Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-29
GERMANY DOOMED,
WINES AT DEFEAT

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| glum, where the last army of occupation
is still engaged in Its horrible task of
bullying and plundering the wretched
| victims. The story OF Germanys treat
ment of Belgium and that part of France
| It Is now occupying has not yet been
| told learn from American friends who
! have just returned from Belgium that
! when the world hears the full horrors
| Of what happened in Belgium 1t will put
the horrors of the Cawnpore in the back
| ground.
CHARGES BLACKMAIL.
But for the fine American diplomacy
Of your representative in Brussels. Brand
whitlock, and the supreme generosity of
the American people, the Germans would
have succeeded in starving the little
nation which they have not been ashamed
| to despoil. 1t seems almost incredible,
but 1t is true that the wealthy German
| Empire is not ashamed to levy medieval
| tolls in the form of demands for huge
| sums Of money, supplies and the like.
| II II be that there Is one peace-at-any-
price advocate left in England, there is
| certainly none bold enough to come out
| I'm public and say that he Is on the side
| of this German blackmail. 1 can't under
| stand how any German-American can
| support outrages of this kind. Your pub
! lie hasn't realized that no revolution,
| no war, not the whole story of Napoleon's
| campaign are as anything compared with
| this Armageddon. Even In England
| within sound of the German guns, there
are people who imagine that this struggle
may terminate in 1915.
| don't understand the basis OF their cal
culatlon. The Kaiser, or to use his OH
| cial military title, All-Hlghest War Lord,
| now says that England provoked and pre-
pared for this war, yet in August he re-
| ferred to our army as General F'rench's
| contemplate little army" Had we pre-
| pared we shouldn't have started with
| little army. We weren't much more pre-
pared for land war with Germany than
| the United States is. Had we been ready
| tho campaign might have been short. AS
| IL is, although we have over 2OOO,OOO men
in training, we have as yet comparatively
| few in the field. Our part in the war can
not begin until we get our men at the
front. The first OF our new armies cannot
| enter the hghting until spring, and the
task of driving the entrenched Germans
out OF France and Belgium will be slow.
| The invasion of Germany itself must, OF
necessity, be task of vast dimensions.
You ask me II 1 believe the necessary
army can be raised by voluntary service.
| Personally, don't. You'll remember that
| you could not do so In 1861. My personal
belief Is that we shall be obliged to adopt
regard our struggle with the same inten-
sity as did both the North and the South
| In 1861. We are fighting as we did 100
| years ago against Napoleon, against the
domination of Europe by a military
| oligarehy. We shall fight with all OF the
resources OF our manhood. our shipyarda,
our wealth, our British tenaoity. We will
| go under rather than give in.
You ask me do 1 think Germany can
be Btrangled and the war ended by star
vation and attritlon, I believe II can,
but the process will be one OF years
rather than OF months, Germany Is a
self-supporting country In almost every
| article necessary for war and for the
support of her unfortunate people.
Some American friends have urged that
we establish in Washington some rival
| organization similar to that OF Ambas-
sador Bernstorff, Doctor Dernburg and
the German-Amerlcans and other mold
ers OF public opinion for the purpose OF
informing the American public regarding
the British attitude. But our case, In
| my opinion, needs no such effort, The
bullying OF Belgium, the huge sum de-
manded from French towns in baclSmail
| the killing of women and children at
| scarborough--not as the Germans pre-
tend in a fortress, but In a seaside resort
like Atlantic Ctty-the dropping OF bombs
| on Paris from aeroplanes-whiehh has been
stopped owing TO American Intervention
| not TO mentlon LoQNdlNt 2ANchAlhf rNo-t
all provide US with all OF the answers We
require to German militarism.
NV French friends tell me that they
! have no intention whatever OF replying
20 Germany's accusations In the United
states They win rely entirely on Amer
loan fair play and American friendship
Tor the nation that came to their help
Ia the war OF the Revolution. Russia
regards with disdain the German attacks
in the United states, and so far as the
japanese are concerned, Americans must
admit they have kept strictly TO the let
Ter OF their agreement with the Allies.
PRAISES AMERICA.
AZ seen from this side OF the Atlantic
the German efforts 70 frlghten Americans
seem crude, I don't remember any time
Ia American history when your people
have been frightened You are told 4
beware of Bntiah naval domination Hor
are 10 bs careful lsst the tiny Japaness
lnation attack you Ia the Paciho. Ameri
cans ars well aware of the size OF thl
Ensfiah navy and they know that Tor 10
years Il has been friendly 70 them, Ans
Japanese that I have been acquainted
with vas oognizant OF the latent poWel
Of the United States. That they know
that Amaricans. like the hnBlish, are gen
orally unpFeDarad for war, but that, BE-
ing once aroused, they VIII carry thet
wars to the nnish.
n Is no doubt disappointing to Eng
ish and American business men % learn
that there are pscple ike mYaeh Hn1
regard this sisentie s,sussis g = mat, s,.,
from no mo8t sordld polut ~ view i z
better thet the RoFl1 should % fid q
ihls menace 70 iis p4ara qlet fof az
rather than 10 have eoaae spFt of patehe4-
~ peace 81 tftaty q A.sa