The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-06-22


man professors expounded in their class
rooms and German writer's set forth tt
the world as the goal of German policy
as rather the dream of winds detached
from practical affairs as preposterous
private conceptions of German destiny
that as the actual plans of responsible rul-
erS but the rulers of Germany them
selves knew all the while that concrete
plans what well advanced intrgues las
back of what the professors and the
writer's We're saying. and We're glad t.
go forward unmolested, filling the thrones
of Balkan states with German princes
putting German officers at the service OF
Turkey to drill her armies and take
interest with her government. developing
plans of Sedition and rebellion in India
and Egypt, setting their fires In Persia
The demands made by Austria upon Ser
via were a mere single step in a plar
which comprised Europe and Asia, from
Berlin to Bagdad.
They hoped those demands might not
arouse Europe, but they meant TO press
them whether they did or not, for they
thought themselves ready for the fna
issue or arms.
Their plan was to throw broad belt
of German military power and politica
control across the very center of Europe
and beyond the Mediterranean into the
heart of Asia. and Austria Hungary in
deed, was to become part of the centra
German empire, absorbed and dominated
by the same forces and influences tha
had it's heart at Berlin. 1t could have
had heart nowhere else.
Rejected Idea of Solidarity.
ut rejected the idea of solidarity OF
played no part in it at all. 1t contem
pla ted binding together racial and 10
litical units which could be kept together
only by force-Ozechs. Magyars, Croats
the proud states of Sohemia and Hun.
gary. the proud little commemorative o.
the Balkans, the Indomnitable Turks
the subtitle peoples of the. east. These
OeOn1aS did not wish TO he united. - heN
ardently desired to direct their own af-
fairs, would he satisfied only ~, IN.
disputed independence, they could bt
kept quiet only by the presence or the
constant threat of armed men. They
would live under a common power only
by sheer compulSion and await the day
statesmen had reckoned with all thai
and We're ready to deal with it in then
own way
Carried Into Action Amazing Plan.
"And they have actually carried the
greater part of that amazing plan into
execution. Look how things stand. Aus
tria is at their mercy 1t has acted, mo-
upon it's own initiative or upon the choice
of it's own people, but at Berlins dicta.
ton ever since the war began. Its PEG,
pie now desire peace. but cannot have
it until leave is granted from Berlin
The so-called central powers are, in fact
but a single power. Serbia is at it:
mercy, should it's hands. be but for {
moment freed. Bulgaria has consented tt
it's will, and Roumania is overrun. Th,
Turkish armies, which Germans trained
are serving Germany, certainly not them
selves and the guns of German war
ships lying in the harb Dor at Constantine
pie remind Turkish statesmen every da!
that they have no choice but to taxi
their orders from Berlin. From Hamburg
to the Persian gulf the net is spread.
ct is not easy to understand the eager
ness for peace that has been mani
tested from Berlin ever since the snar
was set and sprung. Peace, peace, peac'
has been the talk of her foreign oftic'
for year and more, not peace upon ne
of the nations over which she now deem
herself to hold the advantage. littl
of the talk has been published but mos
Of it has been private Thrnnsh md n i sort ii
sorts of forms, but never with TIL
terms disclosed which the German gov
eminent would be willing to accept
That government has other valuable paw
toned 1t still holds a valuable part o
France, though with slowly relaxing
grasp, and practically the whole of Bel
GUM. It's armies press close upon Rus
sia and overrun Poland at their will. |
cannot go further, it dare not go back
1t wishes to close it's bargain before ]
is too late and it has little left to ole
for the pound of flesh it will demand.
Military Masters of Germany.
''The military masters under whom
Germany is bleeding see very clearly t
what point fate has brought them l
they fall back or are forced back al
inch, their power both abroad and at hom
will fall to pieces like a house of cards
1t is their power at home they are think
abroad 1t is that power which is tremb
ling under their very feet, and deep fea
has entered their hearts, They have bu
one chance to perpetuate their mllltar
influence. If they can secure peace nov
with the immense advantages still y
their hands which thev hnve un TO th'
point apparently gained, they Will haV
people, they will have gained by fore
what they promised to gain by it, al
immense expansion of German power, a.
immense enlargement of GerT1an industrial
The Sinister Intrigue.
1.-The sinister intrigue is being no les
actively conducted in this country tina
in Russia and in every country in Europ
| imperial German government can get &C
| cess. That government has many spokes
| men here. in places high and low. The
| have learned discretion. They keep with
| in the law 1t is opinion they utter nov
not section. They proclaim the lber'
purposes of their masters declare thi
| foreign war which can touch Amaric
| with no danger to either her lands 0
| her institutions set ENGLAND at the con
| ter of the stage and talk of her ambitio
| to assert econom:r dominion throuehol
the world, appeal 10 our anclent traul
ton of isolation in the politics of tn
! nations, and seek to undermine the gov
| ernroent with false professions Of Inyalt
| to its principles.
But they will make mo Roadway. TIL
| false betray themselves also in every &C
cent 1t is only friends and rartisans Q
the German government WHOM we hav
already identified who utter these thinl
| discussed disloyal ties.
For US there is but ere choice. w
| have made it. Woe be to the man o
| group of ~ren that seems to sta"d in GU
way in this day of hi"h resolution whe
| every principle we hold dearest is to b
| indicated and made secure for the sal
| walton of the nations. We ARE read
| to plead at the bar of history. and on
| flag shall wear a new luster. Once NOR
| we shall make good with our lives an
| fortunes the great faith to which w
| Were born. and new glory shall shin
| in the face of our people