The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-07-31

That ii 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
GUM, who stood high in the favor of
the kaiser, and presumably expressed
his royal masters ideas, wrote, in his
''Testament," shortly before he died,
as follows:
anyone who knows as do now how
| important Belgium is TO Germany POI
litically. economically and strategical-
| ly, would see how grievOuS a mistake
we should make were we TO conclude
| a pence which does not leave us mas
tiers of Belgium; for, whatever hap
pens, Belgium cannot be allowed to re-
| main under FrancO-British influence,
but on the contrary, must be used to
enhance our power"
Holland Fears an Attack.
Holland remains a neutral nation
but the troops of Holland are mobi-
lized on the border, and engineers
stand ready TO cut the bikes and flood
the country, because Holland knows, as
does the world, that Germany plans,
as SION as she finds it eXpedient, to
take Holland. The mouths of the
Rhine empty into the sea through Hob
thn ~
man trade, Germany holds that the
actual ownership of the entire river
from its source TO tin sea is essential
to Germany. "Die Wacht am Rhine"
obsolete as it 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, and making it 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 brlggarts? Ask the deported-
workInen 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 out Ask the survivors of two
years Of German occupation Of Poland
whether or not deliberate starvation
and deportation Go not mean that their
land must not be numbered with ma
tive Inhabitants but must be given up
for German occupation. Ask the Ar
menians, those few of them who re-
main, hiding from the bloody Turks
differed by Germans.
Every nation which has felt the
weight of Prussian power viii an
swer IN the same way. Their only
answer Is that Deutschland ueber
Allies" means exactly Germany above
all--means domination, persecution,
and crippling when determination is
impossible.
That is why America Is In the war.
She sees Germany's plans to extend
her power until no one can resist 1t.
Protected, perhaps, for the time being,
by her isolation and her latent power.
from the immediate threat of German
conquest, America cannot sit Idly by
and see nine-tenths of the world over
run by Prussianism. knowing, as she
now knows, that her turn may come
later. America must fight. and must
eight to the finish. which means the
downfall of Prussian autocracy and
the quenching forever of the Prussian
lust for conquest