The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-03

July 1l W0 declared war on the Rus sians. althnugh the Esar had pledged his word that as long as negotiations continued not a man should march so that we deliberately destroyed the possibility of peaceful settlement.
 In view of these indisputable facts, it is not surprising that the whole civ ilized world outside Germany attri- butes to us the sole guilt for the world-war.
 Is is not inte1ligible that our enc mics declare that they will not rest until a system is destroyed which con- stitutes a permanent threatening of our neighbors? Must they not other wise fear that in a few years they will again have to take up arms, and again see their provinces overrun and their towns and villages destroyed? Were these people not right who de- cIared that it was the spirit of Treit- schke and Bernhardi which domin- ated the German people-the spirit which glorifies war as an aim in it. self and does not abhor it as an evil? Were these people not right who said that among us it is still feuda1 knights and Junkers and the caste of war riors who rule and who fix our ideals and our values-not the civilian gem tlemen? Were they not right who said that the love of dueI1ing, which inspires our youth at the universi- ties, lives on those who guide the for tunes of the people? Had not the events at Zabern and the Pariamen- tary debates on that case show for eign countries civil rights and free doms valued among us, when ques- tions of military power are on the other side?
 Cramb, a historian who has since died, an admirer of Germany, put the German point of view into the Words of Goethe's Euphorion:
 'Traumt Ihr den Freidenstag?
 Traume, we traumen mag!
 Krieg ist das Losungswort!
 Sieg, und so klingt es fort"
 Militarism, really a school for the nation and an instrument of policy makes policy into the instrument of military power, if the patriarchal ab- solutism of a soldier-kipgdom rem ders possible an attitude which would not be permitted by democracy which had disengaged itself from mil- itary-Junker influences.
 That is what our enimies think, and that is what they are bound to think when they see that, in spite of cap- itistic industrialization, and in spite of Sociahstic organization, the living, as Friedrich Nietzche says, are still governed by the dead. The principal war aim of our enemies, the demo- cratization of Germany, will be acheived.
 A Perverted Outlook. Today, after two years of the war, there can be no further doubt that we cannot hope for an unconditional vic tory over Russians, English, French, Italians, Rumanians and Americans, and that we cannot reckon upon the overthrow of our enemies. But we can reach a compromised peace only upon the basis of the evacuation of the occupied territories, the possession of which in any case signifies for us a burden and weakness and the peril of new wars. Consequently every thing should be avoided which hin ders a. change of course on the part of those enemy groups which might perhaps still be won over to the idea of oompromise---ttef British Radicals l and the Russian Reactionaries. Even from this point of view our Polish project is just as objectionable as any interference with Belgian rights, or the execution of British citizens-to say notking of the mad submarine war scheme.
 Our future lies upon the water. True but it therefore does not lie in Po- land or Belgium, in France and Ser ] bia. That iS 6 reversion to the Holy