Signs of the Times.
[by C. F. W. Walther, quoting the Spectator newspaper]
.jpg "Heine - Silesian Weavers, Weavers; Pete Seeger (Wikipedia)")
These views do not live and weave in books in Germany, but are already sung on the streets and in inns. Thus the shroud of old Germany is woven in the weavers' song [of Heinrich Heine, his poem; The Weavers modern folk music group, Pete Seeger], which is sung by thousands in many inns, on the country roads and in many clubs. Three curses are struck. The first curse is for the "king of the rich", the other two are thus:
Curse the god, the blind, the deaf,
To whom we prayed in vain in faith,
For whom we hoped and waited in vain.
He tricked us, he fooled us.
We weave! We weave!
Curse the evil fatherland,
In that our inheritance is only misery and shame.
Old Germany, we weave your shroud,
We weave in the triple curse!
We weave! We weave!
.jpg "Titus Ullrich, Titus (Wikipedia)")
It is clear from what has just been said that the labor movement in Germany intends to overthrow religion. God and Fatherland, the two most sacred concepts, are being sought to be shattered! Indeed, in order to achieve this, the noble art of poetry must be dragged down into the dung and made the bearer of the most terrible blasphemy. Thus sings Titus Ulrich in his Song of Songs:
"I am too proud.
To comfort myself with you.
With you, whom they call trembling,
The Lord, — the Almighty!
How true are the poet's words:
What in the maddest madness
From rabble lips never sounded:
A German poet spoke it. A German poet sang it."
But the labor movement in Germany also seeks to abolish the rights of property. One of its organs thus parodies the history of creation:
"In the beginning was ownership, and it created heaven and earth, creatures, calves and sheep, and men, and said to man: you shall be subject to me, for I am ownership."
"By the sweat of your brow you shall eat your bread — it is written. The saying was probably thought up by a clever person, and now we are made to believe that it is a divine saying."
.jpg "Stephan Born (Wikipedia)")
The communist [Stephan] Born shouts:
"Shame on those who tell you that there must be rich and poor because God wanted it that way. Every beat of your heart tells you that faith is a lie. It is pleasure, and again pleasure, that lives in every drop of blood and drives you to activity and action."
"The interests of the dispossessed are opposed to the interests of the haves. The leading idea of the present society is selfishness; its motto: cedar for itself, cedar against all! We do not want equal distribution of goods, no! For if private acquisition is maintained, the old state will be renewed after a few years by the speculation of the greedy and cunning. We want organization of the workers, <page 93> destruction of private property. — It is necessary to destroy all barriers that stand in the way of general rights; it is necessary to tear off the protective mask of the sacred from every dominating concept.”
But the labor movement in Germany is still going on! Not only God, the Fatherland and property are announced to be at war, a war of extermination, but also the family is to perish! Listen to what Mr. Löwe says in his paper with the title: "What am I still missing?" demands and requests!
He demands:
1. abolition of paternal authority and marriage, in which a community of property should no longer be permitted;
2. complete emancipation of every twenty-year-old.
3. that every so-called marriage may be dissolved at the mere request of even one party, so that marriage may be a bond of which free men need not be ashamed.
4. to build one foundling home for every 5000 souls, to which the parents can deliver their children.
This is the workers' movement, socialism, red democracy, in Germany. Now compare with this the statement of the President of the Workers' Congress, W. Rosenthal in Philadelphia: "I am an atheist! etc." Compare with this the various essays which have appeared in the "only organ" of the Workers' Congress: der Republik der Arbeiter [The Republic of Workers], especially the excerpt which appeared in Spectator No. 3! and begins with the words: “You want reform? Revolution? Anarchy?" Listen to what the Torch [Fackel], published by Ludvigh in New York, says in one of its issues:
"Curse the faith, which is the curse of the world, the source of all misery on earth; — Root out the madness of the nations, destroy the miracle stuff of the Jews and Christians! Renounce Christ!"
In another place it says:
"No idea is more desolate and confused than that of the immortality of the soul, a radical absurdity, a holy stupidity! But man has always worshiped his own stupidity, and only his foolish fear and his hope are the originators of his religion." "We descend from heaven to earth and help the despised sensuality to its rights; for all that is most beautiful, most dear, blooms here on earth; and it is a high tinsel that trembles up there."
In its December issue, the Republic of Workers gives a list of newspapers that have spoken out favorably for social reform, or the workers' movement:
Admittedly, this is only a small number of the German newspapers published in the States, but they are indisputably the most influential and, so to speak, the ones that set the tone.
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