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has claimed a dominating influence Rus
sias problems are in the far east on the
Pacific seaboard and while not now play
ing a conspicuous role in the drama OF
European politics. II is certain. that Russia
also fears Germany
Japan, another modern and synthetic em-
pire, Is bound up hard and fast with Great
Britain in a general alliance, and with Its
erstwhile enemy. Russia, I'm an agreement
for the spollation OF Manchuria. Japan Is
afraid of but one thing-that Germany and
the United States will take determined
stand TO protect China and therefore block
the japanese game OF continental Asiatlc
empire ts.. ..
Even the United states, but recently be-
came a conscious factor in the world
politics, has been the victim Of a German
war-scare. At the time OF the Spanish
war. German public sentiment was pro-
nouncedy anti-American vland everybody
remembers Admiral Dewey's unpleasant
encounter with Admiral Diedrchs In Manila
Bay. Naval officers, whose business it 10
always 70 suspect the existence OF war
just beyond the crest OF every wave, werO
discreeuy or indiscreetiy discussing Ger
man American relations all the time until
the Japanese school quarrel In San Fran
cisco furnished them with new boyle. An
American admiral sang song which re-
Elected upon the kaiser. and at the time
OF the Venezuela incident 1t was a rare
day when there was not a new rumor Of
some German scheme for the destruction
of the Monroe Doctrine, and the conquest
of South American territory. az
The German government has courted
most asslduously the favor and good will
of the American republic, Prince Henry
toured the states; a German ambassador
with an American wife played tennis with
the strenuous president and another Ger
man ambassador also with an American
wife, in a speech at Philadelphia, praoA
ticaly subscribed to the principles of the
Monroe Doctrine. There was a furry In
diplomatic circles a few weeks ago when
the text of the kaiser's letter to mis-
great and good friend" President Madriz
| of Nicaragua made public, but on
the whole the United States has ceased
to be very much alarmed by the German
war lord. sfa,
! Not since Waterloo have all the nations
of the world looked upon any one power
with so much suspicion. The German
| army, the most powerful on earth, and
the German navy so rapidly Increasing in
power disturb the sleep of the diplo-
masists of all the non German world. And
yet, since the empire was established the
German army has not fought a battle and
the German navy has not fired gun.
The German advance thus far Is not a
military movement. 1t Is not campaign
of territory. 1t is not movement for
more political ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, II is some
thing more than all OF these 1t aims at
Solnething more than Rome ever did. II
purposes something greater than Britain
has accomplished. sa "a. q" IL sy
The German advance Is a deliberately
planned economic campaign in which the
military forces OF the empire are used for
protection of German interests and not for
threatening the safety Of other nations.
Its aim Is to make Germany commercially
and industrially the supreme nation Of the
world. Its purpose is to abolish poverty
and to make the German, people the most
prosperous people on earth Its endeavor
is to claim every drop of German blood
and every energy of German body and
mind for the German state, and therefore
to make that state supreme in the moral,
as well as in the economic and political
sphere
Many years ago the great Bismarck sum-
med up the German imperial spirit In these
words: up to the year 1865 we pursued a
Prusso-German policy. From 1866 to 1870
we pursued a German European policy.
Since then we have pursued a world policy.
In discounting future events, we must also
take note of the United States, who Will
become in matters economic, and perhaps
In matters political well, a much
greater danger than most people imagine.
The war of the future will be made the eco.
nomic war, the struggle for existence on
the largest scale. May my successor al
ways bear this in mind and always take
care that Germany will be prepared when
this battle has to be fought"
Bismarck's successor was not chancel-
lor but Kaiser, and there is as yet nc
J reason to believe that, he has not done
! everything humanity possible to prepare
his empire for that great economic war.
BY RREDERIC J. ZAsx1N.
Tomorrow--The German Advance. IL
The German navel Policy.