The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-18
RUSSIA Will
find HERSELF:
BISHOP COOKE
Internal Trouble Will Pass
and Therefrom Doom of
Germany is Seen
SPEAKS TONIGHT
ON "WORLD CRISIS"
Victorious Allies Will Treat
the Emperor Like
Napoleon

Russia in her present state of
internal trouble will soon find herself
and therefore the doom of Germany is
seen in the opinion of the Right Rev.
Bishop Richard ]. Cooke, Of Helena
Mont, in charge of the North Dakota
Montana Idaho district of Methodist
churches, who arrived in the city to-
day and tonight will deliver his lee
ture on the World Crisis at the First
Methodist church.
'It is not possible for Germany to
win in this international crisis,'' said
the bishop when seen this morning
at the parish of Rev. Mr.. Frost, 109
Ninth street south, 'tand instead of
Germany defying all the laws OF the
nations in her world greed, the allies
will dictate the terms to the German
people. Germany will not be destroy
ed but the Prussian government will
be thing of the past. The allies will
treat the German emperor like
Napoleon in 1815-an outlaw, and will
make peace with the allied states"
No Separate Peace.
Bishop Cooke stated that America
is in the war to stay and will not con-
slider terms of a separate peace, nor
will any OF the allied nations. He
declared that the war is one of ideas
that it is a war between autocracy
and demooracy-betwee freedom Of
the nations and autocratic rule or
monarchy.
'In the miscalculations of her plans
for world conquest, said Bishop
Cooke, Germany was driven to desper-
ate measures. She found that Eng
land had her by the throat and there
fore she resorted to her submarine
warfare, the most ruthless. lawless
method of warning. TlIi las carried
on under ller general stan. demand
ing that England should grant the
freedom Of the seas which every ma
dictate to the American government
where the ships shouIn go. Failure
to observe the, dictatorial policy Of
Germany which would have amounted
to Dictatorship to the United States,
Germany sank our vessels without
warning, which resulted in plung
: ing the nation into the war;"
Sketch History of War.
In his lecture tonight Bishop Cooke
will give an historical sketch of the
causes which have led up to the pres
ent situation. He will picture the
difference between the policy of Bis
interview this morning he stated that
one was for a continental policy and
the other world power and that the
kaiser's greed for a world power dis
tinguished him from Bismarck.
"A world empire meant colonization
because the population Of Germany
continues to increase and then the i'm
dustrial developments had grown great
and there was a demand for world mar
kets. Hence the colonization of the
A. B. c. governments was one Of her
Demanded Big Fleet.
"All this demanded an increase in the
fieet to protect the German commerce
on the high seas and to end EngIand's
supremacy. and Thus the 1 contest contest Was Eas
supremacy of the seas. England is an
island and depends on imported food.
Should her navy become inferior to
Germany's fleet which the emperor was
increasing beyond all need, it would
put England at the mercy of Germany.
Am uninterrupted Highway.
''Then, too. the Pan-American greed
included an uninterrupted highway
from Hamburg clean through Germany,
to the Balkan states down to Constan-
tinople and then to Bagdad and through
Asia minor to the Gulf of Persia. That
railroad would put Germany in posses
sion of all Asia Minor. For this reason
the kaiser made friends with the sui
him and the Mohammedan world.
Preparing for Forty Years.
For all this Germany has been pre-
pairing for forty years, thus becoming
strong and mighty. She intended to
crush France and large part of the
border In Russia-Poland which would
give her all the supremacy OF Europe
for the outlet of her immense trade
channtls. Unfortunately, pistol shot
rank out to the world and the arch
duke of Austria was assassinated IN
Serbia. Austria made her demands on
Serbia and the Serbians declined. Aus
tria declared war. Germany stood by
Austria and Russia by the Serbs.
Then came the demand by the CEN
tra1 powers for the demobilization OF
the Russian armies and this could not
be done, although frantic efforts were
made by all the governments to bring
Germany to a peace conference, but the
kaiser refused. He tried to bribe Eng
land but it failed. Then came the short
cut to France and the confagration Of
the world"
In state Year Ago.
Bishop Cook made q visit to North
Dakota a year ago when he attended
the annual conference held at James
town, presiding over the meeting. One
of the big features OF the meeting was
his lecture which dealt with the prob
lens of the day.
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