Douglas Island news., 1918-03-08
THE AIMS OF GERMANY

Just why the Otncf naJlOuS or IlV V"l 'i' lnd especially England and France, living practically next door to Germany, could be ignorant of the designs and intentions oi that country for the past twenty years is more than any intelligent person can under stand after reading the pamphlet issued by he American Publicity Bureau and en titled. "The Aims of Germany in Her Owl Words.
 For the past twenty years, according to hc pamphlet, Germany has made mo effort conceal her intentions of attempting in shc course of the near future, to GermanizC 'entral Europe, giving as her right to dc ;o that Germans were Gods chosen people This doctrine was preached by the kaiser md bv all the leading statesmen writers md university professors of the empire.
 Germany by divine right was to begin by conqucring her immediate neighbors md later to extend her sovereignty over he remainder of Europe and still later .omc across the Atlantic and bring botl North and South America into her fold lt was stated in her legislative halls, pub shcd in her newspapers and magazines. announced in her colleges and universities md taught in her primary schools that Ger many, being a superior nation, was to bring III the other peoples of the world into ser ility.
 Eminent statesmen announced on the loor of the rcichstag that, after conquer ng nation after nation by the sword, many If the people conquered would be spared ito serve us as vassals as God intended hat the weak should serve the strong, the incompetent the competent"
 After the war started and while ad- hcssing am army of recruits at Potsdam, he kaiser said:
 "Only one is Master of the Empire and I am that one! l will tolerate no other
 'I represent Monarchy, by the grace of God.
 You must all have one will, and that is My will; there is only one law, and that IS My law.
 'If order you to shoot down your relatives, brothers-ycs, even your pa rcnts-you must obey Me without mur- mming''
 In his proclamation of September 13. 1914, the kaiser dcclarcd:
 "Thc spirit of God has descended upon Me because I am German em- pcror.
 ''I am the instrument of the Most High I ann His sword His reprcsen- tativc on earth
 "'Woc and death to those who op- pose My will! Death to the infdel who denies My mission!
 "Let all the enemies of the German nation perish! God demands their de- struction-God who by My mouth summons you to carry out His de- crees."
 Do Americans generally, and especially those of Alaska, realize that these auto rratic statements of the Germans were not idle threats, that each and all of these ar engagements so bombastically announced by those over-confdent Germans, will be fulfilled to the letter in the event of vic tory to German arms, that we and om children after us, scions of free-born Am orleans, will become the vassals of this people who claim partnership with AL mighty God in the event of Hohenzollen supremacy!
 To a certain measure we Americans realize what we are up against, but not tC the degree that we should realize it. What Twill it profit any of us to hold back om full measure of support to our soldiers and our government if those soldiers and that government fail to winl