. The
latter have for years voted against all army and navy appropriations,
have advocated international peace, and last year voted against the
bills increasing the army strength. In many foreign quarters strong
hopes were nourished that this party would help them. But those men did
not know our German people. Our civilization, our independence as a
nation was threatened, and in that moment party interest or creed
existed no more. The true German heart is beating only for the
Fatherland, east and west, north and south, Protestants, Catholics, and
Jews are "a united people of brethren in the hour of danger." When
Germany was so threatened by Russia, when the German "Peace Emperor" was
shamefully betrayed by the Czar of all the Russians, then there was but
one sacred party in existence: The party of Germans.

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THE GERMAN MOBILIZATION.

The clockworks of mobilization; perfect order and quiet
everywhere--General acceptance by all classes and factions of the
necessities of a war not sought by Germany.

The German mobilization was the greatest movement of people that the
world has ever seen. Nearly four million men had to be transported from
every part of the empire to her borders. The manner in which the
population is distributed made this task extremely difficult. Berlin,
Rhenish Westphalia, Upper Silesia and Saxony especially had to send
their contingents in every direction, since the eastern provinces are
more thinly settled and had to have a stronger guard for the borders
immediately. The result was a hurrying to and fro of thousands and
hundreds of thousands of soldiers, besides a flood of civilians who had
to reach their homes as soon as possible. Countries where the population
is more regularly distributed have an easier task than Germany, with its
predominating urban population. The difficulties of the gigantic
undertaking were also increased by the necessity for transporting war
materials of every sort. In the west are chiefly industrial
undertakings, in the east mainly agricultural. Horse raising is mostly
confined to the provinces on the North Sea and the Baltic, but chiefly
to East Prussia, and this province, the furthest away from France, had
to send its best horses to the western border, as did also
Schleswig-Holstein and Hanover. Coal for our warships had to go in the
other direction. From the Rhenish mines it went to the North Sea, from
Upper Silesia t