The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-08-04
AMERICAN SYMPATHY WITH
THE TRIPLE ENTENTE

! sympathizes with France and Rus
| STA, and it is easy also to see that
the sympathy of America is that
way
Very few Americans understand
the real causes of the war. They
saw Austro- Hungary with forty mill
ion people forcing a fight on Servia
with one-tenth that number. They
| saw the car of Russia declare that
/ Austria shouldn't crush his little
! brother They saw the emperor of
| Germany, "all clad in shining ar
NOR as he said some years ago,
step forward, not only to support
| Austria, but invade France, break
into Belgium and defy Great Brit
ain.
Americans only see the outer indi-
cations of all this and wot not of the
deeper reasons. They naturally
| sympathize with any little nation
against big one. They have ira
ditiona1 friendship for Russia
friendship that Russo has deserved
and that Americans foolishly forgot
for while in 1904, only to be sorry
few years later. France has al
| ways been the nation nearest the
American heart Against Great
Britain, Americans for years bore an
unreasoning grudge, which they are
beginning to forget in almost as un-
reasoning a grudge against Germany.
America has always sympathized
with the determination of the Rus
sian people to make their way to the
sea. 1T was one we could under
stand, for in less than a century
Americans made their way from sea
to sea, ruthlessly crushing all who
crossed their path.
1t is strange that we cannot see
that the same spirit inspires the
German peopIe-that the struggle is
brought about by their necessity to
expand, and the policy of Russia to
| thwart their expansion, even as Tur-
key and Persia and England and
Japan have thwarted Russia.
There are SO,0OO,0O0 of Germans
in Europe. ALI their coast line is
about $50 miles on the North Sea,
some four or five hundred miles on
the Baltic, and a couple of hundred
except that on the North Sea, are of
practically inland lakes and have few
naturally good harbors.
So the Germans and the Austrians
want to push their way to the south
and west. They want Holland with
It's magnificent -harbors, and Mace
donna with its easy access to the
Aergian.
No doubt the German would make
good use of these properties if he
had them. He has done so we'll with
This two or three talents that there
lneed be no doubt he would do bet
ter with ten. The splendid shipping
facilities built amid sand and rocks
and mudfats on the three seas show
this beyond doubt.
America should feel kindly to the
Germans Germany has sent mill
lions of people to help build up oul
waste places and no race stands
higher in our citizenship. At home
the Germans are among the great
est peoples in the world. No nation
has higher place in science and art
and few equal it in manufactures ant
commerce. In honesty, industry and
charity no nation excels the German
No nation in the world has made a.
much for civilization out of the sam,
amount of territory as those wht
people the realm of Kaiser Wilhelm
Our people are linked with then
by ties of friendship and bushes
more strongly than they are with an
other people. And so all but tn
unthinking are saddened deeply t.
see this noble nation the leader il
a war that is sure to bring grea
: disaster to all mankind
1t is the sad truth that the enter
= prise shown by Germany in the las
twenty years, in manufacturing an
= commerce, has brought upon her TN
= illwill of Great Britain, whose man
y kets are imperiled thereby; also, tn
y United States has resented Germa
y enterprise in South and Central An
&c erica.
~ This paper, at least, has aIway
- commended Germany for her goo
DC work for the worlds civilization, an
DC has always said it would be glad 1
see Germans in the countries to tt
, south of US, in preference to the La
= and mongrel races that do not kno
how to make use of the great ma
uraI resources Of those regions.