Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-11-15
German Babies To
BLAME FOR THE WAR
VANCE THOMPSON SAYS
CHUBBY LORDS CAUSED
THE FIGHT.
need some MORE ROOM
Nine Nations Struggle Because
of Children of Kaisers
Empire,

Empire,
Campbell McCullough ia the ". y. Herald ,
A thousand men have thousand
different opinions as to the cause oI
the European CONFEDERATION, Many
incline to the opinion that IT ~ all que
10 the lust Of the kaiser 10 display
his battalions IN battle; others say
that the German war lord has gone
mad with militarism and cannot De
restrained, while still others are con-
yinccd that the Teutonic emperor is
n much abused individual VINO mas
been thrust into a corner and a sabcr
forced into his unwilling hand. All
are wrong and none is right, for the
war is not "a military display; II IS not
based on anger and hate it is not the
product of one mans energy or folly
The blaze that has arisen in Europe
is an economic situation without
parallel in many years, for it Is due
entirely to German babies.
The German babies, two million or
them arriving yearly, have brought
about a struggle that cannot but re-
suit i'm geographical changes. Tho
pink and white infants have sent bat
taliuns into the firing zone, the dread
naughtS into the deep. Nine nations
are at war all because the German
baby must have room to grow. Zen
million men are at war with one an
other on land and two million more
upon the sea all because chuDDy
German fist is reaching yearly for
more land to spread its blannet upon
In a word. it is a land hunger, terri
torial greed if YOU like, that has pre-
Cipititcd the greatest war modern
centuries have seen, and no man
knows where it will end nor what II
will involve
The German empire has no history
back Of 1871 In that year, and later
after the Franco-Prusstan war begin
the causes that have led up to the
present horror. Germany is the
youngest of the nations. The genius
of Bismarck welded United Germany;
the I.ailcd fist Of the iron chancellor
took the fragments of the Confedcra-
tlon and forged an empire The
dmpled fist of the German baby bids
fair to undo, or increase, that con-
struCtion.
No Territory for Expansion.
when Germany came to the point
of peace after the Franco Prusslan
war and recognized herself as one OF
the powers Of Europe she naturally
glanced about her to see what should
be her next step. obviously Euro
pcan power could not be power
when hemmed in by other countries
and a short two hundred miles of
open seaboard Other nations were
expanding, so why not Germany? Tn
fortunately, the colonial bargain
counter had been all too well picked
over by the time Germany began
to lock about her for foreign posses
siouS she had little or no merchant
marine no navy to speak Of and not
foot of land that lay without her
CWn borders until 1884. Then she
found some corners of Africa-Togo-
land. CAMERON, "A bit Of southwest
Africa and n spare bit Of the east
coast In the next fifteen years she
found some Of the islands of the
South Pacific and that has been all,
with the exception of a bit Of China,
kiao chow, which is but pocket
handkerchief in size
At first the situation was not visibly
serious. Immediately after the war
the whole population was but forty
two million or thercabouts, and in the
next three years it had progressed
but "a few hundred thousand; then II
began to grow vigorously, and the
babies arrived promptly and continu-
ously grew up, stretched and looked
about The Fatherland was begin
ming 10 get cramped, and there was
no room for expansion. Less than
100000 square miles of territory in
Euruu,. with boundaries ms fixed
and immovablc as steel bands, and in
that CONSTRUCTED arca-harely the
combined size Of Missouri and Mon
taua. which shelter approximately /
half - million babies-Wcro fiftv-SeVan
million Germans in 1900, and the
babies continued to arrive, steadily,
continuously. And they stretched and
crowed and grew up, and when there
was little more room for them they
cmiGrated. It would seem that this
emigration was the solution of the
Iroblem. English babies grew up and
cmigrated: French babies grew up
and did likewise; Italian. Spanish |
Dutch babies crossed the seas and |
made new homes. so one might ask |
why the German baby should have |
been problem at all. and why the |
ldIlu uuHE'l
The problem lay in the colonies
AGAIN As before stated. England had |
dealth largely at the colonial bargain |
counter. France had taken her |
share so had Italy and Spain all |
quite some time before there ever |
was n United Germany in Europe. /.
When those English and French and
Spanish and italian and Dutch babies .
grew up and emigrated they did so
largely to their own possessions over .
seas and those that did not came to .
the United States Now. IL is plain .
that an Englishman emigrating to .
Australia or New Zealand or Canada .
continues to he a British subject but .
It is not so positive that the German
emigrating to any of those countries
or the United States will continue to .
remain a German subject In fact.
the statistics show that he doesn't. .
OF the t.27S.697 Germans resident in
the United states, according to the .
census--and this refers merely to .
males of voting age-70 per cent had
had renounced the Fathorland and
had become American citizens. They .
were lost to Germany; they had no
part in or of her. they contributed .
nothing to her and could not be ac-
counted longer her children. To what
extent the same condition exists else
where would be mere guesswork.
though, as the German is by instinct