The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-10-30

risk even If her stand caused offense
in this country.
The Army Register showed that
more than three times as many of
our officers were born in the coun-
tries of the Triple Entente as were
born in Germany or Austria-Hungary.
Furthermore. of the eighty-seven Of
ficers of our army who were born in
the countries forming the Triple En-
tente. the register shows that eighty
one were born on British soil. and of
these forty-one were born in the
British Isles and thirty-eight in Can
ada.
The Dual Alliance is represented
twenty-five officers in our service. OF
these. twenty were born in Germany.
three in Austria and two in Hungary.
Fifteen officers were born in neutral
foreign countries. and of these six
were born in Sweden. four in Norway
and one each in Denmark, Switzer-
land. Turkey, Mexico and Cuba. Thus
in our entire army there are 127 Of
ficer of foreign birth.
In the navy there are forty-five
officers of foreign birth and of these
twelve came from Canada, seven
from England. two from Wales, one
from Scotland and two from Ireland.
Five came from France. The Dual AL
lance is represented by ten officers,
of whom seven came from Germany
and three from Austria-Hungary.
Sweden. Switzerland. Argentina, Hol
land, Uruguay and Mexico are each
represented by one officer,
Is Germany's Triplicate Empire Fac
ing Fate?
Prof. Samuel P. Orth. a member
Of the faculty of Cornell University.
has sketched the destiny of Germany
as he sees it in the Century for No
vember. He says:
Three Germanys. one within the
other. feudal, industrial, democratic,
and all of them resting on medieval
bulwark of authority. militarism.
Never in history has there been such
another combination. England and
the United States are Industrial coun-
tries. England an island empire, re-
lies, it is true. upon her vast navy;
but she has no great standing army,
and her government is democratic.
The soldier il merely an incident in
Anglo-Saxon iadustrialism. and de-
mocraoy is potent. Russia has a feu-
ial autocracy and an army. but she
has neither political democracy nor
a factory industry. France has her
army and her industry. but she is
republic, and her army is not the
expression of her political theorems.
During forty years of development.
these three German empires have
been growing. Democratic Germany
grew more rapidly than even indus
trial Germany, but il gained scarcely
any concessions. In Prussia. az least.
every young man who joins the So
ciai-Democratic party leaves all hope
of governmental preferment behind.
The expanding circle OF the democracy
crowded both the industrial and
feudal camarilla more and more. I'M
til in the last elections it seemed as
if somewhere the encircling steel of
prerogative would have to yield.
But instead OF revolution, more
army levies, a 5 per cent property
lax. a greater navy.
Then the war Encircled by enc
mics. some prompted by revenge.
some by jealousy. some by the in
stinct of ethnic growth. this tripli-
cate empire of mechanical perfec-
ton faces its supreme fate. Lord
Roberts said, only two years ago,
Germany strikes when Germany's
hour has struck"
The hour has come. and thethre
The hour has come and the three
iermany's thus far have stood to-
sether. 1t was expected that the in
iustriaI princes would stand by the |
Kaiser. But the Social-Democrats |
lave constantly opposed the increase
n ornaments, and preached against
'iOlence. While their leaders had re-
assured the government that /
n the shour of peril the Socialist
would prove as patriotic as any 9TH
RS, they at the same time warned
he nation that they would resist a
var of aggression. Their actions in
icate that they consider this a war
f defense. The patriot has overcome
he doctrinaire, and for the moment
IL are united around the throne.
So the student of affairs sees to-
ay the final test OF vast human