American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-22

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az the slime or JUS declaration. 50 .is- -.
marck started 10 goad.
First be urged a Hohenzollern prince
Tor le vacant faIo.e ol a.u. and
no + nDh emperor raff ed h- word
n t. pru- lam king withdrew the
claim of bis house. and twice politely
.e ea,tti. OF the iact.
Ds arcE, DID despair. Has about TO
resign. Then came Ems dispatch, a
o-hGentiai report TO him of tine sec-
1.d A.eet.ne Nth the French anbas-
-aior lt contained this sentence;
"Hls Maje-ty -has decided NOT 10
receive Count Benedict again with
reference TO the above demand.
The telegram reached Bismarck on
the afternoon OF July -. He imme-
diately rowrote il FOR the newspapers.
with this sentence instead of the other:
His majesty the king thereupon de-
oided not 10 receive the French am
bassadOr again
Prussia had broken off diplomatic
relations, This was the apparent sub
stance OF the news as it was tele-
graphed 10 Paris from the German
newspapers the next day. IT was in
tended not for German but for French
consumption. 1t had its effect. French
honor had been insulted. The cafes
OF Paris were all for war. The en-
peror. with his council, decided on
war that same morning; and the next
day the chamber of deputies voted The
money.
1t was not until after Germany was
thus attacked that Bismarck dared
authorize the mobilization Of the Ger
man armies Tor the defense OF the
Fatherland.'
When. in July 1914, Austria sent TO
Serbia the ultimatum that started the
present war, there We're few people IN
the dual monarchy who did not be-
lieye their cause a righteous one. Ihey
felt much as We would feel u the
/ Nexicans had for years been plotting
8 10 detach Texas from the union boy
/ force OF arms, and had murdered Vice
{ President Marshall on a visit TO san
t Antonio.
+. How AustrianS Feel About This War.
S OF course we know that the present
!, war arose from an open and DEFIANT
r act of aggression on the part OF Aus
D tria. ii not also on the part OF Ger
many. But the AustIians knew only
the one side OF the case. Their Tor
s eign office, which for years had Oeeh
d conducting the negotiations that lahu-
d ed them in this war, had been making
o their friends and enemies for them
II And their ministers, after the taahlol
q OF BISMARCK. had seen to it that tht
p news they read should have the uesll
If 90 tinge. These gentlemen presented
D. Serbia To them IN the newspapers Al
= a dangerous and unruly uelshoo
" Wantonly plotting against AUSTRIA
national integrity. And behind ser
A., pla there Was Russia. constantly loom
\ iug as the great shadow in the PIC
- rure. Russia was the master enemy
= ureless in its intrigues, ruthless Il
b It's ambitions.
m Now. it is right and just that a ma
lion should be informed OF It's own III
= tarasts. 1t was right and Just tina
Austrians should know that Russl
- was plotting complete control OF IN
! balkans in order TO shut out Austrl
i, and prevent Austrian and Germa.
- trade from flowing through the BAL
2, kans into Asia. But the Hungarla
a. peasant might have been forgiven 10
questioning whether his emperor wa
really as great an enemy OF the Rus
&c sian car as he pretended TO be. II
NC might remember the story his tathe
? told him: how in lS4S. when HunsaI
u had all but won her independence
", a gallant war against OPPRESSION 10
~ Russian car sent an army TO lAFae
al the land. as a simple act of irleAdshl
no his pal. the late Franz Joseph an
&c how. because OF this, Hungary ono
more became a H%apsburg province
Matching the Peasants Against OI
"a Another.
ne He might have remembered lhl'
huf the Mar seems to show that J
IT. didn't. For the late Franz JOSEF
as While his foreign office was producer
w. enemies as it saw tit. TOOK care ll
~. a different idea should oe plaCeu U,
> nermost in his mind namely, mat u
''o Russian car, in his desire lot 'Ie A'
la' kans. VAS maintaining an army
ne more than a million men. peace los
ing. to invade his country ourn l.
home. and ravish his /
emporer thus appealed 70 ms H'
sacred instincts, while telllhs MA"
get ready to shoot. -
me But there was another thlhA lD
me this Hungarian peasant couIu no'
III expected to know. That was lhat
ear. or his ministers, had also be
appealing 10 the most sacred instn.
at of the Russian peasant-his re!igl''
M patriotic sense.
ect The Russian has a patriotism p'
haps more idealistic than that 6 a
err ether peasant on earth. Holy Motr
lies russia has been robbed of her ancl'
,or. religious capital. Constantinople,
the infdel Turk. To regain IL Is
did sacred duty. more holy thar that
bN the Crusades.
ity. So the two peasants arm. Ano' ok
10 inc armed against one another u
ced regard each other as enemies q
.um having accepted each other as nalu
snemies. they are willing to shoo
Der each in response TO his most sac