THE LIBERATION OF GERMANY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 255, 11 December 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE LIBERATION OF GERMANY.

Berlin, Ontario, lias a shrewder insight into certain at>i>eeis oi ill is war than Berlin, f'russ a. Hie inhabitants ol tiic uiiiativi uut moie enlignicued city, ISjtAKJ m number, ot whom Germans or oi German Ucwcent, have i,ton (.oiidm iiiig .1 nave days' campaign to raise lld.vuo tor the Canadian patriotic lunds. Un the second day thev sent a cublo to Lord kitchener containuig this pregnant d.ctum:

The Gorman people want to see militarism in Germany smashed lor good and tho people set tree to shapo a greater and better German v.

That is interesting because it reveals a s tate ot liuiid by no means uncommon among German settlers abioad. Away from the Fatherland and breathing tho spirited ar of real democracy, they quickly come to look back upon the Prussian sybtom of militarism ih Lhe blight that in many ways it undoubtedly is upon tho geniuh of the German people. There are thousands and tens of thousands of Germans in the I'nited States at thi-s moment who, while supporting the German cause from sentiments of a natural and creditable loyalty, draw a clear distinction between the Germany whoa© savants and professors have won the adinnation and gratitude of tho world and the Germany whoso swaggering and conscicnccle.ss military caste has earned its repulsion. When the whole system of government 'a la Zabern' is brought clattering to the ground these expatriated Germans will find abundant consolation for a loss they will justly regard as the first step to salvation.