Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-19
Tsu'ons Fear Revenge! Of
France.
PAPER GIVES GRIM WARNING
Asserts Two Nations Must Clash When
European Trouble oeeurs-kaissr's
Subjects Hoardins MilIions-Frsneh
Writer Points 70 Great Injury to AT
by War Scare.


Gazette published recently an extraor-
binary leading article headed THE
Nichief Maker" In which It says:
1T will not be difficult for the Ger
man government to justify the neces-
sity for the army increase II it will
only speak out plainly aud, without
mincing words, indicate the point
from which danger is threatened-as
all the world realizes, from France"
The paper says nobody underesti-
mates the gravity of the new condi-
lions in the Balkans, but when the
country ia asked to make such heavy
sacrifices chapter and verse must be
given, and the governments finger
must point to the precise spot from
which there is immediate peril-that
Is, France. 1t adds:
"Never were our relations with our
western neighbor SO strained rs to-
day. Never has the idea of revenge
been so openly Haunted. Never has it
been so apparent that. the French
made their Russian alliance and their
English friendship for the sole object
Of recapturing Alsace-Lorraine.
Franco. German War Certain.
zone thing is absolutely sure. When
ever the world catches fire the Ger
mans will have to cross swords with
the French. When that will happen
nobody can tell"
Wholesale realizations of foreign Sc
curities, notably Canadian Pacific
railway shares. are taking place in
Germany in order to relieve the I'M
precedented famine of gold and mon
ey. The stock exchanges in Berlin
and elsewhere in Prussia were closed
on the centenary Of the nations rise
against the Napoleonic oppressor.
To procure money investors are sac
rifcing their foreign holdings. This
condition has been brought about pri-
marily by the boarding craze which
has obsessed Germans since the out
break Of the war in the Balkans. It
has not been lessened by the nervous
ness Of their own government, as mani
tested by the gigantic army increase.
The sum now boarded by timid Ger
mans is estimated at between $112.-
10000 and $125, 100000. Merchants
and manufac turers report that it is be-
coming increasingly difficult to obtain
tire payment of-biiis even from custom
ers who have never before been delin-
quent.
Deficit In Banks.
Another aggravating factor is the
deficit caused by the withdrawal of
s1E
banks formerly kept on loan in Ger
many.
A money famine can only be relieved
from abroad. Gold must be imported.
England was drawn on one week to
the extent Of $1.5O0.OOO. and still heav-
Ter importations are in process Of ar
rangemene with the United States.
ut is the end Of French culture" is
cited as the opinion Of Anatole France
on the new French CONSUMPTION bill In
an interview sent to the London Daily
News by Harold Spender from Paris.
NJ. France Is further quoted as follows:
This addition to the yearly conscrip-
ton comes on us just when France Is
moving forward with new energy both
in science and industry. 1t will be q
grave blow to all our higher life. Medi-
cine especially will be injured. for the
medicine Of the army Is not the medi-
cine Of the civil state. French science
requires the time Of its young students,
and that will be gravely curtailed. The
demand for another barrack year from
all young Frenchmen imposed without
exemptions will draw of the best from
every field Of life.
10 Heavy Blow TO Art.
ut comes at a moment Of great in
dustrial development. 1t will check
that Development 1t comes at mo-
ment Of expansion in our arts. espe
cially in sculpture, and it will be
heavy blow Sculpture is not practiced
on the battlefield
Mr.. Spender declares that the mill
tarist spirit is at present supreme in
France and that other voices are not
likely to be heard. FOR the present at
least. The ordinary attitude Of the
Frenchman. he says. is one Of resigna
ton rather than aggression. but the
cry "a Berlin" which resounded
through the streets Of Paris before
1870. has been r1ised again.
GIRLS TO WAR ON AIGRETS.