Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-06-12
V 7o Fight Becauss Germany Having Split the World in Half Is Now Trying
 to Deyour the Halves
By CLARENCE L.. SPEED

By CLARENCE l.. SPEED
 Secretary of the War Committee of the Union League Club of Chicago.
 We are fighting Germany, for one thing, because Germany, having split the world in half, is now seeking to devour the halves separately. She has driven a wedge straight through the heart of Europe, and into Asia, and is seeking to extend 1t to the Per sian gulf.
 This is no accidental happening, due to the downfall of Russia and the sud- den shifting in the fortunes of war. Germany planned it ell decades ago. She made no effort to keen the plans secret. She told us all about 1t. She had a reputation for making plans and sticking to them, from one gener- alton to another; yet the world paid no attention. It seemed too prepos- terous even for Germany to attempt As long ago as 1895 pamphlet. "Pan-Germany and Central Europe About 195O," was published in Berlin and had wide circulation. It laid the whole Mitteleuropa plan bare as fol- lows:
 "Poland and Little Russia (the king dom to be established at Russia's ex- pense) will agree to have no armies of their own, and will receive in their Actresses German and Austrian garri- sons., In Poland, as we'll as in Little Russia, the postal and telegraph serv- t,<, n German hands"
 In 1911 Tannenberg's book, Greater Germany" was published. This was only three years before the war, but it showed that the idea of German Mitteleuropa had not been allowed to languish. It says:
 "The new kingdom of Poland is made up of the former Russian DOT tion of the basin of the Vistula. and of Galicfa, and forms a part.of the new Austria
 How the plan has grown since then! l Russia's collapse dropped whole prov- inces into the lap of the kaiser, and now Germany plans its empire on a scale which would dwarf that of an- cient Rome. It is to embrace the orig inal Central Europe. inhabited by some 73,O0O,OOO Germans, make the Black sea a German lake, and extend clear to the Persian gulf through the
 vassal states of Bulgaria and Turkey.
 The German government started to nut it's scheme for Mitteleuropa in- i, to effect years ago when 1t began the construction of the Berlin-to-Bagdad railway. Little Serbia stood in the way, so Serbia was attacked and the world was plunged into war. In the l opposite corner of Europe Beiginm was invaded and crushed. The world 1 then thought that this was only be- cause Belgium offered the easiest route to France; but study of the Nit teleuropa plan. of years ago shows that 1 Belgium was included in the scheme of conquest.
 "How does all this affect America r one may ask. Germany was a late
 conner in the family of great nations. Most of the uncivilized world had been | pre-empted by other nations before she arrived. Germany wanted col- onies. To get them she would have to take them away from someone else.
 Africa and South America offered the best fields for German coloniza- 1 ton. England possessed the best part l of Africa-the parts in which the l white man might hope to settle and l thrive. England had mighty fleet, l and disposition to hold what she had, even though she did not show 1 disposition to fight for more.
 There remained South America. It was divided among weak nations. It was protected only by the Monroe doc trine. This Monroe doctrine was a sacred thing to Americans but, net being backed up by mighty armies and fleets, was not even "scrap of paper" to the Germans. Gan anyone doubt, should Germany succeed in welding into a mighty empire the 73,O0O,0O0 Germans and the 1O0,000,O00 inhabi- l tants of the vassal and conquered states of her Mitteleuropa, that her
 next step would be toward the west? The very fact that she had this em- pire would presuppose the defeat of England, so that no British fleet would stand between us and Germany when the time came for the kaiser to send his 1egions across the Atlantic.
 "As, in the East so in the West" i" Is motto which, of recent weeks, has been much heard in Germany. At conference of the national liberal par ty, held in March of this year, the fol- lowing amazingly frank declaration