Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-05
THE
.BLUNDERS|
OF
GER MAN Y
Germany's Ruthless Devo-
ton to Self Interest.
sBy WILLIAM T. HoRNADAY.

ton to Self Interest.
sBy WILLIAM T. HORNADAY.
wHEN rapacity moves into the
next house, It is time to lock
your cellar door. Yoke up Unsuitable
appetite with colossal egotism, and the
inevitable runaway II only a question
Of time.
While enjoying the benefits Of an in
dustrial prosperity and a world wide
commerce that had won the admira-
ton of the world, the Germans COM
planned about being denied their
place in the SUM-; and they reached
out after world supremacy. England
and the United States were like twin
thorns in the side of the kaiser and
the German people at large. The pan
Germanists busily plotted against both
those nations.
Concerning England, distinguished
German born citizen of New York, Of
to H. Kahn, wrote to a relative in Ger
many June %, 1870 as follows:
England has not abused her power
at sea, any more than previous
to the present war you have abused
your power on land. Not only has she
not stood In the way Of your develop
ment. but on the contrary she has
given you fair and free access to her
markets. with unparalleled liberality."
In fact it was SO unparalleled" that
by August, 1914. German commercial
houses had crowded out of Singapore
every British house save two! Where
ever the British flag went, prior to
the war, along with it went the Ger
man trader.
But, like the horseleech, Germany's
cry was for More; and to get It
British sea power must be crushed!'
Unmitigated rapacity, in men or in
nations, ever has been and always will
be colossal blunder.
BLUNDER OF WORLD WIDE
TREAcHERY.
While America was sound asleep in
the lap of peace, and England slum-
bered with only her sea eye open, Ger
many armed herself to the teeth and
planted throughout England, France,
America, Belgium, Holland, Russia
and India the most colossal spy-and-
traitor system ever developed. She
secretly armed her African colonies
so that on receipt of the famous evil
lie-is-flT' telegram, each one Of her
colonies instantly was ready to fight.
In 1911, while crossing Lake flanagan
yika, Central Africa, on a steamer, an
American lady said to German Of
ficer who sat beside her at the din
ner table, Have you and your com
rade been shooting?" mot yeti" said
the officer, significantly; whereat his
brother officer laughed heartily, as
II at good joke. Later it became
known that the business of those two
officers was the supplying of machine
guns to German East Africa. And
still later it was learned that those
guns were shipped to Oar es- Salaam
in piano-boxes marked Pianos" No
wonder Dar-es- Salaam was so ready
to begin fighting on August 2, 1914!
There are times when the blunder-
ings Of German statesmen" are so
crude and raw that when they harm
no one, they are comical. Even amid
the horrors of war all America is
laughing over the wholesale discom-
future and final undoing of DR.. Dumba,
Papen, Boy-Ed Gan anything but pre-
cocious Boy, and Bernstorff, by a
restless American newspaper man with
taste for amateur detective work
after amateur crooks.
One would naturally suppose that
men officially designated by their
wise and honorable government to play
dirty tricks on the people of a friendly
nation would at least have as much
intelligence as ordinary horses and
dogs But, no; not so with that Aus