The Tupelo journal., 1918-01-18
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THE MOSI DANGENOOo " OE GEhNlAIN 4 Ill
this generation will prove to be the United States" Thus
prophesied DR.. Otto Hotsch, professorsat the War Acad-
envy in Berlin, in an article in the Alldeutsche Batter,
on August 23, 1902, and the learned doctor has certainly
prophesied better than he knew. How completely Amer
lea has upset the whole German apple-cartca can only be APP
preciated when it is realized that decades ago Germany
planned first to conquer Europe and then to attack and
dominate an isolated and helpless America. Open
avowals of this conspiracy have been collected by the
United States Government in a brochure entitled Con
quest and Kultur," compiled by Professors Notestein and
Stoll, of the University of Minnesota, and issued by the
Committee on Public Information at Washington. From
the evidence there collected it can be seen that the Ger
mans have been by no means reticent about thir lnten-
tons, and they seem to have calculated upon the good
natured Anglo-Saxon's refusal to believe the Teuton
capable of such depths of long-sighted villainy. This
side of the question is emphasized by the Committee on
Public Information when it quotes the letter of DR.. w. 7.
Hornaday in the New York Tribune of August II, 1915,
containing the statements made to him by Maj. M. A.
Bailey, who recounts how he travelled with Count Won
j Goetzen, one of Germany's military attaches, from
Santiago, Cuba, Immediately after the SpanishAmerican
War. On their way to America Count Won Goetzen con-
fded to Major Bailey, twenty years in advance, the his
tory of the beginning of this war, and Major Baileys
4 account runs:
"Apropos of a discussion on the friction between
Admiral Dewey and the German admiral at Manila, Won
Goetzen said to me: 4 will tell you something which you
had better make a note of. l am not afraid to tell you
this because if you do speak of it, no one would believe
you and everybody will laugh at you.
About fifteen years from now my country will
/ start her great war. She will be in Paris in about two
months after the commencement of hostilities. Her move
on Paris will be but a step to. her real object-the crush
ing of England. Everything will move like clockwork.
We will be prepared and others will not be prepared. l
speak Of this because of the connection which ]" will have
with your own country.
" Some months after we finish our work in Europe,
we will take New York, and probably Washington, and
hold them for some time. We will put your country in
its place with refernece to Germany. We do not purpose
to take any of your territory, but we do intend to take
a billion or more dollars from New York and other places.
The Monroe Doctrine will be taken charge of by us, as
we will then have put you in your place, and we will take
charge of South America as far as we want to-"
This project of an invasion of America subsequent
to a German victory in Europe was developed at great
length in 1901 by Baron Won Edelsheim in his book COP
erations Upon the Sea-" and it should be recollected
that when he wrote it he was in the service of the Ger
man General Staff. He said, probably with some fore
knowledge of German habits in conquered countries:
"The fact that one or two of her provinces are oc-
cupied by invaders would not alone maye the Americans
to sue for peace. To accomplish this end, the invaders
would have to infict real material damage by iniuring
the whole country through the successful seizure Of ma
my of the Atlantic ports, in which the threads of the en-
tire wealth of the nation meet. 1t should be SO managed
that a line of land operations would be in close jucture
with the fleet, through which we would be in a position to
seize in a short time many of these Important and rich