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


| symbol of our unity, when it rallied
! against the crown prince, and prom
! ised our people the riches of heaven
if it should once get rid of its impe-
| rial house and is other dynasties.
Later on the enemy propaganda at
| tackled me also. The army and the
people were to be robbed of their con-
! fidence in the supreme army COM
! mand, the belief in ultimate victory
was to be shattered, and faith was to
! be destroyed in the man who strove to
offer strong resistance to the en-
tente
BY working on our democratic SEN
timents the enemy propaganda sue
ceeded in bringing our form of gov
| eminent into discredit in Germany
| and in the whole world as being au-
| tocratic, although our emperor had
not the same power as the president
of the United States, and although the
right of voting for the reichstGg, the
great representative body of the EN-
| pire, rested on a more democratic
! basis than that Of many other cOun-
| tries.
Germans Ready to Listen.
| The enemy propaganda aimed ever
| more directly at breaking up the
unity of the German empire, and al
separating Germany from her ruling
house, and her dynasties and govern
ments from their people this was
revolution pure and simple.
The propagandists were clever in
understanding the effects of such
phrases as peace of understandings
disarmament after the war" league
of nations" and so on, on the peaceful
!
was only too ready to follow. in con-
scious or unconscious self-deception
this attractive but deceptive phan.
tasm.
In this connection the propagan.
dists' story that the peace of the
world had been disturbed by German
plans of world dominion fell, too, or
fruitful soil.
In plain fact the German govern.
ment in the post Bismarck period haG
had no great political aim whatever
! beyond the maintenance of peace
save perhaps that it aimed at increas.
ing the colonial possessions of the
country. 1t scarcely thought of worlt
politics or policy; it had no clean
conception why it made its way tt
Bagdad.
Living as we have done since 1870,
II life of constant preference of the
apparent over the real, of judging by
eXternals. we have no doubt over
estimated our own strength, anC
thought too little of the forces tha
We're working against us. We eX
tended over the world, without having
a firm footing in Europe. After gain
ing Alsace- Lorraine, and establishing
the empire. the German were satisfied
Il in Europe.
Hurt BY Clumsy Politics.
: Increase of our colonial possession;
! and the securing of a better position
in the world by the widening OF oul
markets had become q necessity fol
us. This was, however, only to be OBJ
tanned by force.
: Our people, on the other hand
. aimed at an equal place in peaceful
competition. Preoccupied with bust
: ness and political doctrines, it did no
: know that other peoples would Tlnt
; it difficult to distinguish this peaceful
} aim from the desire for world mastery
| The maintenance of peace was
{ great object, Just as we could onl,
win war of defense by attacking, 81
: we could only keep peace by clear anC
, strong policy. carried on on we'll de
/ fined principles.
t This our politics did not succeed IL
: doing. 1t expressed itself unexpected
7 ly, clumsily. The people who wer
ill-disposed to us took advantage o
' this to form a combine against us
t even those who had hitherto been op
posed to one another combined
against us. In other ways we Shove,
Q ourselves uncertain and irresoluto
; and this. too, brought us no friends
t Many Germans felt grave anxiet
t in this position, and gave sharp ex
r preston to their fears in all direc
: tons. In contrast to their govern
t ment they had far-seeing ideas. Thes
l utterances were. however, merel
;, those Of private persons, and had n