The Robesonian., 1918-01-28
ERMANY'S BUSINESS
lar FOR DIVIDENDS
.ks on It as Other Nations Re-
gard Any Industry :
Rr;af Wars of the Past Paid SO
,;chly She Went Into Business for
,oney There Is in It-"Scourge Of

Eod'.
Hills. in The Sample Case.)
with Germany, war is a national in
try. Germany's agriculture pays
her cent. Germany's manufacturing
finance pays per cent. Ger
Sny's war against Denmark, when
seized Schleswig- Holstein, paid her
Thousand per cent. Her war IN 1910
crab the iron mines of Alsace and
krraine paid her ten thousand pei.
mt. Germany expected the war OF
LIZ to pay her twenty thousand per
Mt. eve have made no investment
q our txars," said Bernhard. "Let
slgium found steel plants at Namur
ri Leige-we will loot them. Let
ancy and Rheims and Arras fill
*ores with rich goods-and we will
fab them"
This war had it's origin In meeting
bid in Pitsdam Palace In 1897. Onl
3at occasion the kaiser placed In the
bnds of his friend confidential doc
Ment; at the head of the document
ere these words: "The Pan German
mpire". The second line read: "From
amhprg on the North Sea to the Per-
an Gulf. The third line was: "Our
innate goal-by 1915-250, 900, 900
people." The fourth line: "Our ul-
mate goal-the Germanization of all
e peoples of the world" On the op-
nsite page is part of the kaiser's ad-
ress: "From my childhood have
ZEN under the influence of five men:
lexander, Julius Caesar, Charles the
Nth: Frederick the Great; and Ma
oleon. All of these men dreamed
beir dreams of a world empire-they
riled. | have dreamed my dream Of
world empire-I shall succeed"
N On the third page was a map OF the
LA Roman empire with Rome as the
3apital, Caesar Augustus as the war
Ord. and the once mighty states sub
Sued. with Carthage and Jerusalem,
fnhesus and Athens, reduced to the
7evel of county-seat towns. On the op-
nosite page is the 1915-to-1925 world
Eerman map. Instead of the Roman
Smnire. YOU have the Pan-German en-
Sire. Instead of Caesar Augustus, you
lave Kaiser Wilhelm II. And upon the
countries once named Russia, Austria
France and Great Britain, you have
fhe word Germania, for Petrograd
Paris and London 'Anae become county
Seat towns.
IA The kaiser told Ambassador Gerard
{fhat after this war was over he would
4ave no nonsense from the United
EStates: by which he meant that Ger
mania would be written across oul
country with the &c" on San Francisco
hnd the "a" on Washington. 70 VIII
E fhis goal, the kaiser has bent ever!
anerpy. he has tul ID. his whole natlol
into one military machine with Wnlc'
10 conquer the world.
In his textbook on militarism, Bern
hardi speaks of war as "a national IN
dustry." A good business man build
bis plant, organizes his workmen, an
pays dividends of ten per cent. NO
Otherwise, Bernhard shows the Ger
man people how to make war pa.
large dividends, partly through mon
ey tribute and partly through terri
* tory acquired. The German teache
n on the science of war has proved tina
X Germany has never made better bus
l& &iness investments than in her war:
IN Her war with Austria in 1856 was
profitable investment, yielding, Siles
& ia as a dividend. Her war with Der
mark was good business-it ylelde
Schleswig- -Holstein and tho hope
n the Kiel canal. Her war upon Franc
in 1870 was most profitable-it pal
1000, 100000 in gold and the iro
81 mines of Alsace and Lorraine.
8 1t was in 1894 that the kaiser ar
his associates first put into the hane
of their leaders the Pan-Germa
scheme with it's motto, "From Han
burg to the Persian Gulf. In 191
the Pan-German Union published
series of maps, with military and p
litical plans bringing up to date Il
scheme for German empire begl
ming at Hamburg and ending at tt
Persian Gulf.
The maps and plans as given out
1894 run the German frontier III
around Denmark, Holland, Belgiul
the iron provinces Of Northern Franc
the German province of North Sw,
zerland; they make Austria-Hunga
to be an ally state of equal rank wi
Prussia, but in the plan as publish
in 1911 the kaiser places German m
itary heads in control of the AuStrl
and Turkish armies, while the sout
ern lines of the Pan-German empi
include all the Balkan States, the k;
ser's sisters state of Greece, with
~ <hoid unlIOl dllu Cl0lds Nv Sesl
fully was the plan wrought out,
perfect were the details that tod
y should the war close, as some Wi
M nineteenth of all the Pan-Germ
scheme would have been achieved.
have in my possession an iron c.
given as token to each German s
s. dier. At the top is German portr
OF Deity, and underneath are th'
words: "The good old German Go
The Deity holds a weapon in his rit
4 hand; and the token bears these wor
Smite your enemy dead. The day
judgment will not ask you for "
reasons. To this native character
TIC Goethe was referring when he ss
The Prussian is naturally cruel; {
iiization will intensity that cruelty .
make him a savage"
For three years German-Americ,
have protested that the stories Of G
man atrocities were to be disbelie
as English inventions, Belgium
and French hypocrisies, but that i.
has gone by forever. On battle ]
Tour hundred miles in length, in WI
soc cr Village the retreating Germ
pass, the following morning accredl