Arizona republican., 1917-08-24

m lbl5 ana was terminated Tn lG45. In 164S, when the Treaty of Westphalia was concluded, Germany was almost a desert. It's population had fallen from 20,000,0O0 to 100000. The few remain ing people were so starved that can nibalism was openly practiced. In the German states polygamy was legalized and was a recognized institution for many years thereafter.
 Of 35,O00 Bohemian villages only 5000 were left standing. In the lower Palatinate only one-tenth of the popu- lation survived; in Wurttemberg only one sixth. Hundreds of square miles of once fertile country were overgrown with forests inhabited only by wolves.
 A picture of this horrible period is found in the curious novel, ''The Ad- venturous Simplicissimus,' written by Grimmelshausen and published in 1869, which describes the adventures of a wise peasant, who finally leaves his native Germany and betakes himself to a desert island, which he refuses to leave when offered an opportunity to go back to the Fatherland. He an swers those who wish to persuade him to go back with words which seem quite appropriate today: My God, where do you want to carry me? Here is peace There is war Here I know nothing of the arts of the court. ambitions, anger envy, deceit; nor have I cares concern ing my clothing and nourishment. While still lived in Europe everything was co woe, that 1 must appear witness to such acts of Christians) filled with war, burning, murder, robbery, plunder ing and the shame of women and vir- gins" The Muenich weekly Simplicis- sinus, whose powerful political car toons have often startled Europe, takes it's name from the book.
 After the conclusion of the Thirty Years war Germany was again and again ravaged by smaller wars. cul- minating in the Seven Years war of Frederick the Great and the humbling of Germany under the heel of Napoleon In the wars of Frederick the Great onetenth of the population was killed Even the great battle of the nations at Leipsic in 1913 did not free Germany from wars and in 1866 Prussia and the smaller North German states, with Italy, defeated Austria. assisted by Bavaria, Hesse- Cassel, Hesse- -Darm- stat, Nassau, SaXOny, Baden, Wurt- temberg and Hanover.
 Fear Created German Autocracy
 l am convinced that the fear of war, induced by a hereditary instinct, caused the mass of the Germans to become the tools and dupes of those who played upon this very fear. in order to create q military autocracy.
 On the other hand, and especially in the noble class, we have in Germany a great number of people who believe in war for its own sake. In part, these nobles are descendants of the Teutonic knights, who conquered the Slav popu- lation of Prussia and have ever since bound that population to their will
 The Prussian army was created by the father of Frederick the Great, who went to the most ridiculous extremes in obtaining tall men at all costs for his force.
 The father of Frederick the Grea, gave the following written instructions to the two tutors of his sons: Above all, let both tutors exert themselves tC the utmost to inspire him with a love of soldiery, and carefully impress upor his mind that, as nothing can confer honor and fame upon a prince except the sword, the monarch who seeks no his sole satisfaction in it must ever ap- pear a contemptible character in tht | eyes of the world"
 Frederick the Great. left by the deati l of that father, who had once threatened | to execute him, at the head of mar | velous army, with a full treasury, final l ly decided upon wards he admits il | his own letters-''in order to be talked l about" And his desire to be talked about led to the Seven Years war | Blind instinct for War and Conques The short war against Denmark il 1 1864, against Austria, Bavaria and tn 1 rest in 1866, and against France il | 1870, enormously increased both tn i pride and prestige of the Prussian ar my. It must not be forgotten that a all periods of history it seems as if som I blind instinct had driven the inhabit ants of the inhospitable plains of Nortl 1 Germany to war and to conquest. Tn 1 Cimbri and Teutones, the tribes defeat 1 ed by Marius; Ariovistus, who was de I feated by Julius Caesar. the Goths an ! the Visi-Goths. the Franks and tn 1 Saxons, all have poured forth from thi infertile country for the conquest Q | other lands. The Germans ot foday ex press this longing of the North Ger
 mans for pleasanter climes in tn phrase in which they demand "a plac | in the sun."
 The nObles of Prussia are always fo
 war. The business men and manufac | turers and shipowners desired an in
 creasing field for their activities. Tn | German colonies were uninhabitable b
 Europeans. All his life the glitterin ] emperor and his generals had planne l and thought of war; and the crow 1 prince, surrounded by his remarkabl collection of relics and reminders C i Napoleon, dreamed only of taking tn lead in a successful war of conques
 Early in the winter of 1914 the crow prince showed his collection of Napo leana to a beautiful American woma