The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-06-21

credible, paid little attention. regarded
what German professors expounded In
their class oomS and German writer's
set forth to hi world as the goal OF
German policy IS rather the dream OF,
minds detached from practical affairs,
as prepOsterous private conceptions of.
German destiny, than u the actual
plans Of responsible rulers. But b
rulers Of Germany themselves knew all
the while what concrete p1ans, what
we'll advanced t~ntrigues, lay back OF
what he sprofessorE and the writer's
were saying, and were glad to go for
ward u~nmolested. filling the thrones
al states with German princes.
putting herman officers at the service
Of Turkey to drill their armies and
make interest with herJgovernment, de-
.veloping plans OF sedition d rebel
lion in Ind and Egypt. setting their
fires In Persia. The demands made by;
Austria upon Servia were q mere
single step in a plan which comprised
Europe and Asia. from Berlin to Bag
dad.
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
b n issue OF arms.
Austria Pawn Like Serbia.
Their plan was to throw q broad
belt OF German military power and po-
Itlcal control across The very center OF
Europe n beyond the Mediterranean
into the al OF Asia; and Austria
Hungary was to be as much their pool
and pawn as Servia or Bulgaria or
turkey or h p~onderous states of the
east. Austria.Hungary, indeed, was to,
become part Of h central German en-
pire, absorbed and dominated by the
same forces and influences that had
originally cemented the German states
themselves. The dream had Its heart
n - In~yS 80 "a - GAA---- NLAA
nowhere else. 1t rejected the idea OF
solidarity of race entirely. The choice
of peoples played no part in it at all,
It contemplated binding together racial
political units which could be kept
together only by force-Czechs, Mag
vars. Croats, Serbs. Rumanians. Turks.
Armenians-the proud states of Boz
hemia and Hungary, the stout little
commonwealth OF the Balkans. the
indonnitable Turks. the subtitle peoples
OF the east. These peoples did not wish
to be united. They ardently desired to
isfied only by undisputed independ-
Eence. They could be kept quiet only
by the presence or the constant threat
of armed men. They would live under
a common power only by sheer COM
pulsion n await the day OF revolu-
men had reckoned with all that and
were ready to deal with it in their w
way.
Dream Nearly Succeeded.
'And they have actually carried the
| greater part Of that amazing plan into
execution! Look how things stand.
Austria is at their mercy. 1t has acted,
not upon its w initiative or upon the
choice of its own peeole. but at Ber-
Minis dictation ever since the war be-
gan. Its people now desire peace,
cannot have 1t until leave is granted
from Berlin. The so-called central pow
! ers are in fact but a single power. Ser
pvt for "A moment freed. Bulgaria has
concented to its we'll and Rumania is
oNerrun. The Turkish armies. which
Germans trained, are serving Germany,
cestai-ly not themselves. and the guns
Of German warShips lying in the har-
Dor at Constantinople remind Turkish
statesmen every day that they have no
choice but to take their orders from
Berlin. From Hamburg to the Persian
! gulf the net is spread.
lis it not easy to understand the
eagerness for peace that has been man
Tested from Berlin Eel since the snare
was set and sprung9 Peace, peace peace
has been the ialk of her foreign office
for now a year and more: not peace up
or her own Initiative, but upon the in.
itiative OF the nations ever which She
now deems herself to hold the adrant,
age. A little OF the talk has been pub
Vic, but most of 1t has been private.
! Thron.h&al sorts. OF channels. it has
come to me. and in all sorts or guises.
but never with the terms disclosed
be willing to accept. That government
has other valuable pawns in its hands
] besides those / have mentiond. 1t still
holds a valuable part of France, though
with slowly relaxing grasp. and prac-
tically the whole of Belgium. Its
armies press close upon Russia and
over run Poland at their will. 1t canno,
gu further: 1t dare net go back. 1t
wishes to close it's bargain before 1t is
too late and II has little left to offer
for the pound of flesh It will demand.
Wear For Their Power, Is
The military masters under whom
Germany is bleeding see very clearly to
what point Fate has brought them. II
they fall back OF are forced back ar
inch. their power both abroad and al
home will fall to pieces like a house OF
cards. It i their power at home they
are thinking about now more than their
power abroad. 1t is that power which is
deep fear has entered their hearts. They
have but chance to pe~rpetuate their
military power or even their controlling
, political influence. II they can secure
peace now, with the immense wan
ages still in their hands which hey
have up to this point apparently gained
they will nave justified themselves be
fore the German people; they will have
gained by force what they promised tc
G, gain by it. an immense expansion OF
German power, an immense enlarge
ment of German industrial. and COM
mercial opportunities. Their prestige
will be secure. and with their prestibe
their political power. II they failed, theif
people will thrust them aside; a gov
eminent accountable to the people
a HA~ncoSxyor&x will ha@ - vv> s1 C0rrun II
as 1t has been in England, in the United
States, in France, and In all the great
countries OF The modern time, except
Z. Germany.
u III they succeed they are safe and
sAGerrnany and the world are undone; Il