The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
Remarkable Presentation
 of Cause of Fdtherldnd
German Exchange Professor Makes Such Unusual Statement His Countrys Attitude That It Is Being Published In
 German Publications All Over the World

of the soul? God must love us indeed, for the many years of political degrada ton which he has inflicted upon Us have become a bountiful blessing That time was characterized by intellectual work. by the development of our inner life. to which was due the world power of Ger man genius, Of Kant, Goethe and Schil- Ter. and through which we have become the preceptors of all the nations
 But now We were like children when | facing the reality of things. We were dazzled by the glare of the great world to which suddenly the gate was opened for us. Our life became more superficial greed entered through our doors. The dreamer had to learn the struggle for material things and he learned it only too well.
 Special Interests Rule
 Naked egotism appeared as the ruling passion and special interests became shamelessly prominent. Small men, mar row hearts achieved an importance which they did not deserve. Germany. which had been temple, appeared like single marketplace.
 But God has sent us the day which suddenly dispels all the ugly fogs- The whole of Germany all at once is again a single servitor of an idea-the idea of the Fatherland. The spirit of 1913 Is revived. Only on a STanQtT SCdic. uci ttit DSOplc rose because of nameless wrongs and in order to escape continued wrongs. It is a grander spectacle to see a people, spoiled by prosperity, display the same power and the same greatness of determination and sacrifice. The German spirit has again revealed itself. and Germany ap- pears unchanged as the treasurehouse of inexhaustlble moral forces. The Ger nan spirit consists In the self-evident re- xI ..a C.
 service of faith unto death. '
 Not that we have desired this war. Europe forced 1t upon us. and has known for long time that it would force it upon us. For old Europe could not toler- ate modern Germany. On the day Of our victories in 1870 it was decided that we would have to wage this war. We have been such dear cousins of the English, and such pleasant neighbors of the Rus slans. Such modest. thrifty, and or derly people. satisfied with moderate wealth, the thinkers, inventors, and dis coverers for the world.
 Her Rivals Ambitions
 You go ahead and boss it over all the oceans and carry all the wealth of the earth into your houses. and you extend your mighty body over the whole of Asia and make yourselves masters of the Ori- net. And please leave us peacefully in our quiet, warm home and let us work for you with all the powers of our intel lect. But what is that? The cousin wants to live for himself; the neighbor aims to become a military power? He wants to have a merchant marine and a navy and be recognized alongside of us on the oceans? What an impertinence, The divine order of things crumbles which decrees the ocean to be English the RnScfan pd In be weak. This is their line of thought They have invented a new name for us by calling us the mad dog of Flu rope" With this epithet they have be- trayed themselves. They cannot imagine how a nation can be as powerful as we and yet desire only peace and undis- turbed development of our inner forces for with such a power at their command they would grasp and Seize and rob and fall upon everybody like mad dogs. They have accused us of every imaginable crime. though our only crime is that we want to live. We want to elevate the people whose original tribes have cre- ated modern Europe to a position of power, independent of the others and make them their own master. We want to terminate the abnormal condition under which the aborigines of Europe were con demned to live in political impotence. We enter this war with clear con science. We have not wiled 1t, but in this great settlement which Europe forces upon us, it Is. after all, a blessing that all our enemnies confront us at one time. We do not fear them. The English dec laration of war is a salvation, for now everything is clear as to why we have to fight But what combination, and think of what holds our enemies together!
 Face Conspiracy of Envy
 Tt has often been said that envy was the national failing of the Germans, hy- poerisy that of the English, and vanity