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

the London Daily News "a August Ill.
ic0rrc Bernard Shaw says:
I'VE are al war. II j. we'll that we
should know what the war u about. To
begin with. We are not at war because
Germany made an infamous proposal that
we should allow her to violate Belgium
neutrality.
IF IL had suited w. t0 accept that
proposal. We should have found plenty WI
reasons for accepting ii. The drvotecS
~ our neutrality have found some
81 them already NJ more Infamous than
the diplomatic reasons We have given IN
the past for courses which happened to
bc convenient To rs. Let NJ. Therefore
drop II. Chr national trick ~ virtuouS
Indignation u tircSnMc enough I'm peace
ful strife "a home. AZ war il j. ungal
liant and objectionable.
This war D. i balance ~ power war.
and nothing else. ami the fact We nll have
20 face X that II our side IL victorious.
the result will be- an overbalance Of DOW
in favor ~ Russia. far more dangerous
~ MI other c0mhaiant~ than The nnr wr
ARE fighting % redress.
PrnSdan miiitariSm has hullicd us for
forty Years. Neither Germany nor
France believed that w would tisht when
II came I'd the paint. Tha; " WHY there
was Such a Wild explosion Of delighted
surprise when the French Chamber learn
ga AZ We're game after NIL That ~ why
The Kaiser. though reckless uf every
ether interest concerned. offered M the
best excuse hc could invent for our ncu
uality. believing we were only too ready
~ snatch IA II. anil that " also wliy We
had to take on our coat and Sail IN W.
had 10 show that when il comcs a. a bal
ancc uf power wc arc no ll,rr dummy
weights in the scale.
"our Immediate business is. therefore.
% fight rs hard rs we can. for our weight
when The settlement comes will depend
~ The part W. shall have played III the
conflict.
France. instead Of using her SURPLUS
income IA aholiShing French ~IumS and
building up French children into Strnnr
men and women. has lent ~ ~ Russia w
strengthen the most tvrannical govern
mrnt IN Europe and 10 secure W. inter
cSt ~ her loan. She has entered into an
NAftfttttAtA HlttHitNF Win AW~~Ai AGAINST
her more civilized nciehbnr~.
We have no right 10 throw stones nj
France pa this account. fer We made nn
agreement with Russia pf still more Sor.
didly commercial character for The *.
rloitation Of Persia with capital that
should have fed eur starving children.
Now mark the Consequences. Ger.
many. with hostile France on one side
and hostile Russia Dn the other. j. i'm n
position - dangerous that We here IN
our secure island cam form ~ ronrcp-
ton Of iiS iHtolcrablc tension.
~By our blindness We have brought
alpnt the war. We have deliberately
added tO the strain nv making n military
and naval anti German alliance with
France without ~ the same time balnnc-
ing IN elect ~ assuring GERMANY that iii
shc kept peace with France W. would not
help Russia against her. nor IN the last
resource allow Russia 20 advance her
frontier westward.
-lt II AZ H. wondered that Putsdam
mllitarism with itS chronic state W.
panic. with miIitari>m raised 10 deSpcr-
alton by the menace "a Russia. France
and England. made "A wild attempt ~ cut
iis way ont after a dc~pairing appeal 10
nS To LEI II fight one 10 two instead II
one ~ three
Let a. hr inst M putSdnm. MI may
serve Potsfiam right that She frightened
= all 80 much that We became incapabla
81 realizing that our terror was nothing
~ hers. hnt ii we bad been true AZ civil
izatiun and kept our capital IN home an-
cur honor untarniShel bv Squalid con.
mercial adventures Ia the East. W. should
have controlled ihr situation and KEPT
'he European peace. History win nni
pArusr us because after making war N.
tsitahle We run round ~ the last moment
herging everybody NOT w make Il disturb
anrp.