Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-08-28
Germahy's Real War Y al Purpose
To Extend Her Colonization

While an inscrutabAe veil Of mys-
terry enshrouds the details Of Ger
many's plan of campaign in the pres
ent war, there are SOME worldwide
conditions existing which, If partial
ly examined, will show what the
trend and scope of that campaign is.
Indeed, they will go far toward ex-
planning the unexpected infringement
of Belgian and Holland neutrality by
the Kaiser's troops and the shifting
Of the German initial attack from the
German frontier to the ex-
IRENE left Of the French and allied
lines of defense.
That the German people are; in
truth, fighting for their very exist
ence as a great nation mHst be evil
dent to anyone who will consider the
development of the worlds popula-
ton in the last few decades.
Germany's total acreage in Europe
is less than $4,000 square miles,
while her European population is
about 7O,OOO,Oo0 or more than 800 pes
sons per sq6are mile. obviously, she
has not enough land in Europe to sup
port ber people. The growth Of Eur
opead Germany, II not absolutely
checked, is seriously impeded. For
decades, millions of Germans have
emigrated to other lands, some to
German African possessions, but the
bulk of them to North and South
America, where they have been lost
to the citizenship Of the Vaterland.
On the other hand, Russia, Ger
many's most formidable %neighbor, is
far from being over-populated. Her
100000, 900 people have already nine
million square miles in which to- ex-
.pand. She has fewer than 20 people
per square mile as %contrasted to Ger
many's 300 per square mile. Russia
is now and for many generations will
continue to be selfsupporting. I'm
less Germany maintains colonies on
which she can depend to absorb her
overflow Of population and supply her
with food, her European population
cannot much exceed its present num-
Der from sheer inability to feed 1t.
Where Russian Menace to Germany
ls Acute.
Here Is where the Russian menace
becomes acute. With Germany's pop
ulation necessarily kept below the
100, 100000 mark, Russia, with her
land as yet scarcely touched, will con-
tinue increasing and without further
territorial expansion can easily be
self-supporting, even with a popula.'
ton of one thousand million-a popu.
lation ten times greater, than Ger
many, under prevailing conditions
can ever hope to have, 1t is this
Russian glacier of appalling possibil.
tiles that Germany sees advancing
upon her with its slow but irresistible
force, threatening more and more
every year to grind and crush out her
very existence. Unless it be perma-
nently checked, it is only a question
Of time when Vaterland will be re
duced to a mere spot on the map of
Europe, proportionate in size to that
occupied by Greece today spot OF
tender memories Of a highly educated
and glorious past, but representing
the pitiful fragments of a brave and
noble people who have contributed
vastly to the cause Of humanity and
the highest civilization.
It is impossible to conceive that the
highly intelligent men who have been
controlling the sdestinies of the Ger
man Empire forathe last few decades
have been blind to the dangers aris-
ing from abrupt limitation of Water
lands population to less than 100000
600, while that Of their Russian neigh
Dor IA neighbor of a radically differ
ent and naturally hostile blood goes
on mounting up to the overwhelming
height of 1000, O00 10000. Without doubt,
Bismarck saw the inevitable condi-
ton as early as 1867, when he had
formed the iron and blood" confed-
GRAFTON Of the various Teutonic king
'doms into the present military EN-
pire. Without doubt, the succeeding
statesmen of Germany have noted the
growing menace and have been dill
gently preparing to meet 1t In all the
years after the Iron Chancellor relin-
pushed Germania's helm.
Declaration Of War on Russia Result
Of Calm, Deliberate Judgment.
1t was not the impulsive act Of a
strong-headed ruler that impelled
Kaiser William at 7:30so'clock on the
night of August 1 to press the wal