“SUPREMACY.”

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1678, 19 February 1913, Page 8

“SUPREMACY.”

I 'THE GERMAN POINT OF VIEW. ft%Si :^NOW : IS'THE T^IE/ 1 t < I :"./ A REMARKABLEPAMPHLET. |;; : ';, | i' : : ; BRITISH WAYS CRITICISED. J,;.''j''-':'The translation into English of a Ger;')';..;\;jnan ''pamphlet,;'.entitled.; "Supremacy," j.''.-;-'.' ; ; and.'written by '"Look-out" (said tobe. an |W';officer''of 'high' rank .in'.Potsdam) has [,v into our possession. '.It is said that i' ;',; ; the pamphlet made,an instantaneous imend that 20,000 copies','were .sold, k'/.';;,in, : ,tw6 months,-/and'others were distrib'.''' fbiited to,'.the regimental messes through- '.; '/-jiiit Germanyl', Tho"preface reads:- [- ■''.' :: -,;,"Tho .'.history of,'tho -.world makes [','■■' -'/'one draw-breath j 'a-short./timb ago ; [■:.',.',' '.'heavy storms'seemed .about to break. i ..'!,' Now'.on© hoped for mild-and refresh- ; ,•:■"'■ .ing rains, but -the whole heaviness fs'- : .'.''(■'■v stall habgs over Elirope., The storms ;-"•.•'•,■ have .only hidden -themselres-behind • !,,'■'';;' the horizon/ Now:is.the.time for,us i/'T '■'/• build; up' tho harvest." r,' ; '■:(:■'■ Berlin,: February 21,'-1912."/; •'■•.'.'•■ £ •';!':,'■' ','■.;'■:'.:' /Dreams and' Facts. - '• ?. ; r',-' Thexfollowingnro'afew extracts from fin.'/'the. pamphlet, .the tenor of which will bo grasped.' 'i Under,'the- heading of fs*%; ''Dreams /and' Facts," ■'. appears ; , the . fol-B-V'-T.ilowingi—';■;■• .'■'■ : '-'. :'•;.'.'.:''■'''. >.■.;■:-/■. ~-. h',f?' ! ' '■''lh / the : mnseura at Durban stands' a A'"'?' 'row.-of: helmota that read, ohe a .terrible r',/ '-Uesson.;->They ,,'aro those taken' from.Eng•'■';o; ■■' lishyofficers fallen'' afc Majuba' in <;1881. [•'/'.'Nearly ;all. are".riddled'with .bullets in t.-'l'-'.-thV-'oentro/in front. .The Boer always ;'' -• Bucoeeds ;iwith ■•his/'h'cad; shots. ./There [/ ; '!'./.wiere,'also in 1900, the same, sharpshooters. / / i ".';-'ln,'.splte of'that they'failed. Against tho i / L:: :.iiet':of armed blockhouses;, against tho ;'/.'/ thousands':of rniles/'/pf' -.'barbed wire; ;i;;;,;/'.;'ri'gainst.' tho four .'army, corps;' and 42 i './:'//rmilliards /of markh; ■ aiainst the. ,com- '-.;'.'/.' • ;.bined'. strength of '■ technique and capital ./ nothing .'could b© done./; In Europe wo nlkept/hoping,for. a miracle./but'.no- ': '■: ;'•■ //'where ;«re . fewer''-irarablis ■'. to: ;bb. found irrevocable proof < of ■■■ strength of'a l nation. ', Might.alono" ;'; t ; ; ;Beeides! .'.'V-.v'! •.■.; r '' ; ..V*V : .''""' /'-' : ": ;'■■■"' ' \ ///'////'.'lt,, is'o ;dnhgerous'/mistake/to ■ think, ;'^.'-.':'that- : : ,,e.xcelleiice' in shooting 'or 'the good' ;;;;Ji},conditiphs'>, ; bf..'i.the'-.-men,■•'■or ■>well trained ;;!'y r *^fficerg,,s:.will l ;preve ; nt;'defeat /when tho ; .;;,,/'oj)poser.;has.endless enormous, material at ;,,'o/'his- command:;'•■ ~,W© Germans must let j././that.'bo impressed'-/upon;vra.' ; -'lt -~wn3 /;; //through: this mistake that'the - : .,./•//ifell beforeij:he.United-States, and' strewed ;■.•'•■ /the'bottorfl''6f.th'e : sea' with' ; their 'five- /;.-, ■ minute '.ships,',; -All ;th'o, more' should' wo ;/ /.ibe (warned--against ■'underestimating .the ,',--;-; first'; sea; Power in ..the world-rEngland; '/';;.; During-our Jastelection fight'.miiny speak-, ;•;■ ,ers at meetings who on v the North ; / ; ;; • Sea danger 'were.. afterwards ■ .laughingly ~ i _;:;soothed;by. the,audience— 'Our ;blue boy 3 ;■ ;/;'■;will ;doMt'all:fight!'., !■ Certainly we can ; i/ci;be proud;of our ; Navy-and'our men. /But '..ir.'prido obmes.before, a.fa 11.,/ /?,' : ,/ '/"No -thinking man /in; Germany any jr.; ! /. longer, questions the .necessity.- of a. -Navy; ;'- ./none ; : theTppssiWlity. of a- battle:,in tho ~ /'; North Sea.', But such'a meeting is very ,;■.'/ little .'wished' for. •, .The. only .differences ;.;.:•/■ of,;oplnion';exist, , in the'means by which i.r ./'ive /can v ''av6id- or:withstand -. it.;'; Somo ~/ ', .'lesser /idealists .reckon jthat the : public /',;', opinion ,'bver the 'horrors of ■• war will bo .; '.;'■','' siifficienkto make it impossible. .;At last, •■/-■ ; nt last," thb'world must -*come ;to' its senses, barbaric.fighting'.withench- ■';' ; '/other the'general working of'culture will '": : r/Bupervehe. 'Here and th'ere/it.is: thought ■-s.'/rvthat tho, studies made'by -.the' democracy ;''•;»< of all nations will'lead to this end,,that ' :.', the ; unitcd ;/. //proletariat will dictate tho, peace, of''the. , -.. '.world;- But just these- lucid times tho C-f /vi'great decade/from ; Goethe, to .Diderot echo ~■'■■'■-!■''" .Btron'gitet:' .again/with - the/sonnd. of. the' j : ;': ;■ - sword; .'and, the very democrats, .beginning '.'with the Republican Eome./have led most *:'; '/.wars.' The Trench, Revolutionaries,- even ?;;•','.'.before/ the., guillotine '.got. to/f'rest, shook; /.;.'■■ their •blood-calling/fists '..towards' foreign . i '.' lands/ 'The .decrees of the: Convention of :,,;:/• 1792 threatened to 'bring pcaoo to' tho /',:,,world,.by'.'war/with the world.'/ ;....' '■"•' .;':;'• ; "Bonaikirtb'decrared' all the wafs;pnthe /•;,;,■ mainland, of',lhirppe''to' : bo'/wars'bf 'the ':'■■'■...• populace,"and,even laid the suggestion be-, - /fore Austria and' Prussia that'.they should' ■ ■/:'■ rdisnrm ."entirely.' ,People;'spoko '.seriously ///.'..'-of .an' ;l eteriial peace..;'/There/had never ',; V:, .be'ed an epoch in all. circumstances more; .''•' -.; ,'•suitable'than the present;for;realising tho .' * proje'et of /the general happinesslof. man- : kind,' ; so' said;'the- 'Berliner'.Nachrichter'. ..'//oi'MayO,'. 1805—that'w-as.a few months '"•_:■ before'i-Ulm /arid -18 /months/before /Jfna 1 . ■','/' and. Auerstadfe But we' will riot dip into ■-.': • .the.•Fools';Book of .the World's- History. '.'.' ;",://Wo''must simply concede.that one-is never //■f'■'■'■'■■.certain*befdre'fa. war,''arid rievef will -be. ',;'•/.,certain;'-;.;lii./18G9 Franco, arranged - an .;..-:'--;'eternal r business -' ahd/.frieridship:-,'agree- ;/. 'ment with lis,• and in/1870 the, cannon. .;•:.'• were thundering;".' '.'•;.- ..II our fleet had '■•'.'.'.', /been ;by; the English last sum- :. ;/.'irier,/it"^ ."■'••.-it wpuhlhave out with the; certain /motto, 'Moritun to salutant!', . : ;

" ■' ;, .'Thß : English .Gentleman.", .'■'■'■'■ ■! -.:■ V;''A9' far :as foreign I countries are coii- -.'.'.;.■ .'oerned, I, have felt ■only sympathy, for : England and its inhabitants all my life, :.';'. and' at.tiuies. Lam'not yet free 'from it." .-.-' This sentence dftas; not'originate with the ■':■■ so-called Kaiser."interview. in the,-'-' Daily • '■■, Telegraph/'; but with Pr'inoe,'• Bismarck, : and itwasnot given forth by chance, but ; .is-'to: bsfouhd in Bismarck's political ■; testament,':' "Thoughts .and, Itcmem- ,:': brances." .'Everyone will;sign'-his.ynamo to that who knows England and the Eng- , ; lishmaii. ' Ragamuffins are to be; found :■■■:■• everyirherc, but .when the' Englishman.is ; a gentleman; ho is v an,exo/npiary gen Me.,,..■ man, and the;CTerman feels' at home Svith '/'him.. It is not'fot. nothing that tho Gor- .., 'man business man isbest'pleased in tho ■:; English i colonies,".■ and Uiiowhere does tho ~,. Gorman!strip off. his .nationality in favour ' : ' • of the, new ;hpmo as'in England. They '■;':• 'have & lot in,common in their way of .;looking on ■heiworld, and aleo in their temperament.". "Live and let live" is the ■most distinctly-stamped rule of sooiallife .;■• in England), and nowhere is the individual ■; held in greater esteem.' It is not'mere chance, but a, result of the character 'of . .the people,.!: that '' id England the separate house does not .give -way. :, :-to :,.tho flat. . . . .'. : If ..personality.is the highest happiness of . mankind thau: : are th« British) -Isles the fields of the. blessed, then nowhere is the worth, of personality so treasured; no-' . . where is the power of ambitious manhood so eagerly granted, yet in tho samo breath - one can say that in spite of all their : sympathetic traits the English natron:is tho most hated: in the world, and our' proverbial,condition' of being disliked does not come-anywhere near, theirs. . . . ..Czar Nicholas II said to Ptinco Hohenlohe, tho German Reichskranzler, on September G, lSWif'l am very fond of England and the English, who aro sympa- ' - thotic to me, -but I mistrust their poli--1 tics.' That is, put in plain words, tho ~ feeling of every educated man, and es-, : . pecinlly of statesmen. .- '■ , ■■; :ThoroUghly : , toolish is thoir occasional mistrust that the Kaiser is their fundamental enemy, and it is true from a psychologically interpreted antipathy, a sort of re- ' bellion' with'the German in him against ■ tho little drop',,of English blood. This drop, if chemically examined, would scarcely be found to be English. -Tho reiguing house in London is not English, '•' but "Welf, consequently', German, and on tho Hanoverian tree, a Coburp twig was grafted, from ,'which. tho. Princess. Victoria bloomed, the mother i of our Kaiser. Willvelm II could never feoL himself a stranger at court where German is the colloquial mother tongue. Even the German. Church service was first dono away with under. King Edward, when Sir Ernest Casscl undertook the financial rearrangement of tho King's Household, and from "conomy dismissed the court preacher Ctusius as wall as the aged organist ■.Weber. ... There is something extremely, .manly in English culture. Rather than training up book-worms, she encourages "■virtue in man, bravery,'comradeship,-and: ' : fte ln7o of truth. W« have to thank her * for nil our sports, of which really only "ytnnasHcs was born in Germany, and tais 'sport has increase! .to living ener-

I gies of all communities, from the highest | ostato to the workman's circle. "Perfido Albion..". . "The timos are entirely passed when our Liberalism stood up for tho Mother of Parliaments; it has also bioken with the illusion that either birth or through wealth, aristocratic oligarchy .on the other side of the. canal is a.. democratic commonwealth. Also other Governments no longer believo in England's well-wish-ing for the world. That time that the English, forced the-Chineso by bloody war to give up the .opium poison in order to keep the rich market, for the Indian Mohu, we certainly all .bowed down to ■ the results of her sword, and the Prussian Minister of State, Hcinrieh Von Bulow. sent o message through the Embassy in London to say we were '"accustomed tn look upon anything, that enriched the well-being of the British Empire in the same light as if it had. be.fallen ourselves.' That is long, long ago. With, for a moment, the exception of, France, all nations have gradually grasped that fact, that in foroign politics England is" an athlete of the mind, and is not led bymoral considerations, but only by business considerations; and is always ready to treat tho S'ozius of to-day to a box on the ear to-morrow As once.in the old Roman times, the 'Fidas Punica' became 'a saying, so to-day England, as the modern Carthage, is known •09 'Perfide Albion/., Hot' politic* *r* morbidly degenerate. It no ,longer suffices: her to seek her own advantage, but she also wishes the disadvantage of her competitor," even when, she gets nothing out of it.. . In 1796 and 1805. . "In tlie vear 179G England decided'to send an ariiiv of 100,000 men to Brittany. This. 100,000 Englishmen, in the moment of sending, were reduced to 2000. The. French Republican prisoners, on the oiie hand, were told that they,would get no-, thing more to cat'if they did not join tho troops, end, on the other hand, the emigrants were told that they would be hunted , out of , England if 'they didn't enter the British battalions. So they collected a troop of 10,000 soldiers in red.coats, which the English fleet, took to the coast of Brittainy and shipped on the peninsular of, Quiberbn. Amongst these 10,000 men it is understood there wag not one Englishman. The" English fleet then sailed away, and; remained .the night over tho way, appeared next'morning, and saying she thought it was the enemy, shot at the little army still bivouacking oh the shore, and it then had to capitulate to , the French General Hoche. A,few. days lateT Fox said' in the Commons- 1 ? 'English honour flowed out of every pore at Quiberon!' It is then' that one is attracted to the words of that most English of Englishmen, Nelson, v in 'a letter to Lady Hamilton—'As a good Englishwoman my mother hated all French people, and I am like her'. Every Frenchman is a beast that one should kill.' In 1805 the outlook was quite different,-'as Napoleon prepared his army on the'north'- coast- of. France ;to try and invade England. Then England induced Emperor Franz of Austria- to: at-' ■tack France, and:afterwards.'left him sitting with the loss of Venice and the wholo command of the coast. Four years later, they; gave Wellington a chance in Spain.' By causing the Austriahs to attack France again and; so making Franco some troops out of. Spain. This j time the House of Hapsburg lost > 2000 I quadrat—with 3,000,000 ■ .inhabitants. At that time Napoleon assured tho Austrians'lhat they alono saved ,the English. Finally France was completely I thrown, down in 1815. and whilst Europe -was bleeding to death under these great wars England took to herself.South-.A/rica and o.ther valuable colonies. At,tho same ,moment England held a protecting hand 'over the Bourbons, and prevented 'tho powers of -tho Holy-/Alliance from hold-' ing themselves indemnified." ,•. . * ■ .'..'-.*." .*•'■'• '..-, .' Fash'oda. ', '■'' ' '. , ,' ; "Ono/country- must' always be fighting another—that ; is ;. England's 'profit. Franco's help in the Crimea was accept'cd, but her.attempt to sit fast in the heart of Africa and to plant tho tricolour on the banks of' the Upper Nile was knocked over. Colonel Marchand had to withdraw from Foshoda in 1808, and the state affairs wasi so-grave-, that a German training' ship which' anchored off Algiers was greeted With cheers by tho French; because 'the' Germans would have- helped tho French in tho threatened war- against England. But England did not want a war.. Quito the contrary.' As; soon, as 1 Franco was, humiliated she wall ripe; for the 'entente cordiale,' -into which -England .sprang with joy. The working out. of this agreement is against Gormany, to pro-start her having any territory on the, Atlantic coast or in the .However,; when Franco wanted; to.reap tho harvest, Spain, "supported by this samo,England, took possession of a portion-of tho,field, and Franco was now the dupe.'' Solely 'from a knowledge of English characteristics one could layi any bet that having forced Germany to givo up. her wishes in Africa, she would pay' marked attention afterwards, and promptly the meetings of friendship and .the journeys of. Ministers begin. England jsorids'-.us an invitation to dinner, wo accept with,-pleasure, and without. ievil fooling, but wemu9t not forget the proverb introduced by Joseph Chamberlain—; 'He who sups with the devil wants a lor? spoon.' Through her politics? of'.always' ■playing ono Power against tho other; always acting as the ■ firebrand on the .Continent, but' by the putting out of the fire,. valuable things, England has-accumulated riches without having lost much blood. ■ Among other things England has, of? her own' bat, and without troubling other States, gathered to herself large 'countries, whereby; ■her extraordinary ingenuousness has 1 ;bluffed the world. South /Africa. v , "In this connection we must think of tho conquering of the Boer States. Three times in tho course of the nineteenth century the Boers pressed by the English,'' undertook'" a 'big'' trek, north; Each timo the Englishman followed and laid himself down on tho newly-made bed, with the conviction that - where an Englishman settles .that is English land/Only in the Free State the English did not follow, ns it was thought worthless. These States became an ncknowledged limb of/the Sozer'ain State family.'. But as soon as'the' first a diamond'was found-in what is now Kimberlcy. English police camo on September 7, 1871, pulled down tho flaes of tho Orange Free States,;and -hoisted' tho'Union Jack. This in the midst of absolute peace without any title to right.' A quarter of a century later when the Transvaal became a rich gold country, England published, for; help from the Uitkndcrs in the gold district, which was supposed to be managed by Boers. The petition contained tlie signatures of 88,000 foreigners, although there were only 32,000 foreigners, about which the majority in England will know nothing. A second.falsified cry for help in the form of a telegram brought about Jameson's filibustering raid, which ended ignominiously.: After a of quiet, England again "save President'Kruger. a thrust. On May 31,-1899, England presented a list of demands, amongst them equal votes for the foreigner, and in Parliament Cecil Rhodes said: 'It will bo peace, because Mr/ Kruger must give way before irresistible power, and will give tho Transvaal literally into the hands of the Uitlanders.'

' "After long debating in- August, the Volkraad did, as a matter of fact, agree to all the,demands, hut the incomprehensible'.happened in London. On Sep-' tembcr 29 the submission to London's .own demands was not accepted, but a new programme was at once drawn up in which, amongst othor things, England demandiid the razing of the forts of Johannesburg, tho pulling down of the Volfcsraad as tho nead honso of justice, and the use of the English language -in schools, and decided at tho same time the sending of a strong army corps. That h how the war opened. Amongst tho Boers tho chaff' soon separated from the wheat, the best of them accomplished a tenacious opposition for' a year and a half, until they, were lamed under the frightful impression made'by the news from the concentration camps, in which the English held prisoners the relations of the fighting Boers. Ovor 15,000 womon and children were dead! Ono can well say that in late times there has been no other such example of ' immoral war . methods." ..',''

[The above extracts do not represent more than a quarter of the matter contained in fto pamphlet. We may publish other extracts later,!