Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-06-13


without Austria having been attack
ed, replied to Russia's mere mobili-
cation by sending an ultimatum to
Petersburg and July 81 we declared
war on the Russians, although the
car had pledged his word that as long
as negotiations continued not d man
should march-so that we deliber-
ately destroyed the possibility Of a
peaceful settlement.
World Recognizes German Guilt.
"'In view of these indisputable
facts, 1t is not surprising that the
whole civilized world outside Ger.
! many attributes to us the sole guilt
for the world war. Is it not intelli-
gible that our enemies declare that
they will not rest until u system is
destroyed which constitutes n per-
manent threatening Of our neighbors?
Must they not otherwise fear that in
Il few years they will again have to
take up arms and again see their
provinces Overrun and their towns
and villages destroyed? Were these
people not right who prOphesied that
the spirit of Treitschke and Bernardo
dominated the German people-the
spirit which glorifies war as an aim
in itself and does not abhOr 1t as an
evil; that among us it is still the
feudal knights and junkers and the
case of warriors who rule and fix our
ideals and our values, not the civil
ian gentlemen; that the love of duel
ing, which inspires our youths ut the
universities lives on in those who
guide the fortunes of the people? Had
not the events at Zubern and the par
liamentary debates on that case
shown foreign countries how civil
rights and freedoms are valued among
us when questions Of military power
are on the other side?
'Nlilitarism really n school for the
nation and an instrument of policy,
makes policy into the instrument Of
military power, if the patriarchal abb
solutism of IL soldier kingdom rem
ders possible an attitude which
would not be permitted by democ-
racy, which has disengaged itself
from military junker influences.
"'That is what our enemies think,
when they see that, in spite Of capi-
talistic industrialization, and in spite
Of socialistic organization, the living,
as Friedrich Nietsche says, are still
governed by the dead. The principal
war aim of our enemies, the democra-
tization of Germany, will be achieved"
Truth Comes From German Source.
ut is to be remembered that these
words are not those of an English
man. They are the words of one of
the modest of the German nation,
to whom the German emperor en-
trusted the most important foreign
post, one with whom William II. in
his youth was closely befriended.
And after the publication of the men,
orandum, Herr Won Jngow also APP
peared before the public to make the
attempt to defend the policy of the
Germany empire, his policy, in July,
1914.
Won Jagow Admitted Fact.
He was the then responsible repre-,
sentative of that policy as secretary
Of the German foreign office and in
that defense was forced to profess: Il
agree in no manner with Germany in
the widely prevailing opinion, that
England had laid all the mines which
led to the war. On the contrary, I
believe in Sir Edward Grey's peace
love and his then earnest wish to
come to an agreement with u.s.
"WhO carries the blame that the
German people were goaded into a
furious hate and thereby into a war
animus? Only those in the service Of
the junkers Qanded and industriaD
who are the ruling military caste in
Germany, in control of the govern
ment. The pan-Germans in their
megalOmania are the ones who
brought about this calamity upon the
German people. We will necessarily
frequently have to recur to this mat
ter, one of the most important in the
worlds history, and will to our best
knowledge and ability gladly answer
questions by our readers in regard
thereto"
Thrao cnaeonc ia NAae