The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-09-04
is GERMANY RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE HOLOCAUST IN EUROPE
Colonel Henry Watterson Gives What
He Considers the "Whys" and
The "Wherefore's."

! Elsewhere is this issue or the COu'
rier-Journal letter is printed from a
most intelligent and thoughtful Ger
man in protest against what he con-
ceives as unfair treatment by the
press of the United States of the
Teuton side of the European war is
sue and along with this appeal for
justice to the Kaiser and the Ger
mans.
Mr.. Boetcker makes no distinction
between the ruler and the people. He
is earnestly loyal to the colors of the
Vaterland and implacably hostile tC
all other standards. He can see but
single side of it. Being German,
land proud of it," his mind reverts
to the scene of his childhood; to the
companions he has left behind; and,
inspired by the irresistible prompting
of a glorious race impulse, he speaks
from a heart which. though selfcon-
trolled, blazes with indignation.
Tempermentally, this is unfortu-
nate both for the completeness and
the conclusiveness of his argument.
We readily go with him in all that he
writes of his country and his country
men. No one knows Germany and
the Germans without respecting them.
1t is a fair and lovely land, pro-
ductive and potential people. The
debt the world owes to German meth
ods-we need not add to German
science and art, poetry and thought
is incalculable. made in Germany"
has been for years both an asset and
guarantee. America can teach en-
terprise to the whole world" says Mr.
Boetcker, "but Germany can teach
the whole world thoroughness and
spirituality" which is gospel truth.
The German equally at home and
abroad is a good citizen. Thoug'
likewise a good soldier, he is yet a
peaceful man. His civilization reach
ed him late; but, untouched by
Latin frivolity and English buster, it
builded upon the barbaric founda-
tions, from which all the world is
, sprung, national fabric and an indi-
vidual character such as justify the
enthusiasm of our correspondent and
, invoke the admiring friendship of
those who have had the happiness to
dwell in Germany; to dwell in Ger
many anywhere between the noun
tains of the sea; to see visions
among the solitudes of the Black
Forests and to dream the hours away
upon the hillsides of Heidelberg: to
wander at will through the parks and
galleries of Dresden and Hanover;
, even to fancy ones self Teuton by
decent from Siegfried as he wanders
up and down the Rhine, poet and a
warrior from Tannhauser as he lott
ers in Munich and fingers, losing all
sense of time in Nurnberg; a real
German as he listens to music at
Beyreuth and drinks beer Inter j.
den in Berlin. God bless the German
people, say we, and the Vaterland!
That alone which jars the sensibili-
| ties of the American in Germany is
not alone the malitarist-everywh
| in evidence-but the castism which
| aggressive, tyrannous, and often in
| solent, stands a wall of stone and
steel between the few who rule ana
the many who hew the wood and
draw the water From the North Sea
| to the French border; from the Baltic
to the lake of Constance, there is no
such thing as popular freedom. Au-
| tocracy and arbitrary power, pride
of birth and being in the aristocracy
hardly less than that of the Reginms
Ancien whose excuses brought about
the terror in France, meet at each
turning, despite the fine thinking
power and productive energies OF
those plebeian Germans to whom Ger.
many really owes her amazing pro-
gress the last three and forty years
Let us admit the enlightened pol
icies of the Kaiser. His genius many
not be denied. Asserting always the
! right divine, he yet played to radical
pride, to popular vanity, to the nation
al spirit created in the creation OF
1 United Germany by the Iron Chancel
lor whom wisely he displaced and
sent to the rear. He touched the Ger.
man brain and a stream of plenty
burst forth. He flattered the German
heart and loyalty and prowess sprang
into being. All the while he was a
Hohenzollern: and after while he
came to believe that even as his ED
ers had taken Alsace-Lorraine he
might take Belgium and Holland and
incidentally drive England from her