Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-14

dren Of like blood and frame az them
selves for whom governments existed
and in whom governments had their
| life. They have regarded them merely
as serviceable organizations. which
they could by force or intrigue bend to
corrupt to their own purpose. They
have regarded the smaller states. In
particular and the peoples whocould be
overwhelmed by force. as their natural
tools and Instruments of domination.
Their purpose has long been avowed.
The statesmen of other nations to
whom that purpose was incredible.
paid little .attention; regarded what
German professors expounded In their
class rooms and German writers set
forth to the world as the goal Of Ger
man policy as rather the dream of
minds detached from practical affairs,
as preposterous private conceptions of
German destiny. than as the actual
| plans of responsible rulers, but the
rulers of Germany themselves knew all
/ the while what concrete plans, what
we'll advanced intrigues lay back OF
what the professors and the writer's
were saying, and were glad to go for
! ward unmolested, filling the thrones of
Balkan states with German princes,
putting German officers at the service
| of Turkey to drill her armies and make
! interest with her government. develop
/ ing plans of sedition and rebellion in
India and Egypt. setting their fires in
! Persia. The demands made by Austria
upon Serbia were, a mere single step in
a plan which compassed Europe and
Asia, from Berlin to Bagdad. They
hoped those demands might not arouse
Europe. but they meant to press them
whether they did or not. for they
thought themselves ready for the final
issue of arms. I.
:. Planned World Control.
"Their plan was to throw a broad
belt of German military power and
political control across the very center
Of Europe and beyond the Mediterran-
can into the heart of Asia: and Aus
| tria Hungary was to be as much their
tool and pawn as Serbia or Bulgaria or
Turkey or the ponderous states OF the
East. Austria Hungary, indeed was to
become part of the central German
empire, absorbed and dominated by the
same forces and influences that had
originally cemented the German states
themselves. The dream had it's heart
at Berlin. It could have had heart
nowhere lse. 1t rejected the idea OF
soliditary Of race entirely. The choice
Of peoples played no part IN It at all. 1t
lcontsmpla*ed binAing together racial
and political units which could be kept
together only by force e-czechs, Mag
vars, Croats Serbs, Roumantans,
Turks, Armenians,-- proud states OF
Bohemia and Hungary, the stout little
lcommonwealths OF the Balkans the
IindomitabIe Turks the subtitle Peoples
of the East These Peoples did not wish
to be united. They ardently desired to
direct their own affairs, would be sat
isfied only by undisputed independ
SThey could be ken, AEriet only ny the
tpresence or the conh tfsnt threat OF arm
ed men. They would live under com
mon power only by sheer compulsion
and await the day Of revolution. But
the German military statesmen had
reckoned with all that and were ready
to deal with 1t in their own way.
Now They Want Peace.
"And they have actually carried the
greater part Of the amazing plan into
execution Look how things stand.
Austria is at their mercy 1t has acted.
not under it's own initiative or upon
the choice Of it's own people, but at
Berlin's dictation ever since the war
began. Its people now desire peace. but
cannot have it until leave is granted
from Berlin. The so-called Central
Powers are in fact. but single power.
Serbia is at It's mercy should its hands
be but for a moment freed. Bulgaria
has consented to it's will, and Rou-
mania is >overrun. The Turkish armies,
which Germans trained, are serving
Germany, certainly not themselves, and
the guns Of German warships lying in
the harbor at Constantinople remind
Turkish statesmen every day that they
have no choice but to take their orders
from Berlin. From Hamburg to the
Persian gulf the net is spread.
'Ts it not easy to understand the
eagerness for peace that has been
manifested from Berlin ever since the
| snare was set and sprung? Peace
peace. peace has been the talk Of her
foreign Office for now year and more;
not peace upon her own initiative, but
upon the initiative Of the nations over
which she now deems herself to hold
the advantage. A little Of the talk has
been published. but most Of it has been
private. Thru all sorts Of channels It
| has come to me, and in all sorts Of
gyises, but never with the terms dis
closed which the German government
would be willing to accept That gov
ernment has other valuable pawns in
its hands besides those have men
toned. It still holds valuable part
of France, tho with slowly relaxing
grasp, and practically the whole Of
Belgium. It's armies press close upon
Russia and overrun Poland at their
will. It can not go further; It dare not
go back. It wishes to close its bargain
before It Is too late and It has little
left to offer for the pound Of flesh It
will demand.
Power Held by 1hrsad.
| aThe military mastery under whom
Germany Is bleeding see very clearly
20 what point Fate has brought them.
i r they fall back or arc forced back
an inch, their power both abroad and
1t home viii fall TO pieces like a house
OF cards. It IL their power at home
they aro thinking about now more than
their power abroad. It Is that power
which il trembling under their very
feet; and deep fear has entered their
hearts. They have but ono chance to
perpetuate their military power or even
their controlling political influence. Il
/ they can secure peace now with the
imuense advantages still In their hands
which they have up to this point ap-
parentiy gained. they will have. justi-