Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-08
DR.. BONN BLAMES
RUSSIANS FOR WAR.
German Historian Declares Gar
Has Been lnciting Servia
Against Austrians.

serslon of the origin of the war has
.A2t been told, according, to DR.. NJ. J..
onn, professor OF political economy
IN the University Of Munich, presi-
dent Of the Commercial University of
Munich and the author of works OF
history. 1t will be demonstrated, he
says, that, in spite of what has come
from London and from st. Peters,
burg, from Vienna and Belgrade. the
crime is Russia's He believed the
Anglo-Saxon people who now blame
Germany for violation of the neu-
trality of smaller states will be hor-
rlfted to realize that by supporting
Russia in this quarrel they have
struck a tremendous blow at western
civilization. =
Prof. Bonn, who was at the Waldorf
yesterday, arrived here on the. George
washington to proceed to the Uni
verslty of California, where he was to
De the exchange professor of political
economy and was to deliver lectures
on International economic relations.
think that, owing perhaps to the
disruption of the cable service and
the impossibility of getting dispatches
oirect from Berlin, the German side,
IN the determination of the causes of
FANS1Al COhillClf lltlS not Deen
Ialrly presented to the United States"
said Prof. Bonn.
II could quite understand people
ike MI. Asquith talking of fighting
tor civilization If 1t were a question
between Germany and France; but
everyone who knows the situation
\ Knows that the trouble Is due to Rus
STA Russia has instigated Servia for
many years to worry Austria, and we.
as allies of Austria, had only the
cnoice either of sticking to our ally
ana bearing the consequences or Of
breaking our alliance and standing
isolated in Europe
IL is all very well to say we ought
10 nave restrained Austria. but would
IL not have been better for France to
restrain Austria from instigatine Ser
via? The Servians are small and
quite worthy people, but the gang of
men who rule Servia are the same
people who murdered the late king.
England, at the time of that tragedy
Withdrew her embassy as a protest
Now she joins the same regicides who
have not changed their methods, and
talks of standing for civilizationi She
As the ally Of the people whose atroci-
Gus crimes in warfare have just been
held up to horror-stricken mankind
by the report of the Carnegie Peace
Institution.
The British government, 1t is quite
plain today, is afraid of any German
ggrandizement, for indeed, it is q
curious way of showing ones neutral
ity to say, as the British government
does say, that 1t would be Infamous
FOR Germany to take the French col
onies If France were defeated. Would
English neutrality have gone in the
other direction? Would they have
guaranteed to us. too, that in case of
defeat no inch Of German territory
should be taken by France? Their
idea of neutrality was partiality.
We have all heard lot of the
violation of Belgian territory
Everybody talks as If this was a new
development that nobody ever expect
ed. That Is nothing but political
claptrap. There Is no European war
office whose plans for mobilization
did not calmly foresee an occupation
of Belgian territory by one or two
belligerents. England, herself, 1t is
well known, has always considered
the possibility of throwing 100000 men
INTO Belgium to guarantee the neu-
trel1ity of that country. We might
have respected such neutrality had
England been prepared TO guarantee
us Belgian neutrality against France,
In the same way in which she wanted
US to make guarantees. This, appa-
rently, was not done, because, to put
it quite plainly, some people In Eng
land are afraid of Germany and no
body is afraid of France
Panic Mongers in England.
''The small gang of anic-mongers
which has always existed in England
he al tie onnnrfIInIfU IN
draw England into horrible war
which the democratic masses of the
English people will one day repent.
But, of course, it will be too late. The
fact that Lord Morley and John
Burns have resigned from the cabinet
shows that there is not such unan-
unity in England as to the morality
of the war as the London mob seems
to exhibit.
sIt is all very fine in politics to take
UP moral principles and to say that
treaties ought not to be violated.
Any power taking such line ought
to do one thing at least II It's wish
Is to be considered quite honest. 1t
ought not to enter an alliance with
Russia. 1t cannot be very difficult
for those in the English Foreign Of
fee, if virtuous indignation has not
deprived them absolutely of all power
of discrimination, to find good
many documents in their pigeon holes
which would show them instances of
Russian duplicity and Russian
treachery.
at wont do in politics merely to look
ct formal issues. 1t is quite possible
that Russia, when she saw that we
were ready and she was not, made
the most elaborate declarations of
her love for peace. Ought we to have
believed them? Ought we to have
demobilized? Would England have
guaranteed us that Russia spoke the
truth and nothing but the truth?
Ought we to have waited until the
Russian railway system, which would
facilitate Russian mobilization, had
been completed in such perfection as
democratic France had insisted upon
when she financed Russia for the last