The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-02-25
ope for a perio dof forty-five years.
English Diplomacy Forced Crisis.

WY WI Il Dtt ~ dOi lOIty-lINe years.
English Diplomacy Forced Crisis.
1t Is probable, judging from the
)ast ~forty-five years. that Germany
VI all the great powers the only one
o kee pthe peace-the only nation
that has not been at war-would
have been able to maintain peace IN
definitely and pursue her destiny in
comparative quietude and neighbor-
mess with France and Russia had
continental Europe been left alone.
But along about 1893 English dip
lomacy, in the form OF balance of
power" Sphere of influence hold
ing his own" appears IN Paris and
Petrograd, and the isolation of Ger
many is underwritten and sealed, fix
ed and financed. Shortly the kaiser
zee this vast; encircling force, the
formidable and hostile co~alescence,
I aking on another $780, 600 men of
arms and an additional annual war
'und against him of $50, 900 900.
Right here ! think is where it was
Incumbent upon England to fling out
! declaration to the world that she
would be no party 10 the protection
IF Servia from what many people
| consider to be n just and proper
punishment; or, If he'd underwriting
/ With the car made this impossible,
hen the contrary, that she would
light, too, IL Germany went to war
with her continental partners. I'm
fortunately, she did neither.
Knew England Would Fight.
Russia and France knew that Eng
Aand must fight. and that she had
| lickered with them for this very oc-
sasion. 1t is my belief that time and
history will place the blame for the
! war right here, on the English al
lance with Russia. England refused
She could not give the assurance to
| Germany that she would keep out of
J the war il the neutrality of Belgium
was respected.
In his dispatch to Ambassador
| Goschen at Berlin on Aug / Sir Ed
ward Grey said he could not give
| Germany the promise that England
would remain neutral on that con-
| iition alone; and on Aug. a, to Sir
| Francis Nillers, his British .majesty's
minister to Brussels, a premptory
\ order was communicated to the Bel
Ran governments in which England
demanded (eXpected) that Belgium
would resist by any means in its
power the demand of Germany TO
cross her frontiers. and that his
British maiesty's government would
support it in such resistance.
Belgium in Tight Hole.
So we have poor Belgium between
the devil and the deep sea-sfacing a
ilemna which could have been soly-
ed only by her sympathies and pre-
J ndices. Belgium is an abomination
yof %desolation.
Germany Needs More People.
II would take seventy years fo'
Germany to become as thickly settled
as Belgium, with her normal increase
of population, and several decades
Ito reich the same ratio as Holland.
The nssumption that she needs adj
ditional territory for her sons and
daughters Is an error. Her increase
in population as Il matter OF fact
does not keen pace with her progress
In industry by nearly 100 per cent,
1t is u punishable offonse to preach
emigration in Germany.
Furthermore, she herself, under
Official control assists the temporary
annual immigration to her fields
mines, and public works of not les!
1 than a million laborers from the pro
yinces Of Russia and from Italy. III
addition to this, 100000 female
| German workers are engaged in he
fields and gardens during the sum
mer months.
With her intensive agriculture
her tremendous industrial demands
she could absorb the entire popuia
ton OF England and then be M
more thickly populated than HOLLAND
and If she took, in addition to this
the population of France, she would
have but about the same number o
inhabitants 10 the square mile al
Belgium.
Needs More Immigrants.
Let the legend that Germany re
uuires, must have, more room fol
her increasing people be dismissed
That is buncombe and belongs to the
"balance of power" series Of %unfount
ed assumptions. Figures prove thai
Germany requires immigrants, no
emigrants.
Germany Sought Solid Gains.
The misconception OF the rea
movement in Germany is astonishing
The thought has grown up through
out the world That the kaiser. will
q standing army OF little more THAI
a quarter the size of that OF thos'
cordialed against him, has beer
!. dreaming of going out to annex thu
rest of Europe.
Isolation Extends to Sen.
Germany turns out the bisges
ocean liner-two or three of them
England builds the bigges battleshil
dreadnaught. The policy of German
. isolation must extend to the sea u
we'll as the land.
Germany's foreign trade increase
/, and approaches that of f%1ngland's a
: terrific speed. She controls the mar
! kets of South America, of the nea
u and far east. She competesN success