Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29

Germans on Defensive.
The whole original object Of Ger
many has been defeated. She is now
everywhere on the defensive except
ii Belgium, where the last army of
occupation is still engaged In it's hor-
fible task of bullying and plundering
he wretched victims. The story of
GeTmany's treatment Of Belgium and
that part of France she Is now &C.
capying has not yet been told.
learn from American friends who
have just returned from Belgium that
when the world hears the full horrors
OF what happened in Belgium 1t will
put the horrors OF Cawnpore in the
background.
But for the hns American diplo-
macy OF your representative in Brus-
sells, Brand Whitlock. and the SUI
creme generosity OF the American
oeoule. the Germans would have sue
decided in starving the little nation
which they have not been ashamed to
despoil Ii seems almost incredible,
0nG 1t Is true that the wealthy Ger
man empire is not ashamed to levy
medieval tolls In the form Of demands
for huge sums of money, supplies and
the like. If II be that there is one
Diece-at-any-p price advocate left In
England there Is certainly none bold
enough TO come out in puolIc and say
that ne is on the side OF this German
niackmall. / can't understand how
any German-American can support
outrages OF this kind. Your public
hasn't realized that no revolution, no
war, not the whole story of Ma
poleon's campaign are as anything
compared with this Armageddon.
Even in England within sound of the
r. re a
Imagine that this struggle may ter
inmate in 1915.
don't understand the basis of
their calculation. The kaiser, or, to
use his official military title, all high
sst war lord, now says that England
provoked and prepared for this war,
yet In August he referred to our
army as General French's contempt
ible little army" Had we prepared
for war we shouldn't have started
with little army. We weren't much
more prepared for a land war with
Germany than the United States is.
Had we been ready the campaign
might have been short. AS it is, al
though We have over two million
tnen in training, we have as yet COM
paratiVely few in the field. Our part
IL the war cannot begin until we get
cur men at the front. The first of our
new armies cannot enter the fght
sintil spring. and the task OF driving
The entrenched Germans out of
France and Belgium viii be slow. The
Invasion of Germany Itself must Of
Necessity be- a task Of vast dimension
You ask me II | believe the necessary
.frTny can be raised by voluntary ser
ice. Personally DON'T. You'll re-
member that you could not do so In
1861. Ny personal belief is that we
snail be obliged to adopt conscription,
10 you eventually did We regard our
8truggle with the intensity as did
both North and South in 1861. We
are fighting as we did 100 years ago
against Napoleon, against the DOM
nation OF Europe by a military
qligarchy. We shall fight with all of
Che resources OF our manhood, our
shipyards. our wealth, our British
fenacity. We will go under rather
than give in.
You ask me do think Germany
aan be strangled and the war ended
BY starvation and attrition. / be-
neve It can, but the process will be
enc OF years rather than of months
Germany Is a self-supporting country
N almost every article necessary for
Far and for the support of her I'M
fortunate people
Some American friends have urged
that we establish in Washington some
rival organization similar to that OF
4 Ambassador Bernstorff, DIR. Dernbera
*hd the German-American brewers
and other moulders of public opinion
foT the purpose Of informing the
american public regarding the Brit.
fsh attitude. But our case, in my
opinion, needs no such effort. Thu
bullying of Belgium, the huge sums
demanded from French towns II
blackmaiL the killing Of women and
rhildren at Scarborough-not as tbs
fiermans pretend in a fortress, bu
ln a seaside resort like Atlantic City
line dropping of bombs on Paris from
heroplanes--which has been stopped
owing to American intervention--no
10 mention Louvain, Malines. etc, al
5rovide us with all the answers w
Fequire to German militarism.
France to Be silent in United States.
My French friends tell me tina
khey have no intention whatever o
Replying to Germany's accusations II
Hhe United States. They will rely en-
tirely on American fair play an,
Friendship for the nation that cam
70 their help in the war OF the Revo
Button.
AS seen from this side Of the At
slantic, the German efforts to frightel
Americans seem crude. don't re
tory when your people have bee
frightened. You are 70 be carefu
tiest the thy Japanese attack you 1
fthe Pacific.1 Americans are well awar
# the size Of the English and the