The Tupelo journal., 1918-06-14
We Fight
No. 5
lrmany Having Split the
ID Half Is Now Trying
aHvOur the Halves
4RENCE q spEED

Ng84sI ARENCE L. SPEED
-, al4fY III he War Committee Of the
- lA1aNHs league Club of Chicago.
Il are aghting Germany, for M
+h,ns 4 because Germany, having split
ira {ofld ii half, is now seeking to
devot + The halves separately. She
has d2fivfs1 4 wedge straight through
Ia Hksarf nf Europe, and into Asia,
cna seeking to extend it to the Per-
sian sar taalf
ThIl IS no accidental happening, due
Il n e~lldoWnfall Of Russia and the sud-
dan splitting In the fortunes of war.
Germany planned it all decades ago.
i made DC effort to keep the plans
sacrat She told us all about it. She
had = reputation for making plans
ana sticking to them, from n gener-
alton ito another; yet the world paid
q affention. 1t seemed too prepos-
80 ssvar COR Germany to attempt.
sag n9N as 1895 a pamphlet,
s.r,a eMny and Central Europe
IN Is was published in Berlin
.s,a s,a4s xNifle circulation. 1t laid the
IN i MfAieleuropa plan bare as fol-
II asafsd AID Little Russia (the king
da.a Is H. Established at Russia's ex-
,,auSal xuis, sh.1ree to have no armies
IN tbssr own,l and will receive in their
forsrtss4 GerA,nan and Austrian garri-
SON. Iii Poland, as well as in Little
Rus a, The POSTAL and telegraph serv-
ices Is well ais The railways will be in
| German hands,
In 1911 T~anne1berg's book, "Greater
! Germany was published. This was
only three years before the war, but
it showed that the idea of a German
Mittaleuropa had not been allowed to
languish. It says:
"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.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 it's empire on a
scale which would dwarf that of IN
cient Rome. 1t is to embrace the orig
inal Central Europe, inhabited by
some Z 100000 Germans, make the
Black sea a German lake, and extend
clear to the Persian gulf through the
vassal states of Bulgaria and Turkey.
The German government started to
nut its scheme for a Mitteleuropa in
to effect years ago when it began the
construction Of the Berlin-tO-Bagdad
railway. Little Serbia stood in the
way, SO Serbia was attacked and the
world was plunged into war. In the
opposite corner of Europe Belgium
was invaded and crushed. The world
then thought that this was only be-
casiya Eeigium offered the easiest
route to France: but study of the Nit
teleuropa plan of years ago shows that
Belgium was included in the scheme
of conquest.
aHoW does all this affect American
one may ask. Germany was a late
conner in the family of great nations.
Most of the unciyiliZed world had been
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 best fields for German colonial
ton. England possessed the best part
of Africa--the parts in which the
white man might hope to settle ana
thrive. England had a mighty fleet,
and a disposition to hold what she
had. even though she did not show a
disposition to fight for more.
There remained South America. lie
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,O00,0O0
Germans and the 1OO,OO0,O00 inhabi-
tants of the vassal and conquered
states Of her Mitteleuropa, that her
next step would be toward the west?
The very fact that she had this I'M
pire would presuppose the defeat Of
England, so that no British fleet would
stand between us and Germany when
the time came for the kaiser to send
his legions across the Atlantic.
"As in the East, so in the West"
is a 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 way from the reichstag resolu-
ton of July 10. peace without a
nexations and indennities). In that
we have succeeded. Peace has just
been made in the East under condi-
tons In fiat contradiction to the pol
lev of July 10, and has received the