Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-14

4 ~ Nc oAA Ahtiu1dtC xTltHu Oh the emperor,
and one Of the most prominent men at the
court of Rerlin. AS 1 am going to quote
MIN. l cannot give his name, but what he
| told me was. to me at least, such startling
news that 1t would be worth discussion II
1t came from one much less important
| Even how true 1t is l have not been able
| to discover. but II such a state of affairs
| exists cureiy many who have taken q
greater interest in trans-equatorial affairs
Will be able to confirm or deny his state
| ments. AT any rate. can assure you that
| the man talking Is 50 close to the ambi-
| tlous young emperor as to practically echo
imperial ideas on all public questions. And
IN this matter he openly praised the lead
| which the emperor had taken. He said:
| You Americans are wonderful people
You have had a wonderful success-too
| wonderful. The day will come when YOU
VIII nave your revcrses, You have grown
| strong too quickly. You are too confident.
no one but an overconfident nation would
put iorth such a foolish International prop
osltlon as your accursed (verfiuchtigec)
Monroe doctrine. You have frightened the
English with 1t. but that was because Eng
land Is so friendlesS and helpless You will
not find us SO easy to back down."
| l asked what he was going to do to make
| us try.
Building Up Argentina.
ITO have the finest colony in South
| America, Argentina" was the confident
| reply. I'VE have been making our prep
| arations there for years. You have no idea
| how many good German emigrants we have
| sent there, more than a hundred thousand
| In the last few years, and they are still
going. What is more, they are not giving
up their citizenship. as they do when they
| all know why they are going, and what
| they are expected to do. Many are in the
| employ OF the government on secret allow
| ances, and they are looking after the
| growth CT German sentiment. Why, I am
| SO filled with the scheme that when my
| nfteen-year-old boy Is grown l am going
| to send him out there, although perhaps
by that time he will not even have to as
| sist in making preparations; the work may
De done. 1t Is a splendid country 1 was
down there on tour of investigation five
| years ago. and all it needs is good govern
ment to make 1t one of the finest colonies
ON earth. German commerce already has
done its work. We are in the closest kind
OF communication with all of the great
the time comes they are really the men
who settle matters.
Preparing to Meet the Monroe Doc
trine.
I'VE must have more territory and we
are not going to the trouble to get any
! more which Is uninhabitable. This time
We Will know what we are about. We have
been making our plans carefully for years
and do you suppose we going to have
them all overthrown by you merely be-
cause you are few thousand miles nearer
than we. Next thing We of the old coun-
try know you will be claiming a right to
interfere between England and possibly
rebelliouS Australia merely because Won
are nearer to the island than the English
we Will not make our play until we have
made every preparation thoroughly and.
you may be sure We will be prepared to
meet your ridiculous Monroe doctrine and
any strength 1T may bring forth. We
have measured your possible strength we'll
We have no Canada to be fearful of. We
nave nothing you can attack near at home.
There with your wonderful resources we
admit that you are almost invulnerable.
But if we should with or without the con-
sent of its people conclude to seize the
Argentine Republic what would you do
about it? You would either have to fight
US there or at home We certainly would
not come to you to settle a quarrel with
which you, we contend, have nothing
at all to do. Are you or will you ever be
prepared to carry war into a far away enc
mys country?
THE one difficulty for us are those mis-
cradle agrarians and socialists at home.
who continually hinder the emperor's weld
polite. Had it not been for them we would
have been great colonial power already.
And in regard to this South American af-
fair no one knows when the proper mo-
ment may come for us to step in Those
South American governments are so I'M
certain that one who has interests at
stake must be always prepared. We keep
always two or three men-of-war in the
barber at Buenos Ayres to be ready at
any moment to land troops. So that even
now We are ready, although not so pre-
pared as We should like to be. And what
are you going to do about it?'
Investigation without Result.
All of this was such revelation to me
that 1t took my breath away, and 1 was
not able to furnish either answering argu-
ments or answering threats. His earnest
ness was such that it made'a great impress
sion on NE, almost as much as my aston
ishment that such things could go on I'M
der our very noses at home and we know
nothing of them. l had noticed the very
marked and unusual soreness in all official
Germany over the Monroe doctrine. Here
is. perhaps, the key to the situation. Ger
tainly l was not dreaming, and certainly
the man who was talking is in a position
to know all of the plans OF German lead
erS.
l have tried to make some investigation
to see what could be learned OF the actual
extent of this German propaganda in the
Argentine, but with little success. There
are no actual figures available which show
anything except the undoubted great
growth of German commerce, but those
figures are the same almost everywhere.
There Is admittedly large number of Ger
man population in the Argentine, but this
is also true Of almost every other Ameri-
can country. The Argentine minister here
officially says that he knows nothing about
a word of 1t. But his private belief proves
nothing. We have as available facts, first,
the intense sensitiveness of the German
government to every proposal of the Mon
roe doctrine, although, SO far, there are no
German interests to be affected thereby.
We have, next, word directly from the
center of the men who rule the German
empire that they intend to seize of the
largest countries of South America. We
have indisputable evidence of a determine
ton of this kind as regards territorial eX-
pansion generally in the present conduct
of German affairs.
On the other hand, we have the private
belief of the Argentine minister. We have
confidence in our own strength and the
confidence of right. And we have incredu-
lily that any such monstrous scheme of
land grabbing could be seriously contem-
plated this late in the history Of affairs,
even with the prevalent mad reign of i'm
peralism in Europe. Who can justly
weigh the matter in the balances? 1t is
only easy in looking forward to predict
that the next PRONUNCIATION of the famous
policy which is practically cur whole for
eign code will be read to Germany as a
lesson She so evidently wishes to hear it.
DIPLOMATICUS.
Senator PETER Made a Little Fortune.