The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-04

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What has Russia got to do
FRINGE Kari with Serbian this statesman
Liehnowsky said to me, after eight years OF
official activity in Petersburg.
It was made out that the whole business was
perhdious British trick which had not under
stood. In the foreign ofdce / was told that in
1915 it would in any case have come to war But
then Russia would have been ready and so 1t
was better now.
Question of Guilt
"As appears from ali official publications,
without the facts being controverted by our own
White Book, which, owing to its poverty and
gaps eS ns grays f-aesgsst tH,6 !
tack Serbia, although no German interest was
involved I. and the danger Of world war must
text OF the ultimatum Is g. question OF complete
Indifference.
1914 when M. sazonoR emphatically declared
that Russia could not tolerate an attack upon
mediation, although Serbia, under Russian and
British pressure, had accepted almost the whole
ultmatum, and although an agreement about
the two points in question could easily have
been reached, and Count Berchtold was even
ready to satisfy himself with the Serbian reply
"3. On July 80, when Count Berchtold wanted
to give way, we, without Austria having been
attacked, replied to Russia's mere mobilization
by sending ultmatum to Petersburg and on
July 81 we declared war on the Russians, al
though the car had pledged his word that as
long as negotiations continued not q man should
march--so that deliberately destroyed the
possibility of peaceful settlement.
In view of these 1ndisputable facts. it is not
surprising that the whole civilized world outside
Germany attributes to US the sole guilt for the
world war.
rs 1t not ineligible that our enemies declare
that they will not rest until system is destroy
ed which constitutes permanent threatening
Of our neighbors? Must they not otherwise fear
that in 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 Bernhard DOM
mated the German people-the spirit which
glorifes war as an aim in itself and does not
abhor it as an evil; that among us it is still the
feudai knights and Junkers and the caste of
warriors who rule and who TX our ideals and
our Values-not the civilian gentleman; that the
love of duelling which inspires youth at the
universities, lives on in those who guide the
zabern and the parliamentary debates on that
case shown foreign countries how civil rights
and freedoms are valued among u.s. when ques-
tions OF military power are on the other side?
Sramb, q historian, who has since died, an
aamirsr OF Germany put the German point OF
Traumt Ihr den Friedenstag? . s.. .
Traume, wer traumen mag!
Krieg list das Losungswort
Sieg, und klingt fort, r.
"Militarism, really school for the nation
and instrument OF policy. makes policy into
the instrument Of military power, If the patri-
archal absolutism Of a soldier kingdom renders
from military -Junker influences.
THAT is what our enemies think. and that Is
what they are bound to httnk when they
that, in spite of capitalstic industralization and
in spite OF Socia1istic organization, the living as
the dead. The principal war aim of our enc
mics. the demonstration Of Germany, will be
achieved.
Our Future.
To-day, after two years Of the war. there can
be no further doubt that we cannot hope for
an unconditional victory over Russians English
French. Italians, Rumanians and Americans, and
that we cannot reckon upon the overthrow Of
peace only upon the basis of the evacuation of
the occupied territories, the possession Of
which in any case signifies for US a burden and
weakness and the peril OF wars. Conse-
quently everything should be avoided which him
ders change Of course on the part OF those
enemy groups which might perhaps still be won
over to the idea Of comprehensive British
radicals and the Russian reactionaries. Even
from this point of view Polish project is just
as Objectionable as any interference with Bel
gian rights the execution of British cti-
zens--to say nothing OF the mad submarine war
scheme.
Our future lies upon the water. True. but it
therefore does not lie in Poland and Belgium,
Holy Roman empire, to the alterations of the
aoh her and Hapab p It is the policy
Raleigh, Nelson and Rhodes.
Triple Alliance sn policy Is relapse into the
from world policy. Central Europe is mediae-
yalism; Berlin -Bagdad is a cul de sac, and not
road into the OPEN to unlimited possibilities,
and to the world mission of the German people.
II am enemy Of Austria, or Hungary, or
Serbia, of any other state only an enemy
of the Triple Alliance policy, which was bound
to divert us from our aims. and to bring us on
to the soping plane Of Continental policy. 1t
was not German policy. The Austrians had ac-
custoned themselves to regard the alliance as a
shield under whose protection they could make
excursions at pleasure into the East
"And what result have we to expect from the
struggle OF peoples2 The United States of
Africa will be British, like the United States of
America OF Australia. and of Oceania; and the
Latin states OF Europe. as said years ago, viii
fail into the same relationship to the United
Kingdom as the Latin sisters OF America to the
United States. They viii be dominated by the
Anglo-Saxon France, exhausted by the war, will
link herself still more closely to Great Britain.
In the long run, Spain also will not resist.
I'm Asia, the Russian and Japanese will ex-
pand their borders and their customs, and the
south will remain to the British
1.-THE world will belong to the Anglo-saxon,
the Russian, and the Japanese, and the Ger
man will remain alone with Austria and Hun
gary. His sphere OF power win be that OF
thought and OF trade. not that OF the bureau
Gratis and the soldiers, The German appeared
too late. and the world war has destroyed the!
last possibility OF catching up the lost ground
of founding q colonial empire.
TOR we shall not Eupplant the sons of Japh-
eth; the program of the great Rhodes, who saw
the salvation of mankind in British expansion
and British imperialism. viii be realized.
Tu regere imperio popplcs Romano NEE
nento
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