The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-08-16

| break up into civil wars or become
so ineffective that the millions OF
| German troops engaged on the Rus
sian front may be Withdrawn anu
! hurled against the western lines. We
stand in great peril. and only the
exercise of ruthless realism can win
this war for us. If Germany wins
this war, it means the triumph OF the
autocratic system. 1t means the tr:-
umph of those who believe not only
| in war as national industry, not
only in war for itself. but in war as A
high and noble occupation. Unless
Germany is beaten, every nation Will
! be compelled to turn itself into an
armed camp until the German all
tocracy either brings the whole world
under it's dominion or is forever wir,
ed out as a form of government.
From Now On We Need the Doors.
We are in this war because we
we're forced into it, because Germany
not only murdered our citizens on
the high seas but filled our country
with spies and sought to incite our
people to civil war. We were given
no opportunity to discuss Or negoti-
ate. The 4S hours ultimatum sent
bv Austria to Serbia was not, as Ber-
nard Shaw said, "a decent time in
which to ask man to pay his hotel
bill" What of the six-hour ultima
tum given to me in Berlin on the
evening of January 81, 1917, when
was notified at 6 that ruthless war
fare would commence at 12? Why,
the German government, which up to
that moment had professed amity
and a desire to stand by the Sussex
pledges. knew it took almost two
days to send a cable to America.
believe that we are not only justly
in this war but prudently in this war.
If we had stayed out and the war
had been drawn or won by Germany
we would have been attacked-and
that while Europe stood grinning by
not directly at first, but through
an attack on some Central or South
American State to which it would be
at least as difficult for us to send
troops as for Germany. And what
if this powerful nation, vowed to war,
were once firmly established in South
or Central America? What of our
boasted isolation then?
1t is only because l believe that
our people should be informed that
have consented to write this book.
There are too many thinkers, writ
ers. and speakers in the United
States; from now on we need the
doers, the organizers, and the realists
who alone can win this contest fo1
us, for democracy, and for perma-
nent peace!
Writing of events so new, l am
of course, compelled to exercise a
great discretion, to keep silent on
many things of which I would speak
to suspend many judgments, and to
hold for future disclosure many
things the relations of which now
would perhaps only serve to increase
| bitterness or to cause internal dissen'
sion in our own land.
The American who travels through
Germany in summer time or who
spends a month having his liver tick
led at Hamburg or Carlsbad, who ha:
his digestion restored by Dr.. Dapper
at Kissengen, or who learns the lost
art of eating meat at DR.. Dengler's
| in Baden, learns little of the rea
Germany and it's rulers, and in these
| articles l tell something of the rea
Germany, not only that my readers
may understand the events of the
last three years, but that they may
Judge of what is likely to happen iI
our future relations with that coun
try.
First DAYS of the Great War; POliti
cal and Diplomatic.
| At the commencement of the grea
war l was for some days cut, off from