rning in
the soul of every German at home or abroad. It took twenty years to
thoroughly inculcate every individual of the German race with this
feverish ambition, but when 1914 came every German had gone over to the
Pan-German scheme and was ready to die for it.

2. The Berlin Schemers and Their Plot

After all the Germans at home and abroad understood the Pan-German
scheme of seditious intrigue in foreign countries and the vast web was
spun and thrown out over all the cities and continents where the
Kaiser's representatives were living, the second thing to be done was to
make the plan clear by spreading it out like a great map. The method
used, therefore, was pictorial.

The Department of Publicity in Berlin became experts on geography. They
began to issue illustrated maps so that the rudest German peasants and
the German colonists living in Milwaukee or El Paso, in Rio Janeiro or
Buenos Aires, in Brussels or St. Petersburg, in Melbourne or Calcutta,
could easily understand the method and the goal.

Out of twenty maps issued in Berlin and reproduced by Andre Cheredame,
no one is more important than the one marked "The Old Roman Empire." The
simplest German miner understood the map at a glance and realized its
meaning for the members of the Pan-German League. Here is old Rome
marked world capital. Here is Caesar Augustus called the first world
emperor. Here is Carthage with its capital looted and Roman peasants
remaining after the victory to move into rich men's houses and estates
of North Africa. And here also were the maps of conquered Palestine,
Ephesus, Athens and Corinth. To be sure the old Romans had to become
soldiers, but, later, did not each Roman soldier live in the rich
gardens around Thebes, Ephesus and Corinth?

Instantly the imaginations of the German peasants and workmen kindled.
The Kaiser was right. What had been in Rome must be in Berlin. The Elbe
must succeed the Tiber. Berlin shall be the second world-capital. Our
Wilhelm shall be the second world-emperor. Germania shall be written
straight across Europe from Hamburg on the North Sea to Bagdad on the
Persian Gulf. Germans alone shall be allowed to carry weapons, as once
only the Roman was allowed to own a spear; only Germans shall be allowed
to hold title deeds to lands, even as once only Romans could hold a
field or a house in fee simple. Old Rome won by becoming a military
State.

Did not the people of Rome go forth as soldiers and return