Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-18

more Importance or meaning for us
than corresponding statements hdd in
other countries. This habit of speak
ing out was not changed during the
war. The war aims of the govern
ments and peoples of the entente were
always more far-reaching than the
dreams of individual Germans. We
know this now to our cost.
Came Into World loo soon.
Plans for world dominion demand
strong national feeling. This in
spite Of the foundation Of the empire
in 1871. we have never achieved. Our
government in the post Bismarck
period did nothing to cultivate it; on
the contrary we lost it as we lost our
strength of will. In our political
thought we have remained too fed
eral,' and have retained too deep in
ternal political divisions,
We came into the world too soon
without any national sentiment, and
in our sense of world citizenship. born
of foreign Influences, we have never
found the true level between thinking
nationally and thinking information
ally, between our domestic and our
external interests.
Contrary to the arguments of the
enemy propaganda, no dreams OF
world mastery, no 'nationalism" of
the German government endangered
the peace before 1914, or have pre-
vented its conclusion during the war
After all, propaganda did not set cut
to tell the truth. but merely to break
down the determination and the fight
ing spirit of the German people, and
to spread views that would serve its
own ends,
At last it found the catchword of
the right Of DIFFERENTIATION" A
problem seemingly based on a most
acceptable truism, but. in truth, not
to be solved without oppression, when
as is so often the case, nationalitie5
are mixed The phrase fitted the
case of Austria Hungary better than
it fitted us. but it also had it's effect
on Germany, and in the long run. in
the Interpretation given to it by fear
and hatred, it was destined to work
us grave injury through the construc-
ton given TO it by Germans
Worked For the Revolution.
In the last stages of the war, and
quite openly from the beginning Of
1918 onward, propaganda worked
ever more clearly for the social revo-
luton, side by side with the political
revolution. The war was painted as
being waged by the upper ten thou
sand at the expense of the workers,
and the victory of Germany as the
workers misfortune.
The enemy propaganda and Boil
shevism, which aimed at world rev.
olution, were working for the same
ends in Germany. England gave
China opium, our enemies gave us
the revolution. and we accepted the
poison and distributed it, as the Chi
nese distribute opium.
While the enemy propaganda was
doing increasing harm to the German
| people and the army and navy, it also
succeeded in maintaining the deter
mination to fight in its own countries
and armies, and in working against
us in neutral countries.
Responsibility for the war, the Bel
gian atrocities. the ill-treatment of
prisoners our political immortality
and treachery, our mendacity and
| brutality, the arbitrary government of
| Prussianized Germany, the enslave-
ment of the German people, were, all
these reproaches, cleverly invented,
| for the purposes of the campaign of
| lies against us, and had the greatest
effect all over the world.
Americans Fought Crusade.
Side by side with these the catch
words of the fight for democracy
| against mlitarism. autocracy and the
| junker, Of the war for civilization and
! for the freedom of the smaller ma
tons, and other phrases of the sort in
ideal guise, of infinite effect on men
who do not see too clearly. The pub
/ lie opinion of the world was within
! their power. For the American sol
| diers the war became, as it were. a
crusade against us.
| In the neutral countries we were
subjected to a sort of moral block
! AIDE. The way to the soul of the
neutrals was barred to us. We had
not the means to open it. We alone
! did wrong; everything that the en-
| tente did was morally right and the
obvious course to follow. Germany
| was the world -oppressor, and the pol
Icy of the entente, and that alone, was
| pursuing true moral aims, at once
freeing the world and making it hap
pier In neutral countries, which now
must know the truth we lost all
credit, while that of the enemy rose
to great heights. We had, il is true,
our friends, but they had no weight.
Similar work was done in the coun-