The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-21
WHY GERMANY FIGHTS.
Either Military Autocracy or Dem
ocracy Must Eventually Win.

Every time u British cruiser goes
marine the question goes through |
thoughtful minds. after Great Brit |
ain, what?'
Of course, as Mr.. Gardner continues |
to agitate in Washington, the question
grows more important on the carpet
as to what Germany is really fighting |
for. Nobody now really believes that
Germany is fighting to- give Austria
the privile.y e) OF establishing a judicial
trial in Serviaa for the act of an assas
sin in Serava 10. 1t is certainly not for
this that Germany has been curtaihng
her industry and finance for three
years past. English statesmen know
perfectly well what Germany wants,
for they have discussed it with her
automatically many times. But Eng
fish statesmen never dreamed that
what Germany wanted would be sought
through any such war as at present
exists in Europe.
Germany for years has seen her
growing population lost by absorption
into other countries. Very few of the
millions who have come to North and
South America return to support the
Fatherland or contribute to the up
building of the German army or navy.
| Germany has continually put up the
| barriers to migration, and has expand
| ed her home population since 1870 by
- million.
She is not satisfied that her citizens
| have equal rights with everybody in
North and South America, in England
and all her colonies, for America and
| England absorb them and they are
| lost TO Germany.
What Germany demands is the right
to follow Ler children in foreign parts
and keep hands upon them as a part
of her national empire, with all that
this means in taxation and military
service.
If England would have agreed Ger
many would have been content to leave
the British Empire undisturbed pro-
Vided Germany had free rein in the
rest of he world to pick up an empire
Of her own where she could plant her
IeXpandinJ population, her flag and
government and keep the territory and
its people IS part of her own empire.
Now the American people are dis
turbed lest the Germans, who can have
no idea Of German expansion i'll Eng
land, might east envious eyes upon
Canada AMI the British possessions to
the north Ct US.
English statesmen have no such fear.
They do not credit the Germans with
any desire to get entangled with the
United states or demand possessions
on the North American continent
They 10 believe that the German
ewes are On South America. Here are
cattle lands and wheat lands that are
not only undeveloped but unsurpassed
for fertility i'm the world What Ger
F many wants under her own flag this
side of the water is bread and meat;
bread ana meat for her people; and for
her army German citizens on this side
p of the water who would support the
5 Fatherllud. who would pay tribute t.
r her budget and who can be commanded
as cffec+ually for war as can the people
4 in European Germany.
+ English statesmen do not believe IL
any such ;utocracy or its colonial ex
iTansion, dispossessing other nations
and peoples.
r 1t is not worth while to nam,
= countries on which Germany has cas-
- covetous eye. Future events Nigh
: change their plans according to diff
Guilty of conquest.
), But it can be declared that the pres
+ ent contest is one between the British
@ empire, which is a democracy, and tn
IS Prussian war machine which propose
+ German empire of military autoc
racy, that will in time, in its popula
tion, wealth and area, rival the BIRTHS
empire.
W The fight is between democracy an
military autocracy. Now to accomplis
her end Germany must destroy France
n become the supreme ruler in Europ
a. and he able to laugh at the Monro
If Doctrine and all republics or demoC
sc racies under il.
re 1t is fight to the finish. Eithe
2 one system OF the other triumphs O
this planet.
lie The British lion growlS when
+ hears peace talk from America becaus
5. such talk is believed in English circle
i, to be RI" attempt of Germans
II America to create false sympathy fc
Germany as the party really fghtin
1t for peace, while the whole worl
is should see what "'Made in Germany
now stands for.