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B. M. BEHRENDS, R. WILLIS GUY McNAUGHTON.
President Vice Pre#. * ■ ' Cashier
Gives Opinion on
European War
(Continued from Paee 1.)
rough usage of war, aud Germany
did u°t wish to wait until the
■ French army was so armed. Furth
! cr, the disclosure made in the
' French senate this spring as to
.'the unprepared state of the French
! army, made Germany think she
could not choose a bettor time for
attacking France. Thirdly: That
Great Britain was virtually in the
throes of civil war over the Irish
question and could, therefore, take
no part in a continental war. By
the same rule of thumb and Pre
cision that has made her army the
greatest fighting machine the world
has ever seen, so Germany, to her
own satisfaction, decided that
i things were as she thought they
! were and, therefore, thinking thus
she decided that for her own ends
NOW>was the right time to wage
war, and so by mechanical reason
ing she just started it.
But there is just one thing Ger
many forgot to take into account,
and that was human nature. Highly
educated as her population is, Ger
many is not civilized, aud so long
as the great bulk of her population
is content to be ruled by a privi
leged class she never can be civiliz
ed and acquire a taste of the
higher feelings that embody honor
and the iuate love of keeping one's
word. Her habitual abuse of the
word culture shows -that Germany
'has no culture in the same sense
that the other nations at war have,
French, English, Russian, Belgians
and Austrians. Hence, Germany
did not know that nations would
prefer to be extinguished and blot
to out forever, rather than lose
their honor or break their pledged
word, and just as a tiny piece of
grit 'n the oil of a perfect machine
will prevent that machine working,
so did little Belgium, by her heroic
resistance at Liege aud elsewhere,
stop for a time Germany's great war
machine and gave the much needed
"time for France to mobilize. No
sooner was the sma^l piece of Bel
gian grit removed and Germany's
war machine set going again, when
another piece of grit in the shape
of the "contemptible ltttle British
army'' again stopped the perfect
mechanical machine. Once more
was Germany's plans for a military
promenade to Paris upset, and this
one? more gave the French the
needed time tQ bring further rein
forcements "Into line and turn the
■tide of invasion back. And once
more did htiman nature—in U*e
shape of Tommy Atkins—who
against all the rules of war did not
know when he w-as beaten upset
Germany's rule of thumb calcula
tions and spoil the face of Germany
pretty first line army. Then again
dl<* the. German rule of thumb take
no account of the human nature
governing Italy. " Because there wa
a defensive alliance, Germany
thought Italy would surely take the
advantage of joining the side that
"Germany thought must be -the win
ning side, but Italy refused to join
in a war of aggression, or fight
against England and France. Thus,
did human nature spoil the smooth
running of both the German me
chanical machines—the military ma
chine and the diplomatic machine
and let the world thank God for
that. " ~
Besides Germany's big mobile
Sims, one of the surprises of the
war is the apparent unanimity of
the German people, socialists and
all, in supporting the despotic Em
peror and his junker and military
class. But we all know that in
time of "war the German-press Is
only a part of the great machine,
and that, therefore, the German
people only derive their knowledge
from what the government chooses
'o impart to the public, and the
government only chose to impart to
the .public the myth that Germany
strove for peace to the end, and the
people, simple souls having for
years been ruled, got into the hab
't of believing all that these rulero
told them. They thus believe
that the German nation is fighting
1 for its existence because;
1st. The Russians personally hate
the Germans, and besides Germany
bars the way to Constantinople,
j 2nd. That the French hate the
• Germans and desire revenge and
' want to regain Alsace and Lorraine
; torn from France in 1871.
3rd. That the English hate tho
I Germans and are jealous of Ger
many's trade and, therefore, wisn
to destroy Germany.
None of these nations, I am per
suaded, hate the German people
as a people, the aglish least of
; all, but all three nations hate the
j arrogant, swaggering boor of the
| Junker class. One meets speci
i mens of this class at various fash
! ionable watering places in Eu
j rope, and they make themselves
j horribly v objectionable. At these
j places, Austrlans, Russians, French
j and English meet and take pleasure
In associating with each other, but
, who ever heard of any one of these
nationalities associating with the
Germans?
Russia, Prance, and England,
none of them wanted war; all they
wished -was to be left alone to de
velop their peaceful industries. To
say that England, at this time es
pecially, was Jealous of Germany's
trade is just to say a stupid
thing and untrue. in the first
Place, Germany was one oj England's
best customers and England did an
enormous trade with her. What
would you think of a merchant do
ing a large business with another
merchant and deliberately quarrel
ing with him because the other mer
chant was also doing well In busi
ness? secondly, never before has
England been so prosperous; her im
ports and exports, year after year,
have increased by leaps and bounds,
and never before was there so small
a percentage of unemployment. If
England wanted to bo jealous of
Germany's trade she simply had
not the time to be, for all her man
ufactories were busy and all her
population employed. NO, Dr.
Derneberg and Count Bernsdorf
and Herr Herman Ridder, that cock
Of yours won't fight. A very emi
nent Austrian, now naturalized in
England, said before I left England
that if Sir Edward Grey's despatch
es and his Speeches to the bouse
of commons could be read by the
German people, that they would then
for the first time learn what they
are fighting foh, and the mass of
them would pause and reflect before
they went like Bheep to the slaught
er.
We have only tp read Sir Edward
Grey's despatches and speeches to
know that England, at all events,
did not want to fight wantonly, and
to know how Sir Edward even went
so far as to say, I quote bis own
words to the English Ambassador at
Berlin, requesting them to be con
veyed to the German Chancellor,
(page 101 of the penny edition of
the White Book);*
"You should—add most
earnestly that the one way of
maintaining the good relation
between England and Germany
is that they should continue to
work together to preserve the
peace of Europe. For that ob
ject this government will work
in that way with all sincerity
and good will.
"If the peace of Europe can
be preserved and the present
crisis safely passed, my Own
endeavor will be to promote
some arrangement to which
Germany could be a pa.rty, by
which She could lie aaourod that
n0 agressive or hostile policy
would be pursued against her
or her allies by France, Rus
sia, and ourselves, jointly or
separately. I have desired this
and worked for it."
And also read what Sir M. de
Bunsen, the English ambassador in
Vienna, writes In his report after
reaching London on August 11th,
that on the 1st of August:
"The Austrian ambassador in
St. Petersburg had at last con
ceded the main point at issue
by announcing to the Russian
minister for foreign affairs,
that Austria would oensent to
submit to mediation, the points
in the note to Servia which
seemed incompatible with the
maintenance of Servian inde
pendence."
No sooner was there this
chance of Russia and Austria com
ing to an understanding than Ger
many frustrated it by suddenly de
claring war against Russia, and
thus bringing nearly all the whole
world into a state or war and of
disturbance. These two facts alone
cannot be argued away, and I think
it an insult to tile intelligence of
the American people for any German
to try and put it ever them that
Germany desired peace and that
the other nations were the agres
sors.
I am also asked as an English
man to give my views on the at
titude of the United States. If
England were fighting for anything
else than its own honor involved
in its signature to a scrap of paper,
and if England were not fighting
for the liberty of the smaller na
tions and for democracy against
class Tule, I should not have the
assurance to give my views to Am
ericans. But the United States
has the same ideals for'which Eng
land is fighting, and I have not yet
met an American in my travels to
the Pacific coast and back, wbo
does not sympathise with the allies
and little Belgium in the struggle
for liberty. But when it is a case
of a great nation endeavoring, by
force of arms, to compel other na
tions to adopt her ideaig of brute
force "kulture" and when it is a
case^ of autocracy and class rule
fighting against liberty and
democracy, and when the American
people see a small nation composed
of orderly, peaceful, and liberty lov
lng people destroyed by the devas
tating armies of the War L°rd who
claims to be the Vice Regent of
Christ on earth, then somehow I
should, were I an American, have
an uneasy feeling that my nation
was not doing its share' toward hu
manity by leaving it to others to
fight a great evil, and by so do
ing let other nations fight for the
principles ^lways strongly upheld
bjr the American nation. There
fore, I think that were I an Ameri
can I would feel happier if my coun
try were taking a more active part
in the fight for liberty that Is
now going on. I should remember
that when my forefathers were fight*
ing for their just liberties, some
120 years ago, it was France that
came to their help, and the sur
render of Yorktown would perhaps
have never occurred if the French
fleet had not prevented reinforce
ments from reaching the British.
Now a considerable portion of France
is in the hands of an oppressor, an
enemy of true liberty. And later
in your Spanish war, who stood by
Admiral Dewey at Manila when the
German fleet showed signs of help
ing the Spanish fleet? And who
but England put down Germany's at
tempt when she wanted Europe to
send a fleet to compel the U. S.
fleet and army to evacuate Cuba?
If, however, sentimental reasonf
alone are not enough excuse for
the United States to tak?" an
active part in the war, it seems to
me that reasons of a practical na
ture should impel her to join 'n
killing the mad dog of militarism.
Let U3 just for a horribly brief
moment consider what would hap
pen to the U. S. if Germany should
win. Europe would' 'become a
German province. William would
be the Emperor of Europe. He
would have command not only of
his own fleet, but also those of
France and England. It is the
avowed policy of Germany to get
colonies, and it is well known that
Germany has only so far kept
hands off Brazil because of the
Monroe Doctrine. But with Eng
land and France beaten, and Ger
many master of their fleets, and
with her victorious army in full
training and experienced in war.
Germany under existing conditions
would take just such portions of the
American ' continent as she
wanted to ami yieeded, and would
not ask the permission of the Un
ited States. No fleet nor army
possessed by the United State*
could prevent Germany from becom
ing the paramout power on the Am
erican continent, and we should
have the spectacle of the United
States also having to acknowledge
the supremacy of the War Lord?
and have to bow before- the Prus
einn Junker. Is this not the se
quence of the inevitable march of
events if Germany wins?
But even if victorious artd Germaiy
did not think it worth while to at
tack the United States by force of
arms, she has another, and just aB
efficacious a way of reducing tho
United states from her present
prosperous condition. Germany
openly says if she wins she will an
nex all her opponents' colonies and
dependencies. There is just this
difference between England having
dependencies and colonies, and other
nations having them; England al
lows any other nation to trade on
equal terms with herself in her de
pendencies, and each of England's
colonies fix , for themselves their
own fiscal and tariff arrangements
with no interference from England.
But in all Germany's colonies
there is a very high tariff against
all but German manufactories. And
just for one moment more of hor
lible supposition—if Germany won
what would happen? Germany
master of Iudia, Egypt, Australia,
Canada and all English, colonies,—
Germany the paramount power in
China, and in all France's colonies
—what would she do? Why just
raise a tariff barrier iu all those
nations; and what nations would
there be left for the United States
to trade with? Let Americans an
swer that question f°r theemselves.
Of course, this is an unthinkable
picture and the allies are going to
win without further help, but let
Americans ask themselves are they
quite comfortable in their minds in
letting other nations fght their bat
tles for them? Should Germany
win it would not avail the United
States to hastily arm herself and
create large armies and build
great fleets. This would osten
sibly be done for defense against
Germany, and cold calculating rule
of-thumb Germany would not give
the United States time tc arm her
self but would be on to her before
she could become dangerous. And
once more, let Americans ask them
selves would it not be better, as I
have said before, to help kill the
mad dog of militarism now, rather
'han to try and kill it when it may
have bitten to death all its pres
ent opponents, and would th^i turn
On the one remaining nation that
stood in its way of being the upper
dog of the whole world.
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