Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-10-31

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course, that Turkeys loss was in
sense his own since he had planned t.
make, Turkey his vassal.
To that end he had sent German of
fcers to train the Turkish army ant
had supplied them with guns and mu
nitions. With an eye to the future
too, he had constructed the great Bag
dad railway.
When the Balkan war broke out In
! 1912 the kaiser had great confidence
that the German-trained Turkish army
would acquit itself creditably and
that in the outcome of that conflict his
European program would make cor i'd
cradle progress. He told me that he
had a 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
a great disappointment to him.
"These Montenegrins, Serbians and
Bulgarfans are wonderful fighters" he
confessed to me, shortly after the war
began. They're out-of-door people
and they have the strength and stam-
Ina which fighters require. If they
keep on the way they're going they'll
be In Constantinople in a week Con-
found those Turks We furnished
them guns and ammunition and
trained their officers, but If 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
measure for increasing the German
standing army from $4,000 TO 100000
to restore the balance of power, they
said For this purpose a "Wehrbei-
trag," or increased armament tax, was
levied on capital and, incidentally, l
was informed that would have to
pay my share. The idea of paying
tax to upbuild the German army,
which was already so powerful that
1t menaced the peace of the world,
did not appeal to me at all and l
spoke to Ambassador Gerard about it.
He advised me to pay it under protest,
agreeing with me that there was no
reason why an American should be
required to contribute to the German
war budget. However, / had to pay it.
The German efforts at colonization,
which were more or less of failure
because the Germans. refused to in
habit the German possessions, and the
measures adopted to conquer the com
mercial markets of the world were an
important part of the program of world
which Germany planned
for herself, and it is not unlikely that
If she had confined her efforts along
those lines she might have progressed
further along her chosen path than she
has advanced by bathing the world in
blood.
Il have nearly 100000 people"
the kaiser said to me on one occasion,
land we shall have to find room for
them somewhere. When we became
an empire England had her hands on
nearly everything. Now we must
fight to get ours. That is why l am
developing our world markets, just as
your country secured Hawaii and the
as stepping stones to the
markets of the far east, as l under
stand it That's why l developed the
wonderful city of Kiao-Chau."
His plans in this connection were
somewhat apparently by the
developments of the present war, for
he told me that when it was over the
Germans would not emigrate to the
United States any more.
mo more American emigration for
us after the war" he said. My
people will settle in the Balkans and
develop and control that wonderful
country. I have been down there and
/ know it is a marvellous land for our
purposes"
The kaiser's vision of the part he
would take in the reconstruction of
stricken Europe was indicated by
remark he made to me in 1916 when
I was visiting him at the army head
quarters at Pless.
"Here I am. nearly sixty years OF
age" he soliloquized, "and must re
build the whole of Europe"
Although the kaiser so freely admit
ted his designs on the world at large.
he was impatient OF any expansion
on the part of other nations. He often
spoke of Engiand's grabbing pro-
pensity and viewed with suspicion our
of Hawaii and the Philip
pines and our development of Cuba
after the Spanish-American war. lie
professed to see in our new policy
striving after world power which was
Inconsistent with the principles upon
which our government was founded.
He objected to our interference III
Mexican affairs. although, as was dis
closed by the Zimmerman note TO Won
Eckhardt, he was making every effort
to have Mexico interfere with ours.
"What right has President wilson
to attempt to dictate the internal poll
cies of Mexico?" he asked. "Why not
let them fight their battles out aloneY
Abiding to Americas threat to en-