The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-16
THE KAISER
In His Own Words

 asst twenty-five years. and arranged thern so that they reveal his ideals and | lizns in a striking manner. The fol 1ow1ng extracts are from the October lssue Of that magazine:
 sAs result of my reading of his tory, have pledged myself never to [ strive after an empty wor1d-rule- For what has become of the so-ca1led | world enpires2 Alexander the Great, | Napeoieon. all the great heroes of war swam in blood, and left behind | them subjugated nations which rose pn the first opportunity and brought ! their empires to ruin The world-8l empire that have dreamed of would consist in this. that, above all, the new1y-created German Empire should l on every side enjoy the most absolute confidence as tranquil honorable, 1 peaceful neighbor, and that if history should one day tell of German world-em mpire or of Hohenzouern l world d-rule. it should not have been hased on conquests with the sword, | but on the mutual trust of nations striving toward the same goal
 Despite the fact that he pointed out the futility of the great conquerors he likewise made it plain that Ger rlanyss world power aspirations were not to be baked by 8. peace at any price policy. At the launching of the Wsarship WittesbacT, he announced: The ocean teaches us that on its
 
 no great decision can any longer be taken without Germany and without tae German Emperor I do not think that 1t was in order to allow them selves to be excluded from big for eign affairs that thirty years ago our people. led by their princes, con- quered and shed their blood. Were inc German people to let themselves be treated thus, it would be, and for- ever the end of their world power; e1z cease To employ In order to pre- ] vent tt, the suitable means, If need be extreme means. is my duty and my highest privilege
 Throughott his speeches. three ideas appear consistently and contin- uously the ambition for worl d power, for ships and navy to defend them the belief in the German army by it's preponderance and preparedness as the guarantor of Europe's peace; and the divine right and the infallfbllity of the Hohenzollerns
 Soon after ascending the gthrOie the Kaiser saids
 The ancestor from whom have the most liking. and who always shone before me as an example in my youth, was the Great Elector-s He so ad- hired this particular ancestor because the Great E1ector was the first Hohen- zollern who saw the importance of promoting trade ana industry, aequir-
  trade with them and a8nayy to de- feza& tAe5ship ping This policy which 1anglished Tor a f6ng tfffie has been thoroughly revised and enlarged by William IT. As far back as 1896 the Kaiser himself saAd at Berlin:
 The German Empire becomes a world empire. Everywhere in the farthest parts of the earth live thou- sands of our fellow countryrae Ger man subjects, German knowledg ges
 
 The value of German goods Oh the seas amounts to thousands of millions of marks. On you. gentle men, de- volves the serious duty of helping me to knit firmly this greater German Empire to the Empire at home. 2
 At Aix, in 19O2s in computing the Holy Roman Empire with the present German Empire, he said:
 Nov another Empire has arisen The German people has once more an Emperor Of it's own choice with the sword on the field of battle has the crown been won, and the imperial lag Hutters high in the breeze. But inc tasks of the new Empire are diff. ferent confined within It's borders 1t has toststeeE itself anew for the work tt has to do, and hich it could not achieve in the Middle Ages. We have to hve so that the Empire. still young. becomes from year to year stronger in itself, while confidence in it strengths ems on all sides. The powerful Ger man army guarantees the peace of Europe. Tn accord with the German character we confine ourselves extern ally in order to be unconffned Internal iy. Far stretches our speech oyer tn e ocean. far the flight Of our science and expIoration: no work in the domain of new discovery, no scientific idea but Is first tested by us and then adopted py other nations. This Is the world rule the German spirit strives for
 Despite the guarantee of peace which the power of the Germany army offered William IT did not neglect to war his own people and others that peace might be disturbed He said 70 the chief burgomaster of Karlsruhe e in 1904. when Japan and Russia were at war:
 hope our peace will not be dis turbed and that the events that are now happening will open our eyes, steel our courage, and find us united, If it should be necessary for us to in tervene in world -p olicy''
 Imperial power means sea power. a1au sea power and imperial power are dependent on each othe4.a,f st)uf. future lies on the water. asFhA trident should be in our hand. ,.
 We stand under the star of com znerce We demand our, place z In the sun .
 h March, 1890, in speech of the Kadserss to the men at Brandeub1lrr occurred this passage:
 look upon the people and nation handed On to me as responsibility conferred upon me by God, and that It Is, as is written in the Bible. my duty to increase this refuge, for which one day shall be called upon to give an account; those who try to 1nt@~sere with my task shall crush ;
 < few months later he voiced the sanae sentiments in these words:
 sIt is a tradition of our House, that we. the HohenzoIlerns, regard our selves as appointed by God to govern and to lead the people, whom it is given us to rules for their well -betna and the advancement of their material and intellectual interests