Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-12
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Does "Mioht Make Riaht?r

MT Editor: Said a leading historian in reference to the collation. of the na- tlonS against France after the death of Louis 16th-'Tnstead of fighting for principles, each hostile country hoped
 to agg1dndize itself at the expense of France" The above deduction is true
 the dozen or more nations arrayed
 against the Central Powers. England,
 jealous and envious, aims to retard
 humiiiate and cripple Germany; if 1t
 is answered, that England is fighting
 for the small nations. her lame and
 late help for Belgium at the beginning
 of the war. and her utter failure to
 help Servia and Rounania; and her
 whole history contra diets the state,
 ment; for England has always acted
 on the theory that might makes
 right" how did she secure Canada,
 or India, Gibraltar, Malta, Hongkong.
 the West Indies and Egypt? Was 1t
 not by the sword? How is she hold
 ing Ireland and India today? What
 is France fighting for, what principle
 or noble aim? France and England
 combined being unable to regain
 French territory, Germany has offered
 to withdraw. now what is France
 fighting for? For conquest; for tn
 return of Alsace and Lorraine, two
 German provinces stolen from Ger
 many by Louis 14ta. Does Strassburg,
 md Metz, and Mafhausen sound like
 the names of French cities Russia
 is fighting to grab the territory Of
 others. fighting to destroy the Gen.
 traI Empires, for the complete over
 throw of the Turkish government and
 people, that she may occupy Constan-
 tinop1e, a city she has no more right or title to than she has to New York or Boston. With Russia and all of the allies it is not a matter of right, but of might" During the whole war they have been relying on, and boasting of their numbers and of their resources, this is the only thing they h3 fn al fnf~ rnn on God in their wicked warfare.
 The insincerity of the cry against ''mflitarisn' is illustrated by the chief complaint now holding over two mill lion men on the front in France alone. | and boasting of another million in training, but they say that is not mill l ltarism. But for Germany to have | an army one-tenth the strength of her l at the beginning of the war was as large, and more costly in proportion to | population than that of Germany, to | say nothing of Russia's great army on l Germany's north eastern border and | the sly preparation England and Bel l gilrn were making to attack her on | her western border. Just to state | these indisputable facts is enough to "militarisn." For England and France to rail about "Prussian Militarisn" when it was their secret and deceptive and the billions of dollars they had loaned to Russia to help her army and fortresses 1 3 gainst Germany. thus compelling Germany to be prepared, is, to say the 1 least, unworthy of notice.
 If it is "rnilitarism" for Germany to have an army far smaller than the army of her implacable foes on her eastern and western borders, what kind of an "fsm' is it for England to have navy equal if not greater than any two navies of the world? Is it ~irJaf hot hi Sf7o floats our flag and destroys our mail and commerce at pleasure?
 The allies make a great out-cry that innocent connbatants have been doubtless true, for war is he'll" has there ever been a war when this was not the case? What. is the record of England in India. France in Africa and and of Belgium in the Congo, where she treated the natives 8 thousand times worse than Germany has treat ed her? How about the thousands of to death during the Boer war? How about the millions of women and chil- 1ren England is endeavoring with all her might" to starve to death in Ger 1, ,ver the report that babies and wo- men are dying by the hundreds for the want of milk and Red Cross supplies n violation of international law kept I nany's enemies is evidenced when they .alk of a Tasting peace'' in the same breadth they plot and plan to in ,Hgurate an economic war against he Central Powers at the close Of
 he present struggle.
 When it is remembered that King Edward a few years before his death lad pledged the British government 0 alliance with France. Germany's ,evengefu1 and implacable foe. and hat Russia had been taken into the ,iot to isolate" Germany. as the last dition of the Encyclopedia Britannica Q plainly and positively asserts (see , ,ol g. page ss9. See also vol 23. page 14), and it is correlated fact that l wo or three years prior to 1914 France ,acked by up England had loaned Russia billions of dollars for mill ] ary purposes; knowing these facts. 7 which though conducted secretly, r we're we'll known to the efficient Ger- l nan secret service; it is readily to be | { cen why Germany was prepared 1 | vhen her foes surrounding her were eady to strike. r
 The late Israel zangwiI, in his noted '- rIza NY