The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-04

Jamie power Turkey advances against Russia and against Eng land Against Russia, with her navy in the Black Sea and an army against the Caucasus. But what a Turkish blow against south Russia will mean only the man can judge who remembers that the Russian south is the granary, the coalpit, and the mine of the Rus sian Empire. That is to strike Rus sia in her vitals. Russia must be thrust back from the Black Sea. We are not again to have to stem the tide of onslaugnts before an other decade. Only Russia which has been thrust back from the Black Sea and directed toward the Indian Ocean (against England) or toward East Asia (against Japan) will no longer be a European danger"
 ische Waffenbruderschaft, 1915, pp. 2627. Nowhere, unless in the pre- ccding utterance of Plenge, is the connection between economic inter ests and war more clearly revealed "Economic interests" as expounded by the Germans is camouflage for ugly business of plundering neigh boring lands to their own enrich ment. Jackh is at present associ- ated with Rohrbach in the publica- tion of a new weekly, Deutsch Pol itik, devoted to "Weltund Kultur- politik." In the issue of Aug. 10, 1917, he advocates a Middle Flu rope" block and a possible combin- ation with Russia and Japan against the Anglo-Saxon world)
 The Prize of Victory.
 Let us not speak of peace, for such speeches are taken for weak ness and only prolong the war. Let us cease also in sickly, un-German fashion to oppose annexations. Let us rather say manfully what we want, what we must and will de mand as the prize of victory Let us act without consideration for other countries. Then our enemies will see that we are strong, not weaker but stronger than before. Then they will see at last that their game is up."
 Speech by Prinz zu Salm-Horst- | mar, member of the Prussan House | of Lords, Jan. 1, 1916. G., D. 49.) | With Blood and Iron.
 "The German Empire must make | its way with blood and iron to the | fultillment of it's political destiny" l
 Speech by the Prussian minister of the interior, Von Loebdell, Jan. IT, 1916, in the diet. G. D. ID Profit Vs. Enmity.
 When weighed in the balance witr our unpopularity after this war a simple restoration of the status quo ante bellum would mean for Germany not profit but loss. Only in case the strengthening of our po- litical, economic and military po- sition by the war decidedly coun- terbalances the enmity aroused | shall we be able to say with a good | conscience that by the war we have on the whole bettered ourselves"
 (From the book entitled Deutschc Politik, 1916, D. xiii, by the ey- chancellor, Prince von Buelow. The i preface, from which the passage is taken, bears date of May 15. The book was received enthusiastically | by the annexationist press, but cool ly by the social-democrats. G., D. 15.)
 Back to the Orient.
 "The power of Middle Europe is increased, that of the Russians thrown back toward the Orient, whence, not so long, it came"
 (Article in the Deutsche Lodzer Zeitung, Feb. 9, 1916, by General Ludendorff. G., D. "A. He is now quartermaster general and proba- bly the brains of the general staff) No Compromise Peace.
 With a compromise peace. in which there is neither victor nor vanquished, Germany cannot go on living. Therefore we must remain stern and always sterner; therefore | our statesmen must in the peace ne- gotiations be men Of iron and not, | to use Bismarck's phrase, resemble | soft wood that has been painted | iron-gray. The German people | mean not only to hold out but to conquer. To see things as they | really are, that is Bismarck's way. What we must do we will do, and | what we will to do, we can do."
 Count von Reventlow in an ad- dress April 1, 1916, reported in the