Arizona republican., 1918-03-31
WHY WE ARE ATWAR WITH
 GERMANY
EPHRAiM DOUGLASS ADAMS Executive Head, History Depart
 ment Leland Stanford Junior University

me object of this war is to deliver the free peoples of the world from the menace and the actual power of vast military establishment controlled by an irresponsible government which, having secretly planned to dominate the world, proceeded to carry out the plan without regard either to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long, established practices and long, cherished principles of international action and honor: This power IS not the German people. It is the ruthless master of the german peo- pie. It is our business to see to 1t that the history of the rest of the world is no longer left to it's hand ling. Wilson, August 27, 1917.
 The Material Aims of Germany
 Germany believes that she has the right to dominate the world Her militaristic autocracy believes that this war is step toward such world domination. but the 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 after war, and today those terms remain unaltered. The Russian ne gotiations have served to prove that what has for a long time been public opinion, is now official opinion. The quotations will show this.
 First, the more general purposes
 If we come victorious out of this war we shall be the first people on the earth, rich stream of gold will pour over the land.' Expansion of our. power both east and west, if l possible also over seas; political and military domination combined, indis | solubly connected with economical eX- l pansion, this is our war aim "The l territory open to future German ex- | pansion must extend from the North Sea and the Baltic to the Persian Gulf, absorbing the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Switzerland, the whole 1 basin of the Danube, the Balkan Pen insula and Asia Minor"
 Second, the immediate aims: "Our relations with Turkey have drawn us | into this war, the BagdaJ Railway must be extended by us to | the open sea, even to India itself
 Belgium mast remain under German l domination there exists nc better line of attack for the German army in a future war with France, whom it is necessary ito weaken tt such a degree that she can never again be dangerous to us." Will anybody believe that we will hand over the lands which we have oc- cupied in the west, on which the blooe of our people has flowed?' we are not an institute for lengthening the life of dying states
 But it is on Poland and westerr Russia that Germany has all along fixed her eyes. We ought not to lei fall the sword from our hand before we have assured our future. Om l eastern bondaries must not remain l where they are.' "Livonia, Kurland Esthonia, have been for more thar seven centuries sister countries united | through German tradition. It is tru, Germans do not yet represent 10 pel cent of the inhabitants; but theil character filters through the whole.
 Let us bravely organize great forced migrations of the inferior peoples Posterity will be grateful to us. Vt must coerce them! This is one of thu
 tasks of war. Such forced migration
 may appear hard, but it is the onl!
 solution. The inefficient peo
 ples, discouraged and rendered indif
 ferent to the future by the spectacl of the superior energy of their con