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.. . Mm llnlmnn Wrtrlrmon unu 10l(i. PvamLi. i j!...j .i..j . .
rnilB blacK yc - ", " , , "-'- mi muc jcsibtance to the attempted
J. rii'lBumcnt by U" Oormans had proved in some degree effective. Many industries in Flanders were ut au
' iJlulo liindHH bicauho tbe aborera refused to work for their conquerors. Strikes were frequent and
i cted The Humberts of tbo unemployed incrcaBcd dally.
'P nurin'c the first two years of tho war, however, ho German Government refrained from enr'ryinn out on
,mnrclieiisivc fccalo tho hideous policy of deportation. Perhaps the promises of Von der Goltz, to which
i cu y. ....;.. en nffnii roferrou. exerted u Rliclit mornl indnpriro. TWhumi u ..it 1 .... . .1.
cm nal i"""11 ' , , V .1 . . . ' "ikb luxossuy lor ruin-
l'u" 1 w.. nrnssintr before the. nrohncctn or a rnmnnnillvn !,rl, .,.,,11.,,. r 11 1
1. fl)f3S srcimu -... j . . 1 . ..t v..u.,,s u, tin. war Witc Rnunco
r ... 1 .. ..1. ! si tt ii'litrtM ton r n t?rtliltrI nrntl (n iLfi..... tl .. .. j . ..
In any ccni ii tiumtiv, "...... ... o.... i"v "CBuiuuuM, came over inc ucrman administration
i Reliriuin Uiirmc; mi; .' "" " ...v ...,. .uw ... lm! uuiunin cu uiai year, ticlflunch, addressing
'ho ncFelist-wi?, stated that the time had arrived when tho empire must compel the men in the occupied terri
tories to worn.
1 The military party, headed by Von Hindenburg, now at the pcuk of his power und transferred to tho
',,. front, was said to nave iounu even 1110 uruiai von Uissniff tob mild. The credentials of terrorism
i"
fd i-c liud acquired in the case of Edith Cavell,weio iusuflicient. The Governor General nnd tho field
the war chiefs, if
wus altogether
The Prince" und
i ..f..nlltr illfTercd ns to the methods to bo nursucd in Ui'lfinm
Mirsn:n in-tw"" - .---
' n was reported that. lgadcr Lancken's visit to Berlin had been undertaken to induce U
dble to modify their (nljgrncnt plans. Such an effort, assuming that it was made,
T ..:ii'nr. Brand Whitlock aSierts that Von Bissing was a student of Machiavelli's "1
una . .. , ., 1.1 r.i n .. !... ,, ,. . . ... . ..
kd the notion uiui iv wouiu yiwiib wuiiiiaj. uiuiu mi jjiuy on me 1'iamancis against the Walloons than to
Lrt the? working population. On October 21, 1910, he journeyed to Ghent to open the new Flemish
diversity.
At that very moment me ueporiauon pians were ueing speedily pushed, and the Governor Gcncral'3
flattering words had the ring of arch hypocrisy.
Cardinal Merciers Story
Includmf? bi rorreipondcnce with tho Gorman
authorities in Belgium during tho war, 1914 to
1918 edited by Professor Fernand Mayonce of
Lourain Univcruity and translated by the Bene
dictine Monk of St. AutfUBtinc'k, Ramsgatc,
EntfUnd.
rContmuation of Chapter XXX The Deportation
I of the Unemployed.
' "TfOR EOVER, if the Belgian has to complain of
" this state of affairs, let him auares3 his com
plaints to England. She is the great criminal. She by
her policy of isolation has brought about this re
stricted measure."
Eery Belgian workman sets fre;e a German
workman who will become an additional soldier for
the German army. It is this fact in all its nakedness
that dominates the situation. Tho author of the letter
himself feels this glaring fact, for he writes: "The
mfasurc has no connection whatever with the conduct
of the war properly so called." It has, therefore, h con
nection with the war improperly so called. What does
this mean except that the Belgian workman does not
indeed bear arms, but frees the hands of tho Ger
mans who will take up arms. The Belgian worker is
constrained to co-operate indirectly. This is in pal
pable contradiction with the spirit of The Hague con
vention. Again the lack of work is not the fault of the
Belgian workman, nor of England; it is an effect of
the Gciman occupation and its regime.
Tools' and Machines Seized
The occupying power has taken possession of
considerable supplier, of raw materials destined for
our national industry; it has seized and sent off to
German the tools, the machines and metals of our
workshops and factories. The voiy possibility of na
tional work being thus eliminated there remained for
the workman but one alternative: to work for the
German empire either here or in Germany, or to re
main idle. Some tens of thousands of workmen under
the prc-biire of fear or famine agreed, under con
straint for the most part, to work for the foicigner;
but four hundred thousand workmen preferred to give
tliemschc.s mer to idleness 'ttith all its attendant pri
vations rather than to do an ill-service to their coun
tr). Tlicj luerl in poverty with the help of slender
assistance allowed them by tho national committee of
help and alimentation, under tho control of the pro
tecting ministcis of Spain, Amctica and Holland.
Calm and rclf-respccting, they bore withouLa murmur
men paimui lot. iNowncre was there any rising or
t'gn of using; master and workmen avfaitcd with
patience the end of our protracted trial.
N'ctcitholoss communal administrations and pri
vate initiative endeavored to lessen the undeniable
inconvenience of unemployment. But the occupying
po-,er paralysed all their efforts. The national com
mittee endeavored to organize 11 course of technical
instruction for tho benefit of the unemploved. This
Klicnic of instruction, characterized by a tfinler re
gard fur tho woikman s self-resnect. wished to tnko
him lij the hand, to enlarge his capacity for work
nd thus pieparc the way for tho country's resurrec
tion. vho thwarted this noble enterprise, the plan of
l'iih had heen carefully thought out by the great
captains of industry? Who? Why the power in occu
pation. Novel Lhelcss the communes did their Imst to
initiate works of practical ut'lity to be carried out
by tho unemployed. These the Governor Geneial
would not pcimit without his previous sanction, a
sanction which ho generally refused. I am told that
the Governor General in not a few cases graciously
i.c in, permission for works of this kind with tho.
expreo, stipulation that the unemployed should not
engaged on them.
Ilelfiun Workmen Not Lazy
In fact, they wanted unemployment. The Ger
"ian aim mdnectly was recruited from the vanks
or UW out or woik.
u. flu ItiilfM'm 1. .l ........ :. e e- 1
I "f orhi)s labor. In all the -economic struggles of
"v h nine-, lie Has pruved his worth. When he le
ecti'd po-ts commanding a big salary offered him by
"leoecupviiig authority, he did so fiom patriotic self
5pect. We shepheids of the "people, intimately
acquainted with their sorrows and anxieties, we know
mil Krcat cost t,le' Preferred independence
""Pied with privation to comfort and ease linked
itli 'Ubiectinn.
TIlP It'tlpr nf nft,.. on l.-UI.. t. ui. n.
I (,,. . "" "i-wuui i.il LllllUiy SIUKJ5 U1UI, UlU
'on eluelljMu blame for the unemployment of our
11.1 r 'i'Kmnu. because she hin lers raw mate-
'Wlium entering Belgium.
IH,Ml"litml Kcl,e'ou'5ly allows foodstuffs to enter
th, i'il"l U,"cdcr tho C0Mt"'1 of "ditral states Spain,
"" UllltOl Sln( 1 11.11 , .. ...
uiidn n '"" "" iioiiaiid. sue would certainly
'raw , T K,ame cntrol poimit the entrance of
nn inatcnnli. .nn..: 1 l. .... ...
Gcrm. , ,l,i"i-,u oy our inciustries, proviclcii
not , ,,,, WOuld conaont to our retaining them and did
lln r' " ur manufactured goods.
th,. ,,. t l,0""y by various methods, notably by
hn.l ""f, ,orKnization of her "Centrales," over
''etui" , tflun or ' "no outside of the pro
Mrbs,'n , . c:ore'1' any official control, ab-
, Vl, ,c quantity of our agricultural pro-
rchuit k , 1 .L0UIU,ys mnnufiictured goods. The
um! of .v V "R nsc ,n l,, cost f livingr. the
,, " painful niiinHnn,, i n.u ...u 1 - ... '. ....
Wrrlh P "'I nou'r lm'l any. The community or
' "'ekUo?' "dV"Ui,Bu r which the letter lauds to
fhan-p ?, . ' ""rmal equilibrium or commercial
i'ak. ,l,c Prcdiiniiiiuiice of the strong over the
hU"!1'''' ,;o,"3't'o r economic inferiority to
11 i ..:K.rcdud 4 "ot, I pray, represent It to
WrtbwiM ilmt iMWw forced labor for our
?Mlonl .fin n"d '"twbalancrs th? deportation
After the penalty of death. slacry deport-i-tion
is the heaviest punishment 'known to the penal
code.
Belgium, that has never done joti an harm, has
she dcfccrved at your hands this treatment culling to
heaven for vengeance? v
Sir, I lecalled at the outset your whole utterance:
"I have come to Belgium with a mission to heal the ,
country's wounds"."
Two years ago the excuse made for death, pillage
and conflagration was that it was Avar. Perhaps for one
party, whom charity too kindly excused, it was tho
intoxication of opening victories. Today it is war no
longer. It is frigid calculation, deliberate destruc
tion, the empire of force over right, the abasement
of human nature, a challenge to humanity. It lies with
your "Excellency to stop these cries of conscience in
revolt.
Receive, sir, the homage of our sinccie esteem.
(Signed) D. J. CARDINAL MERCIER,
Archbishop of Malines.
Von Bissing Dodges Issue
The preceding letter having been returned to the
nichbishop's house by the postal authorities because
unstamped, the Cardinal sent it a second time to Baron
von Bissing with the following note:
Archbishop's House, Valine's,
November 12, 1910.
To His Excellency Baron von Bissing, Governor Gen
eral. Brussels.
Your Excellency The inclosed letter, dated No
vember 10, will reach your Excellency lntq, because
it has been returned to me. it had been posted un
stamped. (Signed) D. I. CARDINAL MERCIER,
Archbishop of Malines.
The Governor General shiiked the discussion. To
the closely knitted arguments of the Cardinal he mere
ly opposed his former considerations, as expounded,
almost word for -word, in his dispatch of October 20.
Government General of Belgium, Bnwsels,
November US, 101G.
To Hii Eminence Cardinal Mercicr, Archbishop of
UfaHncs.
I lieu to acknowledge tlie receipt of your Emi
vncc's esteemed letter of the 10th iust., aho the nolo
which jon bent on the J5th inst. to explain the delau
in the arrival of your letter. Mu umwer ii as fol
lows: ,
Your Eminence wrote to me on the 19th of Oc
tober last with the object of putting tin cud to the de
portation of Belgian unemployed into Germany. In
my reply of October li), while fittingly realizing your
Eminence's standpoint, I set forth the leaxons irhich
induced the occupying power to form its decisions re
specting the unemployed. These decision ice re not
come to arbitrarily, nor without ample investigation
of this difficult problem, but were on the contrary the
result of an exhaustive study of all the aspeefs of this
question. Tim necessity of the steps taken as rec
ognized as unavoidable. In short, I feel justified in
referring your Eminence to the considerations;, which
I set out in my letter of October L'6. The reasons you
allege for combating them vest cither on the mistaken
interpretation you ryitv fici, or aic derived from
theories which from their very nature I cannot ud
niit, for such widespivad unemployment in Belgium
is a serious, sore in the body politic, and from this
point of view a benefit would be conferred on the uiv
employed if work were provided for them in Germany.
In this sense the stepo taken are by no means con
trary to the desire I expressed to your Eminence the
very moment I arrived in Belgium, to remedy the
evils the war has inflicted on the Belgian people. I
must also maintain that your Eminence fails to under
stand the reality of facts, when you seek to deny my
efforts to restore the economic life of Belgium ef
forts which have often been crowned with eucccss, and
also when you say that so far from favoring the resto
ration of indush-y, the occupying power has endeav
ored to create an artificial state of unemployment.
England has imposed unacceptable conditions on the
importation of raw materials into Belgium and on the
exportation of manufactured goods. These questions
wov at the proper moment the subject of constant
negotiations, with- the competent authorities of Bel
gium and neutral countries. I will not enter into
details; that tvould take me too far afield. I content
myself with repealing that in their ultimate analysis
the deplorable conditions that obtain in Belgium are
a result of the English blockade just as the confisca
tion of raw material was a measure also dictated
by that policy. Again, I am absolutely convinced that
from the economic point of view the occupying power
guarantees to Belgium all the advantages which can
be secured for her, taking into account the distress
caused by England.
In carrying out the steps taken with i-gaYd to
the unemployed, my officials have met, with a long
series of difficulties entailing annoyances, which have
reacted also upon the whole population. All that
could have been avoided, had the various municipal
bodies shown good will and facilitated the execution
of these measures.
In the actual circumstances it was. needful to
adopt more general measures, the first result of which
was to oblige persons other than the unemployed to
answer the roll-call. But arrangements were made to
preclude all possibility of error, hul those belonging
to certain professions were dispensed from appealing,
while genuine appeals arc cither heard at once or
passed on for investiaation. t
From all the above facts, your Eminence will
perceive the impossibility of complying with your
desire to put a stop to the line of action we. have
decided upon, but, on the contrary, the cx-?cutiou of
these measures, in spite of all the difficulties we meet
with, will he carried out in thn bri' inteiv'stx of nil
(Signed) BARON VON BISSING,
(CONTINUED TOMORROW)
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