The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-11-26


er anyone not a native of country,
is ably qualified to review thai
country's progress, indus'rl rally and
intellectually. How ever. the indus
trial and intellectual achievement s
aud aitainments of the Germany of
to-day, are like an open book-the
common property of the word.
Since man first began to wrile the
lis. and fall of nations, there has
never appeared III the history If any
race, a u ore absorbing " interesting
or delightfully."- romantic and facin-
atiny. aud Ofltlmes tragic story OF a
peoples exisiance. than that to he
found in the annals Of tina, frugal.
rugged and Intelligent race whom
Julius Caesar took alms against and
testified el"quenlly as to their abll
liies rs fighters of the first water.
Ye, this same race whom Ceasar
encountered to the east of the Rhine.
has a government ST. young. that
there are many ner'. today, who may
recall the time, when 1t blossomed
forth III all its glory.
Your present German Empire is.
directly or indirectly, the result of
the Franco Prussian war. What
/ esliny may have III store for it's
Tomorrow is a world topic, and
is. therefore, of paramount import
ance to the world at large. as it Is
now in process of determination.
A distinguished cunten porar!
French exponent of Shakespeare, III
years gone 10y, emphasized in one
of his delightful and k. en- analysis
of world types. the intrinsic value
TO a nation of distinct individuality,
wherein character and originality
are iuextrlcably combined. lie
nonchalan,ly AMI inad, ertently re
ferre.l to our former thrifty AMI fru-
gal granhfalhers If New England as
most prolific III that respect. but
under existing farming conditions.
one hazards lulle in suggesting the
Germany of today as similarly pro
lItic.
Your German Empire of the ooh
century Is "A wonderful and soul in
spring nation. whatever the Book
of Fate or the Hand of History may
have for Its future. Your average
student has lmElleI 50 much of the
sta,agem of the German army. her
strategic, crafty and ca,-like navy,
her one hundred per cent. Efficiency
factories, and the conques's Of her
commercial exporters. that he is a
mazed wl,hal when informed, that
territoriaily Germany Is go much
smaller than Texas, that a slice as
big as the New England States
could he cut out IF the Lone Star
State, aud what remained would be
larger than the Who'll German En-.
pre-.
And Look you, this Goliath nation
it, SIZE: this Sampson of nations III
industrial resources and the a,lmira
ton of the world IN technical achieve
men,s, is only exceeded in popula.
tiom by drowsy China. mcr"se India.
sleeping Russia and the alert. wide
awake, progressive IF All Nations
the United States Of Amprica!
Qu",h the military Won Mol,ke:
The German Empire will collao
withou, firing shot when German
agriculture cullapses. Allho EN-
braclng one fifteenth OF the total
area of Europe. Germany last year
prw. uce.i one seventh of its wheat.
a filth of its oats. NOR. than a
fourth of lis rye AMI over a third Of
it's POTATOES. lis Yell among pro-
ducing nations of Europe is only X
cepded by Giant Russia. Truly.
she is the Luther Burbank of the
agricultural world
According to statistics and figures
of the Department Of Agriculture
in Washington, in it's bulletin pub
lisI,ed the past week, had The farm
ers If the great regions of the Unit
ed States. grown as much wheat
per acre, rs did your German Her
of the soil in 1913, the crop in this
country for the current year ". uld