Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-10-04
CHAPTER TX.

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 It.
self since the time Of Frederick the
Great and the present generations Is
now witnessing what was intended to
be the climax.
There can be no doubt that II Ger
many had succeeded in her efforts to
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 so
well when l 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 US
and we could keep it for ourselves
that 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 and the far east under her thumb
America would undoubtedly have
proved too tempting 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 Il
was too big for one.
What was really in his mind, how
ever, Is indicated by 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 I'M
der the influence Of five men-Alexan-
der. Julius Caesar. TheodOfic II, Ma
p0leon and Frederick the Great. These
five men dreamed their dream Of q
world empire: they failed. am
dreaming my dream Of a world empire,
but shall succeed"
The kalser'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 q
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 but the kaiser dis
missed my remark with an exclama-
ton OF displeasure. realizing, Of
course, that Turkeys loss was in q
sense his own since he had planned ts
mike Turkey his vassal.
To that end he had sent German of.
ficers to train the Turkish army and
had supplied them with guns and mn.
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 army
would acquit itself creditably and
that In the outcome Of that conflict his
European program would make cor i'd
cradle progress. He told me that he