The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-06-15
WESTMINSTER, MD.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE Is, 1917
GERMAN PLOTS AND SPIES.


Germany, known and called the Kaiser
or Caesar, no sooner reaching Tine
throne than his busy diseased mine
became engaged in dynastic plottlngs
and the projection of a great state
paid secret spy system in furtherance
of his restless projects and schemes
His very first act, upon his accession
June Is, 1887, was an address TO tne
army and navy, followed three days
after. by one to his people, in when
he revealed to them and the rest Oh
the world, his ideas and conception OF
the true foundation of his k1ngly pow
ers; and thus he SpOke:-"Ihe SOL
diers and the army, not parliamentary
maiOritipS, have welded the German
Empire. My confidence is placed on
the army" With this conception OF his
reign. as a great War-Lord, and ALI
nowerfuI Emperor-king and divinely
assigned Ruler, the thought of sharing
its achievements and glory with an
other became uncomfortable. NO long
er possible could the name and tame
therefore Of the great chancellor ana
statesman Bismark be permitted 10
thwart his path or be associated with
his superman reign,-though the
master-hand of Austria's loss ana
humiliation in 1866; and OF France 5
fall and robbery in 181O,-he too mus
be uuarrelIed With,-diSmissed ana
isolated in silence and disgrace TO
German forest.
Incessant activity marked the En-
peror's career from the very hrst. In
1888 he visited the Court OF AUSTRIA
SO lately r.aten to the ground at one
blow in >,;t:, by his Grandfather S
army of invasion. Thence, the same
wear, he goes to the Court OF Italy, and
whilst in Rome, visits the Vatican ana
holds private conversation with the
Venerable Pope Leo XIII; the same
year he witnessed the marriage OF his
sister at Athens to the present abdl-
Gated King Constantine. making the
first of the dynastc links in the series
forged by him in the chain OF his
world-plotting. After this,-direct to-
ConstantinopIe he sails and becomes
the guest of the Sultan-the first time
any ruler OF Christendom had ever be-
come guest Of such host. III his
monarchical activities to COnstanti-
nople, Palestine and Damascus, lban-
ned against by Bismark's statesman
ship and warningsD lay in the main
the Great Scheme OF his lite,-as now
revealed and made clear by German
action and alliance in Turkey and Per
STA during the present WOrld-War, viz:
the seizure or domination OF the Ut
toman Empire itself, as link i'll the
land-chain From Hamburg to the
Persian Gulf"
AS a preparation and inducement 10
securing the tavors and alliance OF the
Turks and MUssulmans. the Kaiser on
the Sth day OF November, 1898, spoke
famous words: His Majesty the Sui
tan, as we'll as the three hundred mil
lions OF MuSSulmanS who venPrate
him aS their khalifa. be assured that
the German Emperor il their friend
forever" On the 9th day Of Novem-
her, 1899, only a few days over one
year, the Sultan showed his farOrs to
the Emperor and made his first con-
CessiOn to the Bagdad Railway
railway now under construction by
tierman capital and intended to bridge
and connect Hamburg, Germany,
Trough Asia to the Persian Gulf. Ac-|
c1rding 10 the highest authority on the
subject. the result OF The Union Of
the three rJupings-Central Europe
Balkan States and Turkey-WOuld
have DiacGI under the predominatlnS
influence Ct Berlin 2O4 millions Of in
habitants. OF whom ~ millions were
to be ruled directly ard indirectly by
merely - millions of Germans This
was TO l4ss than the continental Pan
german PIN and plot engineered by
the Kaiser to furnish him a lever to
subdue all other powers of the earth.
and the same authority quoted, asks
the question: AS to the hour OF the
war. who set the clock going IL 1t were
not the Kaiser?" AS history STANDS To-
dav if j. now known he advanced the
hands of the clock, and struck earlier
than he had xpected,-though ne was
then equipped and prepared to bring 10
tho German colOrs, on the moment, as
it were. between u and - millions Oh
ready drilled soldiers to do his WORE
Of conquest and subjugation on lano
or saa.-tO make good and final MS
vc1a,ne OF world-mastery.
OF the kaiser's spy system the Wnol'
earth proclaims it. Every part OF
iroInding America, bears evidence o
its noison0us trail, and lying and dis
ruptive processes. To destroy prop
ertv-to take by wholesale human liz
TO inject lies and promote raise pre
naganda-these are among the hlc
cons practices and acts of his frame
maid. secret. expert spies, that now IL
foot tho eqrfb, President Wilson in