Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-10-24
CHAPTER TX.
The kaiser's Plan for World Dominion.

The kaiser's 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 1t.
self since the time Of Frederick the
Great and the present generation Ia
now witnessing what was intended to
be the climax.
There cnn be no doubt that II Ger.
many had succeeded In her efforts ia
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 I 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
It.
"What hypocrites the English are I"
the kaiser exclaimed.
'They had always treated me %
we'll when I visited them I never be,
lieved they would have come into this
war. They always acted as II they
liked me. My mother was English,
you know. always thought the
world was big enough for three Of NJ
and we could keep 1t for ourselves
thdt Germany could control the cont.
nent Of Europe, England. through her
vast possessions and feet, could con,
troll the Mediterranean and the far
east, and America could dominate the
western hemisphere
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 ana the far east under her thumb
America wouii undoubtedly have
proved too tempting a morsel for the
kaiser's or Ills descendants rapacious
nav to have resisted. He said that
he believed that the world was "bf
enough for three" he didn't say It
was too Zig for enc.
What was really In his mind, how.
ever. Is Indicated by n passage In an
address, he made some twenty-five
years ago. liz which. as Rev. DR.. New.
ell Dwight Kills has pointed out, he
used these words:
"From my childhood have beenyun-
der the influence Of five men-Alexan-
der. Julius Caesar. Theodore II, Na.
poleon and Frederick the Great. These
five men dreamed their dream Of a
world empire: they failed. am
dreaming my dream of world empire,
but shall succeed"
The kaiser's plan to dominate Eu.
rope included the control Of Turkey,
and he made every effort to strengthen
that country SO that she might be a
valuable ally in the war to come.
When Italy took Tripoli from Tur-
key before the Balkan1 war l men
toned to the kaiser how opportunity
Italy bad acted. but 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
ncers to train the Turkish army and
had supplied them with guns and mu-
nftions. With an eye to the future.
too. he had constructed the great Bag
dad railway.
! When the Balkan war broke ont In
1912 the kaiser had great confidence
that the German-trained Turkish army
would acquit Itself creditabiy and