The Arizona copper camp. [volume] (Ray, Ariz.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-06

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:. "The object Of this war is to :.
: deliver the free peoples of the :.
!. world from the menace and the :.
= actual power of vast military j.
!. establishment controlled by an !.
!. irresponsible government, which, i
!. having secretly planned to dom =
:. mate the world, proceeded to :
i. carry out the plan without re- +
!. gard either to the sacred obliga :.
!. lions of treaty or the long-estab \
i lished practices and long-cher- =
= ished principles of international +
!. action and honor: This !.
!. power is not the German people. +
!. 1t is the ruthless master of the !.
:. German people. 1t is our J.
!. business to see to it that the his +
!. tory of the rest of the world is +
!. no longer left to it's handling" :.
!. President Wilson, Aug. 27, 1917. +
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BY Ephraim Douglass Adams, Execu-
tive Head, History Department, Le-
land Stanford Junior University.
The Material Aims of Germany
Germany believes that she has the
right to dominate the world Her mil
itaristic autocracy believes that this
war is a step toward such world dom
ination, but that German demands for
the present may rest satisfied with
substantial gains in Europe. For
years German political writing has
been full of the "terms of peace" at
ter a war; and today those terms re
main unaltered. The Russian negoti
ations have served to prove that what
has for a long time been public Opin
ion is now official opinion. The quo
| tations will show this.
First, the more general purposes
eff we come victorious out of this
war, we shall be the first people or
the earth, rich stream of gold viii
| flow over our land" CD Expansion
! of our power both east and west, il
possible also over seas; political anG
military domination combined, indis
solubly connected with economical ex
pansion, this is our war aim" e.
''The territory open to future German
expansion must extend from the NORTH
sea and the Baltic to the Persian gulf
absorbing the Netherlands and Lux
embourg, Switzerland the whole basiI
of the Danube, the Balkan Peninsula
and Asia Minor" 60
Second, the immediate aims: "Oul
relations with Turkey have drawn us
| into this war s the BagdaC
railway must be extended by us to the
open sea, even to India itself" A,
Belgium must remain under German
| domination there exists ne
| better line of attack for the German
army in future war with France
| 60 whom it is necessary "to weaker
to such a degree that she can never
again be dangerous to u.s." CO. "Wil
anybody believe that we will hand
over the lands which we have occu
pied in the west, on which the blood
of our people has flowed?" CD 1--WE
are not an institute for lengthening
the life of dying states" (8)
But it is on Poland and western Rus
STA that Germany has all along fixed
her eyes: 1--WE ought not to let fall
the sword from our hand before we
have assured our future. Our eastern
/ boundaries must not remain where
they are" CO. "Livonia, Kurland
Esthonia have been for more than
seven centuries sister countries united
through Germany traditions. 1t is
true Germans do not yet represent
10 per cent Of the inhabitants; but
their character filters through the
whole" 10) Let us bravely organ
ize great forced migrations Of the in
ferior peoples. Posterity will be
grateful to us. We must cOerce them!
This is one jof the tasks of war. Such
forced migrations may appear hard,
but it is the only solution. : * =