Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-24
HALLER DEFENDS
GERMANY'S POLICY
Declares TeutORs Are Fighting
England and Russia for
Very Existence.
PEOPLE RALLY TO STANDARD
Nation as one Man Back Of Armies,
RealisinE Hostility of Jealous
Countries that Surround
FntherIRnd.


A kind Of insanity and a deplorable
ignorance prevailed among Americans
Just after the declaration Of war in Eu-
rope. said F. l.. Halter OF Omaha. de-
Tending the German cause before\ an
audience at Windsor school last night
I'VE displayed a sweeping lack Of good
Judgment in believing all the false and
malicious reports published about Ger
many and German militarisms atrocl-
ties" he said.
The German people did not want this
war, The kaiser did not cause it. Russia
started II BY standing back of Servia
when Austria Hungary desired to put an
end TO the everlasting intrigues that had
been Matched and fostered in Servia,
where rulers are murdered frequently.
England Chose TO FiEht.
England was given every opportunity
to stay out Of the war, and deliberately
chose 10 attack Germany now" Mr. Hal
Ter continued. reading from the famous
white papers," where Sir Edward Gray
was said to have admitted that Germany
offered to do anything in the line Of
reason that England asked. and that two
ministers and labor leader in Parlia-
ment resigned because they knew this
and knew the facts were not furnished
the British people, who even now like
the war so little that they are not en-
listing readily" Continuing. Mr.. Halter
said;
There Is reason for war and an ex-
cuse. Violation Of Belgium's neutrality
was an excuse for England. England has
violated neutralities every time she has
had war. So has the United States.
Any nation does 1t, when 1t becomes a
necessity.
Kaiser Not Responsible.
LAS to the power of the kaiser: He
has less authority than the president of
the United States. The Bundsrath and
the Reichstag voted the war.
Remember this about Germany: There
are no slums in German cities There is
no corruption in German municipal gov
ernments. They would never submit to
adoption Of the American system of gov
erning cities. There are few cases of
disease, American students in medical
universities in Germany must go to
Switzerland il they would study small
pox or typhoid cases. There are none
In Germany.
Germans CQutented.
THE Germans are q healthy. prosper
Gus, contented people, and they are stand
ing back Of their kaiser with a unaplmity
such as has never before been witnessed.
Their existence is at stake. With bar
barous Russia on the one side and Eng
land and France on the other, Russia
waiting for an opportunity TO make war,
the German government merely protected
itself by its militarism.
I'VE are afraid of words in this coun-
try. Militarism frightens US, but If Mex
leo were q powerful, hostile country
waiting for the opportunity to win back
the state of Texas, which we took from
1t, we would have militarism here
Mtlitarism Great LeyeIer.
German milltarism is the great levelsr
of Germany as of other European coun-
tries. The peasant and the millionaire
and the aristoerat wear the same clothes
and live In the same quarters for one,
two or three years. And II the service
were not compulsory IL would be willingly
done.
German boys so to men teachers. In
this country they are taught by women
and they acquire feminine tastes, an
hysterfeal manner and fall short OF a
certain manliness Of thought which they
would have were they taught by men.
This is condition admitted by the great
est educators In the world.
Let us be sane and Judge without pas
sion and we will see that our sympathies
should DO with the Teuton race in this
struggle"
The audience gave Mr. Halter rising
vote of thanks.