Printed 110 years ago today in The Detroit Times. Image contrast/brightness modified, and some of the text cleaned up a bit; see the original. On the same page, an interesting article speculating on how the war in Europe that had just started (WW1) might end up.
Found on the Library of Congress site.
Yeah, the writer got a lot of the major considerations right. They overestimated the Russian Empire’s ability to survive, but that wasn’t a crazy mistake to make. The idea of settling Germans in Turkey is a little kooky, but it correctly identifies the problem.
Ironically, now one of the largest population of immigrants in Germany are Turkish. How’s that for turnabout, eh?