The daily Alaskan., 1914-12-01

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 as we can very much as we were before the war. But, alas! many of us mourn the loss of relatives and friends, only we try as much as possible to console ourselves land each other by the thought that those killed in war gave t!.eir lives not only for their country, but also for humanity in general.
 There is no bombasL or boastings in England, but there is q quite grim determination that now we are in f. we shall just see the thing through at all costs and to the very end, and get rid once for all of the nightmare of militnrism that has been shattering the nerves of Europe for forty-two years
 I am also asked for my opinion as to the real cause of the war. Briefly, in my opinion, it is the last stand of all that is implied in Prussiau Junkerism and militarism against democracy and the liberty of the subject and this in turn in- plies the determination of the mili- tary class In Germany to force the entire world to acknowledge German brute. force supremacy, "Deutche uber 'alles" is their motto,
 Since the Franco-German war of .1S7O-1, the German people have been governed so methodically and so scientifically by their rulers, that they have since that time made Germany, in her manufactures and in her trade, one of the greatest nations of the world For cen turies before Germany wa7 united in 1871, that country has been the scene of countless wars, and was divided literally into hundreds Of independent municipalities and most of them with only few thousand inhabitants, and each principality with it's own system of coinage and weights and measures; therefore even inter-trade and man. ufacture was impossible under such conditions. But these municipalities were gradually consolidated into the IaadOuis Of Prussia, Hanover, sazony. Bavaria, Wurtemburg, and the Grand Duchy of Baden-Baden; moreover, certain towns, like Frank fort. Hamburg, etc. remained free towns But Ill, in 1871, were con soHdated into the great and mighty and now arrogant German Empire, which today is causing so much dis comfort to it's peacefully disposed ueighbors.
 People who belong to a nation that has prospered so wonderful ly as Germany has, Gre not likely to work orscomplain as to the form i of government they live under, so long as they participate in that prosperity, and thus we have the anomaly of the people of the nation that claims to be the most highly educated in the world, allowing themselves to be ruled by q govern ing class, who treat all but those
 of their own class as interiors, and
 the people are therefore Ly long usage, content for instance, to see their womanhnd swept off the pave, ment into the gutter by that class
 which is the quintesseuce of Prus- sian Junkerism, the military Of ficers of all grades, and the people are also content to allow these
 military officers to force them to give up their table at pubic res taurants if all tables are occupied, On the plea that an officer must not be kept waiting, and there are many other ways by which the peo- pie are content to acknowledge that they are in an inferior position so- cially or otherwise to the ruling class.
 There have, however, been some signs that the German democracy was chafing under the rule of the