The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-18

suppose there are plans for the
Invasion Of England in some pigeon
hole in Berlin. It 10 the business OF
the General Staff and the Board OF
Admiralty to exercise their brains on
such problem. I also suppose there
are. alongside Of these. various other
interesting projects regarding marches
TO Paris, defences Of the German
coasts and so on, though out last
,sone day England starts shooting. ]
impose that whitehall conceals SINH
l Rr documents to be busted and
NJ 10 not the point. What wanted
400npw was: Does Germany mean 70
0ayofa slap ut usf
I Wherever We went there were roses
roses ali the way. That abstraction,
IL ~oerman people," has no more In
Ann<5on u lighting us than OF eating
~ r. regards England as friend
WITH whom II desires to be at peace,
ana from whom II hopes to draw pro-
nka But was told that recently the
abstraction 10 beginning to look upon
~ with new curiosity. A deputation
o. Englishmen came to meet me at
Eranhfort and begged Of me to tell
England that what with "scareships"
lths most universally understood Eng
afsh word In Germany at the momenC
ana German spies and troops in the
Humber. the German people" are be-
ginning 30 fear that their neighbor Ii
getting into Q dangerously 1umpy
frame Of mind, and that she win start
shooting like the Russian Meet on the
Dogger, or like Western States miner
IN the old days who had been put
ting too great O strain on his nerves
The feeling Of "the people" being
an abstraction. haunted me up the
Rhine and in the other districts away
from Berlin. You speak 10 worthy
citizens but they do not appear to con-
troll political events; you discuss with
Members of Parliament only TO ma
that they are not members OF Par
ssamant hut Of the Reichstas. which
IL not a Parliament; you try to UNDER
stand why groups (which agree ana
which together would make maJortties
are impotent and you discover tnat
something divides classes and schools
Of different political dohmas more
than seas or tariff walls.
But In Berlin! In Berlin you know
Won are In Prussia. You have left
the vague ana come to the definite.
Berlin IL felt as a change In at
rnospheric pressure IL felt The Will
OF Berlin dominates the intention Of
Germany. And you feel as you drive
Among those brave new buildings pro-
claiming that the Hohenzollerns have
! forcefuI win, and only poor taste
that they are not to show you their
heart. that they are proud, that they
are holding themselves in hand TO greet
some world wide Imperial Germany.
They have mo repose in their lines.
rhey are all embodiments OF FORCE
more beautifully expressed than by
the new steel kartel building in Dus-
seldorf, but still force. unhappy force.
Parfs laughs; Berlins wills.
The Peaceful Intentions.
This minimizes the peaceful inten-
Sfona Of ''the people," One day while
walking under the cool shade Of palm
trees, my ears full of soothing splash
OF fountains, one of the German Navy
Leagne "intellectuals' unfolded his
mind to me. He was in favor of peace;
ne was q special friend of England;
ne was q Liberal and free Trader.
Buf economic power had now to be
hccompanied by political power. Eng
hand could no more keep mistress OF
the seas than she could remain the
workshop of the world. The will and
intention OF mani Pooh! He brushed
that aside as he would a gossamar. He
was thinking Of laws as insistent as
those which keep the universe to-
wether. It was not the will of Ger.
many. IL was not the agitation of
Ainre marty, 1t was the cosmic mind
which had brought the German Navy
Teague into existence. National pride
how. Then again, geography was
very unfortunate for Germany. It's
commerce. could not go out of its own
door without passing the windows OF
England. That was troublesome, ana
cornpelled Germany to build a navy
that would be useful in making war
dffficult-to put 1t politely.
Rut quite apart from England Ger
rnany's navy was necessary for her
European and world politics. 1t was
not building against England That
was too mean an idea for a cosnic
theory. Germany was simply mea-
surfing its needs, and was developing
steadily. as It was compelled by ma.
ture to do. So with the idea that
Germany was speeding up its construc-
ton. Germany was not speeding up.
If II fought, the time could not come
for twenty years, for Germany had
much to settle before 1t could fight
England. Germany feared America,
must secure itself against France.
must be quite certain of Russia. Ger
many speeding to fight now. The very
suggestion Is an insult to German in
telligence.
For German Glory.
1 asked how a general strike on
the eye of the outbreak OF hostilities
would At in with the cosmic proces%
but he would hear of nothing up
setting nature. The twentieth century
was for Germany as the nineteenth had
been for England. That was declared
in the nature of things.
Here lies in reality, the one menace
of any account. There is a Pan-Ger-
manic movement, active, knowing its
own mind, and therefore influential
belond it's numbers. There is an in
kellectual movement. fatalist and ma
1erialist in its character. There is a
professional military desire to add
the fame Of England to that Of France
Austria, and Denmark spoils. These
movements work together on the ma
tional mind and policy.
Against them is a vast and massive,
but unorganized, public opinions OPP
posed to war of any kind, a desire on
the part of the Industrial classes TO
be allowed to carry on their trade In
peace. There is al so a political move
ments partly fiscal. against protection:
xnents; partly fiscal, against protection
partly democratic, against the Prus-
Sian ascendancy and in favor of a re-
sponsible Government. German poll
teal dogmatism by keeping the margin
of parties clearly apart from each
other. and German protection by en-
frenching powerful economic interests
and oppressive political privileges in
the same camp, have put obstacles in
THE way OF these liberal and liberaliz-
ang movements. But one cannot dis
cuss politics in Berlin for half an
hour with anyone who knows what is
lgoing on without being driven to the
that the "cosmic law" of
liberalism is insistentlT working IT.
self out in German Bill, the recent