Seen in Germany . a great navy is a necessity to thenation and then to persuade them to pay for it. IfWilliam were an American he would be classed inpolitics as a republican with strong sentiments of im-perialism and expansion, a supporter of the doctrineof high protective tariffs and sound money, and asteady champion of a larger army and navy. His en-emies might even accuse him of a fondness for has been compared in character and aims toTheodore Roosevelt, and the similarity of the two menin restless energy, honesty, wide general culture, andinformation and admiration of things mart
Seen in Germany . a great navy is a necessity to thenation and then to persuade them to pay for it. IfWilliam were an American he would be classed inpolitics as a republican with strong sentiments of im-perialism and expansion, a supporter of the doctrineof high protective tariffs and sound money, and asteady champion of a larger army and navy. His en-emies might even accuse him of a fondness for has been compared in character and aims toTheodore Roosevelt, and the similarity of the two menin restless energy, honesty, wide general culture, andinformation and admiration of things martial, is cer-tainly most striking. Years ago the Kaiser beganstudying the naval question in every one of its phases,and thus he continued until he was intimately familiarwith the navies of the world as well as with the navalattitude of each nation. Indeed, he is said to knowby name the chief war vessels of every country withthe tonnage, armament, and equipment of this knowledge in hand he began a mighty 4. •§ t> The Kaiser 51 campaign of education among his people. He invitedmembers of the Reichstag repeatedly to the palace,showed them lantern pictures of the great vessels ofthe world, and gave them lectures on naval affairs, andthe moral that he invariably preached was : Germanymust have a great navy. He argued from the pointof view of commerce, of industry, of expansion, ofsentiment and patriotism, and he finally succeeded ingetting nearly all he wanted, only to find that he wantedmore; and so the work is still going forward. War anywhere in the world mounts like strongwine to Williams head. He hears afar the soundsof strife, anci he longs to be there to see. And some-times he grows so excited that, like a small boy at afire, he cant help shouting, and then the world won-ders over his curious cablegrams of sympathy or en-couragement. There was no more fascinated observerof our war with Spain than William of Germany; hewatched every phase, he studied every maneu
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