Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-10
Germans Plan World Rule;
Other Races to Be Menials
written the Var com Of the 1nion League Club Of Chicago
By CLARENCE L. SPEED

That it is the intention Of Germany
to hold Belgium, thus gaining posses
sion of the channel ports and robbing
England of its control Of that portion
Of the sea which lies between her and
The continent, is no longer left in
doubt. Baron Won Kissing, the first
German governor Of conquered Bel
gium, who stood high in the favor. Of
The kaiser, and presumably expressed
his royal masters ideas, wrote, in his
"TcStament,' shortly before he died,
rs follows:
Anyone who knows as do now how
important Belgium is TO Germany po-
liticalIy, economically and stratcglcal.
", would see how grieyous a mistake
we should make We're we to conclude
a peace which does not leave us mas
tiers of Belgium; for, whatever hap
pens, Belgium cannot be allowed to re-
main under Franco-Brtish influence
bur, on the contrary, must be used to
ciildItt buT power,
Holland Fears an Attack.
Holland remains neutral nation.
Germany has declared no war on her,
but the troops ~ Holland are mobi-
LIKED on the border, and engineers
stand ready IA cut the dikes and flood
the country, because Holland knows, as
does the world, that Germany plans,
rs soon as She finds it eXpedient, to
take Holland. The mouths of the
Rhine empty into the sea through Ho--
land. Because the Rhine carries Ger
man trade, Germany halds that the
actual ownership of the entire river
from its source to the sea is essential
TO Germany. Die Wacht am Rhine"
obsolete ms j is on the upper reaches
OF the river, still means something in
the North and Germany has set her
heart on controlling the river from the
Alps to the sea, Of terrifying its
mouths, ana making 1t in reality as in
song The German Rhine"
Real Policy OF Conquest.
Are German plans, as thus exposed,
but the empty vaporings Of irrespon-
sible braesarts? Ask the deported.
worbmen Of Belgium, who have been
sent away to make room for the set
Element Of Germans on the frontier?
Ask the inhabitants of posen, who
have suffered under German perSecu-
ton for generations. ASK those sturdy
frenchmen who still remain in Alsace
in spite Of the German efforts to drive
them ont. Ask the survivors of two
years OF German occupation of Poland
whether or not deliberate starvation
and deportation dopot mean that their
land MUST not be numbered with ma
tive Inhabitants but must be given up
Tor German occupation. Ask the Ar
those few of them e'Nho re.
main, hiding from the bloody Turks
differed by Germans.
Every nation which. has felt the
weight Of plussian power will an.
sWcr IN the same way. Their only
answer Is that Deutschland ueber
Allies means exactly Germany above
alf'-ucans domination, persecution,
and gripping when determination is
impossible
That is why America is in the war.
She secs 6ermany's plans to extend
her power until no one can resist II.
Protected, perhaps, for the time being,
hy her isolation and her latent power,
from the immediate threat Of German
conquest, America cannot sit idly by
and see nine-teuths Of The world over
run by prusslaniSln, knowing. as she
now knows, that her turn may come
later. America must fight, and must
fight to the finish, which means the
downfall Of ,prusslan alltocracy and
the quenching forever Of the prusslan
lust for conquest.