The record., 1918-08-08

That it Is the intention Of Germany
to hold Belgium, thus gaining posses
sion of the channel ports and robbing
England of its control of that portion
OF the sea which lies between her and
rhe continent, Is NO longer left In
sioubt Baron vog BissIag,.G H., first
s3erman governor of Conquered Bel
;gium who stood nigh In the favor OF
the kaiser, and presumably expressed
his royal masters ideas, wrote, in his
Testament" shortly before he died,
as follows:
"Anyone who knows as do now how
| important Belgium Is to Germany po-
lltically, economically and strategical-
ly, would see how grievous q mistake
we should make were we to conclude
q peace which does not leave us mas
ters of Belgium; for, whatever hap
pens, Belgium cannot be allowed to re-
main under Franco-British influence,
but, on the contrary, must be used to
enhance our power"
Holland Fears an Attack.
| Holland remains a neutral nation.
Germany has declared no war on her,
but the troops of Holland are mobi-
lized on the border, and engineers
stand ready to cut the dikes and flood
the country, because Holland knows, as
does the world, that Germany plans,
as soon as she finds it expedient, to
take Holland. The mouths of the
Rhine empty into the sea through Hol-
land. Because the Rhine carries Ger
man trade, Germany holds that the
actual ownership Of the entire river
| from its source to the sea is essential
to Germany. "Die Wacht am Rhine"
obsolete as it is on the upper reaches
Of the river. still means something in
ftha North, and Germany has set her
I heart on controlling the river from the
4 Alps tQ the sea, of fortifying it's
4 mouths, and making it in reality as in
1HQpR the German Rhine"
heaf Policy Of Conquest.
n Are German plans, as thus exposed,
Il hgt The empty vaporings of irrespon-
ffstble braggarts? Ask the deported-
a Worknep Of Belgium, who have been
jEept away to make room for the set
Element of Germans on the frontier? :?
IAsk the inhabitants of Posen, who
have suffered under German persecu-
ton for generations. Ask those sturdy
Frenchmen who still remain in Alsace
in spite of the German efforts to drive
them out. Ask the survivors of two
years Of German occupation of Poland
whether or not deliberate starvation
and deportation do not mean that their
land must not be numbered with ma
tive inhabitants but must be given up
for German occupation. Ask the Ar
menians, those few of them who re-
lnain, hiding from the bloody Turks
offieered by Germans.
, Every nation which has felt the
. weight of Prussian power will an
, swer in the same way. Their only
!; answer is that Deutschland ueber
Alles'' means exactly Germany above
, alt:-means domination, persecution,
and erippling when determination is
; impossible.
That is why America is in the war.
She sees Germany's plans to extend
, her power until no one can resist it.
Rratected, perhaps, for the time being,
! by her isolation and her latent power,
D from the immediate threat of German
!, conquest, America cannot sit idly by
+ and see nine-tenths of the world over
: run by Prussianism, knowing, as sac
f now knows, that her turn may come
;, later. America must fight, and mast
: fight to the finish, which means the
: downfall of Prussian autOcracy and
t the quenching forever of the Prussiun
lust for conquest.