The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-19

/ This 10 the second OF two ar"
tieIes by Henry Mor0enthau, for
mer United States ambassador to
! Turkey, revealing the duplicity
| of Germany and its allies. The
| information was obtained by Mr..
Morgenthau from German and
| Austrian ENJOYS.
For twenty years Germany has
been the /. w. w. of the nations.
i Wherever there was trouble, the
kaiser was there adding to the diff
| ficulties of a peaceful settlement and
watching for his opportunity to set
the war machine in operation.
The German policy resembles
nothing else so much as the policy
of the /. w. w. leaders in Fastening
to every town in which there were
labor disputes to take charge of the
strike, encourage lawlessness, pro-
mote sabotage and preach the doc
trine of rule or ruin.
In the Spanish American war the
kaiser was VIGOROUSLY on the side
Of Spain. in the belief that Spain
could humble the pride of the United
States. In the South African war he
was all for Kruger and the Beers,
in the hope that England would be
beaten and her prestige in Africa and
Asia forever weakened, He intrigued
with the car against Japan. He in"
trigued in every South American
country against the United States.
Germany and Japan.
Baron Ishii, the head of the Japan
ese commission to the United States,
has publicly declared in his speeches
that the anti-American agitation in
Japan and the anti-Japanese agita-
ton in the United States, which have
so menaced the relations between the
two countries for a dozen years,
were the result of German plots;
and nobody now doubts the truth OF
this charge.
1t explains, what was hitherto I'M
explainable, just as the German con-
spiracies in Mexico enable us to un-
derstand why Mexico distrusted the
United States in the face of the most
overwhelming evidence OF wholly
benevolent intentions on our part.
Much of this intrigue may appear
to have been almost purposeless in
it's malice so far as the interests or
Germany were concerned, but the
kaiser was always looking ahead to
the day when the imperial war eagles
would be Embossed, and the more In
ternational Observation-Disclosures there
were, the more certain Germany
would be Of success in carrying out
its program of world domination.
Germany and ireland.
The attitude of Germany toward
the nations in general was not. unlike
it's attitude toward the Irish ques-
ton lust before the beginning of the
war. Both factions in Ireland were
supplied with guns and ammunition
from Germany brought over in Ger
man ships. Berlin cared nothing for
home rule or for listers objections
to home rule, but 1t cared great
deal for a civil war in Ireland that
would cripple Great Britain's hands
when the great day dawned and the
new Attila set forth at the head or
his hordes. -
AS l have already said, it was not
by accident that the war came. ana
it was not by chance that it came in
1914. In all his calculations the
kaiser had overlooked one factor
that of human nature. He had not
perceived that his own people might
fail him at the critical moment and
that the control of the great machine
which he had constructed might be
challenged before he could set 1t In
motion. 49,.
Not Ready Then, .-
baron
that there would have been war at
the time of the Algeciras conference,
but Germany was not ready. No mat
ter how elaborate the preparations
had been there was always some
thing lacking, so Germany proceeded
to get ready with new army bill
and a new budget which imposed a
capital tax that all the world now
recognizes as a war tax. The amaz-
ing thing is that it was not so rec
ognized at the time.
The new army estimates would
have expired in 1915. The social
democratic movement was gaining
enormously in strength throughout
Germany. Before the kaiser was fair
ly ready for his great exploit in
Weltmacht he was threatened with
social revolution at home due. to the
heavy burdens the German people
were carrying, the spread of demo-
cratic doctrines and the growing re-
sistance of the working classes to
arbitrary government.
Feared Social Democrats.
If things drifted until it was neces-
sary to renew the army appropria-
tions, the Social Democrats might be
able to hold up the estimates and
force sweeping reforms that would
practically put them in control of the
reichstag and perhaps end forever
the kaiser's dream Of world domina-
ton.
1t was vital that the war should
come before this issue was Joined at
home, and hence the murders at
Sarajevo were little less than a god
send to the German autocracy. They
gave the kaiser the excuse he needed
and they. provided the opportunity
to maneuver Russia into a position
in which war could be represented
to the German people as one OF self
defense. The Berlin conference put
the finishing touches on the pro-
gram. The German financisrs finish
ed their task and the trap was
sprung.
There can be only one end to this
struggle, and that is the complete
destruction of kaiserism and abso-
Iutism. Among the great statesmen
Of the world, President Wilson was
the first to see that without this
elimination of kaiserism and abso-
lutiaTn no durable peace was pos
sible. To make peace on any other
fArrna ia to mako truce and give