She wanted the fruits of her industry.

She wanted her people, her trade, and her 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.