Repository: UIHistories Project: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 25 [PAGE 15]

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trol of India and China. Theae are avowed purposes, as may be learned from the works of many German writers. Failing for the present to accomplish the seizure of the Atlantic littoral from Antwerp west; check-mated in the dream of "Berlin to Bagdad"; thrown out of the colonial empire which he possessed ; the German militarist now turns for enlargment of the Empire by the seizure of Poland and of Russia territory as far as the Gulf of Riga. It makes little difference where the foothold is, so long as it is a larger foothold that will enable him to prepare himself to deliver his next blow with mightier force. "Land, more land," as the cry is expressed by Maximilian Harden, who is now so frequently quoted by pacifist poltroons among our own countrymen who are seeking peace at the expense of principle. Harden was one of the loudest shriekers for blood at the beginning of the war, when prospects seemed favorable to complete German success. Lately he has been advocating what he calls a moderate policy, holding up to his country the moderation of President Wilson and LloydGeorge. Now that he sees that the purposes which he supported cannot be attained he is whining for the best mode of escape. But the establishment of this European empire was for the purpose of furnishing another stepping-stone on which to stand and dictate to the world. "Germany," we are told by Pastor Lehmann, "is the center of God's plans for the world." Germany," another tells us, "as the preponderant power in a Great-German league will with this war attain world supremac y." And still again, Nietzsche, writing thirty-three years a go, tells us that "the time for petty politics is past, the next century win bring the struggle for the dominion of the world." It was in keeping with this purpose and plan that the Kaiser declared some years ago to his people: "Our future lies on the sea"; that he and his associates in government planned a great colonial empire. As another German professor tells us, Writing some years ago: "If we do not soon acquire new territory a frightful catastrophe is inevitable. It signifies little whether it be in Brazil, in Siberia, in Anatolia, or in South Africa." Anywhere in the world they were ready to seize the

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