, 1918-08-22

We are fighting Germany. for n
thing, because Germany. having split
the world in half, is now seeking to
devour the halves separately. She
has driven a wedge straight through
the heart of Europe. and into Asia,
and Is seeking to extend 1t to the Per-
sian gulf.
This is no accidental happening, due
to the downfall of Russia and the sud
den shifting In the fortunes of war.
Germany planned 1t all decades ago.
She made no effort to keep the plans
secret. She told us all about it. She
had a reputation for making plans
and sticking to them, from n gener-
alton to another; yet the world paid
no attention. 1t seemed too prepos-
ferrous even for Germany to attempt.
AS long ago as 1905 a pamphlet.
"Pan-Germany and Central Europe
About 1850" was published in Berlin
and had wide circulation. 1t laid the
whole Mitteleuropa plan bare as fol-
lows:
"Poland and Little Russia (the king.
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pense) will agree to have no armies
of their own, and will receive in their
fortresses German and Austrian garri-
sons. In Poland, as well as in Little
Russia, the postal and telegraph serv-
ices as well as the railways will be In
German hands,"
In 1911 T~annenberg's book, "Greater
Germany" was published. This was
only three years before the war, but
1t showed that the idea Of a German
Mitteleuropa had not been allowed to
languish. 1t says:
1.-THE new kingdom Of Poland is
made up Of the former Russian por-
ton Of the basin of the Vistula, and Of
Galicia, and forms a part.o Of the new
AUSTRIA"
How the plan has grown since then !
Russia's collapse dropped whole prov
inces into the lap Of the kaiser, and
now Germany plans its empire on a
scale which would dwarf that Of an
Client Rome. It Is to embrace the orig
inal Central Europe, inhabited by
some 73,O0O,000 Germans, make the
Black sea n German lake, and extend
clear to the Persian gulf through the
vassal states of Bulgaria and Turkey
The German government started to
put its scheme for Il Mitteleuropa In
to effect years ago when 1t began the
construction of the Berlin-to-Bagdad
railway. Little Serbia stood in thu
way, so Serbia was attacked and thu
world was plunged into a In tn
opposite corner of Europe Belgium
was invaded and crushed. The worl
then thought that this was only be
cause Belgium offered the easies
route to France; but study of the Nit
teleuropa plan of years ago shows tina
Belgium was included in the schem
of conquest.
"How does all this affect America?
one may ask. Germany was a lat
conner in the family of great nations
Most of the uncivilized world had beel
pre-empted by other nations before
she arrived. Germany wanted col
onies. To get them she would have
to take them away from someone else
Africa and South America offered
the pest fields for German colonial
ton. England possessed the best part
of Africa-the parts In which the
white man might hope to settle and
thrive. England had n mighty fleet,
and a disposition to hold what she
had, even though she did not show n
disposition to fight for more.
There remained South America. 1t
was divided among weak nations. 1t
was protected only by the Monroe doc
trine. This Monroe doctrine was a
sacred thing to Americans, but, not
being backed up by mighty armies and
fleets, was not even a "scrap of paper"
TO the Germans. Can anyone doubt,
should Germany succeed in welding
into a mighty empire the 73,000,0O0
Germans and the 100,000,000 inhabi-
tants of the vassal and conquered
states of her M~itteleuropa, that her
next step would be toward the west7
The very fact that she had this M
pire would presuppose the defeat or
England, so that no British feet would
stand between us and Germany when
the fine came for the kaiser to send
his legions cross the Atlantic.
"As in the East, so in the West"
is q motto which, of recent weeks, has
been much heard in Germany. At a
conference of the national liberal par
ty, held in March OF this year., the fol-
lowing amazingly frank declaration
was made:
"Our policy has been directed to
making the government and majority
turn away from the reichstag resolu-
ton OF July 10. CPeace without an
hexations and indemnities). In that
we have succeeded. Peace has just
been made In the East under condi-
lions in fiat contradiction to the pol
icy of July 10, and has received the
support and assent of all the burgeois
parties"
In other words, all Germany is now
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