The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-07-11


still more, Horatium Coolies, who,
out of love for Rome or for mankind,
sprang into the abyss"
One of his copies of the memoir
reached the socialist newspaper Poll
tiken in Stockholm and was published
piecemeal The German press took il
up. The reichstag debated it. Lich-
nowsky was deprived of his diplomatic
rank, forbidden to write for publiea-
tons, and virtually imprisoned on his
estates, The newspapers demanded
letter, printed in the semi -official
Cologne Gazette, demanded that he
"be held up to public contempt ruth
lessly." The writer argued; What
will our thousands of war cripples
say when this affair is brought to
their outraged notice? Have these
men joyfully sacrificed their health
only to be told at this stage of the
war by a Prince Lichnowsky that it
was not necessary"
Eneland's Guilt a Fiction.
Won Jagow's reply to the prince only
served to make matters worse His
admission that England had not
brought on the war enraged the Pan
German press. 1t was seized upon tri-
Iumphantly 10y the socialists The So
eialist organ, Vorwaerts, says:
Let us establish the facts.
The war was not popular in England;
| 1t also was not popular in Russia and
France. But it has become popular
The whole world-right away across
the Atlantic and the Pacific--is united
in hatred against us. We, however,
have for almost four years been in
oculated with the view that England
laid all the mines which caused the
War'-a view which the secretary of
state (von Jagow), in accordance with
| the evidence of the ambassador
/ prince Lichnowsky), has now declar-
ed to be false! 1t is, however, by
| this false view that the whole war
i
Idirected-from the declaration of UNI
restricted submarine warfare, which
brought us war with America, down
to those chancellor speeches which say
that Belgium must not again become
England's area of military concentra-
/ ton. If all the parties concerned We're
convinced that the belief in England's
guilt is a fiction, why did they feed
this belief, and why did they pursue
a policy which was based upon ito"
And the paper concluded "The Ger
man people can not be satisfied with
the methods of governing exercised
before and during the war. The
German people can only endure after
| the war as a peace-loving nation that
governs itself"
Germany's Place in the Sun.
But to the American reader, the
most important part of Prince Lich-
nowsky's exposure is not his conclu-
soin that Germany forced a declara
ton of war. We have long believed
that. Our German sympathizers have
largely admitted it. But they have
pleaded that the kaiser declared wal
only because war was inevitable; that
Germany was denied her place in the
sun; that a conspiracy of France
Russia and Great Britain prevented
her from obtaining colonies and eX'
tending her trade; and that. conse
quently, Germany had either to taxi
up arms or be throttled to death b.
Great Britains' trade enmity. Man.
of us have been persuaded that thes
Excuses are true excuses; that tn
British policy compelled Germany
appeal to the sword, and that Brit
aims allies are merely pulling Brit
; aims chestnuts out of the fire." as tn
German propagandists are continual.
charging.
: OF those procured lies, Prince Lich
nowsky's memoirs give very happ,
disproof.
1t has been pleaded that the polio,