The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-08-27

at your own home.-Advt.
a large amount of jealousy had been
engendered. The student Of history,
and for that matter any good n
sound-thinking business man, could
see that Germany, situated as she is,
will soone or later have to submit to
a severe test to maintain her position
in the world. Her statesmen knew
this and her people during the past
ten years gradually and earnestly re-
allied it.
Some ~patronizing ATTEMPTS in our
papers to separate the German kaiser
and the government from the German
people are foolish and out of place.
| There is no government anywhere in
| the world more in harmony with its
people and there is now no ruler, nor
has there been a ruler more beloved
and esteemed by his people than is the
German emperor by the German peO-
pie.
On the other hand, there vs. no such
thing on record as people with a poor
and weak government attaining to dis
tinction in industry and commerce.
Such a commerce may produce
Goethes and Schillers, etc, aud it is a
weak Germany that George Bernard
Shaw evidently prefers.
1t was the strong arm Of the gov
eminent which made possible the
glorious history of Venice and Of the
Italian republics.
The strong arm Of the Hanseatic
league was the cornerstone of it's
prosperity. The strong government Of
Burgundy gave to the FIandrish cities
the brilliant pages of their history.
And England did not attain to her
present position of wealth and domain
by her people herding sheep and writ
ing books. :
When English statesmen fount into
the face Of the world hat they must
have a navy big enough to drive every
other nation off the sea, Is this a max
i'm and a rule which Is fair? Is it not
reasonable to expect of those writer's
with whom the bump of fairness is SO
strongly developed, that trey should
protest against such arrogance n
that they should say the oceans are
the highways of all the people and
none should be permitted to assume
the role of bully?
Why should the Monroe doctrine not
make 1t incumbent upon the govern
ment Of the United States to tell Can
ada that 1t views with great displeas-
ure the mobilization of men and ships
to attack a European power, with
which 1t has no contention?
The statue Of Strassburg in Paris is
draped and every year the youths of
France are gathered there 10 pledge
themselves to a war of revenge While
this may possess considerable dramat-
lc charm, it certainly cannot be said
that 1t means rest n peace for the
neighbors. S~trassburg is a German
city and the people of Alsace are of
thorough German stock, the foolish
newspaper reports to the contrary
Notwithstanding. At the conclusion of
khN Ahf~t,V -y-n r-S Hrnr -Vh~- T@r-,,n NJ
was PROSTATE, having spilled her heart
blood and given her treasures for the
religious independence of the world,
the French under their generals, MelaC
and T~urrenne, without a declaration of
war invaded Germany, burnt and de-
vastated the western provinces all
along the Rhine and stole Strassburg
and Alsace.
Germany has to provide work and
livelihood for an annual increase in
population of approximately 100000.
The population of France is receding
or at best stationary. Germany must
ask for opportunity n foe an even
show. England has assisted in block
ing her way, not even shrinking from
going into partnership with the poor
est excuse of a government. namely
that Of Russia. The fair thinking men
of England have long claimed that the
attitude of their government toward
Germany is wrong.
Over 20, 900 Prussians gave their
lives at Ligny and Waterloo for the
independence of Belgium from France
Germany promised to respect this in
dependence and asked for permission
to march through a small portion or
the land while she is lighting Tor her
own existence. This would certainly
be a very small favor only compared
with the tremendous sacrif1ce OF which
Belgium was the beneficiary.
1t would seem to the fair and calm
| observer thai England had o reason
to get into this war on account Of Bel
| GUM. She must have Interior plans
and they probably include the desire
for more land and the absorption of
the German colonies in Africa. it a W
ing become known that some of them
contain diamond fields and are also
otherwise valuable.
The historian recording the march
Of events will scarcely lake note of
the hypocritical professions Of states
men called diplomacy. To him the fact
will stand out in bold relief that Ger
a success in industry, commerce
and shipping has become a thorn in
the eye o fthose who heretofore had
looked uopn the world and Its oppor-
t~unities as belonging to them, that
England went n partnership with
Russia and France to thwdrL German
legitimate aspirations everywhere and
that finally the German people became
tired of these intrigues and called the
bluff, ready to fight and to die for an
ideal for Independence and o%pportun1-
ty.
Geo. LutZ, Jamestown, N. D.
SONGS ON THE MARCH.