The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-08-28
Interesting
notes ON KAISER
Emperor William Had Ear
ly Antipathy to Eng.
H. Lead a Life Of Ceaseless Ac-
tivity-Peacenaker and
Warmaser.


the throne. He virtually placed his
own mother snder military arrest at
the side OF her husbands bier, and
he arbitrarily seized his father S
private papers. His first act was an
address to the army and navy; his
address to the people came three
days later. In everything he showed
that ne looked upon force as the true
basis OF his throne. In his own words:
THE soldier and the army, not par
liamentary majorities, have welded
together the, German Empire. My
reliance is placed upon the army"
From the first he made it plain
that he intended to be his own chan
cellor, and after a serious difference
opinion as to how the growing dang
er Of Socialism was to be met he
accepted the resignation of Bis
marck, the man who had created the
German Empire and who was admit
tedly the greatest statesman of the
time. The Kaiser himself referred to
his action as dropping the pilot"
and said that now he would go full
steam ahead"
During the first years of his reign
Europe was distracted by his clashes
with Bismarck and his mother, his
furious journeys, rash speeches and
silly sermons. but as he grew to full
manhood he was seen to have courage,
to be honest and, above all, a thoro
German with a well-defined plan for
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of his own coun-
try.
His "Weitpolitik," or world policy,
seems to have been always directed
against Russia. France and England,
and although from time to time he
had made efforts toward a rap
prochement with each of these pow
ers, he never lost sight of the pos
sibility that one day they would all
be arrayed against him.
Entirely Obvious of the fact that
the whole genius of European civ
ilization is Latin. he has been i'm
bued with the idea that he could
substitute for it Teutonic civilization
based upon dynastic militarism es-
tablished by divine right and spe-
cially ordained by God to resist the
fancied dangers of Slavic invasion
of Europe. Germany was to become
the dominant power in Europe, and
as such Russia was her natural an
tagonist.
His policy also contemplated vast
colonial empire that would afford an
outlet for German products and
bring wealth and riches to the Faith
erland. But when the German EN-
pire was created the world was
pretty we'll colonized and Africa
about the only continent available
for exploitation; but there France
had the richest colonies, and as the |
Kaiser well suew that the loss of
heart of tho French nation and that
one day it would seek revenge, he !
never lost sight of the facts that he |
would sooner or later have to fight |
France and that her African colonies |
would be vAe richest spoils of the |
war if he wore the victor.
But the growth of Germany's colo !
NAL spirit, the strong commercial |
rivalry with Great Britain and the |
determination of the Kaiser to have
a fleet that might some day dispute |
the empire Of the seas with the Brit
ish navy led him TO direct his polio
les also against England. He went
about his plans with consummate
skill, and almost before England was
aware of il he became a power in
the Moslem word. and was getting
concessions 10 build a railway in
the valley of the Euphrates which
would have given him control of a
portion OF the newest route in In
dia.
The new Germany of the Kaiser's
dreams was 10 be heard and felt in
all political affairs in whatever
quarter Of the globe they might arise, 4
and Pan-Germanism made little Sc
cret of its desire to gather in the
succession of the old Austrian EN-
peror. Had Francis Joseph not lived
so long there would today be but one
great nation from the Baltic to the
Adriatic, from Holland to the Bal
kan States, ana in that nation dem
ocratic ideals would have no place.
Early IN his reign he tried to es-
tablish more cordial relations with
Russia, but despite his efforts the !
intimacy OF Russia and France in
creased. In 1889 the marriage OF
his sister tom him to athens. and
rom there De went toConstantinopiet {
md laid the foundations for a Ger