AMERICA AND THE WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 77, 30 November 1914, Page 3

AMERICA AND THE WAR.

The American pi ess generally holds that the German Emperor has proved himself the enemy of civilisation, and it does not hesitate to say so in the strongest terms it can command. The New’ York Times gives its complete editorial endorsement to the words of the Paris Temps mat: Russians, Frenchmen, and Englishmen mast stand united against “ the, powers of brigandage.” In this war, says the

New York World, Germany and Austria have no sympathies even among the neutrals. It continues: “The enlightened opinion of the whole world has turned against the two Kaisers as it has turned against Napoleon when lie sought to make himself autocrat of Europe. German autocracy is isolated, but what was begun as a war of autocracy is not unlikely to end as a war of revolution, with thrones crumbling and dynasties in exile. Civilisation cannot rest at the mercy of despotism and the welfare of mankind is not to be made the plaything of antoci’aey. In the vanguard of the 20th century in most respects Germany has straggled back to the 17th century. Politically the curse of mediaeval government has hung over her noblest achievements. Every impulse toward political ‘ freedom has been beaten back by the Mailed Fist. Austria’s quarrel with Servia was no affair of the German people. Russia’s challenge to Austria was no affair of the German people. Yet the very fate of the German Empire is thrown into the bal. race in order to halt the march of poetical freedom in Europe. Germany lesires to crush, not Russian depotism but French republicanism. Britain is compelled to make France’s cause her cause.’’