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THi: K.MSKI! AN!> THK \V.\K.
Once again the German emperor
has availed himself of the oppor
tunitv to inform liis army, liis coun
try and the world that he is in
active and very potent alliance with
God.
Nor is there any reason to be
lieve that lie is guilty of any pre
tense in so doing.
Sinceritj ar.d earnestness stands
out of the man. as ruthlessly sin
cere and as deadly in earnest as
men can well be.
lie is not by any means a con
temptible fifure although a reason
able effort upon the part of c-antoon
ist.; has be. n made so to make him
appear. ;.ud h ■ is ccrtaini.v making
the most of bis position and nis
faith to imbue his subjects with
the same ideal, however grotesque
that ideal may appear to outsiders.
Men as well as nations still eling
to the notion that In these trials
and tribulations that have come
upon the world they -re fighitng tiie
cause of the Almighty. This view
iiac been common to them all and
it is a fact that the ease with which
expression has been given to this
belief indicates that most of file
people and most of the nations have
nationalized their deity.
Just as Billy Sunday does not
preach his hearers up to God but
slangs 1;is God down to tin lowest
level of his hearers so have the na
tions in this war brought their con
ception of a God home to them
selves. and by. of and for them
selves, an anthropoid being acco
modated to their own conception of
a superman, based upon fhc.se peru
culiar faculties which they most
admire. *
Hence it Is that the concept of
God manifested in the expressions
of flic Kaiser, are esentially Kaiser
like and without doubt, too, all that
the Kaiser most admires In himself
or other men.
It is probably because other na
tions have enitrely different ideas
of God, to those of Germany and
the Kaiser, they fee! inclined to re
gard his beliefs as insincere and af
fectation merely. Hew n:i they
behold anything in common ne
tween the God that marches on to
I’aris and to Potrograd, with the
God of the British fathers from
"out whose kingly hand they lold
dominion over palm and pine”?
Indeed it is just this antagonistic
manner of thinking between the
races which keeps them apart re
ligiously and automatically repels
one from the other.
Apart altogether from the man's
position, the Kaiser is a notable
figure. His activities are simply
ov *rwlielming. The man exhales
energy. The idea that be lacks
prudence is altogether wrong. It
has now been fairly well confirmed
that he alone of all the German
ruling class was reluctant to draw
the sword in the Great War. He
seems to have very well understood
the fact that British neutrality tiiat
peculiarly enough was a firm be
lief In official Berlin at the out
break of the war. was not probable
at all. And he alone of all the
German ruling -lass showed in
sentiment of exaspera'ion or sur
priie when British hostility was an
accomplished fact.
For some reason not wholly ob
scure publicists have endeavored to
show that German militarism and
German imperialism is wrapped up
in the Kaiser
The Kaiser lias clone his share to
aid in the maintenance of a power
ful army. he has very strongly
urged a powerful navy. He exhi
bited resentment at opposition to
credits for military purposes. He
took an intense pride in Geramn
colonization work and proudly as
sumed the title of Admiral of the
Atlantic
But there is In Germany a power
behind the throne. Withal the au-!
tocracy supposed to prevail there,
withal the imperial majesty and
power by Divine right, the Kaiser
is simply the embodiment of ideals
have their origin in much more
modem conceptions of economic
society than the feudalists idea
which he is supposed to represent. •
Moreover, we are lacking in sin
cerity, if we pretend to believe tiiat
it was the feudalistic condition,
that still exists as a remnant only
in Germany, which precipitated this
great war. And for that reason we'
are all wrong when it is declared
that ihe r moral of the Kaiser i
would automatically secure society;
against , lie repetition of sum a
catastrophe
It is not the feudal condition,
but the industrial development oi
Germany which caused the war.!
Germany had become a nation1
which to exist and thrive must have j
markets and territorial acquisitions
which would lead to further devel
opments. Tiiat is not the Germany
that is understood by the Kaiser.
The Germany that is understood
and identified in the Kaiser is the
Germany of the nobles, the aristo
crats, the army chiefs, the naval
leadeis. But even these were just
as mu< 1 the puppets as the instru
ments whereby industrial Germany
sought to carve out its destiny and
to make room for itself in the sun.
Furthermore even if in that in
dustrial Germany there had been
i representative government it
.would have made little difference.
German patriotism, and German
patriotism identical with German
imperialism was as strong in li
beral as in conservative quarters,
ami the desire for expansion and
conquest was by no means confined
to the one class of people.
All nations are quiet only when
th< ir aims and ambitions are left
alone, r.nd when what the people
consider is their destiny is allowed
to work itself out. What German
leaders did before the war was to
imitate the colonial policy of Great
Britain. But tl fy lacked the state
craft and the consummate diploma
tic adroitness of Great Britain.
Why this was is not so much tiiat
the men fell short of the require
ments, hut that the world situation
was changed. • and diplomatic op
portunities with it.
Germany would employ the Brit
ish policies of the seventeenth,
eighteenth and nineteenth century
in the twentieth centurry. quite re
gardless of the distribution of
power, and absorption of territory.
Great Britain never made the mis
take of interrupting the peace of
Europe to forward its colonial aims
or its aims of Empire. She waited
until the peace had already been
disturbed, then taking the side of
the weakest power usually, enrich
ed herself at the expense of both
sides with consummate ability if
with little scruple. Napoleon con
tributed little to the greatness of
France; it is the iron> of things
that he contributed enormously to
the greatness of England. Frederick
the Great contributed some to the
greatness of Prussia, but he contri
buted far more to the greatness of
England. There never was a great
war begun by other nations out of
which Great Britain did not emerge
mightier. stronger and more im
perial than ever. Whether this on
will be the same depends upon the
final issue and the end is not yet.
What is important to understan
is that the political complexion of
a nation lias little to do with the
responsibility for wars. France as
a republic was beginning to feel
her oats mighty strongly when the
• limax of Fashoda was reached,
and simply because of the fact that
Great Britain appeared too power
ful from a naval point of view is
all that deterred the democracy of
that republic plunging Europe into
war. Her statesmen shortly after
confessed as much, and the bitter
ness of the French press confirmed
that truth.
It is industrial Germany and not
the feudal Germany that is so war
like. Feudal Germany and auto
cratic Germany may love militarism
for the pomp and glory of war; but
it is a prudent love that recks the
cost in human life. Industrial
Germany loves militarism for the
ns. s to which it may be put to ex
pand the commerce and '.he finance
and the industries of that country.
It is not an imprudent love either,
bu* it reckons the costs in dollars
and cents, in territory and re
sources.
The peace that is brought about
will perhaps result in the removal
of the Kaiser. But unless it also
removes the Krupps and the otin
monarchs of industry, there as else
! where, permanent peace will be
impossible.
The germs of modern war exist
not in feudal rivalry of militaristic
pomp- bit in industrial rivalry for
more markets. And the remedy
for that reason does not lie in a po
litical but in an industrial demo
cracy.
Only in that way will society be
immune.
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