Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-12-12
DOCTRINES EXPOSED
L. s. PAMPHLET ISSUES UTTER
ANCES OF TEUTONIC STATES
GERMAN DESIRES.

Washington, Dec 10.-Evidence
conyicting Germany of q lust for con-
troll Of the world is presented in an
exhaustive way in a pamphlet of III
pages issued by the committee on pub
lie information as number Of it's red,
white and blue" publication series re-
lating to the war.
Conquest and Kult1r: Aims of the
Germans in their own words" are the
title and subtitle to this work, which
is a compilation mainly Of utterances
Of Germans tatesmen and writer's eX-
pressing the sentiment Of "DeUtsch-
land ueber Allies"
Some of the extracts have not prev
ioQsly been printed in English. The
Kaiser is quoted frequently.
Attached to the pamphlet is map
in colors bearing the legend: why
Germany Wants Peace Now" 1t shows
the territory now occupied by Germany
and her allies and outlines the German
scheme of railroad extension so as to
reach Berlin to Bagdad and down on
through to the Persian gulf.
Control 1S7,O0O,OOO People
Branches along the east shore of the
Red sea extend to Medina, Mecca and
Hodeida near the Rec sea junction
with the Gulf Of Alden, and to Cairo.
and the Cape.
Other lines give outlet to Trieste, on
the Adriatic and Salonica and Athens
On the Aegean, to the Mediterranean.
A table on the map shows the pOpula
ton of the four central powers, which,
added to the 40,5O00O0 population of
the occupied territory Of Belgium,
northern France, Poland, Lithunia,
Courland, Serbia, Montenegro and
Roumania makes a total population
under German control Of $4,000, 900.
To-day Germany controls 1877 100000
people-that is why she wants peace"
reads the legend
The pamphlet was compiled by Pro-
fessOrs Wallace Notestein and Elmer
E. Stoll Of the University Of Minneso-
ia.
Fan German Hatred.
There is an explanatory fOreWOrd
by Guy Stanton Ford, in which he
says; "The German writer's whom
the compilers have read have sought
again and again to fan the fame of
German hatred by quoting English ut
terances Of similar character, three
English utterances in all, and only one
of them comparative to the passages
III lLllS COIlCCI1OII. VI II SI1C11 Jl4lSOlS-
tic utterances German writer's have
much to say, and little to quote.
They talk with greater vagueness
of the ambitions Of America. 1t is
the unenviable distinction of the small
dynastic, feudal, capitalistic and intel
lectuaI groups in Germany, to which
these ideas owe their origin, that they
have made them nationwide, system
attic and dominant"
Mr.. Ford goes to some length in
pointing out the difference between the
ideals Of the nations opposed to Ger
many, for which they struggled against
autOcracies such as that prevailing to-
day at Berlin and the German scheme
of dominating the world through the
supremacy of a military clique.
Tells u. s. Edealfsmo
He tells how America and France
and the liberals of England saw their
ideals moulded into realities and notes
that this band has now become a
gOOdly one, as the South American re-
publics, Italy, Belgium, Norway, Japan,
China, and, at last, Russia, have caught
the vision" Continuing Mr. Ford says:
America knows what it is defend
ing. Does it as clearly understand
what it is fighting against? Does it
realize that other peoples have had
imposed upon them ways of thinking
between which, and our thought and
the thought Of all forward looking
peopleethere can be no compromise?
Does it know that the ideals of gov
eminent which struck down in it's
farthest past, bringing new liberties
to all English speaking people-the
ideals which France banished with the
Bourbon and the Bonapartes and
Italy drove out with the Hapsburgs,
ideals that crashed to earth in Russia,
with the fall Of the Romanoffs-doe
it know that these ideals now domin-
ate the Teutonic powers and make
them the fitting allies of the Turk in
thnught and nnrnnse and methnds2 Q,