sions,
can have only one thought, how he is to hack his way through."

Guizot mentions "honour and fidelity to the pledged word" as one of the
distinguishing elements of what is called "a civilized State." But this
puts Germany among the barbarous savages. Three indictments and
convictions have blackened the name of Germany throughout all the world.
First, her atrocious and dishonourable methods of warfare; second, the
carrying off into slavery of non-combatants, the Belgians and French,
and third, the breach of the pledged word and the solemn treaties with
other nations.

But at last we know that Frederick the Great, the ancestor of the
Kaiser, was the author of the phrase, "the treaty is a scrap of paper."
What was once in the gristle in the ancestor is now bred in the bone of
the Kaiser and Crown Prince. That phrase, "a scrap of paper," holds the
germ of a thousand wars. It spells the ruin of civilization. Not to
resent it by war, is for the Allies to commit spiritual suicide.

5. The Plot of the Kaiser

All the pamphlets issued secretly to the members of the Pan-German
League invariably used Rome as their illustration. We are not surprised,
therefore, to find that the German leaders called attention to the fact
that it took two wars at intervals of some years to make Rome a world
empire.

In like manner, therefore, the Kaiser and his Cabinet told the German
people at home and abroad that the first war, beginning in 1914, would
establish a Middle-Europe Empire extending from Hamburg on the North Sea
to Bagdad on the Persian Gulf.

One of the pamphlets issued many years ago fixed the countries to be
conquered about 1915, and distinctly mentioned Denmark, Holland, Belgium
and North France, Poland and Rumania, Hungary and Austria, Serbia and
Bulgaria, and the wheat granaries of Russia, with Turkey and Armenia.

The number of people to be conquered and included after the first war
was fixed at 250,000,000.

The argument states that it will take but a few years to compact this
Middle-Europe Empire and that naturally Great Britain, Spain and Italy,
to the west, with Norway and Sweden to the north, with Italy and
Switzerland to the south, and of course Greece and Egypt would, from
time to time, as crises came, fall inevitably into Germany's hand.
Berlin, as the world capital, should by 1920 be the magnet, and the
little particles of iron, named the Balkan States, would be drawn and
held by this great German magn