TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1914-10-30

contact with the enemy.
ENGLAND DEMANDS CONNER.
clAL SUPREMACY
The second foe now threatening
the destruction 81 Germany Is ing
land. Can 4 be truly said that Eng
lands hostility has been brought
about BY German agarcssionf True,
Germany has built ! powerful navy
but so have Japan, the United States,
france and even Italy, has Eng
land felt any menace from thesef
Why, then, Is the German navy sim
aled out as a specially sinister threat
10 EnRland7 II Germany, in her
scheme OF naval construction, had
put the main emphasis upon the
building OF fast cruisers, England
might properly have resented this as
a menace 10 her commerce all over
the globe. But the German naval
programme has aimed at nothing Of
the kind. II has had IN view above all
the building Of a feet Of battleships,
that is, OF a feet for coast defense.
The course Of the war thus far is a
striking proof of this defensive ma
ture Of the German navy. Germanys
weakness in fast cruisers has enabled
the English feet 70 sweep German
commerce of the seas; but the Ger
man battle feet still guards success
fully the German coast.
Has the German diplomacy during
the last generation been particularly
mcnaeinE to England Germany has
acquired some colonies in Africa and
in the far cash But what are KAN
a-un and Dar-es-Salaam and kiao-
chau compared with the colonies OF
the other great powersl Where has
Germany pursued a colonial aggres-
siveness that could in any way be
compared with the British subjuea-
ton Of the South African republics
or the Italian conquest OF Tripoli or
the French expansion in Algiers,
Tunis and Morocco What recent
international transaction Of a more
purely defensive character is there
on record than the cedinR to Eng
land, in 1890, Of the important Ger
man proteetorate of Zanzibar, in ex-
change f~s the barren little North
Sea Island OF Heligoland? Wherever
Germany has made her influence felt
on the globe she has stood for the
principle OF the open door. Wher-
ever she has engaged in colonial en-
terprises she has been willing to
make compromises with other ma
tiens and to accept their co-opera-
ton, notably so in the Bagdad rail
way undertaking. And yet the colo
Mai expansion Of every other nation
is hailed by England as beneficial tc
mankind as work for civilization"
the slightest attempt Of Germany &c
take part in this expansion is de.
nounced as "intolerable aggression,
as evidence of the 'bullying tenden'
cies OF the War Lord"
What is the reason for this singular
unFairness OF England toward Ger.
many; OF this incessant attempt to
check her and hem her ins Not SC
much the existence Of a large Ger
man navy as the e-ncroaehment upor
English commerce by the rapidly
growing commerce OF Germany has
made Germany hateful to England
1.-The navy has simply added to Thu
hate Of Germany the dread Of Ger
many. But if there had been no Ger
man navy, and consequently ne
dread of Germany, this hate OF Ger.
many might have come to an explo'
sion before now. For the history o.
the last 300 years proves that Eng
land has habitually considered as he
mortal enemy any nation which
dared to contest her commercial ant
industrial supremacy-hrst, Spain
then Holland, then France, and nov
Germany. AS long as German lrm'
by the manufacture OF artificial indigo
keep on running the English impor
tation OF indigo from India, aud a.
long as the Hamburg-Amerlcan Linz
and the North German Lloyd keel
on outstripping the prestige OF th'
Cunard and White Star, there can b.
no real friendship between England
and Germany. Although England
has repeatedly proposed to German,
naval agreements, these agreement
were avowedly meant to %perpetuatl
the overwhelming prepouderanee o
England's fighting power, so that sht
would at any moment be in a position
to crush German commercial rivalr,
for all time. She apparently think
that this moment has now come.
RUSSIA CHALLENGED GER
MANY
That Germany's third impiacablt
enemy, Russia, is clearly the aggres
sor, and not the defender Of her owl
national existence, need hardly b
demonstrated. She poses as tn
guardian Of the Balkan states. But
there any case on record where Rus
STA has really protected the indenend
ence Of smaller neighboring coun
triesi Has she not crushed out pro
vineisl and racial individuality wher
ever she has extended her power? /
il not the sole aim Of her nationa
policy to Russiauize forcibly ever,
nationality under her sway2 In Fin
land she has gone back on her sol
emily pledged word to maintain III
Finnish constitution, and is ruthlessl
|, reducing one OF her most highly de
. veloped provinces TO the dead level o
/. autocratic rule. In her Baltic prov
inces she is trying to destroy roo
and branch whatever there is left Q
German culture. Wherever the Rus
/ sion church holds dominion. ~intellec
tual blight is sure to follow. j.
|, think, therefore, that Russia woul
! promote the free development of
number of independent Balkan state
, under her p~rotectorate, is to shu
! ones eyes to the whole history Q
|, Russian expansion. No. Russian ex
|. pansion in the Balkans means moth
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