The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-06-15

ter and more than any other Ru-
mors of the large secret circulation of
this book in Germany, in spite of its
prohibition by the government have
appeared in the press from time to
time, but Mr.. Gordon-Smit is the
first full account of it's contents to
appear in English. He declares:
1.-THE author not only writes as a
German, but thinks as one. His rea-
soning is that Of German dialecti-
clan. 1t is written by the author, not
against, but for Germany.
"He is German Liberal. What he
says does not differ sensibly from the
language we were accustomed to hear
from the leading organs of the Ger
man Liberal press, such as the Vos-
sische Zeitung, the Frankfurter lei
tung, or the Berliner Tageblatt before
the war. 1t is difficult to understand
their complete 'volte-face. Perhaps
if they were free to write as they
please we might hear a different lam
guage from that they now employ.
The author of 'J'accuse' has at any
rate preserved his independence and
remained master of his ideas and of
his pen.
! "He declares-and proves-that the
war was plotted, prepared, and de-
clared by the German military party.
1t had it's precursors and it's prophets:
General Bernhard, Treitschke, Fro
benius and others. He shows the
methods used to work on public op-
inion, to knead it as one kneads
dough. He cites the effort made to
obtain the introduction of information
al arbitration and the reduction Of
ornaments by the Gear, Nicholas H.,
and proves to demonstration that this
effort shipwrecked on the unyielding
opposition of Germany and Austria.
ton of the other powers, great and
small.
| HS "lllSI pIoNSS lIdt III
tain was untiring in her attempts to
bring about a simultaneous reduction
of naval construction, but the Berlin
cabinet refused to entertain these pro-
posals Why? The author of 'J'ac-
cuse' gives the reason without hesita-
ton, because OF all the powers in
/ Nh NV oil ,1n n
and preparing war.
"And why did she want war? The
empire was enjoying an unexampled
period of economic progress and pros
perity. 1t was known to be the
strongest power in Europe, and every
body bowed to it's will. 1t developed
it's force. No one dared to face it
resolutely. This was seen during the
Morocco crisis and the Balkan wars.
No one dared to attack it. No one had
the courage or even the desire.
But a powerful party in the en-
pire dreamed of still greater ON
Impotence, and it managed to make a
great people, laborious, intelligent,
and at bottom, peaceful, believe that
the war was a Befreiungkrieg, a war
of liberation, like that waged cen.
fury before against Napoleon. A war
| of liberation from what? - from
whom? This question will never find
an answer"
From this point the author proceeds
to study the crisis itself:
"He examines, in the light Of all
the documents published up 10 the
present time, the action of Austria, Of
Germany, of Russia, of England, and
of France For him no doubt sub
sists The German chancellery seiz-
ed upon the crime of Seraievo to let
loose on Europe a war already. decii-
ed on in principle, the new military
law, which brought to it's maximum
the armed force of Germany, having
then had it's complete application. He
then sums up the serried arguments
contained in the powerfully written
pages of his book by affirming that
Germany and Austria are responsible
for the European war which they pro-
voked knowingly and with premedita-
ton
1.-THE terrible massacre goes on
without result, piling up daily fresh
mountains of corpses, fresh ruin and