Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-08-15

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this solemn responsibility, needs no
defense. He has kept the peace for
six and twenty years. and thereby
he has served. far better than with
eloquent orations, the cause Of uni
versal peace. Were he really the man
whom this term Of war lord" is in
tended s~neeringly to describe, he
would not have had to seek long for
opportunities for war. for they have
arisen again II again. m.
Had he desired the destruction of
Russia. how much more easily could
he have accomplished it while she was
struggling In her Asiatic war! For
1t would have been but play. compar-
ed to the Titanic conflict that has now
begun. This alone makes all other
testimony vain; for q generation the
War Lord" has been Europe's firm
est pillar Of peace. And how earnest
he was in his program of peace was
testified to only recently at the Lake
Mohonk peace conference, by Admiral
Chadwick. who related how the Kaiser
leans in almost identical words-that
the highest aspiration OF his reign was
to end it without a war.
If now. despite all this, he seeks
refuge in the sword. it certainly can
not be attributed to his personal de-
sire. or to warlike ambition. 1t Is the
issue of conditions that are mightier
than the man. To thunder against
such elemental forces with the i'm
perlal word We're as futile as to bid the
tempest cease.
Dynastic Wars Past.
The days of dynastic wars in Eur
ope are past; the man upon a throne
can no more inspire or compel his
people into an unpopular conflict than
can the president Of a republic. 1t. is
therefore idle to say that this Euro
pean war will do away with monarchy
and that from now on its people will
take their destiny into their own
hands. For it is the people of Europe
who today are clamoring for this con-
hict. 1t is the slumbering instinct of
the house of Romanoff that fights
against the Hapsburg and the Hohen-
zollern. it is the Slav against the Teu-
ton. There lies the prilnordial cause.
But II this Is true. what Consequence
es will it bring to the other nations of
T%eutonic ancestry? For the three
Scandinavian states. and even for Hol-
and Belgium, which are at least
partly Germanic? And especially for
England and for America? Denmark,
Sweden and Norway will probably re-
main iiSulId " lAS pISSSHl, dlttlOuSn
Sweden looks upon Russia as a dan
gerous neighbor and has recently call
ed upon its sons in America to re-
sem Russian oppression in Finland.
The neutrality of Holland and Bel
GUM is guaranteed in treaties between
France and England and these states
are dependent upon the latter for
their security.
Future Menace t England.
England must decide for herself
whether her immediate economic in
terests are to take precedence over
the future of her people and her civil
ization. She must decide whether she
Is to aid a nation, alien in race and
culture, in a struggle against her Teu-
tonic kindred. 1t is true that the lat
ter constitute an economic rival, but
1t is even more certain that the rise
Of the Slav must threaten the very life
of England and English civilization,
Even II England should be able to
live In peace with Russia in Europe it
must be remembered that Russia's ex-
pansion in. Asia even now crowds the
frontiers of India and Persia, and that
so far it has been England that has
kept Russia from the Mediterranean
because of the peril that Russian entry
to the Suez canal would threaten, to
Great Britain's Oriental commerce.
And If British aid make possible a
Russian triumph she must remember
that the Russian hear that tears the
German eagle with one paw will not
wait lenE before 1t strikes the Brit
ish lion with the other.
Stand of Americans
II this be true for England. how
much more is true for America.
America boasts Teqtonic civiliza-
tion and Teutonic ideals. Or Is Amer
lea nov prepared to give preference
to Slavic over Germanic, culture. The
debates in conEress concerning the re-
strictions of Slavic immigration give
no hint of such desire. No, the cause
of the Teuton. the cause of Germany.
Is Americas cA0se:sn no thinking Amer
ican y escape this conviction. Were
he to Judge otherwise he would out
nation; to believe him capable OF this
would insult his inteiltgence ana his
loyalty. And his far-famed desire for
fair play must finally make itself
felt. after the mes1er reports replaced,
by documentary evidence who it rAsl-l
iy4waa that honestly lahored Tor neNce
and why II was that he failed.
The speech OF the kaiser to the
reichstae-did much to illuminate this
and the contents 6f the white RookS =
with the complete text OF the COM.
m~unicAtionx between Berlin and. a.
Petersburg. BROUGHT much more out a.
the shadows The truth alone can
make tnsf judKment possible. ana A.
such wildly excited DAYS a. theas the
truth eeeos through In All too tim,
drops, Unfortunately this 81 dou6lyI
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