Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-20
BOTH SIDES OF THE WAR
THE ENGLISH VIEW.
/(By LOnsdale Bryce.)

Grcdl Cld1mS nave Decu Hldue as lo English aggressiveness by her subtle diplomacy in forcing nation always presumably friendly to her to make war against her. All these statements are refuted yb the unpreparedness of the British army for continental campaign.
 England's navy, was, of course, ready, as it is always compelled to be on account of her apparent maritime supremacy. But prOabbly Lord Kitchener was the most surprised man in the world when he found that he
 was short of a great many Tommy Atkinses" to reinforce his line under General French in Belgium and in France. Now, if English diplomacy had been contemplating war with any would not her chest have been filled, the ranks of regiments up to it's full
 quota and her reserves ready at the drop of a hat to have entrained for
 Dover, to be able to strike with the same rapidity which Germany did? How desperate was the straits
 which England has been plunged by her total lack of mobilization of land | forces is shown by the frantic appeal of every English peer to their con stituents and the late visit of Fir Ed ward Carson to Ulster How silly it is to accuse Downing street of fore ing war, when the army was in such a rotten shape, relying as England did upon the relationship of the Eng
 fish sovereign to the house of HanOv- CT and upon the many friendly ties between the Teutonic and the Anglo
 Saxon races, the war office was evi- dently caught off it's guard, by the German mobilization and the many years of preparation of the ambitious German emperor.
 No one who has read in the lately published correspondence of the un- tiring efforts of Fir. Edward Grey to reach a peaceful adjustment through conference of the powers, of his ap- peals to which France, Russia and Italy gave assent, but which Germany met with evasion, disfavor and re- fusal. couraged and sustained Austria ill the policy which denied the right of any other power to stand between her and the Slav object of her wrath. Why should Germany be afraid of the Slav peril? France, Italy, Belgium, Holland are and always have been un- disturbed by it, and in face af the fact that a great per cent of German trade is developed in Russian territory and that millions of German money are and have been invested in Russian financial ventures.
 The German ambition becomes al matter of serious moment to the en- tire world. It is the liberty-loving Englishman who stands between the kaiser and the accomplishment of his ends.
 While Germany contends that Eng land wants to find an outlet for her manufactures and is endeavoring to kill off German trade by forcing her into war with joining nations, Eng land to take her old customers, we who are familiar with the English love of fair play know that besides militarism there was another and a more potent reason for the kaiser sounding the alarm of war.
 Down underneath every other ap- parent and suspected cause the real one and fle actual one is that the kaiser must have elbow room for his new subjects. Germany's population is large one, at present nearly TO- O00,oO0 people in territory not much larger than twice the size of the state of Pennsylvania. Then when you consider that there are about g.
 100000 babies born in the empire every year, Germany needs room for the little ones to grow. She has lit tie colonial territory and when a German leaves the Fatherland they must emigaret to some land where by naturalization they cease their ale glance to the German flag. So by the expansion of adjacent territory, which the kaiser desires, Germany can make room for these little babies, Made in Germany" who may grow up into big, husky goose steppers," re- taining their nationality and their al- legiance to the kaiser. instead of be- ing absorbed by some other nation. If she were trying to acquire unin- udUIlcu iduu, tue DaDleS Sufeiy would have room but as it is, that is only possible where she acquires territory less densely populated than her own. , Your President Roosevelt has talked i much about race suicide." Evidently the same kind of ambition runs in the , kaiser's mind.
 War is not Germany's nor any other country's solution of such a problem. The solution for Germany is to be found in France. France is today the richest and most prosperous country i'll the world. She does not realize
 that her prosperity has depended
 largely upon what we in America have always deplored--race suicide, as it is called.
 But it is not really race suicide, the French people in their frugal thrifty scientific principles of home manage ment with domestic life placed upon a secure financial basis through the dover system, have given birth to children only when the parents were sure they could maintain them. Not 50 wit hthe Germans. their children