Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-03
KANER'S GUILT
AS ARCH DEMON
STIRS KINSMEN
New Yorker Staats-Zeitung
Tells of Rude Awakening
of German-Americans

New York, Aug. 3. - Under the
caption German Debit and Credit"
the New Yorker Staats-zeitung pub
fishes the following editorial:
To-day four years ago, as Prince
Lichnowsky has shown us, the Ger
man military party, by declaring war
upon Russia, brought on a catastro-
phe under which the world must suf-
fer unspeakably. Four years of gi-
| gantic struggle such as history never
saw before. And what has Germany
achieved during this four-year world
war?
"On the credit side of her ledger
we find:
Il. Germany has taken possession
of nearly all of Belgium and a part
now growing even smaller-of
Northern France.
"2. She has taken rich booty and
many prisoners.
''3. Through the revolution and
the subsequent early collapse of the
Russian Empire, she has temporarily
through the outrageous treaty of
Brest-Litovsk, enslaved the now
helpless Russian people who are
struggling for liberty.
"a. Together with Austria Hun
gary, Germany has well-nigh de-
stroyed Serbia and Montenegro and
crippled Rumania.
"5. She has helped Bulgaria and
Turkey to increase their territory,
and, as former Ambassador Morgen-
thau says in his series of articles in
the current numbers of The Worlds
Work, she encouraged the Turkish
military leaders. Enver Pasha, Ia
laat Bey, and Djemal, to massacre
over one million Armenians and 9TH
er Christian inhabitants of contigu-
Gus territory.
IS. She has sunk millions of tons
of shipping and destroyed property
worth billions, showing no regard
for the lives of noncombatants, and
not even for those of women and
children.
~. The military party hindered
the passage of the election reform
bill and delayed the progress of
democracy in blocking the Reichstag
resolution for no annexation and no
indemnities'
"All these are the achievements
Of Germany under the whip of the
military party. But what do we
find in the other side of the ledger!
81. Germany has sacrificed the
flower of her arms-bearing youth.
Millions of her sons have fallen on
the field of battle, have been crippled
or taken prisoners - losses which
cannot be made good by the greatest
victories.
20. She has lost by far the great
est of her colonies in Africa and else
where, and has placed a burden of
debt upon her people under which
they will have to groan for decades
to come.
"3. She has completely demoraliz-
ed her domestic commerce. She has
brought her people to want and
hunger and destroyed her foreign
commerce for an indeterminate per-
led. For the last four years her mer-
chant flag has not been sent upon the
seas of the world.
"A. The acts of her army COM
manders and statesmen have
brought the German name into dis
repute in America. For more than
two hundred years German-A Amer
leans successfully endeavored to
build a new and happy home for
themselves and their descendants and
took care that their name should
be respected everywhere. Their in
dustry and sense of duty became
proverbial everywhere, and now in
bitterness at heart they had to see
that they were regarded with dis
gust. However, through their un-
shakeable loyalty to the United States
they have succeeded in retaining the
confidence and goodwill of their
fellow citizens. This in spite of the
doings of the German military party
"5. Millions of the people of Ger
many are firmly convinced, even if
they do not dare to speak of it open
ly, that the defeat of the present au-
tocratic, government would be a
blessing for them and their poster
ity. They have at last seen through
the motives of their rulers, whose
purposes are selfish and aim at the
suppression of the ideas of liberty
and the forcing of their hated gov
ernment upon the whole world.
For a long time German Amer
leans were unable to see the peril
and rude was their awakening. Their
sense of duty showed them the right
course to pursue. They point with
pride to their sons and grandsons
lighting for them under the STAR
Spangled Banner. And they will
fight on until every danger is remov-
ed and the world relieved of a bur-
den which lies upon it like an in
cubus, for it is only through the
overthrow of the present German
government that the repetition of q
similar world catastrophe can be
prevented" :"