Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-01-12

Dill ldll uCciUeu ln0l tncy were
equally ignorant in Virginia, and so
he sends Washington, and with him
| Monroe, to join the banished Christ.
| Dill has a brand new league or club
to enforce peace. Under the benefic-
lent rule OF this fatuous apostle OF
enforced peace there cannot be
tiny scrap in Europe without our pill
ing into the fight. OF course, Bill
wants us to pitch in to stop it, just
like the nations Of Europe did in the
| present fight Each and everyone Of
them went 10 war to insure peace.
Bill and His friends are sore that we,
too. did not wade in to establish
peace-on the side OF England. Wit
ness the peaceful and impartial
manner in which Bill administered
the Red Cross.
And right here Is the milk in the
cocoanut. liill is simple enough to
think that he is an Independent
thinker, and that he really has a
scheme for peace, that is, for peace
such as an inveterate reactionary in
politics and economies would have.
But Bill is o tool in the hands of
clevercr men who, in turn, are work.
ing in the interest OF England, men
who through natural toYyism, iinan-
cial connections OF the direct in
f'uence OF such funds as those Of
Carnegie and Rhodes, place the in
teiests OF England ever foremost
and who would undo tho american
Revolution
We once styled this Taft League
or Club Burglars Mutual Insurance
Society. Rut. in truth. 1t Is not even
So good as that. II exists. solely in
the interesta OF the chief burglar, In
tho interests os the world vampire,
England. The real aim Of tho League
is not oven the peace Of Warsaw"
Its aim is tho domination of Eng
land, the freedom OF England TO ex-
plot the world without effective
resistance. OF fba Taftism peace,
the pax Britannica" tho world al
ready has had its All in Ireland and
India with their horrible artificial
Tamines. The resistance OF the
IIiah-Amcrcan prevented formal
alliance with England. under the
gIjsn OF an arbitration treaty, and
now the scheme is dug up and rep
resented as move for world peace.
England has never desired peace.
never allowed It 10 exist. For forty
years the much execrated Germany
was at peace, while throughout that
period there was scarcely Il single
year whcn England was not at war.
Oh, it Is true she was not fighting
with great Fowers--shc always
plans as IN this LeagIe Of Peace to
get others TO do that for hcr--she
was merely taking UP "the white
mans burden and getting more and
moro Of the world under her domin-
icn
Had the League Of Peace existed IT
would not have made particle Of
difference, not ono battle less would
have been fought and the natives
would not have escaped ono "puni-
tive expedition" For all these things
were within England's competence.
Subjects" and natives" could no
more appeal to Bill Taft's Club than
they could to the Hague. And be II
remembered, England excluded the
independent Boer republics from the
hague. She did not simply succeed
in shutting out their complaints after
tile war began. She shut them out
completely before tho war began.
Iriagine, then, the fate Of Persia an
pealing tO the Club against both
England and Russia. After dinner,
no doubt, 1t would appeal to Bill
Taft as q good joke and he would
let her have ii in the neck and so
peace" would be preserved.
England is in the possession OF
tho seas, and thus dominates the
trade OF the world. She II in posses
sion OF enormous areas Of tho worlds
soil. and of great number OF the
strategic points. She can scarcely
hope to add 80 her possessions direct
~ from the territory OF the great
Powers. what she socks now is
more aud more OF the "unoccupied'
territories Of the world, a Grmer grip
o. her present holdings. and trade
domination. IT is, therefore, 70 her
advantage ordinarily TO avoid a
physical contest with any OF the
great Powers and to seek and TO sub
ordinate them all by means OF in
direction. Only when a nation arises
which seems likely to challenge her
trade domination, docs England seclS
war with European Power, and
then only when she cannot induce
other Powers to take up her quarrel.
She comes into the fight only when
il Is necessary to encourage her
NfSNallNtu \ OI ouDolulItu dSoOSiftNtN'
This was shown clearly at Agadir
when, on the occasion Of what
seemed q quarrel purely between
France and Germany, England for
bade France 10 come to terms with
Germany without first obtaining her
consent In tho present war. which
England started to break Germany's
growing commercial and naval
pcwor, England rcckoncd that her
allies could do the ightinE. while
she, intervening only in the inter
cFts OF poor Belgium" could gather
UP tho spoils.
In Salisbury's time England
boastcd OF her splendid isolation"
She reckoned then she would, when
ever necessary. by intrigue or pur-
chase secure a tool to do her fight
| ing. The steady growth OF German
power convinced her this policy was
too risky. and she set her mind on
working out scheme by which she
! might have at her disposal at all
| times reliable fighting force to ho
! Supplied by other nations. Her first
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