The Audacious War

ffs made Germany great-Commercial War-How Germa

er imperial policy, but most particularly her relations with Russia. These relations are

s inevitable, irrespective of any causes in relation to Servia. Russia knew this and was diligently preparing for it. Germany-the war party of Germany-knew it and w

nd Russian Asiatic development. The party of nobles opposed to him arranged that he should receive the humilia

, to make the famous treaty with Japan, his first declaration was, "Not

ds from Russia into Germany were taxed while German goods went under favorable terms into Russia, with the

ly he received peremptory orders from the Czar to grant all the demands of Germany. The Czar declared Russia was in no condition to have trouble with Germany. These commercial treaties exp

point of the bayonet to assent to the taking by Austria of Bosnia and Herzegovina in violation of the Treaty of Berlin. The Czar r

man war over commercial tariffs-and see what

of the world. Having welded Germany by the Franco-Prussian war into a nation with unified tariffs, transportation, curre

de possible unified transportation and later unified finances and tariffs. Several years after the war, France, which had paid an indemnity to Germany of a thousand million dollars, or five bil

tifically and under the most intelligent protective tariff the world has ever seen. In a generation they built up a foreign trade surpassing that of the United States and reaching $4,500,000,000 per annum. By her rate of progress she was on the way to distance England, whose ports and business were open to her merchants without even the full English income tax. She built the bigge

the inauguration of her bank act and her scientific tariffs. The government permitted no waste of labor, no disorganization of industry. Capital and labo

ustry. She wanted her people, her trade, and her commerce to expand over the surface

until her diplomacy again slipped and the present war followed-such a war as was planned for by nobody and not expected even by herself. She was giving long credits and dominating the trade of South America. She had given free trade England a frigh

igured that New York was one of the big German cities of the world. He turned his giant presses to capture the German sentiment. He spent tens of thousands of dollars upon German cable news, devoting at times a whole page to cable presentations from Europe which he though

n eagle it would be to her advantage. The question was where to get land that could be made German. Europe has for some years expected a German dash in Patagonia, and the Europeans outside of Germany have taken very kindly of late years to the Monroe Doctrine. In Africa and the islands of the sea the German colonial policy has not been a success. D

yond the experimental stage, German tariffs

intimate with the government at St. Petersburg. This is just 100,000,000 more than Germany. Ge

a in putting up tarif

cates in England and i

liance" with Austria and Germany, she did not dare to attack Italy with arms, but she

he earth? In the view of some people tariffs, taxation, and armaments go hand in hand. There is a t

em dependent upon an outside world and then sudden

hat have you to talk with? You have no army or navy." "No," said the American ambassador, "but we have the ability to build them a

osperity, and Dr. Dernburg, her former colonial secretary and now in New York, says the mouth of the Rhine and the channel ports must be free to Germany an

lgium and Russia, but no difference in prin

r downfall," B