Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-20
THE GERMAN VIEW.
CBy Humboldt yon Kleist.j

flict against their Will. Tne Kaiser had a record of 43 years of continued peace which is one of the longest periods of peace of any great Euro |pean nation. That certainly proves |that, although he is considered war lord, he is in reality prince of peace.
 On the other hand Great Britain while openly advocating peace, was secretly negotiating with other pow
 CTS to accomplish the downfall of the German empire.
 According to an English authority, Earl Kitchener, war lord of Great Igium three months before the out
 break of this war. The manner in
 which the Belgium forts were forti-
 lied at Liege with great stock of ann
 intuition, proves they, must, therefore,
 have been provisioned in advance f0-
 long siege.
 The cause of Great Britain's enmity towards the German empire can be
 traced to the commercial losses which
 the English have sustained by the in cvreasing supremacy of Germany in the markets of the world.
 COincident with the breaking out
 of the war, the cat was let out of the
 bag in England by proposal that
 all Great Britain and her colonies
 should boycott articles bearing the
 inscription, Made in Germany" Thus
 the cause of the war is shown to be Ia purely economic one. England was on the down-grade, losing out in all
 the markets of the world and in or
 der to recoup her fallen industrial and commercial fortunes, it is now firmly believed in diplomatic circles that the war was really instigated by Great Britain to conceal it's failure under the free trade policy, at the same, time endeavoring to place the onus on the German emperor.
 One of the first acts of Great Brit ain was to cut the cables from Ger many in order to prevent the German side of the war from being given pub licity in the United States. In the meantime the full force of the British press bureau, already long establish ed with ramifications reaching to the newspapers throughout the world, kGDl .GflG CdUIOo pul0IHS "Ilh '.doctored" news, favorable to the English side and succeeded to great extent in moulding public sentiment in this country against the Fatherland and the truth.
 Some of the statement in American newspapers were so palably false and unfair that they aroused the ire of such able and distinguished Germans in America as Prof. Munsterburg of Harvard, Herman Ridder, Prof. Taus- sig and others.
 As an instance of these diabolical stories against Germany may be cit ed the one of alleged Belgian atroci- ties which has lately been denied ov- Ter the signatures of five of the best
 known. most conservative and fair minded of American newspaper cor-
 respondents. Contrary to these all
 legged brutalities, the American wat correspondents have marveled at the
 merciful way in which the German
 soldiers have treated their prisoners.
 Germany was threatened on all sides an dthere was distinct feeling in German diplomatic and military circles that there was conspiracy on the part of the allies which if al
 lowed to go unchecked meant the dis integration and extinction of the Ger
 man empire.
 At the same time that Kitchener was engaged upon his secret mission to Belgium, the British naval forces from the seven seas of the world were being mobilized under cover of a grand review before his Britannia majesty.
 All this time the Russian bear, at | the instance of her British and French building fleets of submarines, pur-
 chasing new types of automatic ma
 chine guns and aeroplanes, with the evident intention of using them against her former friend. Germany. at the instance of her newly found ally, England. The present premier of France made special visit to Rus | sia in order to see that the secret of fGreat Britain and France to force the vast hOrdes of Russia down upon in- fnocent Poland were perfected. Recent events have proven that Russia has
 been preparing many months to strike the blow.
 Germany has been for a generation IeXpecting at some future date to be obliged to defend herself against the enemies which her commercial expan- sion has caused The outbreak of the war found the kaiser prepared for the emergency which was the
 logical result of German enterprise. The Germans now propose to bring France to realization of the prow- ess of the German arms and adminnis- ter to the weak and impotent czar. punishment that the Russians will re- member for two hundred years. When the war is over and peace las been declared. Great Britain will lind that while she may have succeed ed. with the aid of Japan. in robbing Germany of her colonial possessions. she will still have to contend with the German genius for industry and commerce.
 While the United States is looking upon this European war and felici-
 tating itself upon peace-at-any-