Arizona republican., 1910-01-10
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The uproar or EnglandS S political | campaign is awakening answering | echoes in Germany, where the Brit | ish Conservative orators references ] to the period of Germany's naval and industrial activity have forced the question of Anglo German relations | into renewed prominence. Not since | the time of the Kruger telegram has the subject occupied public attention
 more fully than today. Although most
 of the newspapers, partly in obedience
 to official restraints, are guarded in
 their utterances. MT. Balfours re-
 cent speech pointing out the dangers
 of German rivalry has unloosed
 flood of angry and sarcastic com
 ment. Many magazines and weeklies print long articles in which the situa-
 ton is reviewed.
 According to the opinion most generally expressed here, the British
 agitation on this subject is only an
 electioneering device, which is not to
 be taken too seriously. There is no
 lack of signs, however. that the pa tience of the public is wearing out"
 It is not alone the statesmen of
 England-especially former Premier
 Balfour and his associates of the unionist party-that are warning the British people against the danger of
 neglecting to keep pace with Ger
 many's plain preparations for war Even the socialists, who theoretically are opposed to all war, are joining the other classes in the outcry. Thus, Robert Blatchford, the editor of a widely circulated socialist paper, is attracting attention throughout the
 United Kingdom by his appeals to his countrymen to prepare for the inevi- table Anglo. German struggle. One the Daily Mail. is making a feature of his articles. and in that journal he says:
 The policy of Germany is the Bis marckian policy of deliberate and ruthless conquest, with world domin- ion for its goal The traditional pol icy of Britain is the expansion of the empire and the maintenance of the balance of power in Europe.
 It is not for the general good that any single power should domi- nate Europe. It would not be well that Britain, or France, or Italy, or Russia should dominate Europe. It would not be well that Germany should dominate Europe. It is desirable that Britain and France and Germany and Italy and Holland should be free and strong and independent. It is de- sirable that those nations should pre- serve their integrity and should re- main free to realize the genius of their peoples.
 But in the pursuit of a quite un- lawful ambition the Pan Germans men, ace the honor and liberty of the Brit ish, and the Branch. and the Danes. and the Dutch. All Europe is to be Teutonized. We are all to be drilled and schooled and uniformed and tax ed by Prussian officials, and the Elm peror William II >is to rule us with a rod of iron.
 That is the Pan German dream. | That is the ambition which is driving Germany into a war of aggression | against this country"
 The naval development of Ger many affords ample proof of this prophecy, he says. To quote his words:
 'The strongest evidence of Ger many's designs against Britain is the | German navy. There can be no | stronger evidence of any nations in | tention to make war than that af- | forded by wholesale, feversh and | systematic preparations for war
 NOW the German preparations are | naval preparations. Against whom | cah these preparations be directed if | they are not directed against us? | Manifestly, they are not meant for | Russia, nor for France, nor for Ameri- ca The magnitude of the prepara tions points to a prospective strug i gle with a fleet more powerful than that of Russia or France. The con- struction of the German ships pro- hibits their use in distant seas. against Japan, for instance, or tine United States. .>And whereas we have been told in a hundred books and newspapers and pamphlets and speeches that the German navy is meant to wrest from Britain her command of the sea, it would be diff ficuIt to find a single German sug- gestion that the German navy is meant to try conclusions with any power other than Britain. Germany can reach France or Russia by land. Her fleet is already more than a match for Russia and France com bined.
 Her fleet is built for the North Sea, it is exercised in the North Sea, .aft it,s
 Her ships are buin dgaInst our ships. the object of the German builders being always to go one bet ter than the British in each type"
 He proceeds with the following striking words of counsel and warn- ing:
 The Bismarck theory of blood and iron has the great merit of being simple and concise. The German theory of warfare fits it as a bludgeon fits the hand of a footpad. Full steam ahead is the motto for the German navy. Forward is the motto for the army. Go straight for the enemy and smash him. Never mind the cost. We have plenty of men. We can afford heavy losses. But we must win.