The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-30
CALMING THE BLARMlST
No Danger of War Between Tn
Gle Sam and Germany.
FEARS OF BIGELOw DIsPELLED.

Khiscr's Request To- thc President To-
Allow Miss nooscyc.t 90 ChriStcn
His New Nacht Considered Most
Significant Political Tcncc Offer
ting. stamping Al TaIL OF war a.
prcpoStcrous.
"Wlthin the rcNt six months We may
fight Germany Just as Euyly ns we
fought Spain" said poulncy Bigelow,
the able and well known expert ON the
German emperor Now. he too, seems
to have Joined the possible war With
Germany shoulcrs. Senator Lodge. ac-
cordin" to nm editorial iu the New Yorl,
World. is the chief exponent Of this
idea lie has warned the country from
his place IN the senate, vigorously
pounding his desk ana mclodiously
rolling his RS Wise old men In the
senate say Lodge wants another war
50 thpt he can write history about II.
Has the alert E,gclaw the same ambi-
tlonI
IL this bloody couG!ct is impending.
the public that must ruruish the men
and money for jhr enterprise should bc
told where e win ho fought Will the
United States raise % milton men and
send them to Gormaryt low will the
invaders lc trau>unrlcdt Where will
they land; How win they hc fed, with a
bnse of supplies @CJn miles away. or IL
that problem To "" solved 10y the capt..
ulation Of Gcrmnuys 2.CNOuO soldiers
as soon as the United States fleet ap-
pears in the otliug? Perhaps Germany
will elect 10 fight in this country. How
, will her million men be brought here
and where will they land? Would moth
ing happen TO them on the way across
with the American navy TO dispute the
passage? Is II TO be naval war;
| Then Germany is in bland Ignorance
OF the relative strength of the navles Of
| the two countries2 Or have the Lodges
and the Bigelows discovered vast and
misty plain midway between the seas,
neutral ground where the armies can
! clash1
! VIII the distinguished and prophetic
Mr.. Bigelow please answer
one OF the peculiar reasons for poult-
ney Blgelow's forebodings is found In
this paragraph of his speech:
when the German aristocrat real
izes that the United States has invad-
cd Europe for the purpose of dominat-
ing the market, he is just ignorant and
conceited enough TO believe he can i'm
prove conditions by fight for com
mercial supremacy"
IL this were true, which is more than
doubtful, the German aristocrat would
be as ignorant and conceited as many
American journalists and some sena-
tors. The German emperor and the
German statesmen are able men and
have full and complete information
They know that geographically Ger.
many Is more exposed to danger than
any country In Europe. The empire Is
surrounded by foes, some of them
hereditary and most Of them malig
nant. With France on the west sigh
ing for revenge, with Russia on the
east waiting for an opportunity, Aus
tria to the south remembering Sadow0
and Silesia, Denmark in the north still
pining for Sleswick- Holstein and dis
contented Poles and French within hei
borders. no country is so completely
surrounded by dangerous neighbors
Invasion of the United States would
mean an invasion of Germany by some
one or all of them as soon as the Ger
man transports were hull down on the
horizon.
Emperor William has talked foolish
ly at times, but he has acted foollshly
rarely. The impression that he holds
war lightly is absolutely untrue. His
whole record proves the contrary. Ht
Is anxious to preserve peace will
France. with Russia, with Austria
with England. with everybody. HI
maintains a marvellous army, but b'
has been studlously courteous to th'
countries with which he might easll,
be at odds. He may be the war lore
for home copsumption-comic paper
are fond OF 50 clubbing him-but II 4
preposterous 10 talk OF the kaiser al
an autocrat who could declare war
even II he would, by the snap OF hi
fingers or the stamp of his foot Em
peror William can no more declare wa
of his own volition than can Mr.. Poult
ney Bigelow. His powers are iimite'
by the constitution, by the bundesratl
and the representatives, Of the twent.
odd sovereign states OF Germany with
out whose consent no war can be dc
clared. by the German parliament. pub
lie opinion-yea, by the press.
Any one familiar with the llteratur
OF German politics, and especially tn
interesting Bismarck literature, canno
fail TO be impressed by the extraoI
dlnary Importance Bismarck himsel
attached 10 the power of the press a
an indispensable agency in the shapin
of public opinion. He may have dc
splsed the press as sometimes exceed
ingly inconvenient and dlsagreeable {
his plans. but all the lives Of Bis
marck, whether that of Busch or Br
cher or Low or Poschlnger or Kende
or his own memoirs. show an incessau