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Show A WORLD IN LIQUIDATION There should be little need to seek pbstruse reasons for the world war, precipitated by the German militarist party with the Emperor at Hi head. He was probably npver moio sane in his life. But his over armed coin-trj coin-trj like other, countries ot Europe, but in a more acute degree, was In tho position ot the great dry goods house which recently failed. Armnmcnt expansion ex-pansion could not go on, anJ it could not stop. For such a situation thu only possible pos-sible liquidation was war. No one can believe that tho Initial quirrcl, deliberately picked with Servla by Austria, could possibly have occurred without the connivance of. the Gti-man Gti-man ruler. If war was unnecessary In that case, what shall bo said of four declarations of war In 48 hours, Including Belgium, of whose neutrality neutral-ity Germany Is a guarantor? It Is entirely possible that h9 war may bo mercifully short. Whaieer the Bteps taken may be, the banks . f Europe, and especially thosa ot Cer-many, Cer-many, will have suspended payaient Jn a few days. Germany has cut olf .ho Russian supply of grain to her people. Sho cannot depend upon getting supplies of food, with any certainty cer-tainty of regularity, from this coun-, try or Argentina, and leaBt of ail rrom Australia. She cannot feed her 60,000,000 people, largely industrial, without such assistance. Her one desperate hope Is that ho may makq some Buch whirlwind 30 day campaign of victory as Frederick the Great made a centur y and a halt ngo. This Is her one remote chance and If sho wins, victory may be iudis. tlngulshable from defeat, in its it feet upon her neighbors nnd cuttoin-ers. cuttoin-ers. Wall Street Journal. |
