pire to agitation for the
expansion of Germany in the territory of its neighbors throughout the
world, that German labor may, through German arms, enter into and
possess the land without. German Socialism is thus allied with German
militarism, and it has also become the respectable party of opposition
in the Reichstag. The middle classes of Germany of late years have
voted for Socialistic candidates whenever they disagreed with the
government. It is the party of protest and of opposition. It is a
party of the empire, not of any world socialistic movement.

Germany is thoroughly knit together in support of its government and
its Kaiser. The German people do not seek a constitutional government
like England, or a republican form of government like France or the
United States. They believe their situation and safety in the middle
of Europe call for a more autocratic form of government, and one not
too quickly responsive to popular sentiment.

Germany was made by Bismarck and the armies of Von Moltke supporting
the Hohenzollern dynasty. This made Prussia the center of Germany
industrially, financially, and as a military power, and at the heart
and seat of power, in both industry and finance, sits the same dynasty.
The Emperor is the center of industry, finance, and military
power,--three degrees of empire, each distinct in itself, but each
intertwined with the others, but so intertwined that the word of power,
command and influence comes down from the military seat of power
through finance and into industry. Industry does not speak back
through the powers of finance to the military center. The flow of the
German dispensation of power or of governmental organization runs
downward from the Kaiser. No power goes up from the people or industry
or finance to the war lord at the center.

The Germans know no other system of government. Outside of Prussia, in
the more than thirty states of Germany, there was the local reign. Now
over all is the reign of the Kaiser. The present generation has seen a
united Germany become great among the nations of the earth. The
English-speaking people cannot appreciate the feudalism and the fealty
of the German people to their war lord. They say, "Are not the German
people great thinkers; do they not know that the power of government is
from the governed?" It is inconceivable to them that the Germans
should have a reverse system.

My last word from Germany was with an American l