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Title: War diary of an American woman to the proclamation of the holy war, 1914
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jeffries, Jouett
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York : The Fatherland Corporation
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ural econ-omy and intensive farming, it is to-day, the thirdlargest agricultural country in the world. And incoal and iron it is second only to America, theGovernment-owned railroads bring in a higher rev-enue than those of England and France, and forforty years this nation has concentrated all itsenergies on peaceful industry. So Germanys for-eign trade is great and she purchases from theUnited States more than any other country in theworld. Her imports from our country to-day stands tothe figure of $430,000,000 and her exports to usnearly $180,000,000. War, however, means the ruin of commerce andif peace is not soon established our golden Americawill suffer greatly. One can readily see that thelast days of July were days of anxiety and distressfor the German people; they hoped that they wouldbe permitted to preserve an honorable peace; but onthe fourth of August, on the Anniversary of theBattle of Weissenburg and Spichern, the repre-sentatives of the German people met, and this ses-
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Kaiser Francis Joseph WAR DIARY OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN 49 sion, which lasted only a few hours proved worthyof the great historical moment that marked thebeginning of such a conflagration as the world hasnever seen. So, if this be a sorry time for one country inEurope, it is also one for the Western Hemisphere.Before and above all, we preach, the same doctrineof humanity and forbearance, Live and let live.We should be fast and firm friends, by election andpredilection. And it is not only profit, but pleasure too, thatwe take out of the German Empire, now so hardpressed. Music, the opera, the concert, science andlearning, in diverse ways, are to be counted to ourgain, and we also lose from the Dual Monarchy.Kreisler, the Austrian violinist, with his magic ofmusic, who has gone to show that he can play withthe sword as well as with the fiddle and the bow,and Nickisch, the Hungarian, the wizard of theorchestra, who has worked his way back in a cattlewagon from Ostend, and men of learning an

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