commerce to expand over the surface of the earth, but to be still
German and to bring home the fruit of German industry.

Germany has been at war--commercial war--with the whole world now for a
generation, and in this warfare she has triumphed. Her enterprise, her
industry, and her merchants have spread themselves over the surface of
the earth to a degree little realized 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 fright by the stamp, "Made in Germany." She was pushing
forward through Poland into Russia to the extent that her merchants
dominated Warsaw and were spreading out even over the Siberian
railroad. Her finance was intertwined with that of London and Paris.

In the United States she was the greatest loser. Here taxes were
lowest and freedom greatest. German blood flowed in the veins of
20,000,000 Americans and not one fourth of them could she call her own.
The biggest newspaper publisher in America, William Randolph Hearst,
figured 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 thought would
interest Germans. But the investment proved fruitless; he found there
was in America no German sentiment such as he had reckoned upon. He
could not increase his circulation, for the German-Americans seemed
little concerned as to what happened in Berlin or Bavaria.

Prussia learned what Hearst learned, that Germans were soon lost in the
United States. She studied this exodus and the wage question and by