Evening journal., 1916-04-07
FOR HOME CONSTITUTION.

VxTHEN Dr. Bethmann-IIollweg Imperial Chan
w cellor Of the German Empire, delivered his adj
dress in the Rcchstag Wednesday, it clear that
he had prepared it FOR home consumption rather than
for foreign acceptance Being a man OF great in
tellectual force and wide experience, he must have
known that his declarations no they might
be received at home, would fall upon skeptical
abroad
The chsncellor seemingly is apt disciple of that
school OF diplomacy holds the creed that words
were invented to conceal thought" His declaration
that Germany is at only TO preserve her existence
and to hold back her enemies from the German from
tiers is hagranty variance with well established
facts that it will not to elevate Germany the
Chancellor in the eyes OF the civilized world. The
records show that Germany wished the and pre-
cipitated and that she has conducted it with bru
tay that would have discredit to a savage State
in the Dark Ages
That the German Empire is threatened with
annihation. with partition Of her realm with destruc
tion OF her essential economic is both its
fault and IT'S misfortune It thought it had built up
army and navy that could overwhelm and overrun
everything make OF the Hohenzolerns the dicta-
tors OF the world Too late to withdraw from a
nct of its seeking, it realized that Der Tag" had
not arrived when Deutschland Uber Allies could be
reality. Great Britain. France. Belgium. Russia,
Japan, Servia Montenegro, Canada South Africa.
India. Australia. New Zealand Portugal and Italy
voted at the idea Of German domination. They stand
they have suffered because Of their resistance makes
them all the determined TO win the fight It
is that determination that makes the German posi-
ton hopeless matter what the Imperial Chancellor
who is seeking above all things. to hearten the Ger
people to reconcile them to further and
more terrible sacrifices, may say.
Great Britain is holding the sea; France, Great
Britain and Belgium holding the western war
'front.' Russia holding the eastern front; Italy
is holding the southern war front; the Teutonc vic
tories Servia and Montenegro have turned to ashes
on the imperial lips: Austria views the future appre
hensively Turkey is suffering untold agony and there
are persistent rumors that she will ask for separate
peace Bulgaria is disturbed by the current OF events
and in that country there are many evidences that
she regrets that she the partner OF Ger
/ many and Austria in the invasion and spoation OF
servia and accepted generally that. slowly but
surely, Germany bleeding to death literally econo-
mically and commercially, she beats herself
against the ring Of steel that surrounds her because
she invited it and because the safety and well-beng
OF civilization demanded it.
The German Chancellor's with respect to
the attitude of the Prussan militarsts toward aggres
sions in the western hemisphere and his assertions
relative to the heartless and lawless submarine war
Germany now is prosecuting also will fail to be salts
flying to Americans who already have been impressed
profoundly by the wide difference that exists between
imperial German profession and imperial German
practice.
Chancellor Won Bcthmann- Hollwegs eloquence can
not blind the world those important facts to the
even more important fact that his nations scheme tC
Gcrmanize Hohenzollernze and militarize the world
has been wrecked beyond repair by coalition oil
civilized forces that is natural as it is nvncblC
and irresistible