The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-06-15
ADVISE MULTITUDE
BERLIN NEGOTIATING
NEW PEACE INTRIGUE

| For some new purpose, for which this
great flag has never been carried be
| fore, or for some old, familiar, heroic
purpose for which it has seen men
| its own men, die on every battle field
| upon which Americans have borne
arms since the revolution?
"These are the questions which
! must be answered. :"
We're Forced Into War.
ut is plain enough how we were
forced into the war. The eXtraordi-
nary insults and aggressions of the
imperial German government left us
no self-respecting choice but to take
up arms in defense of our rights as
free people and OF our honor as a
sovereign governments. The military
masters of Germany denied us the
right to be neutral They filed our
unsuspecting communities with vic
ious spies and conspirators ana
sought to corrupt the opinion of our
people in their own behalf. When
they found that they could not do
that, their agents diligently spread
sedition amongst us and sought tr
draw our own citizens from their al
legiance and some of these agents
were men connected with the official
embassy of the German government
itself--here in our own capital. They
sought by violence to destroy our in
They tried to incite Mexico to take
UP arms against us and to draw ia
ian into a hostile alliance with her
and that, not by indirection, but by
direct suggestion from the foreign of
fee in Berlin They impudently de-
MED us the use of the high seas and
repeatedly executed their threat thai
they would send TO their death any
CT our people who yentured to ap-
proach the coasts of Europe. :
What great nation n such circum-
stances would not have taken up
arms? Much as we had desired peace,
it was denied us, and not of our own
choice. This flag under which we
serve would have been dishonored
had we withheld our hand
But that is only part of the story.
We know as clearly as we know be-
fore we were ourselves engaged that
we are not the enemies of the Ger
man people and that they are not our
enemies. :" They are themselves
in the grip of the same sinister power
that has now at last stretched its
ugly talons out and drawn blood from
us. The whole world is at war be-
cause the whole world is in the grip
of that power and is trying out the
great battle which shall determine
whether it is to be brought under
it's mastery or fling itself free.
War Begun by Germany.
'The war was begun by the mill
tary masters of Germany, who prov
ed to be also the masters of Austria
Hungary These men have never re-
garded nations as people, men, Wom-
en- and children of like blood and
frame as themselves. for whom gov
ernments existed and in whom gov
ernments had their life. They have
regarded them merely as serviceabie
organizations which they could by
force or intrigue bend or corrupt to
their own purpose. They have re
garded the smaller states, in particu-
lar and the peoples who could be
overwhelmed by force, as their nat
ural tools and instruments of domi-
nation. Their purpose has long been
avowed y * sa
''The demands made by Austria
upon Servi& were a mere single step
in a plan which compassed Europe
and Asia, from Berlin to Bagdad.
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 the final issue of arms.
Their plan was to throw broad
I belt of German military power and
political control across the very cen
ter of Europe and beyond the Med
iterranean into the heart of Asia; and
Austria-Elungary was to be as much
their tool and pawn as Serbia or Bull
garia or Turkey or the ponderous
states of the east Austria-Hungary.
indeed, was to become part of the
central German empire, absorbed and
! dominated by the same forces and
influences that had originally cement
ed the German states themselves.