Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-07-18
Playing to Gallery.

again DE uepltiHcd to carry the mes
sage.
Playing to Gallery.
Or there ma be a convenient fight
between the 'moderates'' of GERMANY.
like that of last summer, which served
10 distract and disrupt allied
ions and allied opinion. while German
agents were at work in Russia pre-
pairing the way for the great collapse
which had it's fruition at l. itovsk
We shall certainly have an irresistible
push of liberalism i'm Germany just
as soon as The ruling elements decide
to let it loose again.
In the last analysis. however. Ger
mar diplomacy is bound TO seek to
achieve Il German peace by transform =
ing negotiation into Il bargain
counter and making sacrifices. and
conceivably real sacrifices. in the west
TO insure the preservation of what has
been conquered in the east.
There is nothing novel about this
scheme. Every one has seen from the
beginning that ut the precise moment
when Germany saw h could not
crush the western nations she would
strive to buy them off by such con
c~essions. in the way of restoring to
them their own. as would leave her still
supreme OF the road from Berlin to
Constantinople and beyond. and also
In the disintegrating Russian empire.
IT Germany a preserve her cor
ridor from the Baltic to the Bosphorus
she may hope. ultimately, to resume
the advance upon Cairo and upon In
dla. If she can hold the Black sea
and the Transcaucasian provinces she
has still another and more secure route
to the Indian frontier. If she can pre-
serve the chaos in Russia. the tumble
of d-isorganized n disjointed states
h has created from the Arctic to the
Pinsk marshes, she can ook forward
to immediate economic supremacy in
what was Once the Russian empire and
an enduring insurance against a re-
union of the fragments of that empire
into a state which can bar her road to
the Pacific.
What Germany has to fear is that
her enemies will continue the var until
they are victorious in the field and can,
in their turn, erect. not shadow states,
but real states out OF the subject and
suppressed na%tionalities along her own
boundaries or within Austrian and Bal
kan limits. "A real Poland. with 25.O00,-
600 people. with a gateway upon the
Baltic at Danzis. with German Poles
united to Austrian and Russian. would
close h way to Russia. would be Il
sentinel on Germany's eastern marches
like that which Europe again and again
erected in the Low countries against
France i'm other centuries.
Block the Paths.
A restored Poland. Il unified Ru-
Danube am international ontro of
Constantinople n the straits-these
things would mea the end of all of
Germany's ambitions and the d%estruc-
ton of all her hopes. If. i'm addition,
Austria could be resolved into it's com
ponent parts. or transformed into a
real federation of states based upon
race, the work would be complete, but
this last is perhaps beyond the power
of The most victorious alliance Europe
has aver seen.
What is possible is to bar the sew
eral roads of the Germans into lands
inhabited by the weak and the defense
less, whether the anarchic Russians or
the hapless Turks, by the creation of
states which la all the necessary
elements out of which to construct or
reconstruct national life. And it is this
order OF constructive craftsmanship on
the part of her enemies which Germany
will seek to block at all hazards. She
cannOt escape it if she loses the war on
the battle field. and she is determined
not to make N~apoleon's mistake and
hold on too long. She remembers the
chances he had to save the Rhine from
lACl Al loirt GNtld DIN III llol, ~ vi
poleon. rely too long on arms alone.
Yet it must be transparent to every
thoughtful man that the real issues tc
be settled are not those ssues which
because of their western character, are
most familiar to the allied publics. Ger
tainly Belgium must be liberated and
restored. France must have Alsace-
Lorraine and Italy her Irredenta, blu
Germany could pay all these prices Out
of her collected resources n still wir
the war. She might resign to Britain
the title to all her own lost colonies
from Samoa to Togoland, and MOI fee,
the cost, ii she We're permitted to hOlo
on in the Baltic provinces, in Poland
in the Ukraine. in the Crimea and ir
Asiatic Turkey.
The real danger to the world lies in
that opportunity which Germany may
win in this war to organize the mil
lions of Slavonic and Latin peoples
along her frontiers and along Austrian
frontiers. The best hope of permanent,
defeat of German purposes to rule the
world. to restore the domination OF the
Russian empire. must be found in the
creation along the pathways of German
expansion OF strong states capable o.
developing into still stronger states
and effectively barring the road for
ever. Such states are Poland. Rumania
and Serbia: while 1t is exactly as i'm.
portant that German rule should be
abolished at Constantinople and the
Osmanli empire resolved into its ma
tural elements.
The greatest danger for the future
does not lie in the German threat to
Paris or Calais: we may lose both ant
win the war. and 1t is hardly conceiv-
able that we shall lose either. The
greatest danger oes not. in my
judgment. lie on the military side
grave as are the dangers ahead and
heavy as German military blows are
bound to be between o and the
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