New Britain herald., 1916-04-04
The Parallel.
(New Haven Register }

The Louisville Courier Journal long a watchful but not a silent waiter forsa end in sight. The drive on Verdun has failed The retirement of Von Tirpitz forecasts an eruption. Liebknecht the socialist dares in the reichstag to speak the truth that the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife at Sarajevo was "clutched at in the downfall of Germany. thinks the many circles of Germany as an act of God meaning that it was the pre- text of a wanted war, and no light ming strikes him. The time is com ing" says the Courier ournal, when the whole truth will be learned by the German people; how they have been victimized to save the Prussian dynas- ty; made food for powder to perpetu- ate the autocracy; driven like hogs to slaughter by the Hohenzollern and the Hapsburg: and when that time arrives even in Berlin, as in Louisville, the word will be ITO Hell with themn"
 But the interesting feature of this de1iverance of Colonel Watterson's newspaper is it's emphasis of the paral- Tel between this and the war between the states, which it calls the War of Sections" "The two great conflicts" it says, "considered historically will be found to run on curiousy parallel lines and to possess, many features common to both. Germanys place in the sun may be hkened to the souths Rights in the Territories whilst the Teutonic 'Superman' conceit corre- spends to the widely spread secession ist delusion that the north would not fight and that 'one South Carolinan could lick six Yankees with q corn stalk"
 And this is the summary Of the comparison:
 It is the glory of the south that we were able to hold our own against such odds during four years. 1t would be to the glory of Germany that she has held somethinsEmore than her owa so long except that her arms have been tarnished by the dastard and useless murders Of the airship and the sut- marine At the outset the south Ton E the great battles. Thus far victory has crowned the Imperial eagles Yet all the while the Confederacy was doomed as now full surely the German empire is doomed. 1t is only ques- of time when AppomattoX, which made short shrift to the one will bring the other to with d round turn. Nll- helm, like Napoleon, finding his wa terloo on Belgic plains; the Hohenzol- IernS with the BUnaDafteS, pIeSshIlS {. but a horrid, historic memory.
 The south is better off in the Union. Germany would be better off without the autocracy. Cotton was not king. No more is the kaiser tho Lords an ointed. The end. which is nigh at hand. will reveal the will of God and restore their own to the people.
 Not alone here has the parallel been noticed The essential feature of if. that as the south in the end succumb- cd to superior odds, so must Germanj has been often emphasized. In tho first twenty months of the war, the nrorress of Germany has been much ike the progress of the south. In j whatever time of the war remains, the same inevitable fate may be worked out. ,-- i.
 Tn this connection the Iankness ot tnis great spokesman Of the south IS natriotic. though this is not the tlrst lime inc rightness of the outcome has hoor recocnized. And however slowly the south has admitted, 1t has realized if for many years By so many years II bes,toe advantage over those coun- +r;es which arc still trusting in the ,,i,t1,e Inf war United America stands agoinst any war that can possibly be aYoided North and south alike have learned their lesson.