| Show THE MARK OF THE KAISER STEADY ADVANCE of UNDER WILLIAM IL donilon Lo nilon england dec SO fourteen II 11 as have since william years of alic atrol of the ginnai fatherland hie tto this country affords fitting opportunity achievements record borne of bis remarkable germany in the direction of greater 3 of which the making ambi boldly proclaimed is bis clinef tion in life to corid to make germany n to mako her strong on what combination defy all danger no matter her might be formed against this in a few words is the goal towards which the kaiser ever presses at homo he has no fears having long since comforted himself with the thought that the german army is tho machine in the world but best fighting iio has assured his people anat their future lies on the and he lias di his whole energies to making his country as strong on ns on land when in the kaiser ascended the german throne and for even or eight year afterwards 1 navy was poor enough being composed of about one bundled war vesel vesela 4 of 11 ll kinds chich were as ineffective they opre out of date NAVAL PROGRAM ac emperor willi characteristic pertinacity tina city never ceased to bewail the deplorable plo rable ofilia in speeches he more than once regretted that germany did not posse En glands less millions the self love of patriotic germans was wounded as it has ever been when comparion are instituted between country and great and finally the prevailed last year saw the beginning of a na at which made the horld tt onder no fewer than five licht class battleships were launched in 1001 and nt alic the period covered by the navy bill 1901 ag germany will have added to her pea strength 38 battleships 14 large cruisers and 38 small cruisers the fanie legislative provides that the personnel of the german navy shall be doubled in twenty years kven now if a german military publication is to be believed germany can count on men to light her sea battles besides men of the ncr cantile marine when her naval program is completed will hare spent fifty millions sterling on new war vessels L p till last year tho kaiser had virtually doubled his for while in his sea strength was tons last year it was tons no achievement alien one considers the which william II 11 has had to overcome among hie own people white building tip his navy the kaiser has nl M perfected his army the of alie german anny simply astounded the american sentral who in germany recently this was precisely the effect which the kaier desired to produce upon them he rejoiced over othe words of praire which the generals js uttered in england bior alic information of the world since the emperor has added no fewer than a million lo 10 the war strength of hi army OP MIGHT in seems to be the keisers kaisers kai sers motto or the policy of might ie his gospel ac if germany is to be a dognin ant factor in alie world the emperor concluded that elic 1 have colonies she has got though it must be confessed alicy arc a poor lot unsuitable for alic needs of nien vp till germany had no oversea territory to speak of in that year she ac quiren To goland with square mile and the Cam croons with miles the territory she lias acquired since hen is eloquent evidence of alie keisers kaisers kai sers tireless activity the secured from 1885 to 1899 may be thus set forth estimated area S miles population german east Africa german S west 2001 kiao china 0 caroline islands aco marianne islands 2000 samoa n islands 1000 that is to say germany lias added to her empire and increased her by with this growth of the navy army and empire lus ix in the expansion offerman of German trade the extraordinary development eliat hsia taken place in german trade and industries dining the emperors reign has surprised the whole world alie markela t other roun tries thought unassailable have been germany and all this since 1888 witt n the customs ix ague or ein ars includes tilty all the states of germany iiii wonderful commercial enterprise lias mode progress in nil other directions possible at the present moment german shipping elands second in the whole world in actual tonnage germany an now count on 1 awo tons of mercantile marine tick in view of facts the kaiser can with soini measure of up auld hi light for a german world policy but hi germany itself tharo is u desire on the part of a large of his to go even faster than the emperor the pan german society hag grotie M in numbers and william II 11 cannot now alto d to e its gone to inordinate lengthen leng the nothing less alian alie absorption of holland and austro hungary will satisfy alie aan germane and bince alic kabeer has extended lifs patronage to the paper which was established to further hie naval policy a pan german paper in disguise he may be said to be in sympathy with the movement which aims at changing alie map of europe and making germany cock of alic walk there i only one drawback to tho kaiser complacency as to the future and 11 is existence of that body of politician known e the social democrat whom the emperor in one note worthy oratorical exercise classed as the enemies ot the nation and of the fatherland the social democrats the policy and this fact is abundantly proved in the increase of the social democratic vote in 1887 the year before the keisers kaisers kai sers accession the social democratic vole was hi 1898 i had jumped lip to 2107 to the emperor there ia food for thought in cauree tor they indicate an clement of to him which will have to be reckoned with and it bome students of german affair are to be believed there la in them the making of a political upheaval which portend trouble far the german lath |
