Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — Germany’s Need of Expansion. [ARTICLE]

Germany’s Need of Expansion.

The vital need of Germany is the extension of its market- Bismarck uw that the surest way of accomplishing this was through “expansion.” Hence Germany’s aggressive “colonial policy,” which has already given it New Guinea, several slices of Africa, part of Samoa, the Solomon group, Kiao Chau in China; made it eager to get the Philippines, if it could; and caused it to pay Spain a big price for the Caroline Islands, which the United States left vn that country by the treaty of Paris.