New Britain herald., 1917-09-19
GERMANY THE OUTCAST.
Her War Attitude Has Created Hatred and Suspicion Which Will Rebound

in Years to Come.
 1 (New York Tribune.)
 l The real meaning ito Germany of
 the Argentine episode must not be 1 overlooked in the midst of all the 1 discussion Of Swedish neutrality and 1 German diplomacy. The fact is that Germany has lost one more open 1 market after the war and created 1 one more center of hatred and sus- 1 picion for herself now and hereafter. Some time in the future the his- l tor1ans who make up the record of the past three years will have to 1 wrestle with the problem of how l Germany was able to rally the whole
 world against her; by what method
 did German statesmanship and Ger
 man policy mobilize not merely the neighboring countries with whom she l had ancient or contemporary QuG.-
 rels, but the people of Asia. of Afr1- | ca and of the two Americas against l her? What was the German system
 by which those who sought only
 neutrality in a world war were, one 1 by one, against their will, compelled l either to enter the war directly or | indirectly to serve the cause of the 1 enemies of Germany by destroying l German influence and interests with
 in their own frontiers?
 One can imagine the historian
 puzzling with this question. By what form of insanity was the whole Ger
 man people afflicted when, after it l had purposefully involved itself in a l quarrel with three great powers in l Europe, it should have so conducted it's policies beyond the seas that the 1 United States, Brazil, Argentina, China, remote Siam, unimportant h. l beria, should have felt moved to strike at the Fatherland either | through domestic disorder? Russians, l Frenchmen, Britons, Canadians. Aus
 tralians New Zealanders, Chinese,
 Portuguese Americans, Brazilians. 1 Italians, Cubans-who can now give | the census of the nations and the i peoples either at war with Germany or on the point of taking up arms? |? I The serious aspect of the thing to
 the German cannot be overlooked. When this war Is overland, after all, 1t will be over some day-Germany,
 a great manufacturing nation, whose prosperity at home depends upon the business 1t can obtain abroad, will ! have once more to go out into the world looking for orders. Her agents 1 will have to invite purchasers for l German wares. Her shipping men will have to ask for passengers for ! German ships. Her bankers will have l to seek asylum once more In foreign l countries for their branch agencies. l How will these advance agents of German business be received? What
 welcome will there be in America for German ships whose very officers per- ] haps participated in the Lusitania
 Massacre" Will Made in Germany
 suggest anything but "Spurlos Yer
 senkt" in Buenos Ayres? What well l come will there be for the German
 agent who travels after the German
 aeroplane and the German invader l through France, or after the Zep- l pelin in England." How Canada will l greet Germans while the memory of
 what was done to the Canadians at | Ypres survives! One can fancy the l Canadian business man inquiring of the German agent whether he hap pened by chance to be among those 1 who "gassed'' the Canadians in the 1 Ypres salient.
 l Never since history began has any people sown such seeds of hatred, of passion of enduring rancor as have the Germans in the last three. years. There Is not continent amongst l them all a portion of whose popu!a- ! ] Asia Is closed, Australia is closed,
 Africa is closed. Until recently there
 remained the two Americas, and German industry and German eff1- ciency never rested until that time when they were able to bring the United States to war; and, after Bra- gil. Argentina Is now enlisting in
 the anti-Teutonic crusade.
 ] Germany's present and her past have already been sacrificed in tho
 war. She Is using up her future now.
 The few remaining markets that she 1 might have held, the few neutrals ! with whom she might have done bus- mess on the old basis. one by one are changing their character and their at titude toward her. The destroyed German business offices m Buenos ! Aires are something of a counterpo1se to the ruins that Germany has stre"n over Europe. If Germany has burned 1 French villages and Belgian cities, tho world has paid the debt by extirpat1ng every German root outside the Gen. tral Powers. When the war Is over England and France and Russia ana Italy can begin where they lelt OIL
 in their commercial relations Wlth the world. They have made, not los'' friends since the war began. Iney
 have as allies now nations whlch
 were only remote friends four years
 ago. American credit will follow lAmerican!soldiers to France. Ameri- can capfAal will rebuild Belgium and the ruined districts of France. But where will Germany find friends when the war is over? Wherever she turns there is only to be found the harvest sown by her submarines her areo- planes, her devastating armies ana her plundering civil governments. The full burden of German defeat
 in this war is not yet appreciated