Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-11-29
The Kaiser as | Knew ! lin
for Fourteen Years
CHAPTER TX.
BY ARTHUR N. DAVIS. D. D. S.

CHAPTER TX.
THE kaiser's Plan for World Dominion.
4 The history Of modern Germany is,
perhaps, in itself sufficient indication
Of the underlying plan of the Teuton
war barons to control the whole OF
Europe and, eventually, the world. The
program has been slowly unfolding it.
self since the time of Frederick the
Great and the present generation ts
now witnessing what was intended to
be the climax. g " Is
There can be no doubt that If Ger.
many had succeeded in her efforts to
sain control Of the major part of Eu-
rope she would haYe soon looked
tsWard the western hemisphere and
the east.
This program is fairly indicated by
the course Of events as history lays
them bare, but have the actual word
Of the kaiser to substantiate 1t.
Y at one Of his visits to me shortly
after the beginning Of the war we were
discussing England's participation IN
it.
.'What hypocrites the English are!"
the kaiser exclaimed. ..- III
'.They had always treated me so
vell when visited them I never be.
Neved they would have come into this
war. They always acted as If they
liked me. Ny mother was English.
you know. I always thought the
world was big enough for three Of Us
alld we could keep it for ourselves
that Germany could control the CONT.
nant of Europe, England, through her
vast possessions and fleet, could con-
tfo1 the Mediterranean and the far
east, and America could dominate the
western hemisphere !" -
How long it would have been before
Germany would have tried to wrest
dominion from England can readily be
Imagined, and with the whole Of Eu-
rope and the far east under her thumb
America would undoubtedly have
proved too tempting morsel for the
kaiser's or his descendants rapaci0us
nav to have resisted. He said that
he believed that the world was big
e1ough for three" he didn't say 1t
was too big for one.
Il What was really in his mind, how
ever, Is indicated by passage In an
address he made some twenty-five
years ago, in which, as Rev. DR.. New.
n Dwight Hills has pointed out. he
u1ed these words:
4 sTfom my childhood have been I'M
DIR tho influence Of i've smen-Alexan.
0oc, julius Caesar. Theodore II, Ma
poaeon and Frederick the Great. These
i've men dreamed their dream Of q
world empire: they failed. am
dreaming my dream Of world empire,
but shall succeed"
The kaiser's plan to dominate Eu-
nope included the control Of Turkey,
ana he made every effort to strengthen
hat country 80 that she might be .
valuable ally in the war to come.
When Italy took Tripoll from Tur-
'key before the Balkan war / men
tened to the kaiser how opportunity
tlnly had acted, but the kaiser dis.
aAssd my remark with an exclama-
ton of displeasure, realizing, Of
course. that Turkeys loss was In q
sense his own since he had planned to
make Turkey his vassal.
To that end he had sent German Of.
ncers to train the Turkish army and
had supplied them with guns and mu-
.nitions. With an eye to the future,
to, he had constructed the great Bag
d10 railway. III.
When the Balkan war broke out in
1912 the kaiser had great confidence
that the German.trained Turkish army
would acquit itself creditably and
hat in the outcome Of that conflict his
European program would make cor"id-
cradle progress. He told me that he
had map Of the war area placed in
his motor and that with pegs he fol-
lowed the fortunes Of the fighting
armies while he was travelling.
The Turkish defeats were naturally
. great disappointment to him.
These MOntenegrins, Serbians and
Bulgarians are wonderful fighters" he
confessed to me, shortly after the war
began. They're out-of-door people
and they have the strength and STAN
ina which fighters require. II they
keep on the way they're going they'll
be in Constantinople in week! Con-
found those Turks! We furnished
them guns and ammunition and
trained their officers, buff they won't
fight we can't make them. We've done
our best"
The defeat of the Turks lessened
their value to the kaiser as an ally
and he Immediately put into effect q
measure for increasing the German
army from $4,000 to 10000
to restore the balance, Of power, they
said. For this purpose ''Wehrbei-
frap" or Increased armament tax was