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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 25
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de his allies in shining armor, the Emperor himself. AmbCSl dor Gerard tells us that in conversation with him the hi bassado v nerorrepeatedly said: "America had better look out after his war," and "I shall stand no nonsense from America after the War." The sentiments that have been described above have come to the surface on several occasions in the history of the past two decades. The story of the attitude and interference of the German Admiral Diedrichs with the operations of Admiral Dewey and his attempt, without success, to persuade the British Admiral to take the same view, are well known. Yet Chancellor von Bulow, speaking in the Reichstag in 1899 evidently approved the truculent attitude of his Admiral. He said among other things, that the need of Germany for coaling stations was most clearly indicated at the time of the SpanishAmerican war, and that the introduction in the Reichstag of a bill for the increase of the German navy was justified by the occurrences of the Spanish-American war, the disturbances in Samoa and the war in South Africa. i the GerAmerican enemy as he dared in an obstructive way in the operations of Dewey's Admiral ing point. Later on the same commander in the same cruiser the Panther, slipped into a harbor of Venezuela and endeavored to get a foothold there. German influence has been thrown against the construction and the control of the Panama Canal by ourselves and against the purchase by us of the Danish West India Islands. In spite of this fearful indictment, in spite of this long series °f truculent acts against every people in the world who were imagined by German leaders to stand in their way, we still find some of our people asking why we went into the war! We went in for a variety of reasons. In the first place, we were called on as one of the leaders of humanity to take a stand in defense of civilization, righteousness and law. When our forefathers published the Decla31
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