Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-08
GERMANS DREAM OF empire
What the British Think of KdiSef'S
Ambitions.
WANTS TO DOMINATE The NATIONS.
Argument that German Civilization is
Good; but that the German Ambition
is Political and Looks to the Domini-
tion of all the People Around.

| lS FOIIIICdl anu IOONo 70 tHS Sofni'
tion of all tho People Around.
The following article on the future
Of Germany and explaining the posi-
tion of the allies in the war Is con-
| tributed to the London Daily Mail by
the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Campton-
Rickett, P. c., NJ. p, ex-chairman Of
the congregational union Of England
and Wales:
Why is Russia a friend and Ger
many a foe?
| Russia Is a faraway country, Asiatic
as well as European. She sprawls
across two continents and is touched
by the opposing civilizations Of the
east and Of the west. Her science is
only awakening; her literature is the
breaking of a stormy morning. She
has a vast population-both tillers Of
the soil and nomads-little educated
no quarrel with Russia involving life
or death, and never have had one. We
have not striven with her for mari
time supremacy, in commercial COM
petition, or even for the acquisition Of
territory.
Russia is driven by necessity to
find an outlet to the sea. one which is
not closed in winter by the load of ice
or which does not open upon inhos-
pitable coasts. If she is to find her
natural development among the ma
tions she must be in a position to ex-
change her wealth of arabic land and
of pasture, her oil and her minerals,
for the products Of the civilized world.
She has, indeed. a port upon the
White Sea, which is only an inlet from
the Arctic. The approach to her
capital in the Baltic is at the mercy
Of winter, and the entrance to 1t
from the open Atlantic Is under the
control of Denmark, within easy reach
Of interference from Germany. She
has ports upon the Black Sea, but
communication with these can be
throttled at any time at the Dardanel-
lake and in the faraway Pacific she
has a difficult egress from Siberiat at
Vaaldivostok.
Her attempts to open sea way COM
munications have brought her into
contact with this country. We fought
the Crimean war to keep her out or
the Mediterranean, although Great
Britain already commanded that in
land sea at Gibraltar in the west and
at Suez in the east. She threatens us
upon Afghanistan and we strengthen
ourselves upon the Persian Gulf. She
stretches a long arm to. Port Arthur
and is driven out of it by Japan.
1t is quite possible for us to give
Russia reasonable opportunity for the
development of her immense resourc-
es: associating ourselves with her in
her commercial efforts. If she is still
too .Asiatic in some of her political
methods she is willing to recognize
the independence Of the minor Slavic
states subject to her own supremacy.
The German Menace.
The German menace Is Of a totally
different character. The more civil
lied the more dangerous the German
becomes as a public foe. He has
perfect right 10 compete with us in
every part of the known world, but
as his commercial interests increase
he develops his navy under the pre-
text OF protection Of his commerce.
1t may be asked why Germany
should not have the same naval power
as Great Britain, and upon what ar
gument do we claim supremacy at
sea? The German colonies are few,
scattered, Indifferent in quality, prac-
tically useless to the fatherland Tor
German settlement. Germany can
never possess a worldwide empire
without waging war successfully
against France, Great Britain or the
United States. There is plenty OF
room in South America. Australia
and Africa for emigrants from
Europe, but the space is bespoken.
She has come too late into the po-
sition Of a great power, and it Is only
by conquest that she can redress the
balance against her. She has, indeed,
scope enough and to spare for the
exercise of worldwide energies II she
is contented to do as Great Britain
has done in countries where she
makes no claim to political prepond-
erance Argentina is an Instance OF
this peaceful penetration, while Brit
ish capital is at work in almost every
country where the needs exist and II
is Hospitality entertained.
But there cannot be two supreme
powers at sea without conflict. the
increase of the German fleet has prov
ed it's intention by its persistent con-
centration in the North Sea while its
commercial interests abroad nave
shared the protection OF the British
ldominions. There is no contest with
German civilization; it is with the eX-
travagant ideas Of German political
power that we are engaged. The CIVIL
izing forces of Germany would remain
even if she were to return to the po-
litical grouping which existed before
1870. Germany could extend her
civilizing influences through Slavdom
without claiming to govern the Slav.
There is no necessity for her to drive
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