Arizona republican., 1921-02-23

The Won Tirpitz Statement
 To the Editor Df The Arizona Repnb- i
 Hcan. Dear Sir.
 One SD seldom secs in the pages of The Republican an item which gives offsmse. fllaf when he does, he is tempted to speak his mind about IL It Dffensd an AnEricanis sense Of prppor- ton to see in twD-column. lRrEe type headlines opinions of the defeated Ser man admiral, Fon Tirpitz, such as ap peared in the issue of the Republican published on Friday, Feb. 1S- When l the subject matter of the opinions is seen to be false in fact, insidlous in in tent, and dangerous in effect, he IS not 9nly offended but outraged Non III pitz is quoted in part as saElng- is my belief America will not make the mistake Germany did of trusting the life and prosperity of it's commerce and industry merely to tho brotherly feeling of the English By this statement Von Tirpdtz say1y and falsely implies first, that Germany did trust the liie and prosperity or her commerce and in dustry to the +sbrotherly feeling of the English secondly. that somehow Eng land encroachea, in spite of Germany trust, an German commercial and in dusfxazl Hfe before the war, and thirdly that HermAnyn present plight IS due to her srnst in fhis English brotherly feel ing 1t Is not hard to refute these i'm plica45ons- The memory Of EermzaIy, preanmzBeut military strength and Of her refusal, in the first decade of this century. when line proposal was made by England, to enter any agreement for the limitation of naval armament, the memory of her colossal industrial and commercial strength and wealth before the WAT. when Engaands free trade
 policy WelGnMned German ships and merchandise to her ports on the same
 terms zs her own; tine memofy-Hnless
 we hagz forgotten what we seemed 10 know beyunE the possibility of forget- fulness-of khe conviction of each one of m az to who began 11ae war. is refu-
 ta4Son enough There is a frTIsfh i'm
 pljczxi0n. most misch1eEous of all De-
 cause it has reference to the future and not to the past, and that is that in tile brofherly feeling of England turks dan ger to the United States.
 Tho Germans are playing game, the only game understood by the German mind after their defeat in the field Von Tirptfx opinions are part of se- ries of interviews and dispatches flow l ing from the discredited mouths of the men and groups who were leaders ia Germany during the war- Adolpn Benke chief commander of tine present German nary recently made similar
 observations. Inspired reports Of atro- cities by black troops said te have been lplaeed by France in Inc occupied Ger
 man territory have repeatedly appeared 1 i'll our pages of late These reEsrrts have been conclusireay exploded and branded as propaganda by Secretary Colby in a letter dated Feb. Il. 1921.
 written to Senator Spencer of Missouri. The Germans. for two reasons are af- 1 tempting to stir up dissenxioI among 1 all Tha< that in a gFF43 at peace they will be obliged to make all possible repzration to Belgium and France while in a divided world tfses might escape at least a part or Il; fsaff feel that. should they be able to arouse I the world to quarreiiBg and hatred. they would more quickly regain the power and position they have losk- 1 Ta1leyrand played the same game aftsf 4 the Napoleouic wars. at the council ot Vienna and bv so doing gained con Icessions for the yanuuished nation which could not otherwise have been I gained, and made for himself a repufa ton for astuteness which the Germans I are astute enough to try to repeat.
 T Printing so prominently articles like I the one which called forth this letter is a sure way of helping them to succeed in their attempt. It is gesture against i one Of our recent associates in the war. and against the future peace Of the i world. The world can be organized for peace only when there Is a popular de- I sire to see 1t so organized, and the pop l uIar desire will come only when na- tional suspicion and distrust are ban Iished from among us- England and the II United States are the two great Anglo Il Saxon nations. and it Is inconceivable i that any commercial advantage gainea 3by either nation in any part of the Il world at the cost of a war between | these two would not be a total loss sn terms of national wealth. national hap I piness, and the really worth while T things of life It is not fair 10 those who gave their lives in the war to play lGermany's game, be it ever so cleyerly concealed. Have we forgotten those | linen whose bodily remains are marked by white crosses near Romagne sous
 Acntfaucon, near Fsismes on the Nesle. and at Surenes, but whose spirit the
 country ought ever to cherish
 This letter is not intended as a cFiti
 cism of the policy of The Republican but merely to set forth the reaction to
 the article of one man who Is IS in } interested in the welfare of the country as the next man. and who happened in the past few years 10 obtain a first hand impression of the Germans. their } methods and their aims. After all, are Americans interested in the opinions of Won Tirpitz about our foreign reia- tions2 As man he dfscredited him. self when he advocated submarine ruthlessness, and as admiral he dis credited himself beyond the hope of re- demption when the policy he had ad-
 vocated brought the United States into
 the war, and prevented the possibility ], of ultimate German victory
 tSigneo) EX-ARTII-LERN ptF1CEits- | Martin LeBoutillier,
 :i F. o. Box S36. Phoenix.
 II Feb 20, 1921.