Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-05
WILL WAR on AUSTRIA.

nrre,i a declaration OF war on AUS.
tria, surprised no weil-posted amer
lean Many, including prominent
congressman, thought this actor.
should have been taken some time. ago.
Like messages heretofore sent .
Congress- by Mr. Wilson, il was %
the point and practically unanswer-
abs.
Systematic hostile and surreptltloGS
u,nertral acts on. the part Of Aus
tria- Hungary have driven this cou!'-
try to the exact position she was IL
With regard TO Germany before me
declaration Of war on April 6, 1917.
S6e pursued ruthless submarine war
fare, although on much smaller seal
than Germany. She carried on 4 pro
racanda of disloyalty 10 this COM
i,Y lust like Germany. She usco fcr
diplomatic agents in the On'te>
States TO foment discord, incendiaf-
ism and destruction. Dr.. Constartsn
Dumba was sent out of this counirs'
hccs he was concerned in STAR
;rc strikes. and fires in munitions
factories in this country.
The President. however, still az
ads the olive branch and appoa's
- reasonable people i'll the central
empires. He says when the German
ncoplc have spokesman whose VOL
,ye can believe and when those
.nokesmen are ready IN the name OF
.aair.. people to accept the c'min"a
;u1rrnent of the nations as to VIVA
stall henccforth be the bases OF !e''
and Of covenant for the life OF tic
world, the United States shall Hc
willing and glad to pay the full prize
:or peace, and pay it ungrudgingiy.
4 minority in the United States.
who read little and think less, pre-
"a believe that the United Stats
rould have kept out of this European
maelstrom. We suggest that suah
yalmly pcrusc the following extracts,
some Of which are words uttered -
Frederick the Great. others by it,
present Kaiser. some By Germ"n
military and naval chiefs. educators
ministers of the gospel and othc.=.
They have been cullcd from panlpii-
lets by the Richmond Vr"inian:
(rcrmary'S mission in history IS 70
rciuvenatc the exhausted members o.
Europe bt'.a diffusion Of Gcrmamc
ilood.
cI fff-or7r-.;shcs TO decide anything in
,he. x orld. il cannot be done with ina
~ i:-u ftttesSs "thc pen Is supported ~
th,S fore, of the swen.
We hope our. Gerilaan father!ani.
Though the harmonious co-opcratica
Of tprintes: and people. Of its ainne>
and its citizens. to become N Tic
rualrc as closely united. as powerful,
ana as authoritative rs once the tic
man world-empire was.
Ne are compelled to carry on IN,
waf with cruelty. Il ruthIeSsneS&,
unemployment Of every imaginable
,ieTice unknown in any previous war.
We have already seen that war i
90 Es&Ssble aH1, moral, and tlEit
,l,:S ideal Of perpetual peace is no!
cnA: impossible but immoral as wen.
We must not look for pcrmanen!
pc4cs ps, result Of this war. Heaven
.,,rn,,l fDnt'
We irrcrd to !;t6sorb one after an
v,hcr all the provinces which neigh
o,rs ca Prussia. We will successfully
annex Denmark. Holland. Belgium.
Northern Switzerland, then Trieste
ar, Venice. finally Northern France.
fran the Sambrc to the Loire.
We wish to commence in a ncw
empire Il new life of which the su-
n"mc aim shall be: Greater Germany
whose task shall be the wcll-being
rf Germans Al other laws are de,
pendent OF this great one.
Ne other course Is open to Us oa;
i keep the subject race in as un-
civilized Il condition as possible.
/ nc purpose niusI oe % SlusI ~"
Individuality of conquered people arl:
IL political anl lingual existence.
The p"juc:nol thing for The conquer
~ s the outSpoken will to rule anu
she will to destroy the political ana
neutral lie Of the conquered.
IN a hundred years the American
n~oDle viii De conquered BY the VIC
tc~ious German spirit. so that il wiz
prescnt ar-enormous German empire.
Whoever does net believe this llcas
-" fdcnce in the strength of the
Gcrn.an spirit.
Not only North America but the
whole of America must become i bull
,,ark of Gcrmanic kultur. perhaps
,hr strongest fortress Of the Ger
m"aic. raSes. That is crcryoncs nope
yf,s .s:.s feed himself from his own
.c@l Eu-"oran pride and who places
!. .ac" feeling above his love for
l"n>.. .,'>o South America must and
-.,"r "":ilr h"ccmc habitation Tor
q -rn,nn ~ C;c1m;1,ci,l races,