The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-25
n, pPor. PAU VNN DYKE.

continental HdtIon peTinanN is
defending herself with extraor-
Ansry power against encircling foes.
And she is aware that any gaps in
IN. ring of steel and fire are filled
:, the circle of unfavorable opin-
a., which runs through neutral as
ali as hostile nations. She knows
,h., the majority of people who think
,hout the war believe Germany made
T. Inevitable.
Against this opinion Germany has
attended herself by the pen with tre-
mspdous energy. Agents have been
.sn, 10 the United States To conduct
,bis defence and In other neutral
countries translated bulletins. apollo
rlss and invectives have been c'rcu-
lated in great numbers 10y patriotic
committees. The brains Of Germany
rave been mobilized for this service
.rh a thoroughness as great as that
,bovn in the field OF arms.
From the resulting literature the
sriter has selected nine documents
a. perhaps the most representative OF
,ha, Germany thinks and wants the
world TO think.
and 2. The speeches of the Chan
eelcr In the Rcichstag August and
December.
z. The German White Book.
THE Truth About Germany
pamphlet circulated by a patriotic
committee Of whom at least eight are
distinguished in the German business
world.
S., Q. The writings Of Profs.
Eucken. Oncken. Haeckel. Harnack
and wundt. The names Of these five
men are known by everybody in the
world who knows anyth. ng of their
subjects and by many others beside.
From these nine specimens IL is
possible to form a fair idea OF the
German defence taken as a whole.
II man who had read nothing but
the French, Italian, English or Amerl-
can newspapers should read these
writings the first thing that would
strike him. and probably with great
surprise, would be the force and una
rim!ty with which they express the
opinion that this war has been forced
on Germany, who is defending her
most sacred rights against wanton ag-
gression. Tho man who does not ac-
cept this belief Of the German nation
Is psychological fact has no right
TO sit Is Q Judge in the court Of the
n-utral mind. However strange It
may seem, after q long course OF read
!ng made up Of anti-German liter
Gure, that any one should believe
this he must hammer into his mind
N. unmistakable fact that the Ger
man nation does believe 1t with I'M
shakabe faith-their men de and
their women pray out of this firm con.
yc,ion.
Perhaps IL has been best expressed
BY DR. Dryander, the leading clergy
man of Berlin. in his Christmas
Thoughts in War Time:
War always unchains fearful
smount Of sin. crime and horrible
deeds, The nobiest nations shrinl;
rom the harbarizing influence which
comes from waginE war. Tho
fgh, 20 make war can only arise not
when this or that single right of more
or less value IL questioned but only
when the entire rights Of the nation
are denied, when the nation is forced
ttence, pro arts ct fools When IL Is
'aged in this spirit war may he holy
"ln such mental attitude our peo'
pc confront the present war. II was
rot We who wanted and sought IL. W.
had not the smallest reason for seek
M war. The truth is, as the Kaiser:
call 10 the German people expressed II
IN the midst OF peace the enemy fel
upon us
IF any one points 70 the agreement
o. the nations whose opinion is agains
US and whose unanimity OF unfavor
abe Judgment Is assumed To be proc
that We are in the wrong, We hope 4
DO able 10 appeal male infOrWofts a.
relius intormandos and trust that IN
power OF truth will in its own tim
tear asunder the unbreakable web o
les that has been spun around us"
The second surprising thing to tn
man who read these German defence
after reading only anti-German litcra
lure would be that these writers Sc
In the Germany of the future peace
fu furtherer OF civilization. Tn
shock produced In the American min
by citations OF the most eNaggerate
Passages OF Won Bernhardi and No
Tre,tschke, authors unknown to ther
before. and the utterances OF certai
writer's in English, whose rather super
hcial judgments have been given NOR
weight than they deserve, have cause
Millions OF people to see German ms
to-.ca, and political literature with n
utter lack Of proportion which make
Me!r opinion about 1t sound yer
much ike the undertaking production
" Mr. Lawson. IN recent common
on German historical thought ] haV
not seen mentioned the name
Leopold Won Ranke. the sympathet
Historian Of France, England an
Europe. Ills name and influence
ufrmsny towers over that or No
1reltSchko ike Monte Rosa over Il
foothills
Prince Won Bulow had been Chance
.of OF the German Empire, His boo
imperial Germany was contempt
Faneous with Won Bernhardi's Gee
many and the Next War Surely
1ss every claim to be taken as IL
more representative OF German feelir
ana aspiration But nobody quotes
and few read II.
The German military writer FRI
vshius in his book written just befo
Me war THE German Empires Hot
DestlAy,' quotes and summarizes
he following effect from the book
we American Homer Lea, THE ia
me Saxon" translated into Germs
1913. In ENGLAND he saws. the o