The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-14
MAKES HIS APPEAL
GERMAN EDITOR PLEADS FOR
COMMON UNDERSTANDING :,
Il
PEOPLE have Been MISLED
Those of Each Nation Know More OF
the Worse Side Of the Other Than
the Good-America is Right in
Selling Ammunition to the Allied
Nations.


Selling Ammunition to the Allied
Nations.
Maximilian Harden, editor and
publisher of Die Zukunft, one of the
leading German u swsp:l ers, writes
as follows in the New York World,
in giving the side of his country in
the present diplomatic exchanges:
"Sin may be committed on both
sides of the Atlantic. The average
American has heard far more out of
Germany about lack of freedom, feu-
dal autocracy and aristocracy, Lack,
outwardly, of culture, and militar-
ism, spirit of self-Sacrifice, and the
regiogi ideals of the German peo-
pies.
"On the other hand, to many Ger
mans the American is known too
much as a dollar chaser, money
maker, without ideals. Too little has
the German been told Of the inteuec-
tual and idealism; what tremen-
dous power to do good, and deter
mination and will power to work un-
selfishly in assisting its development,
exists in the people of North Ameri-
ca
Your countrymen certainly
should have been able to judge and
| recognize from the German-Ameri-
cans living in America-although,
| perhaps, each one of them is not al
ways an example of our best-that
l - h.~
slaves, neither dishonorable nor un-
fit and incapable Of self-determina-
ton Of their lives.
From aflr off, the German saw
only small crowd of American tour
lists, rich men or globe trotters, not
always representing the best ele-
ments of your country. The masses
much as caricatures, reflected in the
distorted mirror of satirica publica-
ions. That is reyenging itself in the
tremendous crisis of this war.
''The policy o. the United States,
| the main interest of which lies In
South America and the Far East,
perhaps doesn't recognize yet that
this war will answer tho question.
Shall England, which is world
power but not a European great pow
er, remain the judge Of Erope-on
a continent on which she has but one
small point of support, Gibraltar?
| This question is already an wered to-
| day by an effective and revolutionary
development of technology.
"The new form of submarine war
fare will in its evolution make i'm
future. The war has already decid-
ed that England has lost the undis-
puted and absolute dominion Of the
sea. She will have to adept herself
to that. No successes on land will
Offset that.
america, even motiyating her de-
mands on the basis of principles Of
humanity, can not ask US to give up
this form Of warfare, the only form
that remains to us in the blockade of
England against Germany. America,
a great but young nation, inspired by
progress for the future, can not use
its power to support what is obso-
lete, something that is passing away
and must pass away.
| 1.-The majority of Germans believe
that America is supplying our enc
mics with arms and ammunition in
violation of law and customs. This
is q wrong belief. According to The
Hague Conventions American private
firms can sell to whom they like what
they like. But the realistic intellect
OF Americans must ask itself these
questions:
! Can we demand of the Germans,
on the strength of friendship for
us, to give up the possibility of de-
stroying ships the cargoes of which
would kill, MAIN, wound uncount-
ed numbers of their sons and
brothers?
Gould we do it if in their situa-
ton?
''Is this manufacture of arms
and ammunition so important in
our business and national econom-
, les es to justify us in engaging
the enmity of a people which, like
ourselves, is not in the descend
ing but the ascending scale of
humanity and development, civili-
cation and culture?
wouldn't it be more rational
either to influence England to give
up her blockade on foodstuffS,
which is only tending to develop
| still further German economical
traits, or to forbid the export of
arms and munitions.
America is free to answer these
| questions as she sees fit. Neither of
| these two countries can hope,
through fear, to gain anything of the
other Both must learn to respect
one another. l have no criticism to
pass on America believe. the
American government has an earnest
| desire to be and remain neutral in
| the best sense of that word, but I
| feel that America in it's international
intercourse is now confronted by the
same problem that has occupied the
American people so much in their
| domestic politics.
us special privilege, private profit
| of certain small groups and concerns,
| or the benefit, welfare and happiness
| VI LuS SuIlTG AuSEiCGu ptOplG W Ue
| decisive in the policy of the nation?
1t is not matter of getting around
| momentary difficulties with fine
| words. Both peoples need an open,
| sober, reasonable trade and business
treaty agreement, without secrecy or
back door.
"Whatever is done, it probably
| will fix and determine the relations
between America and Germany for
more than a generation. Shall mis-
trust and prejudice reign or shall
there be a real friendship, founded
ON rational egotism and good Will
toward mankind?
THE best Germans earnestly de-
sire and wish that together we may
prepare the seed for the harvest Of
the future. The masses of both coun-
tries undoubtedly wish the same
when once they have learned to see
each other in the right light. To
bring them to this point is the great
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