor of Belgium, sought refuge
in Holland when tlm Germans retreated from Belgium. Yon do Lnnckert was
the man to whom the American Minister, Brand Whitlock, delivered his vain
appe; 1 to spare the life of Kditli Cavell. the Knglish nurse who was executed
l y the Germans in t»etnl>er, 1915, for aiding the British, French and Belgian
sonli< r:i te escape fn>m Beigitini. \’on d*v Lancken then told Hugh Gitison,
Secretary of the American Legation, that the sentence imposed by the Military
Governor on Miss (.’aveil was final and that the Civil Governor eouhl not over
rule it.
When Yon der Lancken arrived here he went to the German Legation,
I ul in order to obtain food cards, he had to apply to tlie police station where
he failed miserably in his efforts to obtain preferential treatments as a "dis
tinguished visitor.” \ rlKincc caller there found him in line with a group of
unwashed refugees, his well-groomed figure out of keeping with his surround
ings. He was compelled to stand in line for two hours before his wants were
attend d to.
I ° who remembers the time when to get a world from Yon der
Linekcn m Brussels it was necessary to give two days’ notice, after which one
1 al to struggle through bodyguard of haughty suspicious underlings, the
fjurt.'i Ie ot this exquisite specimen of'Prussian junkerdom waiting his turn
in the file amid the grimy proletariat afforded an excellent illustration of
“the times that are changed."
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