The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-12

to see how and why Germany has been
scheming and plotting for many years,
and how she deliberately forced the
war on civilization because her aims
were too slow in their accomplish
ment, we should have fewer labor
troubles and less carping at govern
ment restrictions and the working Of
the ubiquitous D. o. R. A.
They do not know that if Germany
is permitted to retain "Mittel-
Europa Gas described by Major Mac
falD, and which she now holds, our
existence in Egypt and the Eastern
Mediterranean will be in constant and
most extreme peril.
They do not know that Germany
devised this cunning "Mittel-Europa"
plot for the avowed purpose of ulti-
mateIy taking the Suez Canal, which
they openly describe as the nerve CEN
ire of the British Empire.
They do not know that the destruc-
ton of the British Empire is merely
the first step in obtaining Germany's
longed-for domination of the world,
and that no peace by negotiation"
would ever make her consent to
abandon this ''Mittel-Europa" for
which she went to war.
AS an example Of German methods,
how few people know about that at
tempt of the Boches in 1906 to obtain
footing in Madeira by threatening
to send their fleet to Lisbon if their
demands were not acceeded to!
A British fleet promptly responded
to an appeal from Portugal by NOV
ing to the mouth Of the Tagus, and
news of this <manoeuvre was allowed
to leak through unofficial channels to
Germany.
The German Minister at Lisbon
thereupon discovered that he had
misunderstood and exceeded his in
structions, and the British fleet re-
turned to Gibraltar.
Could we have thus prevented Ma
deira from being turned into an At
lantic Heligoland on our main trade
route if Germany had been able to
threaten Egypt by land, while our
only route for reinforcements lay
through a sea made stiff with sub
marines?
Supposing that Germany was thus
able to squeeze England and estab-
lish herself in Madeira, what about
the Azores another Portuguese island
possession strategically placed for
! dominating the Atlantic?
| Well armed with heavy guns and
furnished with unlimited provisions
munitions, and mines prior to another
war a nice thorn these islands would
be as submarine bases on the Atlantic
trade route.
No wonder the United States, and
now Brazil, are in this war!
No, our people don't know all these
things, for our so-called rulers for
years past have considered the misera-
BILE game of party politics of more i'm
portance than the plots for our I'M
doing that were being Matched in
"furrin parts.'
Can any man calling himself a
Briton or a friend of the allies know
all these things and still be in favor
of opening negotiations for peace
with an undefeated Germany?
Can he not see the futility Of ex.
pecting any lasting peace until the
German people have learnt, by bitter
experience, that war is not a paying
business?
And what of German teaching and
character, of German faithlessness
and ca1lous brutality? How can a
peace by negotiations" be made with
such a nation unless it be rendered in
capable of further evil?
To my mind, any man knowing al
these things and still willing to advo-
cate a peace by Negotiation" is
either a new form of dangerous luna
tic or a secret enemy agent"
| Whatever happens, we must holo
out until America comes in with al
her strength to take the place of Rus
STA.
Failing this, we shall infallibly &C
down, and go down for good.
What is the World-war about?
It is no use listening to scandal Oh
the abuse of the Huns by Jingoes
any more than to the sweet reasona'
bleness of the gentle pacifist, or the
passing gossip of the street, abou
Germany. We have to go to Germany
and find out from the German VIVA
he made his war about, and why, anc
how he intends to carry it through
1t is not of the slightest value to con
slider what anybody else thinks thu
German ought to do, or is going tt
do. To see through Germany's aim
is what we soldier-folk call piercini
the enemy's strategy.
The Defeat of German People.
From the day the Prussian stool
triumphant in Paris the whole Ger
man people went under his heel; thu
war of 1870 only defeated and humil
lated France-it conquered Germany
Henceforth the Germans became
different people. Day and night
from the cradle to the grave, ever,
German since 1870 has been nur
tured in the moral of ruthlessnes
and on the dream of world-dominlon
From 1890 there was not Ger
man the wide world over who was no
deliberately taught and trained to be
lieve in the Germans as the predes
= tined over1ords of the earth, as b
right of selection by nature the con
uuerors of the universe-and fey
. challenged it. 1t sounds mad, but W
must not judge the enemy's soul b
: our soul, nor his standards by ours
e That way the gentle pacifist lies.
: How was the German to. put tn
i wide world under his vile heel?
e How make his contorted languag
n the universal tongue and his brutis
i ordering the universal law?
IT How was he to fling down the "out
e worn moral that came out of Galilee,
Aand replace it with ian original GEL