The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-19
German Newspaper Warns the
"Junkers" It's Surely Coming.
Pan-Germans Did All Possible
To Make War Inevitable.
ADMITS GERMANS DELUDED!
Small Clique Led People Into
War That Has Failed.
Cherished Idea of World Su-
premacy Brought on Struggle.

Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 19.-Pan-
Germans who did what they could
to make the war inevitable are de-
nouncec by the Frankfurter Zeitung
ard are warned that their hour of
reckoning is coming, in an article pub
lisned in that newspaper. The article
is reply to a criticism by the pam
German writer, Herr Eigenbrodt, who
accused the newspaper of entertaining
IAN anti-militarist spirit" Retorting
to the critic, the Frankfurter Zeitung
asked what has happened in this
war;? and answered the question by
saying:
The army which enlisted at the
beginning of the war has failed by a
long way in numbers. Masses of men
have had to be added to it and trained
within a time far shorter than that
which even we contemplated.
THE conception that England de-
sired to seek a decision by arms in
any circumstances was the basis of
tire pan-German policy. They cher
this world, because they longed for it.
In the first number of the Pan-Ger-
man News. at that time the chief
organ of pan-Germans, these words
were written, The hour we have
longcd for at last has struck; the
holy war
Masses Didn't Want War.
war was desired abroad but it is not
difficult to see what one is straining
every nerve to bring about. Anybody
who did not go about with his eyes
shut knew that Germany, except for
a small, group, did not wish for war,
but what that small group, just these
pan-GermanS, could contribute to-
wards making it inevitable. that they
did.
IF We along with others have any
reproach to make to ourselves it is
that we did not more carefully watch
the doings of such people. They were
takers whom one thought a nuisance
but did not take as seriously as the
damage which they subsequently did
proves that one ought to have done.
Wonder at Flood of Hate.
THE effect of pan-German out
bursts upon foreign public opinion
was not considered at the time but
they alone can account for the flood
of hate towards Germany which show
ed itself at the beginning of the war
and which found the German public
comparatively unprepared. We could
not understand it and we asked our
selves how it was possible. Now we
have found out. From the writing of
Baumgarten and other publications we
have seen that not the good German
people but the pan-Germans earned a
bad name for Germans in the world.
We are no. so foolish as to look upon
the enemy as angels. The conscious
ness of the innocence felt in Germany
at the beginning of the war, tho I'M
derstandable, was not justified, for
now we see that agitation on the part
of pan-GermanS which they carried
even beyond our frontiers created a
fP--se impression upon foreign public
opinion, an impression that the Ger
man people and their government
were animated by plans for conquest
and deeds of violence, and their opin-
lou was encouraged by chauvinists in
those countries abroad.
German people do not yet know
tie extent of the damage done to them
by the pan-Germans, but the hour of
reckoning for them is coming"