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Excerpt from Eye-Openers on the Causes and Inevitable Results of the World-War
In complying with the request of a number of my German friends to present to the public my views of the causes and probable results of the terrible conflict now raging in Europe, I do 50, first, with the assurance that I am actuated by no other motives than to see Right and Justice prevail, regardless of race or nationality, and second, with the hope that by demonstrating the utter futility of the attempt of land-locked Nations to subdue others with vastly greater populations and unlimited resources, it may tend towards bringing this suicidal and atrocious war to an early close.
In passing judgment upon the responsibility for this cataclysm of blood, which may yet engulf many other Nations in its vortex, we should hold all minor considerations subordinate to the rules dictated by the laws of humanity and the Brotherhood of Man.
As a guarantee of good faith regarding nationality, would say that I was born February I4, 1840, in Barmen - Elberfeld (the Pittsburg of Germany), my parents emigrating to America in is4 7 locating in Milwaukee, Wis, where all the boys of our fam ily, excepting Carl Theodore, ex-president German Branch Young Men's Christian Association, namely, Otto, Adolph, George and Yours truly, learnt the watchmaker's trade with Julius F. Weber, of Berlin, who held the high position of court-jeweler to His Majesty, the King of Prussia, a sane militarist, since he was not demented with world-conquering notions and other fads.
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