We  also  hear  it  said  that  the  great
army  of  the  Kaiser  has  led  him  on
to  challenge  the  military  strength  of
the  Triple  Entente  and  that  his  alleged
eagerness  to  go  to  war  is  another  reason
for  general  disarmament,  since  without
his  large  army  he  would  not  have  been
tempted  to  go  to  war.  Here  the  as-
sertion is  that  the  possession  of  a  huge
fighting  machine  made  him  imperious
and  unreasonable  and  that  it  lulled  him
into  a  false  sense  of  security.  But  the
facts  do  not  bear  out  this  assertion.  In
another  column  we  print  a  summary  of
a  book  by  Lieut.  Col.  W.  von  Bremen,
a  German  officer,  which  was  recently
published,  and  which  aimed  to  show
the  Germans  their  weakness  from  the
viewpoint  of  military  preparedness.  In
it  will  be  found  little  to  give  confidence
to  the  Kaiser,  as  it  shows  Germany  and
Austria  would  be  outnumbered  by
nearly  2,000,000  men  without  counting
Great  Britain,  while  Italy  could  not  be
relied  upon  to  stand  by  the  Triple  Al-
liance. Emperors,  unless  they  are  mili-
tary geniuses  like  Napoleon,  are  not
eager  to  rush  into  war  when  outnum-
bered by  more  than  a  million  men  on
land  and  completely  overshadowed  on
the  sea,

Americans,  not  having  been  placed
in  an  environment  where  they  could
feel  the  pressure  of  rival  races,  natur-
ally form  the  opinion  that  the  great
military  establishment  of  the  German
Emperor  is  responsible  for  this  war,
and  they  cannot  understand  how  a
thing  that  appears  so  small  to  them
as  the  Austro-Servian  imbroglio  should
result  in  this  pan-European  conflagra-
tion. This  attitude  on  their  part  is  due
to  their  ignorance  of  conditions  that
have  obtained  in  their  own  country.
