HOW THE KAISER, WEEKS AHEAD;
FIXED DATE FOR WAR TO RESIN,
NOW REVEALED RY M0R6ENTHAU
Hostilities Decided on at Conference in Berlin in July, 1914, Among Emperor and His Leading Statesmen,
Soldiers and Financiers-Latter Asked for Two Weeks to Arrange Loans and Then Raided Markets of
World - Facts Told by German Envoy at Constantinople After Conflict Began.
In May, Even, Ruler Of Austria Said Conflict Was Inevitable
Ever Since He Came to Throne Says Our Ambassador to Turkey, Weltmacht Dream Has Obsessed the
Kaiser, Who Has Stirred and Fostered Trouble Wherever He Has Found It, Making Germany the Pirate
of Nations - Attack on United States One of His Schemes to Get Indemnity 'Whicn It Is Declared He
Set at $50,000,000,000 - Princa Henry's Visit Part of Plan.
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By Henry Horganthau
Former American Ambassador to
Turkey.
(Concluded. )
PRINCE HENRY’S VISIT HERE
PART OF THE IMPERIAL
PROPAGANDA
In pursuance of the war plans of the
Kaiser and the Pan-Germans who in
spired him and probably used him as
the agent of their ambitions, the world
was toeseigcd by armies of Prussian
spies, advancing Prussian interests and
doing Prussia’s work everywhere. Not
a nation escaped theis infamous inva
sion.
The Kaiser’s brother, Prince Henry,
was sent to the United States ostensi
bly to assist in. the launching of the
imperial yacht, in reality to rekindle
among Americans of German decent
their Vaterland’s liebe and organize
them into German Societies that could
i>e directed from Berlin, to suit the exi
gencies of the imperial policy.
At least 80,000 Germans were turned
Jose upon Spain, and probably a quarter
jof a million upon England. France
'was over run with them. There was
no occupation, calling or industry in
■which they did not make their way.
They swarmed over South America,
over the near East and the Far East,
and all of them were card indexed for
the uses of Berlin. Nothing was over
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looked.
Nothing is more characteristic of tin
Prussian methods than the manner ii
which they obtained possession of Tur
key. After the Sultan was deposei
the Young Turks were in hard strait
to maintain themselves. Throughou
the Moslem world they are generall;
under suspicion as Freemasons an<
athiests.
The European capitals were generall!:
sceptical. In England a Liberal gov
ernment was In power, and it was no
|lisposed to take on any Turkish com
plications.
The Turks, as a whole, were dis
trustful of the French because of Syrte
and frankly antagonistic to Russia
That was Germany’s opportunity. Ger
man military experts were sent to ex
plain lo the Turks how their disaster!
had colme about in the two Balkar
wars, and how similar disaster!
might be avoided in the future by pro
per co-ordination of military and trans
portation resources. Germany was
willing to spend the money in gambling
that the Young Turks could retain con
trol of the Government and the Young
turks were glad to be gambled on.
Slowly, but surely, Germany pusher
itself into Turkish affairs until it be
came the predominating partner. Ber
lin had made itself indespensible to th<
men in control o fthe Turkish govern
ment, and when the war came Turkej
was a German pawn.
The Turks did not always submil
gracefully. There were many protests
against German pretentions, but in th<
end the Kaiser always prevailed . Ii
had been th original intention of Ber
lin to bring Turkey Into the war—Ger
had not been original intention of Ber
Goeben and the Breslau in the Darda
nelles changed the situation. Thcrt
was no desire on the part of the Young
Turks to enter upon a fresh war, bul
by that time they were helplessly en
meshed in the German net.
So completely was the German gov
ernment the master of the situation
that even after Turkey’s entrance in
the war became inevetable the Turkish
government was held back until- the
Germans had completed one of the
most powerfuL wireless stations in the
world with which to direct opreations
from Constantinople and had brought
In the necessary guns and ammunition
through Roumania.
Turkey was vital to Pan-Germanism.
It was the esentlal part of the MitteW
europa programme, and when the Kai
ser was ready to strike, Turkey was
already a vassal of Germany to be used
is Berlin saw fit, either neutral or bel
igerent. bat always In Germany's inter
est.
It came about that most of Ger
:nany’s cuicfully laid schemes in other
3oun tries went wrong anid the money
invested turned out to be a total loss,
mt the Turkish investiment paid dlvl
lends from the start. In respect to
rurkey alone were the German calcula
-ions corect, and without the control
if Turkej Germany could not have car
ried on the war, for Turkey not only
vept 1,000,000 allied troops occupied
(found the Dardanelles, In the Cauca
sus, Asia Minor and Egypt, but pre
.'ented a flank movement against Aus
3-la.
*...uuy years Germany has been
:he Pirate of nations. Wherever there
vas troubllo, the Kaiser was there add
ng to the difficulties of a peaceful
Hitt lament and watching for his oppor
unity to set the war machine in opera
tor
The Groman policy resembles noth
ing else so much as the policy of the
Vmerican profiteers of today.
In the Span Lsh - .Amorim n war the
Caiser was notoriously on the side of
Spain, in the belief that Spain could
rumble the pride of the United States,
it the South African war he was all
or Kruger and the Boers, In the hope
hat England would bo beaten and her
irestige in Africa and Asia forever
weakened He intrigued with the Czar
■gainst Japan. He Intrigued iui every
iouth American country against' the
Tnited States.
Baron Jshii, the head of the Japanese
ommission to the United States, has
ubllcly declared i nhis speeches that
lie anti-American agitation in Japan
and the anti-Japanese agitation in the
s United States, which have so menace!
i the relations between the two countrie:
• for a dozen years, were the result o
l German plots; and nobody now doubt:
i the truth of this charge.
It explans, what was hitherto unex
’ plainable, just as the Germans con
I spiracies in Mexico enable us to under
stand why Mexico distrusted the Uni
ted States in the face of the most over
whelming evidence of whooly benevo
. lent Intentions on our part.
Much of this intrigue may appear t<
have been almost purposeless in its
mjalice so far as the interests of Ger
many were concerned, but the Kaisei
was always looking ahead to the da5
when the imperial) war eagles wouk
be unloosed, and the more Internationa
misunderstandings there were, th<
more certain Germany would be of suc
cess in carrying out its programme <>1
world domination.
The attitude of the Germans towards
the nations in general was not unlike
its attitude towards the Irish questior
just before the beginning of the war
Both factions in Ireland were supplier
with guns and ammunition from Ger
many brought over in German ships
Berlin cared nothing for Home Rule 01
for Ulster objections to Home Rule
but it ceued a great deal for a Civil
war in Ireland that would cripple Greal
Britain's hands when the great day
dawned and the new Attilu. set forth al
the head of his hordes.
As I have already said, it was not
by accident that the war came, and it
was not by chance that It came in
1914. In all his calculations the Kaisei
had overlooked onefactor; thatof hum
an nature He had not preceived that
his own people might fall him in the
critical moment and that the control ol
the great machine which he hod con
structed might be challenged before he
could set it in motion.
Baron Wangenheim confided to me
that there would have been war at the
time of the Algeclras conference, but
Germany was not ready. No matteT
how elaborate the preparations had
been.therewas always something lack
ing, so Germany proceeded to get ready
with a new army bill and a new budget
which imposed a capital tax that all
the world now ‘recognizes as a war
tax. The amazing thing is that it was
not so recognized at the time. The
new army estimates would have expir
ed in 1915. The Social Democratic
movement was gaining enormously in
strength throughout Germany. Before
the Kaiser was fairly ready for his
great exploit in Weltlmacht he was
threatened with a social revolution at
home due to the heavy burdens the
German people were carrying, the
spread of democratic doctrines and the
growing resistence of the working
classes to arbitary government.
If things drifted until! it was neces
sary to renew the army appropriations,
the Social Democrats might be able to
hold up the estimates and force sweep
ing reforms that would practically put
them in control of the Reichstag and
perhaps end forever the Kaiser’s dream
of world domination.
It was vital that the war should
come before this issue was joined at
home, and hence the murders at Sara
jevo were little less than a godsend to
the German autocracy. They gave the
Kaiser the excuse he needed and they
provided the opportunityto manoeuver
Russia into a position in which war
could be represented to the German
people as one of self defense. The
Berlin conference put the finishing
touches on tho programme. The Ger
man financiers finished their utsk and
the trap was sprung.
There can be only one end to this
struggle, and that Is the complete de
struction of Kaiserism and absolutism
Among the great statesmen of the
world, President Wilson was the first
to see that without this elimination of)
Kaiserism and absolutism no durable
peace was possible. To make peace
on any other terms is to make a truce
anti give Germany time to prepare for
a fresh attack.
As Baron Wangenheim once hope
fully remarked,the next time Germany
would be even more farsighted and
woiuld have ot least a five year sup
> ply of cotton and copper when war
I was declared. That is unquestionably
i what will happen unless the nations
’ that are now fighting autocracy make
i the results of this war so decisive that
the Prussian system can never be re
establihed.
The Germans must be beaten at
thedr own game. The Prussian sys
tem was created by military prestige,
it rests upon military prestige and it
will collapse when that military pres
tige is destroyed. The G?nn.\n jko
■ pie accepted it because it had made
i them rich and powerful. They will
abandon it when it leaves them im
ipoverished and defeated. There is
nothing miraculous or invincible
.about this military system. It is
merely tihe product of experts who
I have devoted all their energies to it.
Germany studied for decades how to
create armies and make war, but the
Allies in three years have learned all
that Germany ever knew and more.
Everything that Germany has done
in a military way we can do. The
German has no special genius for war,
as events have proved, although he
made war his trade.
In France I saw how three Ameri
can regular army officers, one of them
a medical man, alloted to each Ameri
can regiment of engineers, created an
astonishingly efficient military unit in
a remarkably short space of time.
That is what we must be ready to do
with 5,000,000 men, if necessary, cost
what it may. No matter how heavy
the expense may be, it will be light
in comparison wiith the price that the
United States woiuld have to pay if
Germany won the war.
The great majority of Americans
seem to have little realisation of Wow
close we stood to the brink of a pre
cipice. It was no idle threat that the
Kaiser uttered when he told Ambas
sador Gerard in October, 1916, that
when this war was ever he intended
to stand no more nonsense from the
Americans.
If Germany was victorious and
Great Britain and France were crush
ed, the United States would have been
attacked on the pretext that it had
supplied the Allies with money and
munitions and be compelled to pay
an Indemnity that would make Ger
many the richest nation in the world
in spite of her enormous losses. I
have heard this Indemnity mentioned
at $50,000,000,000 or 200,000,000.ooo
marks.
There is not the slighest doubt in
my mind that this is what the Kaiser
would have done If the Allies had been
defeated. Indeed, the humbling and
cripling of the United States were no
less essential to the Kaiser's ambition
to create a master state than the
humbling and crippling of Great Bri
tain. Here were unlimited riches in
the hands of 100,000,000 people who
had not Had the courage to defend
themselves. They had made billions
out of the war; why not take it away
from thorn and put the German Em
pire back on its feet?
When a Senator like La Follette as
serts that we had only a technical
grievance against Germany, the men
who applaud him for assailing the
President’s policy are blind and deaf
and dumb to the calamity which was
hanging over the country.
It is freely admitted by French and
British statesmen that the cause of
the Allies was saved by our interven
tion. There ' can be no doubt of it.
But if we had not intervened our
honor and our wealth alike would
have been lost to us. We should
have had to fight in the end against
military odds that had broken Eng
land and France, and wo should have
paid in indemnities far more than
this war can ever cost us.
\V^iat is worse still, our money and
our shame would have imposed ab
solutism upon the world for genera
tions to come, and this terrible strug
gle for emancipation would have been
bequeathed to our children’s children.
1 have seen this war from both
sides and I know that unless Kniser
ism is destroyed democracy will be
^ lo^niypj Sft We cannot live in the
same world with the kind of a Ger
many that Prussia*! militarism has
created and that the Kaiser is direct
ing.
Let there be no mistake about it.
we. are fighting a new war of inde
pendence, and It is as truly a war of
independence as that which our an
cestors fought under Washington
from 1776 to 1783. We are fighting a
new war against slavery. It is a dif
ferent kind of slavery from that which
Lincoln emancipated the Republic,
but slavery it is the slavery of White
to White, which the military caste of
Prussia has sought to impose upon all
civilization.
Under Wilson we are battling in a
new war for emancipation, and there
can be no terms but unconditional
surrender on the part of Kaiserism
'Jur.df^ absolutism. Anything short of
that is a victory for Germany. Any
thing less than the complete triumph
of the forces of democracy, in which
the United States is now the leader,
■will bequeath to the next generation
the heritage of another conflict more
terrible still than that which is
drenching the world in blood.
It was Bemhardi who formulated,
(the battle cry of Kaiserism as it seiz
ed the sword-Weltmacht Oder Nieder
gang-world-mastery or down fall. It
must be downfall. Wilhelm II, decreed
the war.
In the providence of God, the Amer
ican people under Wodtirow Wilson,
together with their Allies, can decree
the peace, and there must be no com
promise. Absolutism must be de
stroyed, root and branch. Only then
can the world have a new birth of
freedom.
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