The Arizona copper camp., 1917-08-18
EDITORIAL
THE CRISIS IN GERMANY.


Probably the simplest definition of the meaning of the
political upheava in the German ministry is that all hope
of winning the by diplomacy has been abandoned and
that military methods more vigorous, ruthless and des
perae than before to be adopted the only remain
ing by which to pepetate the power OF autOcracy
The peaee program" with which Bethmann- Hollweg
has been eoqeng long has been cast into the dscard
pan-Germanisn with all that the term in the mat
ter of conquest indemnity and annexation again in the
ascendant; and Prussan Junkerdom is in the
saddle The high court party and the adherens OF fright
funess have their point and the reaconares rep
resented by the Crown Prince Hndenburg and Trpitz
will have broader chance than to work out their
theories.
Failure has been written across every item of the late
chanceOfs program since the opening of this faefu year
which to witness the triumphant close OF the struggle
The indictment against him contains many counts, each
representing CHASTITY blunder. Monumental among
these the break with America He either believed
the United States would not fight he allowed himself
to be persuaded that the submarine would quickly
transfer all the advantage to Germany that it wouldn't
greatly matter whether the United States not
In both these suppositons he has been proved wrong
Not only has he found that the Americans would fight
he has also satisfied that with money and Ships
and they able to get quickly into the fray and
with tremendous power Also his boast that few short
weeks of submarine work would suffice to starve the AL
lies and bring Britain to her knees has proved absurdy
vain The U-boats weaker than they when they
began and the Allies of their foodstu aad other
supplies than for many months past. Ii the chancellor
had faith in his proud promises of last February his
lack of judgment is proved beyond question If he did
not believe in them but put them forth solace to the
mch than frivolous that it deserves to be called
criminal
Closely related to the disastrous break with America
his grevous mscaluation the of events
In Russia He doubtless emboldened in antagonizing
the United States by the belief that Russia could be
oled into separate peace at least that the revolution
would take that great power out of the fighting for
siderable perod-that though he might take a new
enemy far away he would have removed the fangs from
gigantic enemy home In this estimate he again
showed utter lack of understanding and sagacy Rus
s
quent and mpeng motives to the United States make
common with the Allies for human freedom. And
the Russian people, though temporarily tossed about amid
revolutionary currents while agreeing upon steersman
for their ship OF state never in mood to forget that
it would be poor achievement to have overthrown the
RomanoG only to elevate the Hohenzollern.
Mention might be made of the loss of prestige due to
mismanagement Of the Greek crisis which plant Con-
stantne did his best to solve according to Berlin liking
also of the CALLING pressure applied to the young emperor
of Austria, whose allegiance to his dominating brother
Kaiser is held only by slender hread also to the play
ing fast and loose with party and then with another
in holding out hope OF peace the terms OF which were
divulged ALI in ALL Germany's during the
past six months has been tragedy of errors
What will finally out of the present crisis no
man can tell For the moment the Junkers and mitar
lists in control But the yet to be heard
FROM and their representatives in the Rechstag, that
called parliament, but in reality debating society, will
not be slow to resent the subteuges and hypocrcies
upon which they have long been fed The people want
peaceeven without anneXations and ndemnities; and
our opinion is that they will make this demand in
thunder tones Each of the three past winters to
the end of the warthree months ago promised for
sure that there would be fourth winter of it. Yet the
German people find themselves approaching it vastly
prepared than BEFORE while they confront
enemy enormously stronger in sense-physica
teral and moral thanks to America and Russia To these
conditions they cannot remain blind and their vision
opened their souls will naturally find place for the seeds
of revolution The Kaiser probably not whose vol
untary abdcation be expected but throne
yet secure that national earthquake especially when
every surrounding nation experiencing similar hroes
could not hurl it down.
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