Show Editorials by the People THE EVENING TELEGRAM I Invites tes its readers to write letters Jetters about current current cur cur- rent events vents for publication in tats col column Thero There is no better way ay for the ex expression ox- ox of ot public opinion Write on ono ones side skis of ot the tho paper and sign your name and give sl your our address If It you ou do lo not wish your oUr name it will vIII not appear in Sn print Letters criticising religious beliefs or airing personal grudges will be rejected If you ou wish manuscript returned send self addressed stamped envelope WHAT CAUSED THE WAR The rhe European trouble started over oyer the assassination of the archduke and aud duchess duche s of Hungary Austria by a aSIa Slav who thought his people were being oppressed op op oppressed pressed and to destroy the tho potential actor that was wa forcing the tho oppression The archduke was comman commander er in chief chie of tho the Austro Hungarian army and with this mi mighty power back o of or him he was forcin forcing tho the yoke oke of tho the around t ho Slavs Slavs' necks He has alwa always s been charged with imperialistic imperial designs by which Austria should head bead a great confederation of C Catholic nations in m acc accord rd with Bavaria and the I Catholic party in Germany and should a absorb also the Slavs Jugo-Slavs as well asSenia as Servia Senia After tho the assassination Jn Russia b began gan ganto to mobilize her hor arm army which was perfectly per perfectly per per- sensible and any nation would do dothe dothe dothe the same ame if warlike trouble was brewing brewing brewing brew brew- ing near b by Of course the tho kaiser thought Russia had bad no right to mobilize and had the impertinence to demand an anex ex explanation from tho the czar If he had un understood the stratagems ems g-ems of impending w war r ho he would have ha known mown that Russia was nas doin doing nothing m moro more ro than the tho ordinary nar nary C custom of an any nation to mobilize b her r troops when a threatening in war v was near at ban hand German Germany should have mobilized her troops and said nothing to Russia Russin and awaited the adjustment of tho Austrian and ian Servian trouble The rho assassination of the arcI archduke and duchess duche s of Austria Hungary Austria Hun ary and im int impertinence pertinence of f Kaiser Wilhelm arc the starting causes of tho the presort present ont European war W W. II IL FAIRBANKS Salt SaIt Lake Lako City Cit August 0 G. i. i Editor of Telegram Being a re regular ular rea reader er of THE TELEGRAM TELE TerJE GRAM and one of its firm supporters I am going to take advantage ad of tho the opportunity offered through your editorials by tho the 1 people col i to C section n to answer what what to my 1113 nand mind is is a bit of baby prattle In THE TELEGRAM of Thursday August 6 1914 I J read your o account o oI or orthe of I the meeting of the tho German American society so so- ciot in this city and I 1 also rea read with I much nn h disgust the thc last of three resolutions resolutions adopted b bv by them in re nid to the editorials published by the Herald Re publican on the German responsibility for this thill appalling European war I wish to say say- that these denouncements denounce monts ments sounded extremely School chool boyish and I can cant can't Jt help belp but wonder if these o heartrending resolutions were not tho the result of too much participation in tho the German erman national beverage Evidently these good Gc people are not good Democrats or they would eliminate t the tho o I Germ German GIa be beverage o and ami follow Jollow Bryans Bryan's advice I can cant can't Jt overlook the tho fact that Ger Ger- many has violated d poor little Bc Belgium ium and thereby drawn her into the tho conflict Is this promoting promoting- peace And now comes Italy Who mobilized first What about Germany t sending ending airships by b night ht to annoy Great Britain Who ho moved mo first first France France or German Germany Who drew Great Britain into the t fight ht f It wasn't Austria that Austria that is final Lastly what European nation is it that is pre pro venting American citizens from leaving for their homo home land f That i is s usually tho the first step in a war war war-to to permit non non- interested d parti parties to leave It would auld I bo be more appropriate te for I this Gorman American Gorman society to draw up a resolution denouncing the actions of their countrymen at home in the treatment of Russian nobility and and French Trench representatives Let the Gernian German American society draw drat up another set Hot of resolutions with witha a little proof to the tho effect that Germany is is' is not the cause of this terrible war THE HAGUE |