Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1915-01-26
THE MOST SHAMEFUL EZRA IN
ENGLISH HISTORY.
BY Thomas c. Han, d. d.. in the
New York Sun.

ENGLISH HISTORY.
BY Thomas C. Han, ID. d.. in the
New York sun.
(Conclusion.)
The cant and hypocrisy Of the Lon
don press is sickening. How did Eng
land treat neutral Egypt? How has
she kept her own solemn promises
to evacuate given time and time
again, only to be recklessly broken.
It is rank cant to blame Germany for
doing what every country would do
If national safety seemed to require
it, That Belgium has suffered hOrri-
by is England's fault. England could
have exacted the offered guarantee
OF Germany to respect Belgium's in
| tegrity, autonomy and sovereignty
and pay her compensation for the
injury done her. Belgium could
have saved herself by accepting the
offer of peace and indemnity made
her by Germany after the fall Of
Luettig and Namur. England prom
ised protection she could have
known she could not give, and hers
is the blame for Belgium's blasted
national life. Hers are already the
curses OF more tnan one thoughtful
Belgian.
Surely Bernard Shaw has awak-
ened even ignorant, provincial, easy
going Americans to the hypocrisy in
England's claim OF high ethical mo-
tive for going to war. She was justi
fed in not wanting Germany on the
coast opposite her Why does she
not simply say so and stop her cant2
Her real interest is. however, deeper.
This war was to exterminate a com
mercial rival and Made in Ger
many is the real cause OF England's
attitude. Why does not England
frankly say SO and gain again her
seli-respect?
Well, but Austria's permeptory
note and short time for consider
alton; surely had Austria waited
diplomacy could have settled the
matterl Perhaps. but that was just
what Austria could not afford to have
/. happen. Her political place in
Europe depended upon her sharp.
swift punishment of the dastardly
crime against her sovereign house.
We in America acted toward Mexico
on far less proyocation with far more
| severity and sharpness. We avenged
an insult to our sailors by sending
a fleet and occupying a town What
would have happened had, let us say,
/ MGAlt1Ho lluIQcINu Jul IItoAQtuLs
Moreover, Russia has absolutely no
material interest to protect in Seryia
that Austria has not guaranteed to
protect She asked neither land nor
any abrogation of sovereignty The
fact is both Servia and Belgium are
not the causes but the mere occa-
sions of the war. The causes are the
aggressions Of Russia, or rather OF
her predatory autocracy. There is
no hypocrisy about their plans. They
have frankly waged war after war to
gain an ice-free harbor and Austria
was in their way to the south over
the Balkans, as Japan barred the
way to the east over Manchuria and
Corea. This ambition of Russia's
autocracy. together with tho wound
cd vanity Of France, has given Eng
land her chance to revive her old
time honored policy Of fighting any
rival on the sea.
Germany does quite properly
aspire to be q "Weltmacht," but it is
! ignorance or worse to try and trans
late that by world dominion" Ger
many was not really a world Power
F, up to 1870; since then She has be-
come one Of the worlds foremost
Powers. That she be given her right
full place in the commercial and in
tellectual development Of the world
is all she asks and she was quite
content with the peaceful progress
she was making, but her relatively
incompetent enemies were not. That
is the real reason Of the war a ma
tion Of 67,000.000 prosperous, ad
vancing and contended, does not
recklessly challenge the whole West
ern world to battle. Germany has
nothing she could possibly gain at
all comparable to her inevitable
losses.
Has England protected Belgium?
Has Russia shielded the sovereignty
and dignity Of Servia? If so surely
mono or us want to be protected ip
just that way Had Russia and Eng
! land really been bent only on the
high altruistic mission Of protecting
weaker States they could have
reached their end more easily and
with less ruin to the protected ones
! Were the Allies now to be victorious
Servia and Belgium would come out
OF the war as humble vassal States
Of Russia and England, for even
France Will be too weak for o gene
ration, if indeed ever again, to play
alone the part Of great Power
Lord Beaconsheld is said to have
remarked of Gladstone that he al
ways played politics with false cards
up his sleeve and was. moreover,
firmly persuaded that the Holy
Ghost put them there. England
could not rob Holland OF her navy,
! or France of her commerce and col
onies, or the Beers of their gold and
diamond mines without a pious.
prayer to Heaven and a noble ethical
reason on her lips. And so today she
is picking Germany's pocket while
Germany defends herself against
Russia and France, and religious
England has solennly to persuade
herself that she only wants the CUR
kas to sun themselves in Potsdam in
order to weah dear Germany from
Nietzsche and militarism. The
gullible American people has been
fooled, but England cannot fool God