The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-08-13

], very ieaSt, nave postponed the Sla
r peril for generation. Once and TO
e all, Germany will have dealt will
France and for years it can expec
!, free hand in the struggle will
5 Great Britain for naval supremacy
: and for that place in the sun so pas
! sionately desired by the German pat.
J riot. French colonies will be the
prize of war. Great Britain will be
left alone to confront Germany, as
supreme and unchallenged on the con-
tinent as Napoleon after Jena and
4 Austerlitz.
But defeated, Germany will play a
sorry figure, facing ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Alsace-Lorraine, Posen and the two
Prussias, Danish Schleswig undoubt-
eddy will be taken, German supremacy
on the continent destroyed, German
unity endangered, and the powerful
Soclalistic forces, perhaps, enabled
to drive out the Hohenzollerns and Law
hands on the government. Yet not to
fight for Austria is to see the Triple
Alliance dismembered, Italy drawn
aside by its African interests and the
German Empire left exposed to the
internal rivalry of the Slav and the
undying hatred of France.
France, next to Austria, is most
vitality concerned. Victorious, it
would regain its lost Provinces The
ever present shadow of German men
ace would be removed. Spared the
terrible expense of maintaining the
unequal struggle with its neighbor for
military superiority, it could turn it's
resources to the development of its
great North African empire, which
would insure France remaining
world power.
But defeated, France becomes a
mere satellite of Germany, incapable
Of resisting it, and sinking to the role
OF Spain. With a stationary popula-
ton, shorn of many of its colonies, if
not its European provinces, France
would be as helpless before Germany
as Prussia was before Napoleon after
lena. SO French statesmen describe
it as a war for the existence of
France.
"England's position is a peculiar
me. 1t doesn't care whoop about
'ervia. Again, victory for its Russian ;
md French allies would mean the !
tremendous ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the i,
ormer, which already confines India, ;
'resses upon China, is stretching i,
outh into Persia and is determined :,
o have Constantinople, to prevent {
which England fought the Crimean :,
var and was prepared to fight again ;.
fter the treaty of San Stefano.
"On the other hand, victory for a
he Triple Alliance would mean the t,
expansion of the German h
avy, the destruction of the balance h
power on the continent, for which O
ngland fought its great wars with a
outs XIV and Napoleon. 1t might O.
e, as Germany has long put it, the e,
relude to the day when the German II
avy would sweep the sea and the n,
ritish Colonial Empire be the prize II
victory. France destroyed, Russia st
'ippled, England would be exposed o,
the greatest peril in its history, NJ
e possibility of which drove it into fc
e Triple Entente. m
Italy also is in peculiar position. 81
has no love for Austria and victory cf
+ the Triple Alliance would mean as
1strian expansion into the Balkans, til
ward the Aegean and along the ar
iriatic. Thousands of Italians still tn
e subject to Austrian tyranny. Aus w,
IA is the Italian rival in the Adriatic st,
d if victorious would be able to lay ne
nds on Salonica, the key to the ar
EAR East. an
Again, if Italy should join the lite
rmans and Austrians, its coast
'uld be at the mercy of the French
editerranean fleet, its newly won
ipolitan colony would be the invit- +be
: prize for French garrisons of ma ms
e troops. To balance this Italy n
ght get, in case of victory, Tunis ,,io
/ Egypt"