Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-01-04
THE MAILED FIST At WORK.

THE MAILED FIST At WORK.
Fortunately for our clearness of
vision, Germany's plans for her next
step toward the goal of world DONNA
ton are too plain to be doubted. They
are precisely what Prussian history
would lead us to expect A petty
Hohenzollern province first dominates
Germany, and now the plans provide
that Germany shall dominate Europe.
The method of achieving the desired
end is precisely the same with which
history has made us so familiar. Ad-
jacent territories are to be brought un-
der Hohenzollern rule by the annexa-
ton of some and the federation of
others into great Central European
Empire, with Germany the directing
force and the Prussian military ma
chine the invincible bond which holds
| them together. Let us lift the curtain
for a moment and watch the mailed
fist as it moves the pieces on the
European chessboard in preparation
for the coup of 1914
We see the evil hand in Vienna,
shaping the policy of the Dual Mon
archy and gaining that ascendency
over it's affairs which has reduced Aus
tria-Hungary to state of vassalage
We observe Italy bound in unholy al
lance with the historic enemy of Ital-
ian freedom. We realize that it is
the mailed fist acting through Austria
in ho 0f
VIVA in fragrant violation of treaty
pledges. We behold the Prussian war
lord appearing Gin shining armor" be-
side his obedient Austrian vassa1 to
threaten Russia when she protests
against this injury to her brother
Slavs. We see Servia robbed of her
hard-won port on the Adriatic and AL
bania erected into make-be1ieve king
dom under Austrian tutelage; and we
recognize the DID, familiar methods of
the Hohenzollern. We find the mailed
fist clasping in fraternal greeting the
bloody hand that massacres the Ar
menians, the Emperor of Christian
Germany becoming a brother to the
unspeakable Turk, training and offic-
ering his armies, and securing from
him concessions for the future Berlin
to Bagdad railway. We see puppet
Hohenzo1lern kings placed on the
thrones of Bulgaria and Roumania and
King Constantine of Greece married
to the Kaiser's sister. We watch the
meshes of German intrigue wound
about the Russian government, and
the mighty S1av reduced to partial
Impotence. By ruthless conquest and
by peaceful penetration, the stage is
set for the great Central European
Empire, while at home the war lord
prepares for the coming contest by &C.
cumulating military stores in quaint
ties which have since astonished the
world, by forcing the passage of q
naval bill destined to make Germany
formidable on sea as well as on land,
by charging the Kiel Canal to permit
the passage of the largest battleshfps,
by building heavy metalled, double
tracked railways along the borders of
Belgium and other peaceful neighbors,
by securing grant of $3.50, 1000, 900 in
special war taxes with which to raise
The army to a peace footing of 100000
men and war footing Of nearly ten
million and Dy marshal1ing the voices
Of obedient professors and the pens Of
servile writer's in one vast campaign
Of education, designed to poison the
German mind with dreams of Pan
Germanic power.
At last the propitious moment IL
arrived, and the mailed fist pulls the
strings. Austria approaches Italy with
the proposition, that they unite In the
conquest of Servia; but italy refuses
A delay of some months ensues, while
European diplomats struggle to avert
the impending calamity. Then an Aus
TRAN prince is murdered In the cap.
ltaf city or conquered Bosnia. This
furnishes the desired excuse for be-
thinning the long. planned war. Vienna
secretiy eonfers with Berlin, ana at
the end OF month of. silence sudden.
lyyastounds' the acivilized@ world ~
accusing the sServian government OF
ne murdeFoand submitting ten de-.
nands designed ito be- so nominating
hsthefra natureo and go Insulting IN
lAe1ra tone % tocinsureDa pfompta ~
lection. But unfortunately for ne
Hohenzollern plan servia, on the I'd.