The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-29

uoWh upon ttch ny putoA bAS"s
and great guns.
If anything should happen to
overthrow their hopes and bring
back the yoke they threw off
every man in the world touched
with any sense of the spirit of
liberty would regard it as an un-
speakable personal calamity.
What Germany Wants.
All the world of progressive
thinkers and friends of democracy
would mourn always and say that
their cause had suffered it's great
est defeat.
STAND, THEN, PERFECTLY,
THAT THIS is EXACTLY WHAT
WILL HAPPEN SHOULD GER
MANY WIN IN THIS WAR.
The victory of Germany would
mean the return of the half-crazy
car, the police, the spies, the ex-
lie to Siberia. 1t would mean ex-
tinction of democracy.
The whole structure of our
hopes for Russia would fall to-
gether.
just Plain Fact.
Persons that are able to blind
themselves to the real nature OF
Germany and what it stands for
may try to pretend that this is
mere assertion.
1t is not assertion. 1t is asser-
tanned fact.
I WILL NOW GIVE YOU A
LITTLE CHAPTER OF PREVI-
OUSLY IMPRINTED HISTORY.
You remember that the
Russian people had made
one revolt previous to that
of last March. In January,
1908, they rose against the
monstrous autocracy that
was crushing them, and in
spite of Bloody Monday and
other sIaughters they made
for a time great Roadway.
In March, 1905, when 1t
looked as II his crown was
slipping from his head, when
the revolt was spreading to
all parts of the country and
many provinces had declared
their independence, Gar
Nicholas wrote n letter of
piteous appeal to his dear
intimate friend, Kaiser Will
liam.
The two were in almost daily
communication, anyway. No two
rulers of Europe were more SYM
pathetic or affectionate. Their
intimate correspondence was con-
tinued down to the very outbreak
of the war, and some say 1t did
not cease then.
Planned Details.
At least it is perfectly certain
that the car never had any heart
in the war against Germany, and
continued to regard Kaiser VIII
liam as his best and dearest
friend.
So in March, 1905, he wrote to
the kaiser. discussing the situa-
ton in his empire, about which 1t
appears he had often consulted
his friend, and expressing the
fear that he might not be able
to hold out against the revolu-
tionists.
They seemed to be making new
progress every day, and it was
plain enough that a large part oil
the army sympathized with them.
What was to be feared, there
fore. was that a critical encounter
between the army and the people
the army would desert to the pop
ular cause. and in that case MOTH
ing would be left to do but to fiee
over the border to safety.
To this the kaiser replied,
giving to his imperial brother
heart of hope. He said that
IL was the cars duty to
himself, the dynasty, his fell
low monarchs and his God
to hold out to the last. And
he said that he was pre-
pared to send to Russia, III
necessary, a million men to
crush out the revolution and
make the car safe on his
throne.
subsequently letters discussed
the manner in which this could
be done and settled the details,
the places at which the German
troops should enter and the gen
erals that should command them.
Urged Iron Hand.
The position of the kaiser was
that all the autocratic govern
ments. drawing their authority
directly from divine decree, must
stand together at whatever cost
to put down this rising tide OF
mob rule.
And he urged the car to put
Il down with an iron hand.
/ have talked with a man that
has seen this correspondence.
1t was the means of overwhelm-
ing the revolution and restoring
the despotism.
There was at that time pend
ing applications for loans that
Russia wanted TO float in Eng
land and France. These eoun-
tries had refused to lend any
money to Russia so long as the
was on. They did not
wish to be in the position OF help
Ing an autocracy to put down a