TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1916-05-30

olaVic attack on Austria but for the
Vaccinations of the British cabinet. A
powerful engine may be stationary. II
has great potential energy. A touch may
set II in motion. The Slav and the Teu-
ton faced each other in the Balkans.
They would still be facing each other,
expectant, alert. ready, but that some
one set them ia motion. Who2 As
quith and cabinet. What Tor! English
nayalism and the balance OF power"
The fear Of Germany approaching the
channel, and establishing a naval base
at Antwerp, led to the English treaty
with Belgium, b sWhich Belgium was to
be considered a dependency OF England
in case OF a war with Germany, and of
which the German government must
have been aware. The bare fact of the
existence of the treaty made Belgium
a belligerent. The invasion of Belgium
by Germany was fine ~incendiary mater
ial in the hands of such consummate
politicians as Asquith and Lloyd George
to get the people in a fighting frame Of
mind, and to beguile the Americans.
But Germany struck first" Did the
Gar stop mobilizing when the Kaiser
begged him again and again 10 recon-
sider his decisions? MOBILIZATION
IS WAR. II you see a man putting.
dynamite under your house do you wait
until the explosion before taking action?
Germany wal to. delude herself into
ancied security until the Russian hordes
should trample her civilization under
foot. Let America follow that policy
if it pleases. Germania armed and
trained was ready. Knowing the awful
sacrifice about to be demanded Of her
she was calm. Invoking the aid Of God
in a righteous cause she drew the sword
without malice and without fear. There
was no escape. Treaties with France
and Russia had long before pledged
England without being supported by a
plebiscite. 1t is well known in America
that England and Russia have divided
Asia between them. The division of
Persia at the time Shuster was expelled
from that country taught Americans
that, simply because Shuster happened
to be an American citizen. And did you
notice how quickly talk about the Rus
bian occupation of Tabriz subsidized?
Of course England would support Rus
lia, otherwise Russia would heed Ger
many speak. The arrangement with
The French, by which France would
concentrate its fleet in the Mediterran-
Tan and the English watch the North
lea, was also made without the consent
Of the English people. These treaties
meant that Britain must 20 to war
should Russia ever force the Balkan
question, and they were entered into
because of English jealousy of German
progress in obtaining a proper share,
under conditions of peace and in fair
competition, Of the shipping and trade
Of the world. A seat in the light: a
place in the sur.
When that moment arrives where
trade has expanded TO sue
cessfully compete with British trade.
we may expect England to sic the war
dogs on us. There are several reasons
why England should seek to involve
America in her hatreds and quarrels.
She is naturally anxious to drag as
many nations in her wake as possible.
Every little helps. American money tied
up in London means American support.
America could be brought to break
with Germany, all those German ships
could be seized, to the Gripping of Ger
man commerce.; and English-made arti-
cles would come into vogue instead of
things made in Germany" Il would
take years for the German merchants
TO get back to the point where they
stand at present as regards the Ameri-
can market. England Of course would
expect to take Germany's place in the
market, just as she took Americas
place when she destroyed the merchant
marine of the United States. The kind
of government a country is supposed
to have is not always an index to the
real character OF that government. No
one would say Mexico has a republican
form Of government. Augustus pre-
served republican institutions, yet was
a dictator. Germany has an emperor,
but brutal economic slavery does not
exist there as it does in some repub-
lies. The president of the United States
has more power than many a king.
England is called a commonwealth, has
a king, and is ruled by oligarchs. II
should say parliamentary government is
at an end when a nation may be led to
the shambles of war by an oligarchic
cabinet. when members of that cabinet
can make "undebated statements to a
bewildered and entirely ignorant
House" when in neither "the decisions
nor in the policy which led to the decis-
ions was there the smallest exercise of
any control by the people of their rep
esentatives."-Arthur Ponsonby, M. P.)
Poor old England.
Inheriting the ideal of personal liberty
from their German ancestors, the no.
bles fight the king and each other, par
lament is formed and the king and the
parliament fight each other, civil war
the Puritans to the front, the
king loses his functions which are as
by a cabinet, the mobiles lose all
their prerogatives, wealth alone is pow
through the operation Of rotten
How f~areical it seems that the
aristocracy whose ambitions have desc
lated France again and again should
now be without political power except
through hoodwinking the common peo-
pie, and also allied with French repub-
which it fought Napoleon
years to crush. The pendulum
swings back aid forth, now to despot-
SIN, now to anarchy. The British have
never learned that Liberty means the
right OF v1e masses TO live like human
beings IN the enjoyment of equal op-
2ortunity, that the government which
Toes not look after the welfare of the
over orders IS no government at ali,
hat Political liberty IS utterly and alb
worthless unless accompanied
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