Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-01
Austria and Hungary MAY Secede.

Inc secession or tne nOn-IruSSlan
states of Germany from the kaiser's
flag may be followed or preceded by
that of the dual empire. True, the
Austrians and Hungarians are putting
up gallant fight, and have until now
done their duty in the most patriotic
manner. But Hungary like southern
Germany, complains that her interests
are too glaringly subordinated to those
of Prussia; that she is regarded at
Berlin as a mere pawn in the game,
without views that are entitled to con-
sideration, and that the kaiser and his
military encourage have usurped a de-
free of authority over them far greater
than they ever submitted to on the
part of their own venerable emperor,
to whom they are so deeply attached
In London, in Paris, and in Petro-
grad, a very strong impression pre-
walls that ere long this popular senti-
ment in Hungary, which is rapidly ex-
tending throughout the Austrian mo-
iety of the dual empire will so develop
as to eliminate in a secession by Hun
gary and Austria from Prussia, and in
the inauguration of negotiations with
the allies for a separate peace.
How the War is Affecting America
1t is by some SUCH means as this
I that the war may be brought to an
end before another twelve months
have passed away. 1t is, indeed, the
only prospect of securing a cessation
OF the fray. Otherwise it may drag
along for years, which is too horrible
to cOntemplate-indeed we'll night in
conceivable. For every day that the
war lasts increases the horrors, the
miseries, the devastation. and the oy-
erwhelming, overpowering ruin that
it brings in it's train-a ruin which is
gravely affecting even neutral coun
tries, such as the United States, where
the restitution, the lack of employment
and the disorganization of industry
and of finance are at this moment
greater than at any time in American
history.
The Hon. James M. Beck, former AS
sistant Attorney General of the United
States, in a speech at the New England
Society dinner in New York, on Tues
day last, put forward a suggestion,
which has received wide publicity, to
the effect that the United States should
take the lead in associating itself with
the neutral powers of the world, in
bringing moral pressure to bear upon
the belligerents, with a view to peace.
But what are the other neutral DOW
ers? Ere many weeks are past, indeed,
in the early spring, if not before, italy.
Greece, and the various Balkan states
will have joined in the fray, on the side
of the allies. SPANS neutrality is of
such friendly character toward the
allies, that France is able to dispense
with the necessity of maintaining an
army along her southern frontiers. and
to leave them entirely unprotected.
There only remains then, therefore, in
Europe, as really neutral powers, the
three small kingdoms of Scandinavia.
and of the Netherlands.
1t is true that there are a number of
neutral powers in Central and South
ern America. But the belligerents are
not likely to accord much attention 10
suggestions of peace coming from
Mexico, from Venezuela, and from 9TH
err Latin republics, which have obtain
ed so unenviable reputation by the
frequency of their wars among them
selves; by the number of their revolu-
tons, and by their financial instability.
Indeed, the only power whose views
would carry the slightest weight with
the belligerents would be the United
States.
U. s. Cannot Enforce Its Views.
Now the United States is not in a
position to enforce it's views with re-
gard to the desirability of peace, and
this being the case, it can only give ex-
pressjon thereto in the form of friend