Behind each of These men is a little clique of blood-thirsty aristocrats.

They fall into a quarrel among themselves.

The pretext is that Serbia instigated the murder of the heir apparent to the Austrian throne.
There is good reason far believing that as a matter of fact this murder was instigated by the war party in Austria, because the heir apparent had democratic and anti-military tendencies.

First they murder him and then they use his death as a pretext for plunging the whole of civilization into a murderous strife." Herman Ridder, editor of the Staats-Zeitung of New York contributed a German-American view.

Mr.Ridder saw the handwriting on the wall and he very soundly deprecated war and pictured its horrors.