ry on the lower Rhine has added to the
prosperity of Belgium and has made Antwerp one of the first ports on the
Continent, as well as one of the most important centres of exchange for
German-American trade.

Without Germany Belgium could never have acquired the Congo.

When England meditated taking possession of the Congo, claiming that
great rivers are nothing but arms of the sea and consequently belong to
the supreme maritime power, King Leopold turned to Germany for
protection and received it from Bismarck, who called the Congo
Conference of 1884-5 and obtained the recognition by the powers of the
independence of the Congo State.

The struggle of the German States in Europe has some points in common
with the struggle of the Independent States of North America (from 1778
to 1783), for it is directed chiefly against England's scheming
guardianship, and her practice of weakening the Continental powers by
sowing or fostering dissension among them.

While continually protesting her love of peace, England has carried on
no fewer than forty wars during the latter half of the nineteenth
century, including the great Boer war. She has long imperiled, and in
the end has succeeded in disturbing, the peace of Europe by her
invidious policy of isolating Germany. Germany, on the other hand, has
proved herself since 1871 to be the strongest and most reliable security
for the peace of Europe.

The policy of sowing dissension, practiced by England more industriously
than ever in recent years, cannot possibly meet with the approval of the
peace-loving citizens of the United States, and should be condemned on
merely humanitarian as well as commercial grounds.

England aims at being mistress of the Old World in order to occupy
either an equal, or a menacing, position toward the New World, as
circumstances may dictate. For this purpose she has encouraged this war.
The German Federated States of Europe are defending themselves with
might and main, and are counting in this struggle for existence on the
good-will of the United States of America, for whose citizens they
cherish the friendliest feelings, as they have proved at all times. All
Americans who have visited Germany will surely bear witness to that
effect.

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THE ATTITUDES OF GERMANY'S ENEMIES.

Germany overrun by spies for years past.

It goes without saying that in time of war the respective participants
seek to gain fo