The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY, 9. 1915 AN AMERICAN, VIEW OF THE WAR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 February 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY, 9. 1915 AN AMERICAN , VIEW OF THE WAR.

A New York paper of high standing recently wrote a strong and striking article on .the War, in which the writer said: "Germany is doomed to sure defeat. Bankrupt in statesmanship, overmatched in arms, under the moral condemnation of the civilised world, befriended only bj the Austrian and the Turk, two back-looking and dying nations, desperately battling! against the hosts of three great Powere to which help and reinforcement from States now neutral will certainly come should the decision be long deferred, she pours out the blood of her heroic subjects and wastes her diminishing substance in a hopeless struggle that postpones but cannot alter the fatal decree. Yet the doom of the German Empire may become the deliverance of the German people if they will betimes seize and hold their own. Leipeie began and Waterloo achieved the emancipation of the French people from the bloody, selfish and sterile domination of the Comican ogre. Sfc Helena made it secure. Sedan sent the little Napoleon sprawling, and tho statesmen of Franco instantly established and. proclaimed the republic. Well, the Germans blindly insist on having their Waterloo, their Sedantheir St Holena. too? A million Germans have been sacrificed, a million homes an> desolate. Must other, millions die and yet other millions mourn before the people of Germany take in the court of reason and human liberty their appeal from the imperial anfl military cast that rushes thorn to their ruinP" The article is a lengthy one and concludes as follows:—"It is not in the thought of Germany's foes to brush the Gorman people; the world TTonld not let them be crushed. Tt has for them the highest esteem; it will acclaim the d«y when it can resumo friendly and uninterrupted relations with them. But the headstrong, misguided and dangerous rulers or Germany arc going to be called to stern account, and the reckoning will he paid by German people in just the proportion that they nrako common cause with the blindly arrogant ruling claw. When representative Americans and men of peace like T)r Eliot and Andrew Carnegie insist that there can be no permanent peace until an end has been made of Gorman militarism. soberminded Germans in the United States as well as in Germany, ought not to turn a deaf ear to such voices, for they speak the opinion of tho w<)T m. rpj ]0 hill of costs mounts frightfully with every month's prolongation of the war, and tho toll of human lives is erery day ruthlessly takwi. Tt may he a counsel of unattainable perfection U, say that the Gorman people outfit now to end the war. 8,,t for their o, n happiness, for their own homes. Tor thoir interests and tho!.- future it is trno. The truth of the counsel e unconquerable."