Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 12, 1914, Winnipeg, Manitoba R editorial Section Winnipeg wednesday August Jefte wished every Flay except sunday by ,.p1rlnltoba free company limited 300-302-204-306 Carlton. And general manager. Telephone Calif. Private Branch est Mise Rel departments Day and night 800 Mailer building Boom 306, to. 1 Bill. London s Rea at the general Post Offlee. Terea Ai transmission through la in tie Brett of my at postal Rettea. _ Freedom of Liberty in religion. Equality in civil . Wednesday. August 12, 1914. It Aga dust Seri Taft. The new commenting on the fact that the Public opinion of the United states As reflected in the newspapers a. Strongly against the militarism of the autocratic German emperor and his advisers and the War they have started in Europe says american Public opinion holds the Kaiser s government responsible for destroying the peace of Europe and bringing distress upon the whole world american Public opinion is outraged by the. Wanton attack Oij the weak Neutral Power of Belgium and slaying of its subjects. It recoils at the Cost of what the Kaiser has undertaken. It has no sympathy with the excuse that this is a. War of self preservation for Germany. That is a militaristic delusion. American opinion feels that the Best thing that can happen to the world is to have the German militaristic iflo1 shattered and thrown Down in the dust. Without the least feeling against the German people that is How the american Public feels about the present German government and its works and that sentiment is rightly reflected in the american the precipitation of War by Ger Many is an act of egregious wicked Ness and says the Springfield Republican which adds in reference to the plea put Forward for Germany that it is defending Central Europe from the danger of russian Domin Ance that any such plea is a Gross and that this is a War not for the defence of civilization but for the supremacy of a military and arrogant , to which the Republican refers is put Forward at length by professor Hugo Munsterberg of har Vard University who is a German by birth and has a personal acquaintance with the German emperor. In a letter published in the Boston Herald he argues that Germany is fighting in defence of european civilization to protect it from being Over run by the militarism of Russia by a deluge of slavs and the uncultured hordes of the the professor is Horri fied at the picture which he conjures up in his mind s Eye of coarse ignorant uncultured russians in Konigs Berg the native town of the Philo Sopher Kant. This the Kaiser As a crusader fighting in defence of civilization is grotesque. That Ger mans have achieved great things in scientific knowledge in Art and in literature and in business All the world knows these things mate it the More amazing an anomaly that Germany should have a system of government which belongs to the sixteenth Century rather than to the twentieth. Russian autocracy is no worse than that of the emperor Wil Liam who proclaims himself ruler by divine right and not by Consear of the German people and russian militarism is to worse than German militarism. Germany has the Militarist policy of the emperor William to blame for it that the. Empire founded by Bis Marck in blood and Iron stands now All but isolated with such an alignment against her As the world has not seen since the armies of the Allied Powers gathered at Waterloo in 1815 against the enemy and destroyer of the world s Barrack brutalities of Gemma it. Light shed upon the militarism of Germany by the facts in connection with the prosecution instituted by direction of the Imperial Chancellor against Frau Rosa Luxemburg in june and abandoned Early in july. Red As she is named through out Germany is the burning orator of the socialist party. She has suffered imprisonment several Jimes for the violence of her utterances. What has been done with her since the War has begun can of Cours a Only be conjectured it is highly at the least red Rosa is now in prison again. In speeches which she had been making during May last she had denounced in fiery language the ill treatment of soldiers in the German army by officers until finally the Mili tary authorities judged it advisable in View of the manner in which her speeches were arousing Public Atten Tion to dispose of her by a court pro the utterance selected upon which to prosecute her was from a speech in which after dealing with a Case of Sll treatment of a Soldier at Metz she said it is one of those dramas which Are enacted Day in Day out in German Barracks though the groans of the sufferers Seldom reach our general von Falkenhayn Sian War Laid an information against red Rosa the officers of the army in these words and the Public prosecutor proceeded with the Case. It was announced that the have to prove that dramas of cruelty and ill usage were of daily occurrence in German Barracks and that the proving of single acts of brutality not do. But the prosecution reckoned without the socialist organization. There the socialist party some enrolled members All of whom have served in the army. The defence announced that the truth of red Rosa a accusation would he proved when the trial began Rosa and Many Ier socialist speakers would lie prosecuted for in citing disturbances a Jinjr the Public peace. As to Willat action was taken cd no information has world outside Germany. Come to the not be doubted. I _. They furnished the names of 922 witnesses Afao were prepared to give evidence in regard to recruits being struck officers their being kicked their i being beaten with sheathed sabres and bayonets Riding whips and harness straps the Jam Ming Down of their helmets upon their Heads compulsory Baths in icy water followed by scrubbing Down with scrubbing brushes until the blood ran torturing drills until the victims col a the americans who have come from lapsed or wept for pain and so let the it Are the there were abundant cases of absurd 0nly people in have Al and humiliating punishments. There ready experienced wit Lii the stalk were some Case of soldiers who had a Akebi Cait s Podjun talk. Reports of brutal treatment of i til tourists and Stran Geisa who found themselves in Germany the out break of War by the German Mil. Iii taoists Are so and Circum Stantial that they based h i John Jay Chapman Jill Well kno in United states writer after his Ger Man experiences wrote i j o the London times in these t Ujj. L11c1a Ilijev g u Jet ii committed suicide in consequence Ned one tile other they play through the night Lyalle halts were Over Long protracted ill usage. When this immense mass of evid to allow j 1 them. Was announced by the defence thence the Case was adjourned for two Days. In those two Days the army of wit Nesses in support of the truth of what red Rosa had said had risen to but the authorities would not allow them to Tell their stories. The Public prosecutor announced that the minister of War could not unless Given ample time investigate and file answers to affidavits submitted by the defence and added that in every Case where it was found that the affidavits set Forth the facts truly there would he a court martial in the meantime he asked for an and the Case against red the defence demanded that the Case be gone on with immediately before the the adjournment requested by the Public prosecutor was granted. It was an adjournment sine die. It meant of course that the Case would never be gone on with soon after the collapse of the proceedings thus instituted by the government it was announced that red the hand of Force which 3 0d was Laid on them. Every decency paid existing so a Ieter had vanished. Nothing to catch hold of and no Jauseal to any principle or Power in the universe remained. These there penetrated by a sentiment so awful that words cannot convey Iolj and in their minds arose the though by this is Germany 11 armed nation Bajsel mask at last. No one hi1 England yet ornows what the last Ift Artir years of German militarism Reilly Means it is the vision of Fiat has dominated the German development As it dominate Ilithe imagination of Napoleon now holds the fort of but the whole Power of england1 is needed to buttress her i i a at the outset of an tutorial in its most portentous by solemn style the Toronto news Safis it be. Came evident was Tii be a general War in Europe j canadians were confident loyalty of tue Borden government flow doubted Tho loyalty of the nothing could be More eminently characteristic of the Toronto news than this solemnly stupid utterance. Meant As an expression of a the Doc time that True loyalty is the distinguishing characteristic and j asset of Only one of the political parties a this country it is in reality an unintended declaration that it is the other party which is Loyal in full in True Cali Dianish which does not question the loyalty of any Canadian. As for the few who doubted the loyalty of the i they Are the people who Havo been holding religiously to the aforesaid j doctrine preached so assiduously by 14ie news and a few other papers that genuine blown in the Glass loyalty is the distinguishing characteristic not of All canadians but Only of political party in Canada. How grotesque today appears ail the argumentation carried on a couple of years ago by the Toronto news and the papers which took the same View As the Toronto news and like the news to have a doubt As to what a Canadian government might do with a Canadian Navy in the event of great Britain becoming involved Iii s european War. Now we have uie Toronto news winding up by gravely admitting that All canadians Are Loyal a Lilich is a reminder of the lines in Tine poet s address to a certain Bird thou say St. An Unai Sutea thing in such a solemn the English weeklies of july 25, just to hand Are full of thai peril of civil War because of difficulty. How far away this seems now Andrew Carnegie who gave ten Mil lion dollars to the peace foundation is reconciled to the War. In a Cable Gram he1 says. Germany having de dined Britain s proposed peace con Ference and then Bra Tain to agree to her Marc Lii through Belgium Britain was bound. To de Cline and to declare that she would protect Belgium by land and sea when the Choice is Between despotism and Freedom there Are no pacifists. Birthday congratulations to Charles w. Mckim born Toronto is67 curate of Trinity Winnipeg for some years sector of Kenora and Archdeacon Keewatin 1906-13 now Rector a t Christ Church Edmonton. A Reader s notes be Kaam finer Vrcon old within. World forty years ago marshal Bazata a military prisoner of Stetz escaped from his prison on Isle of St. Marguerite on sunday Nibi. The first Issue of the Winnipeg daily appeared under the aus. The View local government. Or. Is the editor. Thirty five years ago a Rifle match Between the macs and the non macs was shot on the Winnipeg Rifle Range. The latter wok. By fifty Points. Rev. J. Of. German was one of chief speakers at the opening session held la Knox presbyterian Church. Thirty years ago be lung has been captured by the French Fleet. Spera blockaded keying on aug. 5. _ lir Rev. J. C. Declined a Call from rat Portage presbyterians. Twenty five years ago Winnipeg s Champion oarsmen were welcomed Home after their Victory at Pullman. A downfall of rain tailed the Public enthusiasm. T the residence of Bride s a. J. Andrews barrister to Maud g. Of Winnipeg. Twenty years ago Brandon conservatives decided Liot to nominate a candidate for Brandon. Manitoba Rifle team for Ottawa. Chinese and japanese. Troops Are in conflict Oft port arthur7 station. The free press War map of Europe specially drawn for the free press no Way ipod 190 nor t h s j of Tepoel after Fie by Jan tray att by fax yet Druid to Ufton. , Switzerland s Bay or c As i a n a l g r i a ;