Germany was made by Bismarck and the armies of Von Moltke supporting
the Hohenzollern dynasty. This made Prussia the center of Germany
industrially, financially, and as a military power, and at the heart
and seat of power, in both industry and finance, sits the same dynasty.
The Emperor is the center of industry, finance, and military
power,--three degrees of empire, each distinct in itself, but each
intertwined with the others, but so intertwined that the word of power,
command and influence comes down from the military seat of power
through finance and into industry. Industry does not speak back
through the powers of finance to the military center. The flow of the
German dispensation of power or of governmental organization runs
downward from the Kaiser. No power goes up from the people or industry
or finance to the war lord at the center.

The Germans know no other system of government. Outside of Prussia, in
the more than thirty states of Germany, there was the local reign. Now
over all is the reign of the Kaiser. The present generation has seen a
united Germany become great among the nations of the earth. The
English-speaking people cannot appreciate the feudalism and the fealty
of the German people to their war lord. They say, "Are not the German
people great thinkers; do they not know that the power of government is
from the governed?" It is inconceivable to them that the Germans
should have a reverse system.

My last word from Germany was with an American lady who has been more
than one hundred days nursing the wounded from the battle-line, and
she, singular as it may appear, assisted on both sides of that
battle-line. She assisted to dress the wounds of French soldiers where
the lacerations of shrapnel had broken one entire side of a human