The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-15
OUR ENEMIES.
What We Are Fighting Against in This
War.

daily articles during the Liberty LOAF
campaign by Newell Dwight Hillis.)
This war began in 1892, in meeting
held in the Palace of Pottsdam. Tit
kaiser at the time placed in the hands
of his advisers document marked "se
cret and confidential" The first line helC
these words; "The Pan. German Empire.
The second line read: "From Hamburg
and the North Sea to the Persian Gulf.
THE third line was: Our Immediate Goa
by 1915 Is the Conquest of 2500O0,OOO OF
People" The fourth line read; "Om
Ultimate Goal Is the Germanization OF
All the Nations"
On the second page thee was an ex-
tract from the kaiser's speech. From
my childhood / have been under the in.
fluence of five men-Alexander, Julius
Caesar, Theodore the Second, Frederick
the Great, and Napoleon. These five men
dreamed their dreams of world empire
they failed J., too, have a dream Of
a world empire-I shall succeed"
Two maps prepared by the kaiser, for
his associates, set forth clearly the ulti-
mate goal to be won by his military
machine-The first map was called "The
Roman Empire-Caesar Augustus, En-
peror." Then are spread out the coun-
tries conquered: Carthage, subdued and
her capital county seat town reporting
to Rome; Egypt and Palestine conquered,
while Alexandria and Jerusalem report
to the emperor. Ephesus and Athens are
conquered and are county towns un-
der the emperor's heel.
Having used the Roman empire as his
standard, the kaiser publishes the world
map for 1920. At the top of the map
were these words: "The Pan German
Empire" Beneath you read: Kaiser
Wilhelm II, Emperor" Across the state
for Paris is a county-seat town. Upon
Great Britain is written, "Germanic," for
London is a countyseat town.
Seven years after this was published,
the German admiral told the hero of
Manila bay just what was to happen |
concerning this war. He babe Admiral |
Dewey remember the kaiser was prepar
ing to conquer France, with the real pur
pose of destroying England, and then
proposed to seize Canada and the United |
States. Germany will after that dis
pose of South America and the Monroe
doctrine as we think best" These facts
throw a flood of light upon the kaiser's
statement to Ambassador Gerard, when
his war is finished, will not stand any
from the United States"
Now that three years of war have been
we see the kaiser missed his
yoal by only a hairs breadth Ninteen.
seventeen is here and To- the kaiser con-
rolls 200,000,000 instead of the 250000,-
100 he hoped to have conquered. By three
'ears' war he has increased the German
population from 7000O000 to 100000 r
100. He controls, directly or indirectly,
Belgium, North France, Poland Ruma.
ia, Hungary, Austria, Bulgaria, Servia,
Turkey, and a part of Armenia. Having
prepared for the war by a vast web |
# cunning, intrigue, and treachery,
through hired agents distributing bribes '
n every capital of the globe, he is now
for peace and proposes trade {
nd compromise, that will give up Bel j
ium and North France and count the
1cident closed. This means-he will give {
ack about one Fourth of the conquered s
erritory and people, thus retaining l40,. {
10000 which, with his 100000 Ger d
,ans, leaves the an-German empire v
18th over 200,000,000 of people and ex- 7
ending from the North sea to within
our hundred miles of the Persian gulf.
o-day, the kaiser is spending millions
trough his agents, influencing and brb- r
lg members of the press, of the judi
ary, of legislatures. As Germany has
OF been invaded, peace without victory
eans that while the rest of the world r
,covers from its billions of losses, Ger h
any will strengthen her military ma 2,
line and then complete the Germaniza- i,
on of the whole world. A