The Pensacola journal., 1914-12-30

In "The Kaiser" new book edited
by Asa Don Dickinson and published
by Doubleday, Page & Co, appears a
series of striking and intimate pictures
of William II, Kaiser of Germany,
which taken as whole give as COM
plete a compendium of facts about this
most interesting character Of the day
as has yet been issued.
The preface to this interesting work
says:
"Not since the days OF Napoleon has
one man so captured the public inn
agination; never in the past century
has a nation been so personifed in one
being; not since the time of the
'Corsicar Ogre have the woes of I1u-
rope been SO frankly attributed to one
ruler; never has a man been so uni
versally vilified and Iampooned, both
in word and drawing.
Then there comes the necessary
reaction to this swift generalization.
We are told that the War Lord stained
the call to arm with ears. We recall
the undeubted service this man has
rendered to his nation.
Like it or not. the United States
has become the Umpire. With one
accord the warning nations, as they
draw swords and plunge into the din,
cry out to us to watch the struggle
and see fair play. Here work goes
forward as usual and we sometimes
forget the horrors of that struggle,
But whether rightly or wrongly,
public attention has focused on the
Kaiser as the one who might have
halted the trouble and did not
Different chapters in 1.-THE Kaiser
take up such subjects as the Kaiser's
personality, his background. his re-
lations with his army and navy, his
foreign policy his commercial eX-
pansion, his relation to the German |
government, including a brief survey |
of German civic government, his re- |
lations to the Reichstag and his re- /
Iations to the Socialists.
Foreign Policy. !
eff we wish to understand the for
eign policy of Germany under Will t
lam II, we will study in vain the
writings of Goethe Schiller, Lessing,
Hegel and others who once were con-
sidered representative of German
thought and ambitions. We need
rather to delve into the history of
Carthage and other nations which rose
to power through commercial expan-
sion and world trading made possible
anu IOIlSHI0u by the CREATURES anu |
ooldness of vicaohious armies and
natives.
mo nation on earth so longs for
9erman-ruled colonies as does the Ger
man Empire. The very existence of
his race, according to Kaiser William,
depends on such expansion. In Ger
many, as in all other countries, the
more ambitious, alert and energetic of
is people are the ones who leave the
atherland and cast their lot in new
ands with greater opportunities Few
II these opportunities can be found
n foreign lands now under the German
lag The pressure of population has
aused the migration from Germany
# more than 3O,00o,0O0 of her people,
md owing to a peculiar trait in the
German character, these thirty mill
Ons and their decendanta are lost
0 the German Empire forever-unless
he nations which now constitute their
1aces of residence are conquered and
nnexed by Germany.
"The Kaiser's colonial and other
oreign policies have undoubtedly been !
realty Influenced by the writings and
eachings Of the German university !
Professors, who have played a most
important part in moulding public sem
iment to which William II has eagerly :
Chief among the learned
Professors who have sounded the cry ]
or a Greater Germany was Professor
on Treitschke, the historian, who
penly proclaimed that the destiny of ]
iermany was thwarted by lack of ter
itory, and who never hesitated to Z
icture Great Britain as the nation
Thich must be humoled before Ger s
lany could come into her own. s
"Treitschke considered the acauisi-
ion of the Netherlands as the first
tep toward entering on a world -em~ I
racing policy. The ruling Kaiser is s