The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-09-11

own ACKNOWLEDGMENT or any other
reason. throw his own people and the
whole of Europe into a war.
| But every German and every other
man of whatsoever nationality who is
in position to know knows that the
Kaiser Wilhelm is a man of peace
| first, last and all the time
The German Kaiser knows that the
pen is mighter than the sword, !
he also knows that brains, education,
etc., are behind the pen and there
fore mightier than the sword.
If Germany had become such a pow
er in the world: If German influence
is felt the world over; if German COM
! merce and industries have captured
the markets of the world, it was done
by fair competition and it was don
during period of forty-three years of
peace.
Germany wanted nothing but 70
left alone and to develop it's commerce
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world in the open market in fair com
petition, willing to honestly fight the
struggle for life and only survive if
found to be the fittiest
1t is only to by continued peace that
Germany could hope to continue to
grow and prosper.
Germany's growth durin~ the past
forty years was not so much due to
expanding it's territory or stealing
new countries when others were not
looking, but rather, exclusively by
developing it's human resources.
The Industrial schools of Germany,
it's technical schools and it's trade ed
ucation have placed the German me-
chanic at the top. and every other
country in the world is following the
plans and methods of German
thorough education. German trade
school methods are adopted in every
civilized country in the world.
l believe that America can teach
enterprise" to the whole world, but
honor to whom honor is due, Germany
can teach the whole world thorough
ness and spirituality.
1t is German idealism and profess
sfonalism which makes the real Ger
man to only want to make money
that he can live; he does not live
merely to make money.
I have been in American universi-
ties and high schools and was sur
prised to find that the majority of
textbooks in higher sciences were
TRANSACTIONS of German writer's.
For every Shakespeare, Germany
produced ten men like Schiller,
Goethe, Hegel, Kant, Wagner, Koch,
Roentgen.
There may be more truth than poet
ry in the statement, that:
The Italians discovered America
The Germans made it,
The Irish rule it, and
The Jews own it (some day-may-
be-
What has England done excep'
force US into a revolutionary war to
deliver us further from English greed
and exploitation?
The American people, on account OF
hostile agitation, have wrong i'm
preston as to the meaning of the mill
tary training of Germany. A thousand
times it was impressed upon me while
student in the Imperial Government
School Gymnasium in Altoona, that
the primary purpose of our education
and military training was to make US
first-class, law-abiding and useful cit
liens during time of peace and only
secondarily for the purpose of making
US good soldiers during time of war.
Again: The reason for compelling
! every able-bodied German to serve in
the army is mot to turn them into
fighting machines who just wait for
the day when they can get out to
fight and die for their country" but
rather make them peaceful citizens,
who are willing to WORK AND
LIVE FOR THEIR COUNTRY"
The careful virtue of the real Ger
man is respect for, unconditional
obedience toward father and mother
and all constituted authority.
AS Germans we believe that no ma
tions can govern itself collectively
unless it's citizens can govern them
selves individually, and, furthermore,
that no man can govern himself who
cannot control himself who has not
| learned to obey and be controlled.
Well would it be for the future of
this, our own country, if we would
adopt a little more of the German