Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1915-01-05
CONGRESSMAN METZ SCORES
ENGLAND

Ditt9r attack upon England, says the
New York Tribune. Congressman
Herman A. Metz (of Brooklyn) re-
turned to New York aboard the
Ryndam with his mind solidly made
up as to the things military. Mr.
Meta censured England from every
angle, and said that even France Is
now turning against hel
German hatred for England-no,
German bitterness for England
hasn't been half told" he declared.
There's no feeling in Germany
against France The French are
fighting for their country Germany
knows that, and respects France.
And the French aren't bitter against
Germany, either. They know that this
war IS a mistake, and that they have
been fooled by England.
England doesn't begin to realize
what she's up against. The lombard
mont of those three coast towns the
. other day was only the barest trifle.
IL was just a straw to show what
England's going to get Germany is
after England as she has never been
after anything, and it is a war to the
limit. in which England must go
down.
England has had a fine time so
far. The other countries have got
all the blows. England has just stood
by and let them get it, complaisant
In tho belief that she wasn't going to
suffer any Of the damages.
And when Germany has the au-
dacity-yes. that is the way the
English put 1.-THE audacity the
efirontery to attack those three
coast towns. why, England just rises
up and tells the world what a dread
ful thing il was for the Germans to
do, what an outrage against the con-
ventions
And right now English warships
are doing the very same thing in Bel
gium. Germany isn't destroying the
Belgian coast towns. English war
ships arc. They're shelling the coast
towns. ono after another That's
all right, OF England has got
to do IL in order to hurt Germany.
But what 2 different thing ii is when
England gets dose OF her own
medicine"
When the contention of DR.. Novel;
DWIGHT Hills that Germany is wag-
INK q way OF acquisition was brought
to His attention, MI. Metz returned
TO the attack with extra force.
"Hillis has got a lot to learn, " he
said Germany isn't looking for
French territory Germany doesn't Z
want foot OF French territory
When this war Is over you'l see that
Germany won't want q thing from
France Germany realizes what the
situation is, and she viii give back
to France everything that she has.
Germany doesn't want any more
conquered provinces from France.
She has enough now with Alsace-
Lorraine.
mo, it's England that's got to
pay the price. England with her
insuiar provincialism. England with
her holicr-than-thou attitude. And
England will payl
France doesn't get the news OF
what's going on. The French pris-
oners that / saw in Frankfort were
amazed that they had been brought
there and that they still found 1t be-
longed to Germany. 'Why, we
thought Frankfort and Berlin had
been captured" is what they said
What do these things mean that
they've been telling us?" That's
what youIl find in tho minds OF all
the French. They've been fooled and
tricked. and they arc beginning to
realize it.
There's no cause for enmity be-
tween Franco and Germany Made
in Germany brought this war and
nothing else II was German su-
prcmacy that aroused England. 1t
was Germanys progress that mado
England responsible for the war
France didn't care about Germany's
industrial supremacy England did.
England moved to destroy"
Mr.. Metz expressed himself as
firmly convinced that the finish Of
the war IS going TO be fought on
English soil and that England is
doomed to experience all the horrors
that have been tho portion Of Bel
GUM and France.
There IS not a German soldier
who docs not know that he is going
to get to England" said the Rep
rcsentativc. They do not think that
there is going to be an invasion OF
England; they know it and feel it,
They all know that nothing can stop
that invasion, and thoy are going to
fight in England against England.
"Militarism ia Germany? There's
no such thing There's not a man,
woman or child in Germany whose
heart and soul are not in this war.
There's not dissenting voice in the
Empire against the use OF anything
and everything in defence OF the
Fatherland. There Is not one man
in Germany who isn't eager to get
to the front If that is militarism,
then there's 20 such thing as patrio-
tiam. no such thing as a united
country
And Germany isn't worrying q
bit You wouldn't know that there
is war when you Visit Germany IL
it weren't for the wounded Every
thing IS quiet. Everything is going
on in its usual orderly way. Ger
many is quietly confident
"If DR.. Hills could sense tho
spirit ia Germany to-day he would
change his views. But who cares
what DR.. Hills says, anyhow? He t.
a grandstander und he always was
AS regards this country there is