The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-02-19
LINING THE ALARMIST
No Danger of War Between I'm.
Gle Sam and Germany.

Kaiser's Request to the President to
Allow Miss Roosevelt to Christen
His New Yacht Considered a Most
Significant Political Peace Offer
ing, Stamping All Talk Of War as
PrepOsterOus.
"Within the next six months we may
fight Germany just as gayly as we
fought Spain," said Poultney BigelOw
the able and well known expert on the
German emperor. Now, he, too, seems
to have Joined the possible war With
Germany shouters. Senator Lodge ac-
cording to an editorial in the New York
World, is the chief exponent of this
idea. He has warned the country from
his place in the senate, vigorously
pounding his desk and melodiOusly
rolling his RS. Wise old men in the
senate say Lodge wants another war
so that he can write history about it.
Has the alert Bgelow the same ambi-
ton?
If this bloody conflict is impending.
the public that must furnish the men
and money for the enterprise should be
told where it will be fought Will the
United States raise a million men and
send them to Germany? How will the
invaders be transported? Where will
they land? How will they be fed; With
base Of supplies 5000 miles away, or is
that problem to be solved by the capt.
ulation of Germanys 100000 soldiers
as soon as the United States fleet APP
pears in the offing? Perhaps Germany
will elect to 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 it to be a naval war?
Then Germany is in bland ignorance
of the relative strength of the navies OF
the two countries? Or have the Lodges
and the Bigelows discovered vast and
misty plain midway between the seas.
neutral ground where the armies can
clash?
Will the distinguished and prophetic
Mr.. Bigelow please answer?
One of the peculiar reasons for POult-
ney Bigelow's forebodings is found in
this paragraph of his speech:
when the German aristocrat real
ICES that the United States has invad-
ed 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"
If 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 Sadowa
and Silesia, Denmark in the north still
pining for Sleswick HolStein and dis
contented Poles and French within her
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 ali 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 fooliShly
rarely. The impression that he holds
war lightly is absolutely untrue. His
whole record proves the contrary. He
is anxious to preserve peace with
France, with Russia. with Austria.
with England, with everybody. He
maintains a marvellous army, but he
has been studiously courteous to the
countries with which he might easily
he at odds. He may be the war lord
for home consumption-comic papers
are fond of so clubbing him-but it is
preposterous to talk of the kaiser as
an autocrat who could declare war,
even if he would. by the snap Of his
fingers or the stamp of his foot. EN-
peror William can no more declare war
of his own volitiOn than can Mr.. Poult-
ney Bigelow. His powers are limited