The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-13
LEADING JOURNALS EXPRESS VIEWS
REGARDING INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT
REVIEW OF COMMENTS OF AMERICAN PRESS SHOWS
CLEAR ANALYSIS OF PRESENT EUROPEAN WAR
TUATIoN.-AUsTRIA HELD RESPONSIBLE

will rank in its inception and ignO-
BILE motives among the most wanton
and discreditable the world ever suf-
fered from. Austria stakes political
existence on the outcome. Germany
risks the splendid commerce and
mercantile marine she has built.
Their military castles feel that war
Is better for them than the losing
struggle they are making against the
terrible democratic revolution. The
war spirit has been fomented. With
many 1t has become almost an OBJ
session. The Zabern incident show
ed how quickly Germany reacts
against even the most modest re-
buke to military insolence. The
recklessness of Germany and Aus
tria in precipitating war can be ex-
planned on the ground that a power
full and extensive class welcomes
war"
The New York Globe believes that
"Slr Edward Grey's address will go
into history as one of the great
speeches of modern times. Britain's
wholehearted efforts to preserve the
peace were recounted. Sir Edward
dispassionately pointed out the duty
of his country. There was no appeal
to racial hatred, no jingoism, no clap
trap. England sounded her call to
battle only after she had done every
thing in her power to preserve honor
able peace. British craftsmanship
emerges untarnished. All charges
against Kaiser Wilhelm seem we'll
sustained. For the emperors reck-
lessness in exposing Germany's COM
mercial connections to destruction 1t
is impossible to assign any possible
explanation. The extraordinary ap-
peal to the English to remain neu-
tral suggests that some fantastic
idea found lodgment in the emper-
or's BRAIN
The Hartford Times declares that
this Austrian revenge on the inno-
cent is an obsolete method as unciv-
ilized as the recklessness that brings
on a general war. The idea that a
nation can be just is something that
an imperial government can not un-
derstand. Its members consider
themselves superior to humanity. In
that assumption they show themsel-
yes inferior. They jexemplify one OF
the worst traits in human nature
pride without worth. Christian civ
ilization has not reached them"
The Evening Wisconsin states that
'the exertions Of Sir Edward Grey,
British minister of foreign affairs,
for peace were made in good faith
and with all possible energy"
The New York World thunders
'The German people," as it discrim-
mates between them and their gov
ernment, had no quarrel with any
body. Their progress is stopped by
autocracy. Their emperor plunges
Europe into the most devastating
conflict known to history, because the
reactionary party was determined to
invite conflict in order to stay the
advance of political reforms. Every
impulse toward freedom has been
beaten back by the mailed fist. Aus
tria's quarrel with Servia was no af-
fair Of the German people, nor Rus
sia's challenge to Austria. Yet the
fate of the German Empire is thrown
into the balance to halt the march of
freedom. 1t was not Russian despot-
ism that was to be crushed by Geg-
many, but French republicanism. The
hypocrisy is revealed in that, before
the clash of arms is fairly begun,
Austrian invasion of Servia is virtu-
ally abandoned. Having begun the
war;. German autocracy finds itself
isolated. Britain is compelled to
make the cause of France the cause
of England. Germany and Austria
have no sympathizers even among
neutrals. The whole worlds en-,
lightened opinion has turned against
Emperor Francis Joseph and En-.
peroi William. This is the twiligh;
of dynastic gods"