Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-02-28


oppressed and harrled peoples of
Europe rise against their ruling
classes and the conditions Of their
living and tumble every government
from Petrograd to London in one
common heap of revolutionary ruin.
But there is still another and most
weighty and compelling reason why
this exhaustion Of our supplies and
necessities should be stopped.
WE NEED EVERY POUND OF
OUR FOOD SUPPLIES AND EVERY
OUNCE OF MUNITIONS AND
PLANE AND ALL THE EQUIP
FOR OUR OWN DEFENSE
AGAINST SUDDEN ATTACK. The
lingo press and such jingo politic-
ians as Roosevelt, Lodge, Root,
Gardner and all that sort of war
lunatics do not seem to be able to
sec what war would mean. They
seem to think that all we will have
to do is 30 sit secure at home and
feed our young men and our wealth
into the nav of Europe's distant
war But we tell you that the stage
is all set for something far more des-
perate and bloody than q lOng-range
war. And It is Asiatic treachery that
has set the stage. If we 20 to war
with the Central Empires, the Ger
man submarines can range the whole
ocean, instead of narrow blockade
zones, and sink everything aloat
without hesitation--AND THAT
SPELLS ENGLAND'S DOOM IN A
FEW SHORT MONTHS. Every officer
in our navy knows that is so. The
English Government knows that lis
so. DO you see any anxiety OK
pressed in ENGLISH papers that we
should go to war with tho Central
Empires? You 40 not. And that is
because the English papers say very
little which the English Government
does not want said, and tho English
Cabinet ministers know that only
Americas NEUTRAL AID can save
England now and that Americas
declaration OF war upon Germany
means England upon her knees in
less than half q year.
And what else Is in store? Why,
Japan Is armed and ready and eager
to make her war upon us the mo-
ment we are well entangled in this
European struggle. With our navy
occupied in the Atlantic and the
Panama Canal, the Pacific Coast and
the Philippines and Hawaii all wide
open to the attack Of the Japanese
navy and the japanese army-num-
bering over 100000 trained and
largely veteran soldiers equipped
with every weapon and device OF
modern warfare, and secretly or
openly leagued with Russia and the
Central Empires, we should simply
BE HELPLESS AND BE BEATEN
TO A PULP IL we keep on stripping
our own country OF its resources ana
its means of defense until these
Asiatic and European wars are at
our doors. When we say that the
stage has been secretly set for just
this tragedy, we mean exactly what
we say 1t is neither untruth nor
mere surnise nor cxaggeration. III
IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
The alliance which now exists be-
tween Russia and Japan is an al
lance for the seizure and the divi-
sion Of China, India and Persia. IT.
contemplates tho seizure of the Ger
man. Dutch, English and French
possessions and tho election of the
United States from the Philippines
and Hawaii. The reactlonary party
pledged to this programme is now in
control OF tho Russian Government,
and Is destroying the power Of the
Duma and OF the zemstvos with q
ruthless hand in order to consum-
mate q separate peace with Germany
and Austria. Whenever we declare
war upon Germany, III we do at all,
Russia and Japan Will withdraw
from the allies, leave the Central
Empires to crush England, France
and Italy, and begin their own
separate enterprise of selling and
partitioning Asia. We say again to
you that We are stating facts. Why,
1t was but yesterday that the news
came Of Japan's latest preparation;
but yesterday that we learned Of
Japanese munition factories being
established In Mexico, with the aid Of
our dear friend Carranza. We think
a wise people would look with more
resentment upon that move than
upon q Mexican attack. That move
is the first move in Japan's game Of
war And, in spirit 1t is q defiance
of the Monroe doctrine, and In fact
threat and insult to America. And
If we listen to the war lunatics and
II we 20 on Wasting ana SellnB our
resources and EVEN OUR VERY
WEAPONS OF DEFENSE to
Europe, VIC will find ourselves, and
that before long. being ground be-
tween tho upper milestone of German
and Austrian submarine warfare in
the Atlantic and the powerful and
long meditated and carefully pre-
pared attack Of Russia and Japan
upon our Pacific possessions and our
western coast. Now, it is madness
enough for us to play into the hands
of those who have prepared this plan
of destruction for us, but, In Gods
name, how much more insane Is It
to walk straight toward our cunning
and powerful enemies trap AND
GIVE AWAY AND SELL OUR
ARMS AND DEFENSES AS WE
GO!
One Of the ablest officers who has
honored himself in the highest com
mands in our service said, in private
and in bitter resentment, the other
day, that he had como to the con-
clusion that the newspapers and men
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