Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — COVERT THREATS MADE. [ARTICLE]

COVERT THREATS MADE.

Germany in an Angry Mood Over the Monroe Doctrine. A writer in a Washington paper, who says he is in the diplomatic service, reveals what he calls “a startling program.” While at Berlin mot long ago he was often thrown in the company of a high German official, who is an intimate friend of the kaiser’s, and the friend of the kaiser’s is reported as saying some things of more than passing interest. ‘’You Americans are a wonderful people,” he said. “You have had a wonderful success —too wonderful. The day will come when you will have your reverses. You have grown strong too quickly. You are too confident. No one but an overconfident nation''wo(jld put forth such a foolish international proposition as your accursed verfluchtiger (Monroe doctrine). “You have frightened the English with it, but that was because England is so friendless and helpless. You will not find us so easy to back down.” The kaiser's intimate friend then proceeded to warn the diplomat as to what Germany was going to do in the way of making mincemeat of the Monroe doctrine. “We are going to have the finest colony in South America,” he said. “It is in Argentina. We have been making our preparations there for years. You have no idea how many good German emigrants we have sent there, more than a hundred thousand in the last few years, and they are still going. What is more, they are not giving up their citizenship, as they do when they go to you, those unpatriotic ones. These all know why they are going, and what they are expected to do. Many are in the employ of the Government, on secret allowances, and they are looking after the growth of German sentiment.”