Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-08-02

Ihor stood at the midnight end OF
the world and threw his heavy battle-
axe. so far as my hammer goes whiz-
zing through the air shall the land and
the sea be mine And the hammer
earth; it fell ut the furthest end of the
South, so that all should become his
own. Since then It's the joyous Ger
man right with the hammer to win
land. We are of the race of the Ham
mer-God and mean TO inherit his world
empire"
SO wrote Felix Dahn, famous Ger
man poet. So spoke the kaiser and
his ministers. So taught the German
professors and economists, and so be-
lieved the great mass of the German
people Us they Started gayly on the
world WIZ, sure in their own minds of
easy conquest, arrogant in their be-
lief Of mental and military superiority,
and confident Of the protection of the
German Cod" not the benevolent
Deity Of other lands, but the Thor of
the barbarian tribes who overran Ell
cope nearly two thousand years ago.
Prussians Long Land Grabbers.
Expansion has been the sole aim of
The prnssian rulers since the days Of
Frederick the Great. Expansion. to
Prussian, means not peaceful settle
ment of nncivilized lands, but foreeful
spoliation Of ones neighbors; not col
onzation but conquest Prussia, by
conquest. expanded from little in
and state TO the great German EN-
pire Of today. The prussian dream
now is expansion until the world is
mastered rs Rome mastered il; expan-
sion until there is no room on the
globe for any trade but German trade
one of the most popular books ia
Germany during the years immediate
~ preceding the war was Greater
Germany and Mid-Europe in the Year
$780, Ii tells how Germany must
dominate Europe, take what it wants
from those who now have it, and re-
duce the population of conquered lands
10 servitude. Here is a typical quo
tation:
The Germans, being alone entitled
to exercise political rights, to serve in
the army and navy, and to acquire
landed property, will recover the feel
ing they had in the middle ages of be-
ing people of masters. They will
gladly tolerate the foreigners living
amongst them, to whom inferior man
ual services would be entrusted
Others to Sweep Streets.
Presumably they would allow the
French. the BelgianS and the Italians,
who now are opposing them so vail
antly, 10 sweep the streets and dig
the sewers.
Klaus Wagner noted German writ
er, in his ''Krieg," says:
South America must also and may
easily become home for new free
Teutonic races. Resettlement of the
territory by people of Teutonic stock
removal of the non-Teutonic inhabi
tants To reservations, or, best Of all,
10 Africa. Retention of Teutonoid-
Latins in South America in so far as
they are physically, mentally and NOR
ally sound, and are passed by a COM
mission Of anthropologists, physicians,
artists and teachers"
Imagine such IL specialized German
commission passing on your fitness to
live in these United States; picture,
If you can, how you would pass your
examination And if the German ar
fist happened not 10 like the color of
your eyes or the shade Of your hair,
10 Africa you would go. If the Ger
man teacher thought you failed TO ar
ticulate your gutturals properly, it
would mean deportation