Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-11-25

with Serbia and that Germany had
wanted Austria to make such a war,
and, under a rather careless pretext OF
wishing TO preserve the peace, had
actually prevented peacemaking on the
part of other governments. 1t was
clear. too, that Russia had been bound
TO protect Serbia from Austria, and
that Germany understood this. and
knew that Austria's attack on Serbia
meant war between Austria and Rus
STA. which also meant, of course, war
between Germany and France, since
the latter was Russia's ally.
Nothing could have been more sig
nificant than this, that Germany. being
herself already prepared-down to the
last buckle-for immediate war, de-
clared war on Russia for the alleged
reason that Russia was getting pre-
pared for war We know this sort of
! talk of old in a thousand trials for
cold-blooded murder in our own coun-
try. "Self-defensei" shouts the muir
derer's attorney. "The deceased made
a motion toward his hip pocket" Ger
many stood with a bright new auto
matte revolver in hand and Russia
made motion toward the hip pocket
where there was later found pen
knife with two blades broken. "Self-
defense" Germany claimed loudly,
through her attorneys. "He made a
motion toward his hip pocket; so |
! had 10 shoot him,"
cIassed As comanches.
The world can not make peace with
Germany, because the men who led
Germany out to kill in the bad cause
are still in control of Germany. So
! long as their power remains what it
/ is Germany cannot be trusted an inch
, farther than our pioneer fathers could
trust a Comanche.
/ The plain reason is this, that the
rulers of Germany have come to be
known, as the Comanches were known,
as creatures persistently and incurably
treacherous.
/ They were on their oath and their
honor to protect the neutrality of Bel
GUM. and they themselves violated
that neutrality while their chancellor
called a solemn oath "a scrap Of
paper" They have not been content
to leave the betrayal of Belgium as a
single example; they have made their
record. since the war began, an elab-
crate series of proven treacheries.
/ They violated the law of nations and
sank the Lusitania, upon which were
American citizens who trusted that
law to protect them. The Germans
murdered those citizens-men, women
children and babies-and continued to
murder other American citizens in the
same manner, meanwhile engaging our
government in correspondence which
was afterwards said by the German
chancellor to have been a ruse in
tended TO delay action on our part
until the German navy had made such
submarine preparations as would profit
Germany to defy us.
Believes Kaiser Insane.
At the head of the German govern
ment, and controlling il, is a man of
singular appearance and of mind as
singular. He has beliefs about himself
which, were he a citizen of our coun-
try, would cause him to be cared for
in a sanitarium, and he has theories
about human conduct which, were he
an American and did he endeavor TO
put those theories into action, would
cause him to be cared for in peniten-
tiary. Imagine an American or
riously believed himself personally Sc
lected and appointed by the God of
the universe to rule so absolutely over
millions of his fellow men that il
would be their conscientious duty TO
shoot down their own parents and
their own children at a word of COM
mand from him? And imagine what
would happen to an American who got
a neighbor killed because the neigh
boris yard stood between him and the
yard of a second neighbor whom he
intended to kill, And what sort of
plea would be the murderer's if he
said in court, But I heard on good
authority don't say whose-that the
secoad neighbor thought of coming
through the dead mans yard to fight
me in miner"
Thinks Destruction.
The German Kaiser has really
thought persistently of all non-Teuton-
ic countries in terms of destruction and
when he has spoken his private
thoughts, his speech has always been:
Let us find the best way to weaken
and inJure them" Those real thoughts
of his came out Enthusiastically
when. on his yacht at Kiel. he said that
Europe had made a great mistake in
not strongly favoring the South during
our Civil war, for thus two weak
countries might have been created to
take the place of the powerful Union.
Something might be hoped for even
yet, he went on, If the East and West
could be sufficiently stirred up against
each other. There is the Kaiser's for
eign policy and the order of his mind
and OF his heart What he meant was