Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-08-15
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it would mea war? All
Historic Situation.
'In this; historic situation neither
Russia 9 Germany could really act
otherwise. The great conflict OF civ
ilizations was necessarily stronger
than the mere wishes of peaceful In
dividuars. But If it Is snch q gigan-
tic conflict Of Slavic and Germanic
culture, the sympathies Of the pro-
gressive American nation ought not
to be SO wiisfully. amisled and ought
not to be whipped. into the camp Of
the Cossacks. Americans ought not
to rejoice when the vpcultured hordes
Of the East march over the frontier.
and aim toward the most ea1tern
German city,-Towardl K~onigsberg,-
the town Of Emmanuel Kant.
IF this war means such an ineyit-
able conflict. of: the Slavic and the
Germanic world, at least 1t ought to
be clear to everyone who can: think
historically, that it belongs TO the
type Of war for which the world as
yet knows no substitute, the one type
of var which in spite Of the terrible
losses is ultimately moral. Surely no
comment en- this fight of the nations
is more absurd than the. frivolous cry
that this is an immoral war. Every
war for commercial ends or for per,
sonal glory CT for mere aggrandixe,
ment or for revenge may be called
immoral, and thus the feelings with
which Frenchmen and E%ng1ishmen
join the Slavic forces might Justly
be accused. But both Slavs and Ger
mans stand here on moral, ground, as
both are willing to sacrifice la1or and
life for the conservation Of their ma
tioal culture and very existence.
Since the days of Napoleon, Germany
has e gone into a war which was
more justified by the conscience Of
history.
Flight Of Italy.
ITO be sure, there is no lack Of
elements in this war which d0s'hurt
the feeling. In victory OF defeat Ger
mans will hardly forget the flight Of
Italy, which, under the flimsiest sub.
terfuges has deserted its allies In the
hour of need And immoral above all
Is the effort of the world to strangle
the spirit of Germany by the mere
number Of enemies That truly. is not
fair, no moral fight, II Germany and
Austria are not to stand against Rus
STA and Servia alone which together
have a population equal to that of the
two opponents, but are also attacked
from behind by France and England,
perhaps by Roumania and Japan, and
last but not least by the misled pub
lie Of America.
System Fundamentally.
and this answers at { the
pointed question which many Ameri-
can papers have discussed since the
war began, the question whether the
whole system is not fundamentally
wrong, whether the armamants which
were planned to protect the countries
and to keep the balance and harmony
have not thrown them. into . destruc-
tive val and whether 1t would not
nave been better to rely On interna-
tional arbitration throughout the
world. The grouping OF this wal
shows why Germany would have tram
pied on its own sacred rights had she
laid the armor away and relied on
the judgment of the other nations.
Would she have had the slightest
chance for q fair Judgment If politi-
cal jealousy, economic rivalry the
vanity of revenge and the aversion Of
a lower culture had been combined
against her in a unnoly alliance.
The jury would have been packed.
prejudice would have swept the court
room q