Evening star., 1917-12-02
IEUTON CONSPIRACY
TORULE THOROUGH
o-.erman Agents Found to Be
Working in Many Parts
of the World.
,Bs0LUTE CONTROL PLAN

.iOSO6Ot - Ss
BY HARRY PRATT JUDsoN,
President University Of Chicago.
The pan-German plot to dominate
40 world has been worked out with
characteristic German thoroughness.
here is no land on the globe in which
he web of intrigue has not been
woven Every country has Its place
+, the scheme and is expected to fall
into it's place at the proper time ana
IN the proper way. Bribery at one
point. fattery at another. the dexterous
use of innocent visionaries, the
,areful encouragement of dissensions
.yerywhere, the Industrious dissemina-
lion of falsehoods tending to embroii
nations with ono another, class WIN
lass, and all to weaken and demorai-
ize any peoples who might by union
become strong-this sort of thing lot
years has been going on at the hands
of German agents everywhere.
The progress of the world implies
he growth of good will and mutual
helpfulness wherever men make their
homes Pan-German intrigue foments
,iistrust and ill will: seeks out all the
,!iscordant elements of life with tire
less malevolence. German agents are
found stirring up anti-British senti-
,nent in India and South Africa ana
ireland: anti-American sentiment in
Mexico and Colombia. in Argentina
and Chile; animosity against nhe
ike of Japan in America and dislike
America in Japan; discord between
.valloons and Flemings in tortured
;elgium. All this is to the definite
af ING
rms when the time comes to strike
:erman military power finds German
intrigue and treachery its handmade.
Basis Is Absolute Control.
But the basis of the whole scheme of
russian world dominion is absolute
,;erman control from Hamburg to Bag
iad. This implies a fortress in the
enter of Europe, from which lightning
lows can be struck in all directions
t implies an intrenched position on
ne North sea, on the Baltic. on the
driatic. on the Aegean. on the Black
"a and the straits, on the Mediter-
lnean and the Persian gulf. 1t i'm
i.lies domination, political, military and
economic, of the Balkan peninsula, with
II its rich lands: of the Suez canal and
Egypt 1t means the. domination OF
Asia and Africa.
1t means. as Napoleon said. Constan-
.inople. the empire of the world. There
night be the simulacrum of an alliance
with Turkey and Bulgaria, Serbia and
GREECE. But throughout all Germany
would everywhere absolutely control
development of German capital and
German industry. For all practical
purposes it would be German empire
from the Baltic to the Persian gulf.
: But in order to carry out this vast
scheme. grandiose as it may appear. but
quite real and definite as it is in point
Of fact, the first condition. without
which all would fall to pieces like a
house of cards, Is to secure complete
control by Germany over the dual mon
archy, Austria-Hungary. The alliance
at present and for so many years in
force must be exchanged for a much
form, will mean that Germany has the
anal voice in every essential question.
As In the German empire under the
guise of federation it.is in the last
essential policies, so in the new Mittel
Europa 1t will be Germany-in other
words. Prussia-which will really gov
ern. Whatever the outward semblance
Of things, in fact Austria and Hungary
viii than cease to be independent The
German kaiser will make the Prussian
VIII supreme throughout. The reasons
for this German middle Europe plan
will appear later.
Has Reigned in Vienna.
But what is the dual monarchy which
he Prussian king aims to make his
sootstoo1?
The House of Hapsburg has reigned
n Vienna for centuries. It> has come
'lown from the middle ages and retains
% the full the medieval ideas of abso-
lutism. 1t is only since 1906 that the
dtle of Emperor of Austria has been
used; in fact. the head of the House of
Hapsburg reigns in many of the crown
lands of the empire by inheritance, as
duke, count or whatnot. In 1926 the
Duke of Austria was elected King of
Bohemia and in the same year he was
elected King of Hungary. These titles
and the regal authority which they
gave. although in each case the crown
was by right elective. the Hapsburgs
have kept as hereditary and despotic,
quite as much as in their hereditary
upper and lower Austria. Thus in the
nrst place, We have as an essential
factor in the dual monarchy a medieval
and aristocratic monarch-and g. mon
archy in German family.
The second striking fact is the d.
versity Of races and languages. Ger
many Is nearly homogeneous. 1t has
on It's borders some non-Germanfc SUBJ
Jects. inhabiting lands which represent
some OF the plunder of Prussian wars
Poles in Posen. Danes in SchleswiR,
French in Alsace-Lorraine. But the
great mass of the people of the empire
are German in blood and speech
Germans in Mutiny.
In Austria-Hungary. however. the
Germans are a minority; In a total
population Of about $4,000, geo there are
only 12.000.00o Germans. The other
races are. In round numbers. Slavs,
.4.ooo.oe0; Magyars (Hungarians)
1o.o0o.000. and Latins. 100000.
In other words. the population is "a
per cent German, 4s per cent Slav, 20
per cent Magyar and per cent Latin.
Here, then, We have the essence OF
Austria-Hungary: An autocratic Ger
man monarchy; a pretense of parlia-
ments with elective lower houses; a
German minority dominant In Austria
py aid~ef the German monarch: in
Hungary the Magyars keeping down
the SIavs and Latins with an iron hand
The Magyars were burning with zeal
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