Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-23
ASKS FAIR PLAY
IN HIS PLEA FOR
GERMANY CAUSE
Or. 0ernberg Says Teuton
"Militarisn" Is No differ
ent from Others.

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different from French. English and i
Russian "militarisn" was the decla
ration Of Dr. Bernard Dernberg, /
former colonial minister of Germany,
in a speech before an assemblage at
the New Auditorium last night. DR..
Dernberg and Prof. Eugene Kuhne-
mann, of Breslau University, set forth /
some German phases of the war stu
alton and pleaded for fair play for the
German cause.
The meeting was under the auspices |
of the Fair Play League of Newark |
and Vicinity When the speakers ar
rived at the hall every available seat |
was filed and large number OF |
people were standing. DR.. Dernberg. |
who is seeking aid in this country for |
the German Red Cross, was the first
to talk. He said in part
"Unluckily for Germany. We have |
not been able to present all the facts |
about this terrible war with the same
facility as our antagonists have This |
lack of information has caused some |
feeling as to whether the German |
cause has merits.
Foremost, Germany is accused of |
'militarism. What do they mean by
'militarism? Does it overshadoW |
everything else? Does 1t keep back !
industry, art, science and literature? |
IL our opponents answer Yes, it does |
all this then their charge of mill |
tarism against Germany is not true.
Providing for the Workman.
While Germany spends lot of |
money for military purposes, it also |
spends large sum for national in |
surance, providing incomes for the
Workingmen in case of sickness and |
for widows and orphans in case of |
n.
this?
If the other side points out that |
militarism' keeps back industry, |
point out to them that while British |
industry has increased one and a half |
times, German industry has increased
four and five times Has the So
called 'militarism' taken away from |
Germany art, science or literature? |
You know it hasn't, and you know |
that it hasn't done any harm to Ger |
many.
IF Germany shall be accused of |
militarism, what about France and
Russia and England? The French |
army isn't any smaller than the Ger
man. the Russian army Is enormously |
bigger. Germany has two frontiers
10 protect, and we have to do it with |
less than half the combinped forces of |
our enemies. What about Englands |
great fleet? Is ii not part of the |
British 'mllitarism2'
Germany did not add to its mill
tary forces until alliances between /
france and Russia and England. !
France and Russia compelled it."
The speaker said that Germany
mad upheld the Monroe Doctrine in I
1904 in the Venezuela case by pre-
senting its claims at Washington. /
England attacked that doctrine in I
1884, he declared. He said that if
Germany was victorious the Amer
lean people would know that they
had one sincere friend IN Europe,
Doubts Belgian Neutrality.
Or. Dernberg, touching Oh Belgian
neutrality, declared that he. doupteds
a treaty guaranteeing the neutralty
of Belgium existed.
''Germanys only hope in such "a
war as threatened lay in the speed I
with which 1t acted, he said, while I
its opponents depended upon their
numbers. We had to invade Belgium
or France and England would have.
England claims she has got to
crush German militarism that has
threatened the peace of Europe. For
forty-four years Germany has beer I
the only nation in Europe that has
kept the peace. She has not gone to
war and she did not try to add one L
bit of territory by force of arms. I
What has England been doing? Look
at the Boer States, at Egypt, at Per-
STA and at Ireland Look at France
in Morocco, at Russia warning with Il
Turkey, China and Japan and take
peep at Japan depressing China
cnd making war on Russia. L
England claims she wants to pro- Il
rect the under dog, sthe small states
and countries. What about Ireland?"
The speaker then took a fling att
the English writer's who have bcenl
writing about the English side for the 4
magazines. Great writer's Of fiction Il
like Chesterton, Wells, Conan Doyle /
and Hall Game had developed into
statesmen and great historians in the
last few months, he said.
DIR I<uhnemann's talk included a Il
description of what he saw in Ger
many before he left and about the
false reports, he alleged are sent out !
by the English and the Russians.
Professor Knhnemann said a bat
tie of souls was going on in America
and the rest of the world.
The false English and Russian re-
ports have aligned the souls of the
whole world against Germany" he
said.
He told of the events Immediately
subsequent to the Austrian ultima
tum to Servia, and asserted that 1t !
was perfectly impossible for Austria
not to 90 to war or for Germany to
prevent that war The Russian mo-
bilization meant war against Ger
many, and Germany made prepare
tons said the professor.
In concluding, Professor Kullne-
mann drew long applause when he
asserted that this is a continuation
of the war of independence of our
country. a wa. against what he
termed English arrogance" "a war
of independence" he said, for the
Independence of the world" rs
Rev. Max A. l.. Hirsch, pastor of
ST. Paurs Evangelical Lutheran I
Church. acted as chairman of the j!
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