American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-11-05

What was reany in ms INIT, ==-
ever, Is indicated by a passage in an
address he made some twenty-five
years ago, in which, as Rev. DR.. New
ell Dwight Hills has pointed out. he
used these words:
From my childhood l have been I'M
der the influence of five men-Alexan-
der, Julius Caesar, Theodore II, Ma
poleon and Frederick the Great. These
five men dreamed their dream Of a
world empire: they failed. 1 am
dreaming my dream Of a world empire,
but I 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 TripoIi 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 Tul keys loss was in a
tA' hAn NAnAt III hau BAuAAuEu ~
make Turkey his vassal.
To that end he had sent German Of
icers to train the Turkish army and
had supplied them with guns and mu-
nitions. With IN 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 hat conflict his
European program would make cor~id-
cradle progress. He told me that he
had a map Of the war area placed in
his motor and that with pegs he fol-
lowed the fortunes of the fighting
armies while he was travelling.
The Turkish defeats were naturally
a great disappointment to him.
'These Montenegrins, Serbians and
Bulgarians are wonderful fighters" he
confessed to me, shortly after the war
began. They're out-Of-door people
and they have the strength and STAN
ina which fighters require. If they
keep on the way they're going they'll
be in C-Onstantinople in a week Con-
found those Turksi We furnished
them guns and ammunition and
trained their officers, but If they won't
fight we can't make them. We've done
our best!"
The defeat of the Turks lessened
their value to the kaiser as an ally
and he Immediately put into effect a
measure for increasing the German
standing army from $4,000 to 100000
to restore the balance Of power, they
said. For this purpose a "Wehrbei-
trag." or increased armament tax, was
levied on capital and, incidentally,
was informed that I would have to
pay my share. The idea Of paying a
tax to upbuild the German army,
which was already so powerful that
It menaced the peace Of the world
did not appeal to me at all and ]
spoke to Ambassador Gerard about IL
He advised me to pay 1t under protest
agreeing with me that there was ne
reason why an American should b.
required to contribute to the German
wal budget. However, / had to pay II
The German efforts at colonization
which were more or less of a failure
because the Germans refused to In
habit the German possessions, and tbs
measures adopted to conquer the com
mercial markets Of the world were ar
important part Of the program Of worlC
domination which Germany planned
for herself, and it is not unlikely that
II she had confined her efforts along
those lines she might have progressed
further along her chosen path than she
has advanced by bathing the world il
blood.
II have nearly 7O,OO0.O 900 people,
the kaiser said to me on one occasion
land we shall have to find room fol
them somewhere. When we became
an empire England had her hands OF
nearly everything. Now we mus
fight to get ours. That is why l an
developing our world markets. just a
your country secured Hawaii and thu
Philippines as stepping stones to th'
markets Of the far east, as l under
stand it That's why I developed th'
wonderful city Of KiaO-Chau."
His plans in this connection were
changed somewhat apparently by tn
developments of the present war, 70.
he told me that when it was over th'
Germans would not emigrate to thu
United States any more.
an r..-A Aranrfaan ~ nnafnWaffnn fn
us after the war" he said. IN,
people will settle in the Balkans AM
develop and control that wonderful
! country. I have been down there ant
I know it is a marvellous land for on
. purposes"
: The kaiser's vision Of the part h
, would take in the reconstruction o
. stricken Europe was indicated by
remark he made to me in 1916 whel