Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-09-04

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II may not be entirely without pub
nc advantage II one who has now fol
nearly three decades endeavored t.
understand the spirit and mind o.
Germany aud the trend Of its nationa
movements adds confirmation that. Ia
spite Of all internal discords. the pres.
ent war il for Germany a war Of the
nation. To say that does not impl,
that all Germans viii applaud the war
or indcrse the diplomacy which pre-
eeded Il. All Germans know. how
ever. that the struggle for their coun.
try IL now one Of existence. and. leav-
I Ing the settlement Of domestic differ
ences for more convenient season,
they will throw into their seales all
their resources OF life and treasure
and fight with the desperation Of men
who are a death grips with fate
only observers whose heads have
been III the clouds can have supposed
that AZ such time even the anti
national, = "fatherland- betrayings' So
ciaI democrats would hesitate TO es.
pause Enthusiastically their eountry's
cause. Doubtless the great majority
~ the German working CLASSES hate
war. and their parliamentary leaders
have vigorously protested against mill
Itarism IN season and out Of season:
but Notwithstanding all that our pa
eiflHt ldeaiists al home may belIeve, or
believe that they belIeve. this army
md military service arc Immensely
popular with masses Of the German
people. ANA to cherish the idea that
popular disaffeetion may weaken the
German position Is TO cherish dan
gefous illusion
No German IsevointIon Likely.
Il has been suggested thnf series
Of reverHes to Gefman arms in the
early stages Of the war might praeIpI-
tate revolution. Let uH not delude
ourselves hy any such futile assump-
ton. The army would deal ruthlessly
with revolutionary movements IL they
showed themselves in any Of the anti
German or Waterman enclaves
But The German himself IL not revoIu-
tloHary by temperament. out Of PruH-
sin the auti@monarchieal sentiment il
INCONSISTENT even among the working
elaaaee. and IN Prussia itself II exists
only In thfery protest against
The nnsympathrtie spirit Of an iron
rule
There In a deep longing In north
Germany for greater liberty. vet
HesDe's Ribe ls still true that the
German iDves liberty a. he loves. rrbf
his wife tthe Engllshmanl. or his
mistress 1.-THE Frenchmanl. Int his
grandmother. In the south political
liberty Il already far more than
name The issue Of the war Hiay mol
Theoretically change The entire com. |
plexion Of GERMAN political life
therein lies for Germany. tn my ppin4 |
lou The us1 bright srpt upon It's hnri-
zpn~-hui Il il too early to speculate
upon that question. m
Dual German sentimrsif.
! write with desire not q infiame
but fvthef 70 sober and steel the pub
ilc mind There H. GERMANY truly
and sincerely friendly 70 England. but
there y 4 Germany hliterIy hustle 10
Hritaihs enxinua NJ once IT our wealth. t
ouH commercial prluacy. our prestige
and oar empire. and II Ii this enssous
Germany which il behind the kaiser
u hiA insenaate war upon European
civilization. M
Even II the British foreign seere.
tAfg had listnned Il the wils.s Of the /
eharmer and had consented III ex-
plunge thu word honor forever from 1
our vaeahuary. do not LEI ary one i'm 8
agine That England would have been