The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-08-28

man footing in the Levant. He re-
turned in 1898, after the Armenian
massacres had made Adul-Hamid no
torious. and the scruples he must
have felt as self-appointed leader
of Chris,endom were outweighed by
the extension of German influence
In the East. Besides he never lost
sight of the fact that the colonial
possessions of England and France
are peopled by millions upon mill
lions of Mohammedans, and some
day his influence with the Padishah
might enable him to build the back
fires of revolt behind his foes.
The Kaiser's antagonism to Eng
land, which has been shown in va
rious ways, seems to have its roots
far deeper than political intrigues
can reach. Although the good quail
tiles of the Kaiser are the good quail
tiles OF his English mother, the
worthy daughter of Queen Victoria,
he never forgave her the injury that
had to be inflicted on his arm in or
der that her life might be saved.
One of the finest minds of her time,
she brought rare culture, a truly
Christian spirit and liberal views of
almost democratic simplicity into
the despotic atmosphere of blood and
iron that Bismarck had built up in
Berlin. Till the day of her death his
English mother was the subject of
all kinds of attack from his subjects,
and yet the Kaiser never lifted a
finger to defend her. His feelings
seem to have been we'll expressed
when he was yet at Cassel and an
accidental blow caused his nose to
bleed. To the anxious playmate who
begged his pardon he is reported to
have answered: 1T is nothing; there
goes the last drop of my English
blood"
This is probably the feeling that
prompted him to send his famous
telegram to President Kruger at the
time of the jameson raid, but the
next day England modified her
special service squadron and the
matter was dropped. The Kaiser us
ed this incident to impress upon the
German people the necessity of
strong navy if the empire was to be-
come a world power. He was never
tired of repeating, Our future lies
on the water" and to his brother he
II will not rest till l
have brought my navy to the same
height where my army stands" And
when, during the Boer war, British
warships searched German merchant
men in Delagoa Bay he telegraphed
to the King of Wurttemberg: THE
events of the last few days convinced
wider and wider circles that Ger
honor as we'll as her inter
est must be protected on distant seas,
and for this purpose Germany must
be strong and mighty upon sea as
well as upon land"
AS sudden as his telegram to Kru-
ger congratulating him on the man
ler in which he had put down the
Jameson raid was the appearance of
he German warship Panther off
Agadir. and this precipitated the
Algeciras conference that ended in
4 diplomatic settlement under which
Germany obtained valuable territory
n exchange for the peaceful recog-
lition of the rights of France and
spain in Morocco. The World said
It the time: with all due respect
o Germany and it's civilization, the
policy adopted at Berlin seems to be
/ plain case of biackmail. Berlin says
n effect: we have no land in North
Africa. We have come too late, and
( you do not give us a slice of Mo-
'occo we want some of the Congo"
During all this time the Kaiser was
,ever losing an opportunity to i'm
,ue the German people with the idea
hat the new imperilism had a re-
igious basis. n speech after speech,
With all the eloquence at his COM
nand, he urged that Germany was
the salt of the EARTH" that I'VE
must not weary in the work of civil !
cation" He proclaimed himself the |
livinely appointed instrument of
he world mission of the German |
mpire. In opposition to the altruis-
ic Imperialism of democratic Eng
and the Kaiser sought to set up a
Imperialism Favored with
He was TO lead the German
eople out, the Bible in one hand
nd the sword in the other, to spread
civilization over Europe
nd throughout the world.
In 1891 the Kaiser married Prin-