Arizona republican., 1917-08-06

because I do not wish to involve him in any way with the emperor, sol shall not even indicate whether he is a roy atty or an official. He said:
 You had an interview today with the emperor. What happened?" 1 told of the message given me for the president which was intended for publication by the emperor. He said: T think you ought to show that mes sage to me; you know the emperor is constitutional emperor and there was once a great row about such message. gyM l showed him the message and when he had read it he said: q think it would be inadvisable for us to have this message published, and in the in terest of good feeling between Ger many and America, if you cable it, ask that publication be withheld"
 l complied with his request and it is characteristic of the presidents desire to preserve good relations that publi- cation was withheld Now, when the two countries are at war; when the whole world, and especially our own country, has an interest in Knowing how this great calamity of universal war came to the earth, the time has come when this message should be given out and I have published it by permission.
 Kaiser WIheim's Weak Excuse
 This most interesting document in the first place clears up one issue nev- CT really obscure in the eyes of the World-the deliberate violation of the neutrality of Belgium whose territory had to be violated by Germany on strateglcal grounds The very weak excuse is added that news" had been received that France was all ready preparing to enter Belgium not even pretense that there had ev- CT been any actual violation of Bel gums frontier by the French prior to the German invasion of that unfortu- nate country. Of course. the second excuse, that the king of the Belgians had refused free passage to the en- perors troops under guarantee of his country's freedom, is even weaker than the first. It would, indeed. fnaugurate new era in the intercourse of nationo II small nation could only preserve us freedom by at all times on request granting free passage to the troops of powerful neighbor on the march to attack an adjoining country.
 When, on the evening of Aug,7st 9 1914, Von SchOen the German ap,bos sddor in Paris, presented to the French government the German declaration ot war that document stated that s"Tbe Ierihan clVil and military authorities nave reported a certain number of dof- lIllte acts of hostility committed or Nerman territory by French niIita r,, aVlators Several of these have c1aa,ly violated the neutrality of Belgium in 1Iylhg over the territory of this com try One of them tried to destroy structures near Wesel: others bave been seen in the region of Eiffel. an. tuner mas thrown bombs on the rail. way near Karlsruhe and Numbers
 am charged, and have the homo, to make known to your excellence, tndt III the presence of these aggrae. "ions the German empire considers if. Seil Tn state of war with France b,, tt. act or this latter power" Rut ,vbo, the German emperor. on Aue7,s+ 1h pI -ole HIS personal explanation fo,
 Siueht Wilson he made no mention VI 'his alleged violation of the neutra1. ny or Belgium by the French h,, "iote that that neutrality had" to h, violated by the Germans ..on stra+ao,i cal grounds" 7'i 'eSl
 zAiiu' aside from the violation of RoI elah neutrality, what wou1d be,,o tSa ohne oI England and of the world i the Prussian autocracy had bean 1of ice to defeat-one by one-tba ,,a+io,- or the earth? First would come th, uefeat of Russia and Serbia bv Ans+ri, i'r germany and the incorporation O ldise part of Russia in the Gernoa, enlplre- German influence would h. Pieuohnlnant in Russia and all the voc
 ources oI that great empire at tb, oinniahd of Germany. All the fleet .ii 'ne world could uselessly bIockad tiie German coasts if Gerrnan,, rSoa sessed the limitless riches of tbe a,, plre of the Romanoffs. eii
 herman army, drawing for ro n. 1es on the teeming populations n 'u'sld ana Siberia, would never knor ueleat And this is not idle conioo+,,,'
 mere dreaming in the realno of ..oa.. oiiities-Decause the Russian ravol, tIon has shown us how weak and tot terlng in reality was the dreaded now CT of the Czar. 'u po"
 nussia beaten and half digested iaAce would have been an easy ore, ana England, even if then ioinin, france In war, would have far diff ferent problem to face if the U-boat were now sailing from Cherbourg an