The weekly Alaska citizen., 1917-12-17
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 Critical Time in History.
 am introduced Jo yoa a- th President Of the United stares. and vet I would be pleased if you would put the though, of the office into th. background and regard mo as on of your fellow ctuz.us who has com. here 10 speak. not the words of au thority. but the words of counsel; tn. words which men should speak to on. another who wish 10 be frank in a moment more critical perhaps than the history of the world has ever y.' known. d mom.nt when it is every mans duty to forget himself, 10 to- get his own interests, 10 fill him ,Il with the mobility of a great national and world conception, and act upon new platform elevated above tho ordinary affairs of life and lifted 10 where mon have views of the lonl destiny of mankind. l think that in order 10 realize jul what this no mont of counsel is it is Fery desi9abl that W should remind ourselgcs ju.t how this war came aboog and j1 ' what ii is for You can explain mo f wars very simply but the explanation of this is not 90 simple It. root run deep into all the ob caee soils of hls tory, and in my view this is th. lat decisive issue between the old prime. pies of power and tine nov principles Of freedom
 War Started by Germany.
 The war was started by Germany. Her authorities deny that they sta.. ed it, but l am willing to let thf statement | have just mad await tha verdict Of history And the thing that needs to be explained is why Germany started the War E.m m ber what the position Of Germany in the world Wa as cnrtabIs a po.. tion as any nation has ever occa9iod The whole world stood al admiration of her wonderful intellectual and ma terial achievements. All the int.l lectual mon of the world wont to school to her. AS a university man have been sur.ound.d by mon trained in Germany mn who had resortcd to Germany because nowhere else could they set such thoroush and searching training, particularly in the principles of science and tn. principles that undarlie modern ma terial achievement Her mn of sci ence had made her industries pol haps the most competent indu tria- of the world, and the label Mad in Germany" was guarantee of good workmanship and of sound ma terial She had accesss to all the markets of the world, and every other who traded in those markets feared Germany because of her cf- fectiye and almost irresistible com petition She had q place in tn. sun"
 Germanys Industrial Growth.
 Why was she not satisfied? What more did she want? There was roth- ing in the world of peace that shr did not already have and have in abundance We boast of the extra . ordinary pace of American ad"anc ment. We show with pride the sta tistics of the increase of our indu tries and of the population of ou. cities We'll those statistics did not match the recent statistics of Ger many. Her old cities took on youth grew faster than any American cities ever grew. Her old indus tries oDcnCd their eyes and saw a naw world and went out for it's conquest. And yet the authorities of Germany were not satisfied. You have one part of the answer to the question why she was not satisfied in her methods of com petition There is no important in dustry in Germany upon which thu Government has not laid it's hand to direct it and, when necessity arose control it; and you have only to ask any man whom you meet who is fa' miliar with the conditions that pre- vailed before the war in the matter of national competition to find out the methods of competition which the German manufacturers and exporters