The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-09-18
Copyright, 1913. by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate3
CHAPTER TX.

CHAPTER TX.
The kaisers Plan for World Dominion.
The history of modern Germany is
perhaps, in itself sufficient indication
of the underlying plan Of the Teuton
war barons to control the whole OF
Europe and, eventually, the world. The
program has been slowly unfolding it.
self since the time of Frederick the
Great and the present generation IL
now witnessing what was intended to
be the climax.
There can be no doubt that If Ger.
many had succeeded In her efforts te
gain control OF the major part of Eu.
rope she would have soon looked
toward the western hemisphere and
the east.
This program is fairly Indicated by
the course Of events as history lays
them bare, but have the actual word
of the kaiser to substantiate 1t.
At one of his visits to me shortly
after the beginning of the war we were
discussing England's participation In
1T.
"What hypocrites the English are r
the kaiser exclaimed.
"They had always treated me sc
well when / visited them / never be-
lieved they would have come into this
war. They always acted as If they
liked me. My mother was English.
you know. 1 always thought the
world was big enough for three Of ui
and we could keep 1t for ourselves
that Germany could control the cont.
nent of Europe, England, through her
vast possessions and fleet, could con-
troll the Mediterranean and the far
east, and America could dominate the
western hemisphere 7"
How long it would have been before
Germany would have tried to wrest
dominion from England can readily be
Imagined, and with the whole of Eu-
rope and the far east under her thumb
America would undoubtedly have
prOved>3oo tempting a morsel for the
kaiser's or his descendants rapacious
NAV to have resisted. He said that
he believed that the world was "big
enough for three" he didn't say 1t
was too big for one.
What was really In his mind, how
ever, is indicated by a passage In an
address he made some twenty-five
years ago, in which, as Rev. DIR. New
ell Dwight Hills has pointed out, he
used these words:
From my childhood have been un-
der the influence Of five men-Alexan-
der, julius Caesar, Theodore III, Ma
pOleon and Frederick the Great. These
five men dreamed their dream of 8
world empire: they failed. / an
dreaming my dream of world empire
but I shall succeed"
The kaiser's plan to dominate Ell
rope included the control of Turkey
and ne made every effort to strengthen
that country so that she might be
valuable ally in the war to come
When Italy took Tripoli from Tur-
key before the Balkan war I men
toned to the kaiser how OPPORTUNITY
Italy had acted, bat the kaiser dis
missed my remark with an exclama-
ton of displeasure, realizing, OF
course, that Turkeys loss was in
sense his own since he had planned TO
make Turkey his vassal.
To that end he had sent German of
fcers TO train the Turkish army and
had supplied them with guns and mu-
nitions With an eye to the future,
too, he had constructed the great Bag
dad railway.
When the Balkan war broke out in
1912 the kaiser had great confidence
that the German-trained Turkish arm!
would acquit itself creditably an6
that in the outcome of that conflict his
European program would make cor id
cradle progress. He told me that he
had 8 map of the war area placed in
his motor and that with pegs he fol-
lowed the fortunes of the fighting
armies while he was travelling
The Turkish defeats were naturally
great disappointment to him.
These Montenegrins. Serbians and
Bulgarians are wonderful fighters" he
confessed TO me, shortly after the war
began. They're oUt-of-door people
t;ld they have the strength and STAN
ina which fighters require. If they
keep on the way they're going they'll
be in Constantinople in week! Con-
found those Turks We furnished
them guns and ammunitiop and
trained their officers, but If they won't
fight we cant make them. We've done
our best,''
The defeat Of the Turks lessened
their value to the kaiser as an ally
and he Immediately put into effect a
measure for increasing the German
standinge army from 10000 TO 100000
to restore the balance of power. they
said For this purpose a "Wehrbei-
trag." or increased armament tax, was
levied on capital and, incidentally, l