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MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1915.
FOR THE GERMAN PEOPLE,
PEACE WITH FREEDOM
The following editorial appeared in
a recent issue of the New 'iork
Times and caused a sensation:
Germany is doomed to sure defeat.
Bankrupt in statesmanship, over
matched in arms, under the moral
condemnation of the civilized world,
befriended only by the Austrian and
the Turk, two backward-looking and
dying nations, desperately battling
against the hosts or three great pow
ers to which help and reinforcement
from states now neutral will certain
ly come should the decision be long
deferred, she poura out the blood of
her heroic subjects and wastes her
diminishing substance in a hopeless
struggle that postpones but cannot al
ter the fatal decree. Yet the doom
of the German Empire may become
the deliverance of the German people
if they will betimes but seize and
hold their own. Leipsic began and
Waterloo achieved the emancipation
of the French people from the bloodv,
selfish and sterile domination of the
Corsican Ogre. St. Helena made it
secure. Sedan sent the little Napo
leon sprawling and the statesmen of
France instantly established and pro
claimed the republic. Will the Ger
mans blindly Insist on having their
Waterloo, their Sedan—their St. Hel- j
ena, too? A million Germans have
been sacrificed, a million German
homes are desolate. Must other mil
lions die and yet other millions mourn
before the people of Germany take in
the court of reason and human lib
erty their appeal from the imperial
and military caste that rushes them
to their ruin?
They have their full justification
in the incompetence and failure of
their rulers. German diplomacy and
German militarism have broken down.
The blundering incapacity of the kai
ser’s counselors and servants in
statecraft at Berlin and in foreign
capitals committed Germany to a war
against the joined might of England,
France and Russia. Bismarck would
never have it so. Before he let the
armies take the field, before he gave
Austria the “free hand,” he would
have had England and Russia by the
ears, he would have isolated France,
as he did in 1870. The old emperor,
a man not above the common in ca
pacity, surpassed the wisdom of his
grandson in this, that he knew bet
ter than to trust his own judgment
and he was sagacious enough to call
great men to his aid. Wilhelm Tl.
was wretchedly served at Vienna by
an ambassador blinded by Russoplio
bia, at St. Petersburg by another who
advised his home government that
Russia would not go to war, and at
London by the muddling Lichnowsky,
whose first guesses were commonly
wrong and his second too late to
be serviceable. German literally forc
ed an alliance for this war between
England and Russia, two powers of
ten antagonistic in the past and hav
ing now no common interest save the
curbing of Germany. The terrible
misjudgment of the general staff hurl
ed Germany headlong into the pit
that incompetent diplomacy had pre
pared. The empire went to war with
three great nations able to meet her
with forces more than double her
own.
Then the worth of that iron mili
tary discipline and of the forty years
of ceaseless preparation to which
Germany had sacrificed so much of
the productive power of her people
was put to the test. Again the col
ossal imperial machine broke down.
It was not through Incompetence.
The German army was magnificent
in its strength, in equipment, and in
valor. It was overmatched, it had
attempted the impossible. That was
the fatal blunder. The first rush up
on faris was intended to be irresist
ible; that was the plan of the gen
eral staff; France crushed, Russia
could be sent about her business, it
was not irresistible, it was checked,
it was repulsed. When the Invaders
were driven back from the Marne
to the Asine and the Belgian frontior
Germany’s ultimate defeat was reg
istered in the book of fate and her
aided to the watching world. Ger
many’s battle line has been forced
back to where it stood when it first
encountered the French. Calais is
freed from her menace, Tannenberg
was but an incident to the swarm
ing hordes of Russia. What boots it
if she enters Lodz, if she seize War
saw, what even if by some unlooked
for turn of fortune she again an:
proach the walls of Paris? Kitchen
er’s new million of trained men will
be id France before the snows have
melted in the Vosges, and Russia -s
inexhaustible.
There is within the German view
an even more sinister potent. The
world cannot, will not, let Germany
win in this war. With her dominat
ing all Europe peace and security
would vanish from the earth. A few
months ago the world only dimly com
prehended Germany, now it knows
her thoroughly. So if England,
France and Russia cannot prevail
against her, Italy, with her two mil
lions, the sturdy Hollanders, the
Swiss, hard men in a fight, the Danes,
the Greeks and the men of the Bal
kans will come to their aid and make
sure that the work is finished, once
for all. For their own peace and
safety the nations must demolish that
towering structure of militarism in
the centre of Europe that has become
the world’s danger-spot, its greatest
menace.
The only possible ending of the
war is through the defeat of Ger
many. Driven back to her Rhine
strongholds, she will offer a stubborn
resistance. Even with the Russians
near or actually in Berlin she would
light on. But for what? Why? Be
cause the German people, the very
people, are resolved to get themselves
all killed before the inevitable day
of the enemy’s triumph? Not at ail.
The weary men in the trenches and
the distressed people merely obey the
orders given by imperial and military
authority. For the men in those high
quarters defeat would be the end of
all. Desperation, with some possi
ble admixture of blind confidence, will
continue the war. But why should
the German people make further sac
rifice of blood to save the pride and
the shoulder straps of German offi
cialdom? It means a million more
battlefield graves. It means frightful
additions to the bill of costs and to
the harshness of the terms Since the
more dreadful ending is in plain
view, why not force the better end
ing now?
But this is revolution. That may
be so; call it so. Definitions are use
ful, they are not deterrent. Is there
in all history any record of a whole
people rising against their rulers in
the midst of a great war? Let the
historians answer the question. Is it
conceivable that the loyal German
people, made one by the love of the
Fatherland and devoted to the ac
complishment of the imperial’ ideals,
could be stirred to revolt, while still
unconquered? That concerns the
prophets. We are concerned neith
er with precedents nor with prophecy.
We have aimed here to make clear
the certainty of Germany’s defeat and
to show that if she chooses to fight!
to the bitter end her ultimate and
sure overthrow will leave her bled to
■exhaustion, drained of her resources,
and under sentence to penalties of
which the stubbornness of her futile
resistance will measure the severity. I
We could wish that the German peo- i
pie, seeing the light, might take time
ly measures to avert the calimitiee
that await them.
It may well be doubted that they
will see the light. But have not the
men of German blood in this coun
try a duty to perform to their be
leaguered brethren in the old home’
Americans of German birth or of Ger
man descent should see and feel the
truth about the present position of
Germany, the probability for the near,
the certainty for the remoter, future.
At home the Germans cannot know
the whole truth; it is not permitted
them to know it. It will be unfrater
nal and most cruel for German-Ameri
cans further to keep the truth from
them, or to fall in their plain duty
to make known to them how low the
imperial and militaristic ideal has
fallen in the world’s esteem, and to
bring them to understand that the
enemies they now confront are but
the first line of civilization’s defenses
against the menace of the sword that,
forever rattles in its scabbard. The
sword must go, the scabbard, too, and
thp shining armor. If the Germans
here have at all the ear of the Ger
mans there, can they not tell them
so? They have come here to escape
the everlasting din of war’s trap
pings; they have come to find peace
and quiet in a land of liberty and
law, where government rests on the
consent of the governed, where the
people by their chosen representa
tives, when there is a question of
going into the trenches to be slain,
have something to say about It.
Have they ever tried to get into the
heads of their friends in the Father
land some idea of the comforts and
advantages of being governed in that
way? Instead of vainly trying to
change the well-matured convictions
of the Americans, why not labor for
the conversion of their brother Ger
mans?
The state is power, said Treit
schke. He would have written Ten
nyson’s line “The individual withers,
the state is more and more.” In the
German teaching the state is every
thing, to the state the individual must
sacrifice everything. With us the
state is the social organization by
which men assure to themselves the
free play of individual genius, each
man’s right in peace and security to
work out his individual purposes. If
the German-Americans prize the priv
ileges they have enjoyed under our
theory of the state, ought they not
to tell the Germans at home what
it means for the individual to be
free from quasi-vassalage? There is
no people on earth more worthy to
enjoy the blessings of freedom than
the Germans. Germany has taken her
place in the very front of civilization,
freed from the double incubus of im
perialism and militarism the German
genius would have a marvelous de
velopment. It is not in the thought
of Germany’s foes to crush the Ger
man people, the world would not let
them be crushed. It has for them
the highest esteem, it will acclaim
the day when it can resume friendly
and uninterrupted relations with
them. But the headstrong, misguid
ed, and dangerous rulers of Germany
are going to be called to stern ac
count, and the reckoning will be
paid by the German people in just
the proportion that they make com
mon cause with the blindly arrogant
ruling class. When representative
Americans and men of peace like Dr.
Eliot and Andrew Carnegie insist that
there can be no permanent peace un
til an end has been made of German
militarism, sober-minded Germans,
here as well as in Germany, ought
not to turn a deaf ear to such voices,
for they speak the opinion of the
world. The bill of costs mounts
frightfully with every month’s pro
longation of the war, and the toll of
human lives is every day ruthlessly
taken. It may be a counsel of un
attainable perfection to say that the
German people ought now to end the
war. But for their own happiness,
for their own homes, for their in
terests and their future, it is true.
The truth of the counsel is uncon
querable.
LOCAL brevities.
Chinese noodles and chop suey at
Valdez Cafe after 7 p. m. if
Imported Japanese baskets at Val
dez Drug Co. tf
Harvey’s Toggery Retiring From
Business.
We are closing out our entire stock
below cost. Fixtures for sale. tf
Sweat Baths.
First-class sweat baths and mas
sage parlors at room 5, Montana, tf
With the Floating Court to the Prib
ilof Islands.
There will be a lecture given ir.
the Congregational church next Fri
day night by the Rev. Charles S.
Price. The lecture will be illustrat
To You All
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This Is a Good Time to Extend Cordial Greetings
to Everybody:
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munity.
We greet our competitors and their customers.
We greet everybody—even our enemies if we have any,
Or any who think they are. >
We Wish You All a Happy New Year.
ed by over 100 lantern slides of pho
tographs taken by Mr. Price. The pic
tures will include scenery, native life,
reindeer, herds of fur seals, and the
story of the killing of a 75-ton whale.
The admission will be 50 cents a
tickets. Only a limited number of
tickets will be sold so as to seat all
the crowd. Program published later.
Proceeds in aid of general church
fund.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Ter
ritory of Alasaa, ss.:
I, Charles E. Davidson, Secretary
of the Territory of Alaska, do here
by certify that on this date there has
been filed in my office consent of
stockholders to dissolution of the
James E. Wilson Transportation
Company, a domestic corporation or
ganized under the laws of the Terri
tory of Alaska, and said corporation
is therefore dissolved.
In testimony whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the
Great Seal of the Territory of Alas
ka, at Juneau, this 21st day of De
cember, 1914. (Seal.)
CHARLES E. DAVIDSON,
Secretary of Alaska.
Publications Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30.
Who’s Who In Europe’s War
Photo by American Press Association.
CROWN PRINCE CHARLES FRANCIS JOSEPH or Austria is a soioier
and prepared to take the field when war was declared against Servia
He Is next in succession as ruler of Austria. While he hasn’t shown any
great strength as a prospective ruler, he is well thought of by the populace
Emperor Francis Joseph is his great-uncle •
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Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 4. 1915.
STATION Above Below Snow, In. WEATHER CONDITIONS ;
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Hogan . 11 42 Cloudy, calm, trail good. '
Gulkana . 5 12 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Copper Center . 8 10 Clear, calm, trail good.
Tonsina . 0 20 Cloudy, calm, trail good.
Telkhell . 7 18 Snowing, calm, trail fair.
Beaver . 12 26 Snowing, calm, trail fair.
Summit . 20 40 Snowing, calm, trail open.
Wortman’s .21 24 Cloudy, calm, trail fair.
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