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Show Why Hohenzollern Objects. B It is said that Germany will opose the limi- B tation of navies in the coming Hague Congress. Wo think we understand the Kaiser's thought. I It is something like this: "Japan is outdoing B every other nation except Great Britain In build-B build-B ing up a groat fighting navy. I have possessions 9 in China which must be defended. It will have B to bo by ships. Again, since I ascended the B throne I have had a dream of seeing a United B Germany from the North Sea to the Adriatic, B Francis Joseph is very old and at his death I Austria-Hungary is liable to seethe with revolution S and I am the only one who can quell it. Again, I when Wilholmina dies there will bo no legitimate . heir to her throne. Again, my uncle, that mild- mannered old gentleman who is King of Groat B Britain and Emperor of India, has in the last B 6lx years built more battleships than any other B four powers and he has now four others on B the ways that are expected to be at once invul-B invul-B nerable against attack and unequaled in speed, B end it would be just like him, after his late B efforts, to advocate that all other nations should B cease building ships. He has been playing those B tricks on the world, ho and his predecessors, for B Ave hundred years. B "He robbed' the world with high protective B tariffs for one hundred and fifty years un- B til he had about all the money, the machinery B and the ships of the world, and with his mines B of coal and tin and iron close to his ports, and B wanted free food for his factory operatives, and B then he put on a benevolent air; he had just B caught upon an idea Lhat could not help but be B a panacea u- all the world's ills. That was the benefecence of free trade. With that he was able to rob the world for thirty years more. His country coun-try stole all the glory of Waterloo for England, though it was our Blucher that won that fight. Naturally Nat-urally I am a little suspicious of him. Indeed, I would no more trust him to do the square thing than I would Japan herself. When I get my navy completed, I too, will go in for peace." And who says the German Emperor does not take a business view of it? |