Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-07-10

clal1st1c organizations, the living, as
Nietsche said, are still ruled by the
dead. The characterization of Ger
many, the first war aim proposed by
our enemies, will become a reality"
That Is Germany's confession of sin
and avowal of repentance, as made
by her ambassador to Great Britain.
1t leaves her without any justification,
except the one which Lichnowskv
pleads, that she. is governed by caste
OF duell1sts who are determined to
dominate the world by the sword.
mat sword will have to be broken in
the hands of the Kaiser before the
world will be able to live with Ger
many. Lichnowsky, like Muhlon, FORE
sees it.
Germany to Blame.
Vorwaerts, the socialist newspaper
OF Germany, foresees it. And the Ger
man:Americans are beginning to fore
see it, too. One of their most influen-
tial dailies, the Germania-Herold of
Milwaukee, has made editorially "An
Open Confession" which reads:
1T Is our duty to make it. We, too,
were among those who laid the blame
for the world war at the doors of
English statesmen. We, too, have time
and again repeated the assertion to
our readers that these English states
men, jealous of Germany's success in
the world markets, attempted to en-
circle Germany. We, too, have re-
peatedly stated that Germany is en-
titled to place in the sun. We did
so in good faith. For we then be-
lieved what the organs of the German
Government proclaimed We believed
at the beginning Of the war, and years
thereafter, what most Of the other Ger
man papers repeated.
I'VE were then fully convinced, that
the program of English statesmen con-
sisted of nothing less than to stop
Germany's commercial and colonial
expansion. With us one-half of the
world of the western hemisphere was
convinced through the press Of Ger
many. We believed in the press of the
old fatherland, which preached hatred
against England everywhere, follow
ing its governmental press, where the
German voice was sounded. Sir Ed
ward Grey, the dictator of foreign af-
fairs for Great Britain, appeared to us
as paragon of baseness. Now we
and with us the rest of the world
which then credulously listened, are
convinced of the opposite. We know
now that the British statesmen, and
with them the statesmen of the allies,
did not only have no war-like meas
ures against Germany in mind but to
the last minute endeavored to their
utmost to avoid the war. The blame
for the bloodshed lies with the Ger
man Government.
"Politiken, the organ of the Swedish
socialists of the extreme left, on
March Is, published the historical
document by which this guilt is estab.
lished. It was so-called 'memoran'
dunn by Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky
who before and at the time of the
commencement of the war was the
ambassador for the German empire in
London"
After quoting at length from the
memorandum" the editor says: 1T
is to be remembered that these words
are not those of an Englishman. They
are the words of one of the noblest OF
the German nation, to which the Ger
man Emperor entrusted the most i'm
portant foreign post and with whom
William II in his youth was closely
associated" And the editor concludes:
"Who bears the blame that the Ger
man people were goaded into a furi
Gus hate and thereby into a wal
spirit? Only those in the service o.
the junker class, who are the ruling
military caste in Germany, in contro
of the government. The pan-Germans
in their megalomania are the ones
who brought about this calamity upor
the German people,
(The End)