The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-10-20
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TAKES EXCEPTION TO
RECENT EDITORIAL IN JOURNAL

| Editor Pensacola Journal.
Your editorial of the 18th inst, read
ing in part: Two million men killed
And for what? That the German
War Lord. that the German war party
shah remain in the ascendancy"
You must be badly misinformed,
which a newspaper man naturally
you should not be- or you are gov
erned by a strong anti German feeling
that makes 1t impossible for you to
judge impartially; Otherwise you
would shrink from publishing such UNI
fair Misrepresentation, as contained in
your above statement
There are many ways to prove the
absurdity of the latter, and | will at
TEMPT to do so in most simple man
ner
Any one educated we'll enough to
know about Germany, what he ought
to know about any anc every foreign
country, must and will find ridiculous
your contention, that the German peo-
pie highly educated as it is-a fact
even its worst enemies cannot deny
would stand for being completely gov
erned by a war party and a War Lord,
to say; a man, whose sole object it
is to gain personal glory by shedding
its peoples blood. You may rest as
sured, such a man could not be Ger
man emperor any more than a man
could be president of the United States.
without being elected for this high
office. 1t is absolutely wrong and
false, to say the Germans are fighting
for the benefit of their War Lord.
Right now, nobody can tell us as
truthfully what the German people are |
fighting for, as the German people can |
itself. l presume | am right in saying; !
If the papers of evGry and all political /
and religious tendencies of a country |
agree on one and the same subject, |
then they give the peoples opinion on |
such subject. The German press unan-
imously states: I'VE are nghting for |
our existence, which for years has |
been threatened by nations, jealous of |
our progresses in commerce and
science" I have received letters from
my own and my wife's relatives, who
are living in Germany, have read let
terS received from there by others, and |
in every instance THE Nations Exis-
tence'' was said to be the object of the
fight for the Germans. They undoubt-
eddy know, and it would be foolish for
others to tell them, what they are
fighting for
Furthermore, the kilograms ex-
changed between the several European |
rulers and governments just before the
outbreak of the war. show clearly that
the German War Lord tried almost
until 1t was too late for him to take
measures for the defence of his own
people to preserve peace, or at any
rate to localize the Austrian -Servian
conflict. These kilograms may be
rightful1y called part of THE Worlds
Newest History" but also older his
-ory shows:
Emperor William preserved peace
for a quarter of a cen
fury. Under his rule Germany de-
ve1oped to be a greater power than 1t
ever has been before. In all this long
lime several occasions for war offered,
occasions. that War Crazy En-
oeror" never would have let slip by.
OF course Emperor William is full
IF mi1itarism 1t would have been bad
policy on his part not to be. If there
S German people after this present
var, it owes its existence partially to ,
he foreseeing militarism of its en-
,eror. Had this militarism not existed, |
here would be African negroes, Tur- ;
Kos, ArabianS and HlnduS together I
With their white brothers ravishing, ,
numbering and robbing in !
Germany now. ,
And something else, my dear sir: A !
var party and a war lord under cir
might be a disastrous ,
hing; however there are worse things 6
ret, e. g., that part of the press Of a
leutral country, which in the present
var takes side. 1t condemns the war 9
me time, while on the other hand
t does everything in its power to Gre
tie hatred between it's own people and
he nation it writes against. Such &C
ion certainly lacks character.
Very truly yours,
CURT HOLZER,
A. German born subscriber.
P. ST. trust, you understand for the
AXE of fairness, it is in order to pub