The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-02


 pendence or obedience? We shall never extend our rule over the British and American dominion5 either com mercially or politically so long as those peoples permit their individuals to rely on themselves and compete among themselves in mining, manu- factures, commerce and transportation. | It is not only the companies that com pete when there is nc autocrac.', but those who serve the companies. Every individual m the whole fabric holds himself personally responsible for making discoveries, inventions, i'm provements in organization.
 Has 1t occurred to you that God Iun- ser Gott might come to like that sort of thing if we permitted it to continue In any event the gods of trade and of war smile on it always. The whole process produces the type of individ- uals who turn too easily from one thing to another. ***
 I said at the outset that things are going very we'll By this meant that under our attack England and Ameri- ca have been obliged to do through government many things which, in time of peace were left to individuals. The British and United States governments have taken over the railways. Both British and American governments have taken away the private negotiation in matters of price. quality and delivery and through their priorities are virtually determining for individuals in what business they can and in what they cannot engage. | See to it that all this is not merely temporary. Through German emigra- tton and through our propaganda we have for many years been inoculating these countries with a serum. *' Use your influence if possible so that the political parties, which are all radical now, shall be committed to the permanent retention of govern. mental control after the war.
 My object is obvious. By eliminat. Ing competition among Englishmen and among Americans we shall breed up in the absence of an autocracy a sort of mushy socialism. Let everyone be dependent for his opportunity and his advancement upon political author ities. These would be selected not by someone at the top who knows exact. ly what he wants and remains the same decade after decade. but by the voters. Their majority flaps in the wind. Remove the incentive for strong men to go into industry, commerce. and transportation. Preclude the possibfl- ity that in the trade conflict to come and in the next war either EngIandI or America will have any such men as have stopped us this time or any nOn-gOvernmental institutions for the development of such men.
 St. Helena has it's discomforts. A | German government responsible to a i free parliament would have the effectI of suspending for time the workingE out of my plans. But all this is tenn porary. We endure it for the sake of The Day Oer Tag). Enfeeble those | who Obstruct us. The type we seek to cultivate is Russia; chaos-a tri- umph of our diplomacy
 This is the ideal toward which you must labor in England and America: government operation, socialism, chaos. In our hands such peoples will | be as children. Our emissaries have but to propose it and they will come of their own accord to unlock St. Helena. They will look on with i'm beetle grin while our junker, muni- tion and military faithful restores the Fatherland. Germany as it will be spawned at the peace congress will be a spineless parliamentary mollusc. If you are jealous England and Ameri ca will regard us through such spec tacles that without alarm they will see that spineless mollusc evolve once more into a vertebrate autocracy cap- able of devouring all such jelly fish as I am instructing you to make of England and America through the en- couragement of government ownership and operation of utilities and business.
 WILHELM, I. R.
 As conceived by Frank w. Noxon, secretary of the Railway Business Association. This extraordinary es- timate of the iperial Prussian policy appeared in recent issue of ''The Nations Business"