Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-08-17
SHAW BLAMES
NOT THE KAISER
But THE BRITISH

Ia a remarkable article published IN
the London Daily News on August II.
ieorgc Bernard shaw says:
I'VE are Ia war. N ~ well that MI
should know what the war i abDrt. To
begin with. We are not ~ war because
Germany made nm infamous proposal that
We should allow her AN violate Belgium
neutrality.
III ID had suited rs 10 accept that
proposal. VT should have found plenty 81
reasons for accepting I'M. The d~rfotr-s
uf our own neutrality have found some
M them already no more infamous than
the diplomatic reasons We have given III
the past for cour>eS which happened TO
W. convenient - IT.. lrt IT,. therefore
drop IA. Our national trick of virtuoHS
Indignation j. tiresomc enough ia peace
full strife At home. "A war it is ungal-
liant and objectionable.
This wnr IL Il balance ~ power war.
and nothing else. and lhr fact Nv all have
~ face II that II our side II victorious.
the result viii b. an oyerbalsmcc "a pow
in favor Of Russia. far more dangerous
~ All either ~rpnhaianis than the one We
arc fighting tD redress.
II H"NtA fNAN NtAtAN'NA w. ~
forty wears. Neither Germany nor
France believed that we wonll fight when
il came 10 the point. That IL WHY there
was such n Wild explosion W. delighted
surprise when the French Chamber learn
cd we were game after an. That T. WHY
the Kaiser. though reckless If every
other interest concerned. offered u~ thr
best excuse Nv could invent cor orr ncn
a WMIrt.r NTf t. ~
10 snatch 40 ii. ami that Is also whv Hc
had 10 take of our coat and sail in w
hal ~ show that when III comes tn a bal
ancc nf power W. arr n0 mere dummy
weights IN The scale.
Our Immediate business Is. Therefore.
40 fight IS hard n we can. for our weight
when the settlement cnnics will depend
"n the part VIZ shall have PLAYED III the
conflict.
France. instead ~ using her surplus
income IN ai,oli~hing French ~ihmS ami
building rp French children into strong
men and women. haS lent ii Al Russia NV
strengthen the most trrannical govern
mcnt IN Europe AMI to secure the inter
est on her loan. She has entered into an
unnatural alliance with Russia against
her more civilized nriahhur~.
We have Ho right ~ throw stones ~
France an this account. for We made an
agreement with Russia ~ still more Sor
diHlN commercial character for the rx
rloitatlcn M PERSIA with capital that
should have feat our starving children.
Now mark the co~BSeuucnccS: fcr
many. with hostile France ON one side
and hostile Russia ON The other. Nv IN N
position ~ dangerous that We here I'M
onr Secure island can form no cunerp
tion Of Us in;olcrable tension.
"Bv our blindness we have brought
about ihc war. we have deliberately
added 10 the strain IN making " military
AMI naval anti-tserman alliance with
France without ~ the same time halanc.
ing a. effect IN assuring Germany that III
Shr kept peace with France wr would nnf
help Russia against her. nor in ihr LAST
resource allow Russia to advance her
frontier westward.
1T i % be wondered that pvlsdam
milltarism with IT, chronic stale WI
panic. with militarism raised wv dcsprr.
alton bv the menace Of Russia. France
and England. made a wild attempt 10 cut
A. way ont after = de~pairinr appeal tn
HS. ~ lea IL FIGHT one tn two instead uf
one ~ thrreg
let a. he Just to PotS,lam. " may
serve Potsdam right that she frightened
- ui - much that We became incapable
ut realizing that 0ur terror was nothing
~ hers. lint ~ we hal been true to civil
lzation and kept our capital al home an-
cur honor untarniShcd ~ Sqaaiid rom
merrial adventures Ia ihr Ensl. VIZ should
nave controlled the situation anl kept
'hr European peace. History viii nut
excuse n btcause after making war IN.
t'itable We run round al the last moment
begging everybody mot lo make ii disturb