The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-18

New York. Sept. The German
plans for a world dominion. for a
tonic empires, Turkey, Asia Minor,
Arabia, India, most of Africa, Greece,
Ireland. two-thirds of South America,
Mexico and Canada, are pointed out
by w. H. Gardiner, a New York engi-
neer. in a pamphlet of warning re-
Gently distributed by the American
Defense society.
Thee Pan-German schemes, whose
authenticity Mr.. Gardiner has con-
flrmed in many German writings pub
lished 1915, were formed by Prussian
statesmen at a time when they felt
that an overwhelming victory would
be certain. Failing in their efforts to
either crush or dominate any nation
that might stand in their way, 1t was
the German plan to bring the war to
an end in time to leave her free to &C
conplish her plans in the next war.
These plans" writes Mr.. Gardiner,
ARE so amazingly ambitious and are
founded on such an utterly cynical
and ruthless disregard of the rights
and liberties of all non-Germans that
for the first ten or twelve years those
men who first caught their sinister
trend were discredited. Then, as Ger
many's plan of political and economic
strategy developed step by step with
her military conduct of the present
war, ii became generally recognized
that, in fact, she is trying actually TO
make real the Pan-German plan; and.
failing that. to lay the solid founda-
ton for it's future execution by first
building an unassailable empire from
the Baltic to the Arabian sea-"
Mr.. Gardiner goes on to say that
Germany planned first to beat or
Great Britain had a chance to enter
the war. With France and Russia
aside she would be free to concen-
trate on the humiliation of Great
Britain's armies when they endeavor-
ed to come to the aid of France. With
France and Britain both crushed they
would lose standing with their many
dependencies throughout Asia and
Africa and with the aid of inspired
revolts Germany would soon have do
minion over everything from north
ern Africa to 1ndo-China. Persia and
Afghanistan were to come in as vas
sal allies and through them Moham-
medan TuTkestan was to become a
Teutonic sphere of influence.
Germany then planned not only the
prompt seizure of all of the French
dependencies in Africa and Asia as
well as French Guiana and the French
West Indies. and well of the colonies
and dependencies of Britain in Africa,
Asia Minor and Egypt but also all the
foreign domains of Italy, Portugal,
Belgium and Holland. which under
the circumstances could easily be
conquered.
1ne lower nalI SOuIn AIUGIlCd
Germany meant to acquire by peace
full penetration, revolutions and po-
litical intrigue. The prestige gained
by her conquests in Africa and Asia
would quickly persuade Venezuela,
Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and perhaps
Colombia that ii were wise to submit
peacefully to the German sway.
AS equally important a conquest of
the seas would give Germany control
of almost every international trade
route and with all this accomplished
on land and sea a victory over Amer
lea would be even easier than those
over Great Britain and France. Amer
lea could scarcely make a stand
against a Prussian autocracy of such
strength.
While these schemes may seem pre-
posterous to the average American
and scarcely worth serious thought,
there is no doubt that Germany still
hopes to accomplish them If she is
soon able to get a separate peace with
Russia and then crush Great Britain
bring these nations her effective sup
port. That her plans have not wholly
so far is seen in the fact
tended her dominion over 100000
vassals to include more than 100000
600.
Mr.. Gardiner urges every American
in the light of these facts to ask him
self: Have I so far done everything
/ possibly can to help America win
the war? Am I a loyal American
worker or a moral Stacker