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THE CAUSES OF
THE GREAT WAR
By MISS CLIFFORD SIMS
1 (The following is the Prize Essay,
written by Miss Clifford Sims, of La
mar county, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. .1. M. Sims, whose home is in
the northern part of the county.
Miss Sims’ essay was awarded first
place in the contest by all members
of the Sophomore class at the State
Normal at Athens the past year and
it is quite gratifying to all her friends
and to the people of Lamar county
that she won so signal an honor.
She is a very bright young lady and
worthy of the high place she has at
tained. Her essay will be read with
keen interest by the people through
out this section.)
In 1862 Germany was composed of
thirty-eight small states. Prussia
and Austria were the leading states
!in the Confederation. Each of these
! two wished to unify Germany, but
this could not be accomplished unless
one state assumed control over the
other thirty-seven. Of course, both
Prussia and Austria wished the lead
ership and each resisted the attempts
of the other to make herself the
leading state.
At this time the government,
beaded by William, of Prussia, was
trying to pass a bill for a larger
army appropriation and the people
resented this new taxation. Fred
erick William summoned Bismarck
and appointed him President of the
Ministry. Bismarck was noted for
his boldness, his independence and
his devotion to the monarchy. He
sought to make Prussia the principal
state in the confederation. He
dreamed of a German Empire but he
knew the dream was impossible un
less Austria was put out of the way.
In 1861 Prussia and Austria de
clared war on Denmark. Denmark
was easily defeated and Schleswig
Holstein was given to the victors.
Bismarck had long been wanting a
1 chance to declare war on Austria and
he succeeded in causing friction be
tween the two states over the dis
position of the two duchies. War
broke out in 1866. Austria was de
feated and the terms of peace stipu
lated that she was to withdraw from
the confederation, thereafter to have
no authority in the government of
these states. It was no hard matter
then for Germany to knit the Ger
man states together into an Empire.
Then, in 1870, followed the Franco-
German war, caused by an unjust de
mand on France’s part. France was
beaten and Frederick William was
crowned Emperor of Germany in the
palace of Versailles. Also, France
was compelled to pay a huge in
demnity. The last was not resented
but the crowning of a German Em
peror in a French palace was an in-
sult that ranked in their breasts al
though they were powerless to
avenge themselves.
From 1870 to 1014 there was com
parative peace in Europe. During
this time the European nations were
busy colonizing the parts of the
world which were unclaimed. They
grew rich off of the natural resources
of their colonies. Especially was
England satisfied. She controlled
the richest colonies on the earth.
She was mistress of the seas. Also
she felt a security which the other
nations did not -hare. To attack her
the enemy must cross in ships, and
she had the finest navy in the world.
France was virtually on a stand-
‘till. She. had a closed-in culture.
And the spirit of conquest had died
out. In the Hague peace confer
ences France was always for the
. meas: res which would insure peace.
If France and England were con
tent Germany was not. Germany
was over crowded and too undesir
able to keep all the German people
on German soil. Bismarck had done
his work well. His policy of build
ing up the German Empire had made
the people more prosperous and the
new methods of sanitation decreased
the death rate so that the population
increased rapidly. It was soon evi
dent that there was not room enough
for all. Thousands emigrated to for-
eign countries. The German Emperor
wished to keep all Germans under
German control. To do this he must
have more colonies so they could go
there instead of to another country.
Out of this need grew what is
known as “pan-Germanism.” Andre
Cheradame, in his book, “The Pan-
German Plot Unmasked,” defines
Pan-Germanism as “a doctrine of in
ternational burglary, exactly the re
verse of the principle of nationality.”
An organ of Pan-Germanism, the
Alldeutscher Verhand, whose work
was to form into societies the Ger
mans in foreign countries, especially
in the United States, was encouraged
by the Emperor, William 11, who suc
ceeded Frederick William, his grand
father, his father having died directly
after Frederick William. William II
was known for a long time as a peace
loving monarch.
In 1911 Tannenburg published a
plan which was as follows:
The establishment under German
rule Qf a vast confederation of Cen
tral Europe comprised, of the west,
Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg,
Switzerland, the departments of the
north of France to the northeast of a
iimj drawn from the south of Belfast
to the mouth of the Somme. To the
east,' Russian Poland, the Baltic pro
vinces, the Russian governments of
Kouno, Goodna and Vilna and Aus
tria Hungary, Minus the Italian
region of the Trentino which Berlin
decided to cede to Italy as the price
i of her neutrality.
Absolute subordination of the
Balkan countries to the great Central
European Confederation.
The third part of the plan was the
seizure of Turkey' and all her pro
tectorates.
This plan was to be completed by
colonial conquests of great magni
tude. Such a plan would be utter
folly unless all other great nations
were conquered. Therefore William
11, who stood behind Tannenburg, in
tended to destroy five great powers.
The Turkish-Russian war was a
great victory for Russia but much to
that nation’s surprise Europe would
not recognize the treaty. Through
Bismarck’s machinations the treaty of
Berlin which the international con
gress drew up was a humiliation for
Russia. Knowing that this incident
would make an enemy to Germany
of Russia. Bismarck formed an al
liance with Austria. Italy was later
admitted. This was called the Triple
Alliance and was directed chiefly
against Russia.
France and Russia, becoming un
easy in the presence of so great an
alliance formed a Dual Alliance.
England, realizing .that her policy of
isolation was possibly becoming dan
gerous, settled her differences with
France and formed with France and
Russia a Triple Entente. It was not
an alliance, but a group of nations
working together harmoniously.
Soon after the Triple Alliance was
formed the colonization of Africa be
gan. Germany, until the partition of
Africa, had sought to acquire no
colonies. But the need of expansion
was so great she felt the necessity
of more territory and began an
agressive campaign. Morocco was a
subject of dispute between France
and Germany. The settlement of
this question by the conference of
Algeciras was a triumph for France
although she gave large areas of her
colonies to Germany. This was
called the Agadir episode and has
rankled in the minds of the German
people ever since.
Although Germany was defeated in
Agadir episode she bade fair to be
victorious in other fields. England
was universally admitted to be the
mistress of the seas. The Emperor
of Germany did not intend that any
nation should be stronger than Ger
many in any respect. The German
navy was increased and the German
competition on the water grew
alarmingly. It began to look as if
England was to lose her commercial
supremacy.
In yet another way was Germany
striking at the roots of English
wealth and power. India was the
richest colony England possessed.
Just across the Persian Gulf was
Turkey. In the Turkish-Russian war
Germany had taken the part of Tur
key and the two nations were on
friendly terms. In 1888 Germany
obtained from the Turkish govern
ment the concession to build a rail
road from Constantinople to Bagdad
with branch lines to nearly every city
in Turkey. If this concession were
carried out and the Bagdad Railway
system connected through branches
and junctions with the railway system
of Asia. Minor, Syria, Palestine and
Persia, England might well be alarm
ed. The trade with the East which
she had built up through the Suez
canal would be ruined. But over and
above the commercial danger was
ever the political danger involved in
seeing Germany entrenched at a port
on the Persian Gulf, backed by rapid
and easy means of transportation,
while India lay, practically unguard-
ed, just across the gulf.
Naturally the relations between
England and Germany could not be
anything but antagonistic. They
were rivals and for the loser it meant
the loss of supremacy as a nation.
There was also a bitter struggle go
ing on between Austria and Sei’bia. i
Serbia was a land-locked country.
Turkish territory lay directly across
her path to the Adriatic. Serbia
knew thgt she could never become a
strong, thriving country as long as
she was excluded from the sea.
The Turkish war was fought and
the four Balkan states were victori
ous. Turkey surrendered the land
lying between Serbia and the Adri
atic. At last it seemed that Serbia
was to realize her most passionate
ambition —an outlet to the sea. But
Austria objected and the question of
the treaty was referred to the Lon
don conference of 1913. Through
the work of Austria the conference
created an artificial state, Albania,
out of the conquered territory. The
reason for Austria’s action is that in
Austria there were millions of Serbs
who might be attracted to an inde
pendent Serbia. Furthermore, Aus
tria was convinced that Serbia was
the pawn of Russia. Austria was not
prepared to tolerate Russia’s in
fluence on her southern border’s and
along the Adriatic. Of course this
heightened the resentment of Serbia
against Austria and helped to make
a reconciliation of these two coun
tries more impossible.
Just a year after the Albanian
fiasco had been staged an event oc
curred which precipitated the Great
War. On July 28,1914, the Austrian
Crown Prince, Francis Ferdinand and
his wife were assassinated in the
! streets of Serajevo. Altho the as
isassins were Austrian subjects Aus
: tria refused to consider the injustice
land sent to Serbia a humiliating note
| with the demand that it be complied
with within forty-eight hours or to
consider the two nations at war. No
nation could comply with the de
mands, which would have meant that
Serbia would become a mere vassal
of Austria, and Serbia, although she
sought to have the matter placed be
fore the Hague Tribunal, could take
no other course than war.
Even after Austria and Serbia
were at war. Germany could have
prevented it spreading had she so de
sired. She would not consent to the
settlement of the question by France,
England, Germany and Italy. She
insisted that the question concerned
only Austria and Serbia and no other
r.ation need be involved. Russia was
the largest of the Slavic powers and
she did not propose to stand idly by
while a sister state faced sure ex
termination. Germany knew quite
well the attitude Russia would take
and when Russia began mobilizing
Germany sent to her an ultimatum
declaring that unless she begin to de
mobilize within twenty-four hours
she must face the consequences. On
the first day of August a state of war
was declared between FJussia and
Germany. Of course this would
bring France and Italy into the strug
gle because of the alliances. Italy,
however, declared that since the war
was an aggressive one on Austria’s
part and did not fall within the pure
ly defensive character of the Triple
Alliance she would not be able to
take part. England entered the war
after having tried as long as she de
cently could to keep peace.
The outcome of the war is only the
natural answer of democracy against
the unrighteousness of might and it
revealed exactly the nations who were
seeking self glorification and those
who held honor and truth above all
else.
From 1862 to 1914 the ambition,
greed and unscrupulousness of the
rulers of Germany has been seen in
every deal made by them. From the
occasion of Bismarck as prime min
ister the work of the German gov
ernment has been to place Germany
at the top of the list of nations. Bis
marck did this by the wars -with Aus
tria and France by which he made
Prussia the leading state in the Con
j federation and then made the Con-
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federation into a strong Empire.
France, who had warred for a hun
dred years, was in an exhausted con
dition. She wished only for peace.
England was mistress of the seas and
as such had never recognized the
superiority of any nation. Germanv
was ambitious, desiring a larger Em
pire and was in great need of more
colonies. She dreamed of a world
Empire but she did not wait passive
ly. She increased her navy, rivalling
England and built railways in Tur
key, which, had her plans been com
pleted, would have ruined English
trade in the East. She feai’ed Rus
sia’s intervention in the railway plan
and so formed the Triple Alliance.
To balance this power Frartce and
Russia formed the Dual Alliance and
later a Triple Entente with England.
In the partition of Africa Ger
many did not get all the territory she
wished. This caused her to make
several attempts to acquire more ter
ritory.
In Austria-Hungary there were
millions of Serbians. To keep them
from joining with Serbia Austria con
sidered it necessary to keep Serbia a
land-locked country. Serbia hated
Aurtria but was powerless.
This was the state of affairs exist
ing when Francis Ferdinand and his
wife were assassinated. The two
powers being unable to come to terms
declared war on July 28, 1914, war
which was to last for four years and
was to touch every nation on earth.
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