The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1917-11-02
WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING AGAINST.
CBy Newell Dwight Hillis)

Note-Dr. Newell Dwight Hills, the Brooklyn preacher. has
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The roots of this war go back to 1860. A. that time
Bismarck was the outstanding figure in Berlin. Germany
was-then an agricultural nation, having little manufactur-
ing life. She had ~4O,OO0,0OO people, $4,000, 000,0 100 in prop
erty, and a s%econd-rate position in Europe. In 1860 Eng
land led Germany in the production of pig-iron, steel, cot
ton goods, wooden goods, the building of ships. Germany
lacked good cooking coal and hematite iron ore which are
necessary to good steel, and without steel there was no
industrial future for Germany.
BISMARCK'S CHOICE
Two courses were open to Bismarck; one was to ac-
cept an inferior sphere of influence for the little German
states, and the other was to foment two wars and wrest
away, by military force, coal treasures from Austria and
later the iron mines of France, found in Alsace and
Lorraine. Spreading out his plan before the Prussian
king, Bismarck organized Germany into a standing army,
and told>his officers that for the time being "Germany's
chief national industry must be war"
No one ever accused Bismarck, the statesman and
diplomat, of having a muddy mind. He made the advan-
tages OF war to be seen, lying out in the sunshine. His
argument ran thus: Farming pays six per cent, manufac-
turing eight per cent, banking ten per cent; but, viewed
as an investment, war should pay a thousand per cent!
The war with Denmark made possible to the Germans the
KielCanal and access to the North Sea, and it paid far more
than Bismarcks thousand per cent. The war in 1866 with
Austria paid five thousand per cent, through conquered
coal resources.
Then Bismarck planned his great move-to steal the
iron mines of France. He tells us in his memoirs that
he forged one sentence in the French Emperors telegram,
and thus threw the burden Of the declaration of war upon
France; and, returning from his victorious campaign, he
brought back to Berlin a billion dollars in gold, and also,
what was far richer, the title-deeds to Alsace and Lorraine.
In that hour it became possible for Germany to produce
high-grade steel out of the newly-conquered coal and iron.
Great steel plants were established, plates were rolled for
Che North German Lloyd and Hamburg American lines and
and for the AZ centimeter guns. Within 30 years Germany
passed England, first in the production of pig-iron, second,
IN the production OF steel, third, in chemical industries,
fourth, in toys, and fifth in industrial efficiency. Plainly,
the Franeo-Prusslan war paid Germany ten thousand per
cent on her investment!
MILITARY OFFICERS AS HEROES.
EprTnanu'u OoiItarv Inooco vunp+ E1o vANl o1~I.I
to the head OF her people. The German officers
became the hero of men and women. The army took con-
troll of the Fatherland. In the social world, the officer
was the leader. AT a banquet, who took precedence and
walked at the head of the company to the seat of honor
at the guest table? Not the statesman, not the univer-
sity professor, not the artist or author, not the banker or
manufacturer, but the soldier. | have myself, in Cologne,
seen a banquet held up for an hour because the colonel had
not arrived. Finally, a private was found to represent the
army and walk in with the chairman to the guests table.
Obessed with the notion of military superiority, Ger
many grew to be one vast military camp. The motto be-
came: Let Belgium produce wealth; we will grab it." LET
France paint pictures, carve jewels; Germany can steal
them" Let England pile up treasures; we will hoist a
black flag on the submarine and spoil her of her goods"
Anything that Germany does is right" At last all the
weapons were ready and Germany's soldiers stood like
burglars, with pistols, b~ombsheIs and frebrands, before
the treasure.house of Europe, ready to prove that war is
Germany's chief national industry"
This present war began in 1892, in a meeting in the
palace at Potsdam. The kaiser at that time placed in the
hands of his advisers a document marked Secret and con-
identiaL' The first line held these worlds 1.-THE PAN
GERMAN EMPIRE" The second line read: "FROM HAM
DLhhO AM liz OLA ~ III IEhSlAN GOLF.
The third line was: OUR IMMEDIATE GOAL BY 1915
IS THE CONQUEST OF 2~50O0O,OOO OF PEOPLE" The
fourth line read: OUR ULTIMATE 0 A is THE GER.
MANIZATI0N OF ALL NATIONS."
On the second page there was an extract from the kai-
ser's speech: From my childhood l have been under the
influence of five ~men-Alexander, Julius Caesar Theodric
the Second, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon. These five
men dreamed their dreams of a world empire-they failed.
J. too, have a dream Of a world empre-I shall succeed"
Two maps prepared by the kaiser, for his associates,
set forth clearly" the ultimate goal to be won by his military
machine. The first map was called "The Roman Empire
Caesar Augustus, Emperor" Then are spread out the
countries conquered: Carthage, subdued and her capital, a
c%Ounty-seat town reporting to Rome; Egypt and Palestine
conquered, while Alexandria and Jerusalem report to the
Emperor. Ephesus and Athens are conquered and are
c%ounty-seat towns under the Emperors heel.
"THE WORLD MAP OF 1920"
Having used the Roman Empire as his standard, the
kaises publishes the World Map of 1920. At the top of the
map we're these words: ''The Pan-German Empire" Be
meath, you read: KAISER Wilhelm II, Emperor" Across the
State of France are the words, "Germania," for Paris is a
ecounty-seat town. Upon Great Britain is written, "Germa-
MIA for London is a c%ounty-seat town.
Seven years after this was published the German adj
miral told the hero of Manila Bay just what was to happen
concerning the war. He babe Admiral Dewey remember
that the kaiser was preparing to conquer France, with the
real nnrnOse Of DESTROYING Enpland and that ba than rro