The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-07-11


ercise of good will everything could
have been settled in one or two sit
tings, and the mere acceptance of the
British proposal would have relieved
the strain and further improved our
relations with England. | seconded
this plan with all my energies. In
vain. / was told (by Berlin) that 1t
would be against the dignity of Aus
tria. OF course, all that was needed
was one hint from Berlin to Count
Berchtold Uhe Austrian foreign min
ister); he would have satisfied him
self with a diplomatic triumph and
hint was never given, On the con-
trary, pressure was brought in favor
of war
Germany Insisted on War.
After our refusal Sir Edward ask
ed us to come forward with our pro-
posal. We insisted on war. No other
answer could | get (from Berlin) than
that it was a colossal condescension
on the part of Austria not to contem-
plate any acquisition OF territory. Sir
Edward justly pointed out that one
could reduce country to vassalage
without acquiring territory; that Rus
STA would see this, and regard it as
humiliation not to be put up with The
impression grew stronger and strong
Ell that we were bent on war. Other
wise our attitude toward question
in which we were not directly con-
cerned was incomprehensible. The in
sistent requests and well defined de-
clarations of M, Sasanof, the cars
positively humble kilograms later on,
Sir Edwards repeated proposals, the
warnings of Marquis San Giuliano
and of Bollati, my own pressing ad-
monitions were all of no avail Berlin
remained inflexibe--Serbia must be
slaughtered"
Then, on the 10Th Sir Edward de-
cided upon his well known warning.
told him | had always reported Ito
Berlin) that we should have to reck-
on with English opposition if it came
to war with France. Time and
again the minister said to me, If war
breaks out it will be the greatest ca
tastrophe the world has ever seen
And now events moved rapidly. Count
Berchtold at last decided to come
around, having up to that point played
the role of Strong man. under guild
ance from Berlin. Thereupon we lin
answer to Russia's mobilization) sent
our ultimatum and declaration of war
after Russia had spent a whole week
In frultless negotiation and waiting"
Germany Ruled by Duelists.
War was declared. "Thus ended my
mission to London" Prince Lichnow-
sky says. 1T had suffered shipwreck
not on the wiles of the Briton but on
the wiles of our own policy" And Of
the German traditions that made this
policy possible he eoncludes Were
not those right who saw that the Ger
man people was pervaded with the
spirit of Treitscke and Bernardo
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which glorifies war as an end instead
of holding it in adherence as an evil
thing? They said that the feudal
knight and junker, the warlike caste
and not the civilian rules, and imposes
its own ideals and values; that the
love of the duel which animates the
university students is still cherished
by those who guide the peoples des-
TIMES. Had not the Zabern affair and
the debate on the case in the reichstag
shown the outer world how civil rights
and liberties are rated with us when
they conflict with military prestige?
Properly speaking militar
ism is a school for the people and an
instrument to further political ends.
But in the patriarchal absolutism of
a military monarchy, militarism ex-
PLOTS politics to further its own ends
and can create a situation which a
democracy freed from junkerdom
would not tolerate.
That is what our enemies think.
''N' =" "i'e't 'hey are UOuTu TO tnlnk
when they see that in spite of capital
istic industrialism and in spite of So
cialistic organizations, the living. as
Nietsche said, are still ruled by the
dead. The democratization of Ger
many, the first war aim proposed by
our enemies will become reality"
That is Germany's confession of sin
and avowal of repentance as made by
her ambassador to Great Britain. 1t
leaves her without any justification,
except the one which Lichnowsky
pleads, that she is governed by caste
or duellists who are determined. to
dominate the world by the sword. That
sword will have to be broken in the
hands of the kaiser before the world
will be able to live with Germany.
Lichnowsky, like Muhlon. foresees it.
Germany to Blame.
Vorwaerts, the socialist newspaper
of Germany, foresees It, And the Ger
man-Americans are beginning to fore
see 1t, too One of their most influ-
entail dailies, the Germania -Herold. |
IF Milwaukee, has made editorially
An Open Confession" which reads:
1T is our duty to make it. We. too |