Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-02-09
MENACED SECRETLY.
GERMANY SAID TO BE ANGRY OVER
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

What a High Germa Official Is Reported
to a said-Colony In South America
Planned--Revolt Planned Against Ar
g~entina-Then the Kaiser Will Defy Us.
A writer in a Washington paper, who
says he is in the diplomatic service,
reveals what he calls "a startling pro-
gramme." While at Berlin not long ago
he was often thrown in the company of
a high German official, who is an init
mate friend of the kaiser's, and this
friend of the kaiser's is reported as say
ing some things of more than passing
interest.
"You Americans are a wonderful peo-
ple,' he said. "You have had a won
derful success-too wonderful. The day
will come when you will have your re-
verses. You have grown strong too
quickly. You are too confident. No one
but an over confident nation would put
forth such a foolish International prop
osition as your accursed verfluchtiger
Monroe doctrine).
"You have frightened the English
with it, but that vas because England
is SO friendless and helpless. You will
not find us SO easy to back down."
The kaiser's intimate friend then
proceeded to warn the diplomat as to
what Germany was going to do in the
way Of making mincemeat of the Mon
o doctrine. I'VE are going to have the
finest colony in South America" he
said. 1T is in Argentina. We have
been making our preparations there for
years. You have no ideahow many good
German emigrants we have sent there,
more than 100, 900 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 go to you, those
unpatriotic ones. These all know why
they are going and what they are ex-
pected to do. Many are in the employ
Of the government, OH secret allowances,
and they are looking after the growth
Of German sentiment"
Of course the next thing in the pro-
gramme, according to this intimate
friend of the kaiser's, is a rising of this
colony in revolt against Argentine, and
the United States is to be asked, "What
are you going to do about it?' TO con-
tinue the story in the words Of the en-
peror's friend: "We will not make our
play until we have made every prepara-
tion thoroughly, and you may be sure
we will be prepared to meet your ridic-
ulous Monroe doctrine and any strength
it may bring forth. We have measured
your possible strength we'll. We have
no Canada to be fearful Of. We have
nothing you car attack near at home.
There, with your wonderful resources,
we admit that you are almost in%vulner-
able, but if we should, with or without
the consent 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 ave be prepared to car
ny war into a faraway enemy's coun-
try?"
Commenting on this, the diplomat
gives it as his opinion that sooner or
later the United States and Germany
will come into collision over the Monroe
doctrine in South America. 1t is Ger.
tainly a strange coincidence that last
summer in London a prominent English
man who is known to be in touch with
Lord Salisbury asked this question of
the writer:
"What will you Americans do when
the German colonists in Brazil make all
effort, under the protection Of the kaiser,
to set up a little Germany in South
America? Will you claim that the Mon
roe doctrine forbids Germany acquiring
territory by the natural means Of colo.
nization, revolt, appeal to the fatherland
and independence under a Berlin pro.
tectorate? If you do, you will find that
you have lots Of trouble on your hands"
Walter Wellman in Chicago Times
Herald.