Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-09
THE HONEST BROKER"
Barred s SIATESCRAF1
Bismarck Declared Nation Must
Not Turn to RomanticiSm
Egoism Only Safe Principle.

The fact Is that there has never been
ANYTHING romantic about Germany 5
method III making war. 1t has always been
calculated with the nIccty OF he outlay on
i great railway system or a Shipping line
Germany went 10 War to Obtain coal
mines and IRON fields ports. rivers, and
fortrcSScs the raw material Oi the world
and The man-poWcT 81 tho world For la
gloIrc 50 precious to the frcnchman she
has no particular ambition Tho German
princes of The Seventeenth and Eighteenth u
Centuries sold thcrr subjects for cash
down. the modern state uses them as
cannon fodder for commercial and Geo
nomic exploitation The exact difference Is
not material
1t ls quite true that Germany was oh
>cs>ed bv d tremendous dream of world
domination But oven III tins dream there
was nothing whatever romantic he
only sound prncIplc ot action t"r q
great state Bismarck wrote Is political
ego en, and not rnmantcisHn- and q : I'M
worthy Of such q state to- strive tor amy
thing which docs not directly concern II
That was why Bismarck described hm-
self as an honest broker r. hIm states
nunshIp was brokerage and nothing else
Bv means ol tins brokerage, Prussia
WAS to obtain wealth and power. i rus
sian honor ne wrote, wears later, does
not consist in Prussia playing the Don
0uixote all over Germany foT the benefit
Of mortified parliamentary celebrities
who consider their local constitutions IN
danger. | look for Prus>lan honor IN
Prussian abstinence. above al things
from every shameful union with democ-
racv There YOU have the policy of the
honest broker set out in his Own words
The decades which have passed, since the
broker-pllot was unccremonlMlSiy dropped
bv The captain Of the ship ct state, have
not caused the course he was steering to
hc changed Al that has happened is that
the Ship has been more heavily armed, and
stecrcd with a growing disregard 70 the
safety of such small craft as were foolish
enough TO get in the way, or 70 lncltc the
cupidItv OF the crew.
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II Is. one Of the duties Of the Allied
peoples al the present time, to keep before
them the full cnonnIty OF the German
crime and 20 allow no Ueanncss, no
natural human desire 10 turn away from
IT. as soon as II ceases to be an active
menace, 10 rob them Of their opportunity
and Of their duty to make q full end
The suggestion to condone was launch-
cd by the Vatican some Is months ago
II was Indignantly repudiated by all the
Allies. but the effort to secure condonatjon
has never ceased, and i being prosecuted
today harder than ever before Kcmcm-
ber the Lusitanlal Remember the LAND
ovcry Castle Remember the Lcinstcr'
Remember Lille, are not war cries Of
vengeance They are, and must be for the
Allied peoples for many months to come,
vet one more stern call TO stern duty. No
decent man nor woman wants to remem-
Der the outragcs on humanity which
these names stand for But if the punish
ment is t. be justly inflicted, the crime
must be justly appraised, and those who
have already borne 50 much III this battle
for righteousness viii not shlrk this one
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