The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

That he is a paranoiac. a crazy man rum
ming amuck. plunging Germany and Eu-
rope into hell boil"
You who have eyes 20 read and a mind
to think read this and then do your own
thinking.
The war OF 1S7o-ls71 between France
and Germany was foisted upon Germany
by Napoleon III. and his Spanish wife,
Eugene. After Queen Isabella OF Spain
fed from Spain. Spain was without a
ruler and they chose a German Prince to
become King OF Spain.
Napoleon Ill, Emperor of France sent
Ambassador Benedict with the message
to William l.. King Of Prussia, then in
Bath-Ems taking his summer vacation,
that he (Napoleon) would not allow a
German to become King OF Spain. Ma
poleon's wife being Spanish he and she
considered themselves next to Spain not
only in the geographical sense. King
William said, For my part the Span
iards may get a king ~here they please
burt for harmony's sa~e I shall see that
the German will not accept the crown
of Spain"
William thought tho AFFAIR thereby con-
cluded. but the Ambassador returned af-
ter communicating With Napoleon and
Eugene with the nnessa ge that that would
not satisfy, but thai a document should
be created In which King william for him
self his heirs and successors would bind
himself never to allow a German to become
King OF Spain. Thereupon King WILL
lam rose. turned his oack upon the Am
bar sador and said, you see what / am
doing. Report this as my answer
Whereupon France declared war upon
Germany.
This war declaration and proclamation
came like a stroke OF apoplexy upon Ger
many. There had not been even n
stormy cloud on the political horizon. Ger
many was entirely unprepared. The 18th
infantry regiment In Emden, my native
town. had TO hasten pack from summer
encampment to their armory for their war
equipments. Yet the Germans were In
the unprotected border and all the war
was waged in France
After France was vanquished and peace
made the two former German provinces
| Alsace and Lorraine. where German was
spoken, came back to Germany. and Ger
| many was SO very ,enient with France
that they could pay che war indemnity
| right off. Germany could have got ter
| times as much.
Since then, for forty-three and a hall
years Of modified peace. France has beer
| bowling revenge. Germany. expecting in.
vasion from day to day. had to keep her.
| self armed In equal ratio. But France did
not have courage to tackle Germany alone
| In spite of having to keep pace with
| France In arithmetical progression Ger
many made such unprecedented progres,
| In science. industry and oversee commerce
| that England. formerly the worlds bro
/ ker. saw herself tagging behind. II saw
| that II could not compete with Germany
| in peaceful way, so IL resolved TO sma sf
its competitor. no international law as YET
/ preventing. Yes, II Is England's eco
| rnpnic nanaeQitv eha vii fall M
peaceful desuetude.
| England is entirely dependent on II,
oversee commerce-cannot feed herself
not even London. England started Il
build dreadnoughts and superdread
noughts. Germany knew what tina
| meant. Germany had to build new war
| ships and tax Ats country's resources q
the utmost. Proud Albion was too
much coward no measure lengths with
| Germany alone
| Germany made an appeal to hei
wealthy people to part with quite a shar,
Of their wealth for the saving OF th'
| Fatherland.
Russia. repulsed by Japan in the East
now turns west Its mouth Of rapacity.
England. tanning the French fam,
| OF vengeance and the Russian flame o
| rapacity. now uses these to the pitied. be
nighted people and their poor populac,
| for her own selfish end-to pull for Eng
land English chestnuts out OF the fire II
I this their most desperate struggle 70
existence. fear not for Germany: bu
my heart aches for the sacrifices she hai
to suffer and has 10 infict. Germany vii
not lose. Besides from 5000 900 to IL.
100000 men, 100000 German womei
Will take the field. They are all willinl
to die for Fatherland and their Kaiser
l.whom they all adore.
HENRY F. RIscH. NJ D.
Brooklyn, August IS.