The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-10

his energy, his authority were made
| concrete in more canals. more ocean
steamships. more railroads. moro In
| situations OF learning, and 20 on and
| so on. He was the Great Accelerator. His
| days we're full. He learned an endless
array OF things by a process Of quack
absorption. On o new topic he read
little, sent for it's best opponents and
| talked 1t over IL It was physically de-
monstrable Il was demonstrated for him.
1t was this period that most endeared
him to Germany at large. although pre-
cisely the period wherein he made less
stir abroad. II had It's apogee in the
opening of the Kaiser Wilhelm ship
canal. better known as the Kiel Canal.
Kaiser and Nation Aligned.
The Kaiser of the third epoch is a
somewhat different man. and 1t is
different Germany that he ruled. That
both Kaiser and country marched
side by side is undeniable. 1t is
expressed in his new pretension of
1896 The German Empire becomes
world empire" Long before that date
had Nietzsche written his call to Ger
many 10 cast off it's leading strings of
the old civilization. to arise and be self
ish, to sweep the weak from OF Its path,
10 abolish tho Ten Commandments as
only fit for THE deficient. TO have the
VIII to Power, TO take the superunan
for model. Also sprach Zarathustra-
For years this doctrine of the brilliant
lunatic had been stirring, injecting, If
you wish, the minds of dreaming Scnol-
ars. and about this time they were to
spread out, and be vocal in tho mouths
of the takers who spoke to the masses.
He was followed by others. Among the
IN III
Treitschke. who again made most I'M
preston when he had ceased to live in
1896. Here was a forcible thinker
without illusions as to what should or
should not stand in the way of a SOW
ereign people on the trek, and the group
of his lectures in n volume "Politik" set
clearly down that expand Germany
must or die: that colonies must be
had from England: hence conflict with
England was unavoidable. Treitschke
was as fame to the common mind,
and the Emperor was not slow TO fall
in with the new mental state. Hence
| forth one was to hear mystic illusions
| to rights and the needs of one nation
holding what another desired. Bern
\ hardi was another whose Next War
set afloat many guesses by the vulgar
as to what nation could stand In Ger
manys way, and made little of the task
| tlldV "Vllu Gail lOIIH y elIOTIS.
| Mischief was afoot.
l To William H. this brought change.
! His utterances became more apocalyptic
his actors more peremptory. He was
| Irresponsible to God alone" Two
| Catholic German missionaries were
killed by the ignorant Chinese OF Shan
tung, and after some preliminary flour
ishes a. naval expedition was sent to
China, where under his direct orders
Kiao-chow was seized by way of pay
ment for the murders. China. as usual,
too weak or too spiritless TO more than
| register it's objection, submitted In
this he had leapeI over the head Of his
Chancellor hut he gained his point.
Germany applauded and large funds
were found for the building of harbor
works. forts and whole new German
town at Tsng-tao Soon a lease was
procured from China, followed by rail-
road concessions in Shsntung.' German
tradens swarmed over China. and Pekin
gave ear to so LIBERAL a spender as Will
| lam.
Here are brief ships from his number
less speeches showing his growing OBJ
session and his deep rooted self-conceit :
| As look upon myself as an instrument Of