Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-08-02
England Fighting For Economic
Reasons. France For Re-
venge and Russia For
Territory, Claim.
is CONFIDENT OF OUTCOME
German War Office Charges
That Policy of Entente Will
Be Detrimental to Neu-
trail Powers.

Berlin. July 31.-Reviewing the po-
liticai events of the second year OF the
war, the German foreign office has
given the Associated Press the follow
ing statement:
Unlike the military situation, it is
not easy to review briefly the develop
ments in the confused paths of politi-
CAL events, but an attempt will be made
in the following statement to trace the
leading ideas connected with the po-
litical problems of the second year of
the war.
| The world war was aused by Rus
sia's aggressive policy, supported by
Frances policy OF revenge. But 1T was
rendered possible solely by the fact that
England sulDordinated to her economic
~antagonism to Germany all her other
interests. Whereas, Germany's enemies
regard 1t quite In order that they de-
mand territorial acknowledgements at
the cost of OtherS-like Russia, who
wants Constantinople and Galicia; like
France. who desires Alsace-Lorraine
and the left bank of the Rhine; and
like Italy. who seeks Austrian territory
they grudge Germany, even though
she strive to develop her self eco
nomically in peaceable competition, n
they pronounce this an objectionable
sin against the worlds order Of things.
Seek World Mastery.
'They are unwilling that Germany
| should become great and strong, be-
cause the other powers want to be the
economic masters of the world. Terri
torial and economic ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
has united Germany's foes in n wal of
destruction against us
THE second war year, whose end is
now approaching, has brought these true
aims of our opponents into clearer
light. In Russia this is openly admit
ted, they having an understanding with
England. and want C~onstantinOple as
their war goal. In rance there is a
wal mad cry for Alsace-Lorraine.
"ln England. too, the mask has been
dropped. 1t is openly admitted that Bel
sium was only a preteNt to justify Eng
lands participation in the wal which
was undertaken only from self interest.
Germany must he destroyed! Ger
many shall never more raise her head
economically nor militarily! In this way
Is the goal OF our enemy more clearly
ennnciated during the second year of
the wan.
Democracy VS.. MiIitarism.
III is equally clear that the talk of
a struggle of democracy against mill
tarism is only a catch word used by our
enemies to create sentiment and to
cloak outwardly their real purpose of
destruction. Assuredly they can not talk
Of 4 struggle for the maintenance of
democratic principles when one side
| S'lS GU 10 utStfON tUe enemy COIllDlete-
ly, including their civilian population.
And is England really the land of
democracy she pretends to be? Has not
the entire development of england dur
ing the war shown that England is
drawing further than ever away from
democracy?
Moreover, il England had really re-
sorted to war in defense of the rights OF
the smaller nations as she fondly an
1OufcaS to the world she could without
i 1Hnppr tO bpt DOSitiOn have answered
otherwise than with the threat of de-
stroying Germany.
Chancellor Won Bethmann's remarks
made in the course of the year outlined
German aims with sufficient clearneSS.
England therefore,, wants a war of de-
struction, a war to the knife, which,
according to the plans of our enemies
shall continue even after the cannon is
silenced; for their former talk about the
permanent peace that they wished to
establish has been drowned under the
shout hat Germany's enemies are rails
ing over the Paris economic conference.
Economic Warfare.
'It is not enough that the world must
be shaker by a protracted bloody war.
The world must not eve thereafter en-
Joy a settled peace, if the will of the
entent poewers prevails for the deci-
SionS of the economic conference do not
signify an economic peace, but a per-
nanent economic warfare, which never
will permit the world to come to rest
upon the basis of peaceful competition.
This shows at the same time that
the great words of the entente powers
about lighting for the rights Of smaller
nations and international order are
empty sounds, for when G~ermany's
enemies seek to control neutral trade
they simply ignore the rights OF other
countries and base not on the principle,
of right, but upon pure might, precisely
what they allege they want to abolish.
The second year of the war there
fore shows that our nemies are pre-
cisely what they all along wrongly re-
preached Germany with being. namely
through her unbridled passion for ex-
tending her borders; England, through
being u~ncontrollably for dominating
alone the economic world and France,
through her passion for revenge
ANOTHER OIL CUT.
In-danendenca Kan Il1lv oQ.-An.