The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-01

Russia, France, and England, none of them wanted war; all they wished was to be left alone to de- velop their peaceful industries TO say that England, at this time es- pecially, was jealous of Germany's trade is just to say a stupid thing and untrue. In the first place, Germany was one Of England's s best customers and England did an enormous trade with her. What would you think of merchant do ing large business with another merchant and deliberately quarrel ing with him because the other mer- chant was also doing well in busi- ness? secondly, never before has England been so prosperous; her i'm ports and exports, year after year. have increased by leaps and bounds, and never before was there so small a percentage Of unemployment. If England wanted to be jealous of Germany's trade she simply had not the time to be, for all her man ufactories were busy and all her population employed. NO, pr. Derneberg and, Count Bernsdorf and Herr Herman Ridder, that cock Of yours won't fight. A very emi- nent Austrian, now naturalized in England, said before I left England that if Sir Edward Grey's despatch es and his speeches to the house Of commons could be read by the German people, that they would then for the first time learn what they are fighting for, and the mass of them would pause and reflect before they went like sheep to the slaught- CT.
 We have only to read Sir Edward Grey's despatches and speeches to know that England, at all events, did not want to fight wantonly, and to know how Sir Edward even went So far as to say, I quote his own words to the English Ambassador at Berlin, requesting them to be con yeyed to the German Chancellor, (page 1O1 Of the penny edition of the White Book):
 You should-add most
 earnestly that the one way of
 maintaining the good relation
 between England and Germany
 is that they should continue to
 work together to preserve the
 peace of Europe. For that ob-
 ject this government will work
 in that way with all sincerity
 and good will.
 If the peace of Europe can
 be preserved and the present
 crisis safely passed, my Own
 endeavor will be to promote
 some arrangement to which
 Germany could be a party, by
 which she could be assured that
 no aggressive or hostile policy
 would be pursued against her
 or her allies by France, Rus
 sia, and ourselves, jointly Or
 separately. I have desired this
 and worked for it"
 And also read what Sir M. de Bunsen, the English ambassador in vienna, writes in his report after reaching London on August 1lth, that on the 1st of August:
 The Austrian ambassador in
 St. Petersburg had at last con
 ceded the main point at issue
 by announcing to the Russian \
 minister for foreign affairs,
 that Austria would consent to
 submit to mediation, the points
 in the note to Seryia which
 seemed incompatible with the
 maintenance of Seryian inde-
 pendence."
 No sooner was there this last chance of Russia and Austria com ing to an understanding than Ger many frustrated it by suddenly de claring war against Russia, and thus bringing nearly all the whole world into a state of war and Of disturbance. These two facts alone cannot be argued away, and l thlnK it an insult to the intelligence Of the American people for any German to try and put it ever them that Germany desired peace and that the other nations were the agres- sors.
 am also asked as an English man to give my views on the at titude of the United States. II England were fighting for anything else than it's own honor involved in it's signature to a scrap or paper and if England were not fighting for the liberty of the smaller na- tions and for democracy against class rule, I should not have the assurance to give my views to Am ericans But the United states