The Irish standard., 1908-03-07
Gerrnany's Alleged Desire For Colonial Ex-
pansion Begins to Threaten the
Peace Of Europe.
The World Wants War, Not Peace, and ii
is Plainly and Unnistakably
Preparing For It.

| Again and again, as the weeks veal
away. the world gets it's doping dose
of war, war. war, says Prof. Mohogha,
in The Catholic Telegraph.
The German emperor is to build
| three big ships, each bigger than the
Dreadnaught, Englands most fornid-
able battlcship. Nor is that enough
Germany is only just beginning hel
ship building, she is to have a naval
armament by 1920 that will surpass
that of Great Britain as surely as that
Of Great Britain is supposed to sur
pass the German empires navy now.
All kinds OF combinations are be-
ing conjurcd up. Nor is it all con-
lecture. Knowing men are advancing
arguments based upon facts rather
than mere belief to prove that tho
elimination OF the Empire OF Grea,
Britain and the rise to IT'S proud place
OF that of the Hohenzollcrns is only
question OF Il decade.
1t " part Of a policy begun by Frus.
sia when Father John lall tIr
foundations for the Schleswig Hol
stein. Sardova and Sedan successe.
away back i'm tho days when Ma,
polcon ordered Prussia to he seer
with no more than 10000 men under
arms. The work of Stein in the cab
met and Scharnhust in the field. equal
ed if not surpassed by the safe, sure
plodding and wonderful work of Vor
Moltlsc and Bismarck. is to he ecllpseG
head of the empires state and wal
departments. If empires rise and fall
it. is surely time to tumble England
down from the high place she has beer
holding since Marlborough gave Blc1-
helm and Malplacquet, Mamillies and
Oudcnardc to history. Germany is moi
aversc TO the task.
| What the British empire was tc
Russia from the days of Peter the
Great to the present time. she began
to be to the Hohenzollerns after Sc
dan and Versailles. She has hindcred
Gcrmany's schemes OF colonial expa;i
sion. If the future OF the house ol
Holcnzollcrn. which is identical Will
to PrussiAs ideas. lies on the ocean
arc to mean anything more than empty
sounds the big ships must be built
Otherwise every effort OF the empire
TO expand will he met by bigger and
bigger English ships. and biggAr and
bigger efforts on the part Of the Eng
| lsh to hem in the Hohenzollcrn house
Neither the kaiser nor anybody neal
him is deceived. .....
II Germany is to expand it must dc
so at the expense of England, perha ps
of both. Expansion is inevitable. The
only alternative is for the empire tc
burst. That is as undesirable as any
thing imaginable. At the present
time Badenscr and Bavarian, wurtem
burger and Prussian are for the empire
for every foot Of the fatherland. No.
body is fool enough now to look OF
long for a disorganizcd empire, such as
cl1ara acterized that of the Hapburgs
and the Hohenstaufens.
| Here, then. is the world on the eve
Of Il war, beside which the wars oi
other years or centuries are to seen
small. BY the year 1916, another Will
liam is to conquer England He is tc
rival that William who in 1866, went
into England from Normandy, fought
the bloody battle of Senac or Hastings
and changed the channels of English
if not the worlds history. BY the side
of these Cylopean war projects our OWE
efforts are puny.
| Let no one go away with the ides
that the wars in Europe are not t.
interest us. The game is to go on ir
Europe but the stakes are in Asia
Africa. Australasia, South and Cen.
l. tral America. The movement Of oul