The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-09-03

the world.
u ls the policy ~ bismarck de-
vclopcd and adapted to modern CON
ditions He warrcd AGAINST Austria.
a~glinst Denmark. AGAINST France
always, he declared. for the defense
~ Teutonic Institutions. bun always
with The result thai Prussla's boun-
dafios We're extended, Now once
moe me people are inspired e nght
for racial preservation but the goal
Is commercial n political suprem-
acy.
The grim old Iron Chancellor
caught al the one bond which could
INK together Prussia and her German
neighbors, divided hopelessly upon
principles OF policies and government.
And his successors have been wise
enough to follow ia his footsteps.
Prussia and Prussian autocracy are
az hateful today 20 south Germany
as they are TO France; but the in
grained belief that Tcutonlc peril and
ultimate Teutonic domination IL sum
Client 90 enlist an the peoples Of the
empire under the standards ~ the
kaiser.
Real ts Or the racial enemy between
Teuton and slav. that ls but IA ve-
hiclc OF the greater cause. pan-Gcr-
manism, the mightirst international
force 81 MODERN tunes il not at it's
heart a movement To preserve a
threatened race. but 10 make &c SUI
preme; not 20 defend Germany. but
TO %subjugate the world.
Il Is the same spirit that made the
empires of Persia. OF Rome and Great
Britain, hat has sent every nation in
Europe upon the quest OF territory
ana power Ia distant lands. II IL
more striking In It's present phase
simply because most OF mankind has
heedlessly believed that civilization
had ouigrown the rule Of force. and
because German efficiency has clothed
II with a precision and n magnitude
that startle the world.
To those unacauainted with the sig
nincance OF German policies during
the last generation these assertions
VIII appear fantastic. Hut Pan-Ger-
manism Is a tremendous reality. Its
voice Is the hum OF German clvillza-
ton the roar Of German workshops.
the thunder of 3erman cannon: its
spirit In the indomitabie will u q great
people. its desire the conquest of the
earth. Beside the oycrshadowing
bulk OF this idea thc inflated cause
81 race hostility become a paltry
thing.
Let us define as briefly as possible
what 10 means. There has never been
any secret about lt-except as TO 'the
day Of - contamination. A hundred
German works. convincing In their
laborious detail. might be cited. We
/ shall nHAWANN NNAN HUa.. H.. =.
manism.' a lucid and scholarly pres
%entation by DR.. Roland q. Usher. as
s%ociatc professor OF history AZ wash
ington university. st. L.ouIs. The
writer IL studiously impartgal-indeed
he gives German arguments OF iusti-
heation with impressive force-but he
finds.
The Germans aim at nothing less
than the domination OF Europe and
the world by the Germanic race.
The vital factor TN the modern inter
national situation Is the aggression
OF Germany. her determination TO ex-
pand her territories. 10 increase her
wealth and power. . To prevent
her absorption by her nelghbors she
must grow faster than they. she must
rob them instead of waiting for them
To rob her. She has reached the
boundaries OF Germany; further ex-
pnnsion mean the acquisition Of
what other nations now own-either
her powerful rivals. France and RUS
STA or her weaker neighbors. Bel
GUM, Holland, Denmark and Swe-.
den.
Nor would the accession OF such
territory solve tho difficulty. Ger.
many must ind some suitable for
development by her own people
which is not already choked with
men and m BUT such a prom
ised land, tenanted only by native.
races. " not Go be found. Every
available spot IL held by England.
France or Russia. German can,
therefore, obtain colonies only at the
expense OF these last.
I secure a share of h worlds
trade in some fashion. which will
not expose her 10 the attacks of the
English fleet. n which will create
an empire less vulnerable In every
way than she believes The British
empire To be, an overland route to
the east must be round.
The Germans consider perfectly
feasible a great confederation OF
SidAttt mtiudiug iefiuanys Austfihs
Hungary, the Balkan states and Tur-
key, which would control territory
from the North sea to the Persian
gulf A railway from Constantinople
20 Bagdad would establish a shorter
route TO India than via Sue Egypt,
| Syria, Arabia. Persia. India herself.
the mother Of nations. would fail into
German hands
"Pan-Germanism Is. therefore, In
the first place a defensive movement
OF self-preseTyation, for escaping the.
pressure 81 France and Russia. both
bent ON her destruction. II Is. IN the
second place. an offensive movement
directed against England: It's object
the conquest OF he English posses
sions In The Mediterranean and m
Asia.
In reply TO the outcrles OF other
nations, -denouncing these plans rs
unprOyoked aggression and lacking
In morality, as a reversian Ia the
forcible methods Of bygone centuries
whose brutalities the world long ago
outgrew. the Germans point deriHiFe-