Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-09-13
The Real Cause of the War From
the German Standpoint
BY ousTAvE KRoEeER.

one or the most surprising Things 10
the German American in connection
,,,;.t tho Es,ronaap uar 90 the attitude |
NJ s,ch n large norton of the press to-
x,,ara f.arr,apy ana tha nrevailine opin-
,or aroono 90 manv Americans that
f.orn,any is the cause of the war. This
saon. ca uidal,, at variance with the
f,c+s opd hetravs sDch a lack of knowl
.dge If tho real events that led I'D to
az ,,.ar that q desire on mart of the
,,orr,or Ar,arioans 10 state the facts
nc thew understand them. is very nat
,rol while II 10 trua that thew are
,a+nrallv hiased in favor of the land
tbat cove tbep, birth II IL eouallv true
tbst nc to tDuronean notifies. the poli-
tics ~ thair former home. thew are far
he,tor informed than native Americans.
,,,hoso onl, source If information con-
sists of one-sided and censored press
renorts TO obtain ANYTHING like a
trne convention of the real facts. 1t is
,ocassarv m refar briefly TO certain
historical events that have an intimate
connection with the present trouble
1,ro,,, Tho tip,e Of Nanoleon I until after
,bo close of tho Franco Prussian war
tho dostinv of E,urone was presided
o,.nr h,, mo so-called "Concert of En-
rono" which consisted of the various
r,,r,rao,, poc.ors acting in concert as
Gar as was nossible The dominant
f.c4or nc tl,is concor+ was mechanically
L,re,ard ubicb nv reason of its iso-
ltd nosi+ion was free from danger. of
ott,cls and h,, reason of its nredomi-
,anoo ~, Inc coo controlled Tho coro
,narca of tho world A united Germany
NO consid,rod danearous nv these
Douers ASIAN incident If may he cited
a. +bis connection that tbe nersecution
or tbo so-caIIed en,arogues as A result
of which hundreds of German students
who had committed tho unnardonable
criroe of talking in favor of n united
Germany were imnrisoned and cruelty
,,urisbod ,vas directly insnired nv the
no,vors Tho war Of Prussia with Ans
t,ia and tho Franco German war had
the efroct of uniting Germany and rails
inc il TO a first class mower However.
b,, taking the two provfnces of Alsace
and .orr.;na German nrovinces in the
vain ard fo,.,,erlv mart of the German
er,nirc German. created for herself an
erep,, that vvouId undo,htedlv renew
tho war whenever she would feel her
se,f stropc enourh bismarck in order
"a milf, tl,is e1.er nresent menace was
s,,ccasef,,l in forming an alliance with
pussia and Austria and this alliance
WIS ca STRONG that the neace of rnrone
scanned assured for AGAINST these three
most nowerful nations il would have
Loor foI1,, far any other I,uronean ma
ZION m ware war hut in This alliance
there Low tho frst coed of the ennoi+v
81 L,r,,a,d o,oirs+ C.err,ar, for Emo
lava +I,at rod heap tho STRONGEST factor
+boreh,, 70 a secondar,, nlace II thie
olIi.nco to5 hoo, ,,orr,sra,,t war Iilre
tbe ona ragin, at nresent would have
-, i,,,r,ossih1a h,t Tho ,,,,,. of I,ussia
,,,it,, ,,,,,l,o,, i, 1s77-7e r,,+ a s,,ddan
ona 20 - pussi. oo,,,,,oncad 80 ,,,,ar
roI vim A,,s+ria ovor Tho snoils of This
MO-. g., +,,o r9aII,or s+o+as ga haoa,,.o
an in,n1scobIe eoero,, of that co,ntrv
,rho afeort. ~ C.a,.r,s,,,, ~ so++lo thasa
tronblcs wera NJ No avail and since tbe
allianco was broken and i co,Idsnot he
q friend of both countries if was forced
n make choice hetween tho two and
as was natural if chose the country
most closely related to II ana in 1870
il became an a1lv of Austria an alliance
which was later Joined Nv italy q
so,nowhat duhious acouisition nc recent
events have proved To counteract tho
dominant character of this alliance
Russia formed an alliance with France
both countries DESTROYS of changing
the existing state of affairs France
seeking to recover what she considers
her lost provinces and Russia deter
mined to drive Turkey from Ehlrop.
and obtain an outlet in that direction
while the other alliance. the so-called
triple alliance. was determined TO main
tain things in statu quo. England had
kept aloof from both of these alliances
1t had never quite forgiven Germany
for displacing it from its prime import
ance in European politics 70 this
there was soon added another grew
anoe England had been so long the