Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-01

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year which witnessed the final over
throw of the first Napoleon, and his
disappearance from the political horiz-
of the world, by the international con-
gress at Vienna. 1t marked the end
for the time being of that curse of mil
itarism which personified by Bona
parte, and which for the previous fif-
teen or twenty years had kept most of
the nations of the earth in a state of
! almost continuous warfare, spreading
ruin and devastation throughout the
length and breadth of Continental Eu-
rope.
One cannot refrain from wondering
under what name 1915 will become
known to posterity. It's advent finds
the world in the throes of war far
greater, in extent, a thousand times
more sanguinary, and more ruinous.
than any of those of a hundred years
ago. 1t is war that originated in
the determination of three of the
greatest nations of Europe, namely,
Great Britain, France and Russia, to
free not only themselves, but all man
kind from a still more disastrous
blight of militarism than ever conceiv-
ed by Napoleon a militarism persona
fled this time by the kaiser and by
Prussia
The "Must-Prussians."
Not so Germany. For the people of
southern Germany, the Bavarians, the
Badenese, the Saxons, the Wurtember-
gers, and the Hessians, have been
drawn into the conflict under misap-
prehension on their part They all
hate Prussia and the Prussians, with a
degree of animosity of which people in
this country have no conception
Known as "Muss-P reussen" Must
Prussians), that is to say, as people
who are allied to Prussia by force in
stead of sympathy, they have been
alternately groaning and grumbling
for the past 35 years under the civil,
political, and above ALL military des-
potism exercised over them from Ber-
lin, and which has been gradually sap.
ping their own particular government
of every vestige of its independence
and individuality as a sovereign state.
Once their illusions as to the irwin
cibility of Prussian militarism are de-
stroyed, once they realize that the al
lies have no quarrel with them, no
design upon their territorial, political,
or economic integrity, and that all that
Great Britain, France, and Russia are
striving for is the final destruction OF
that Prussian militarism which has
has farced all Europe to remain bill
lions of dollars upon means OF defense
against Prussian aggression, and they
will abandon the cause the kaiser,
maybe turn against him. The only
thing that is holding the "Muss-P reus-
sen" together under the kaiser's flag
is the belief that their own particular
portion of the fatherland is in danger
of foreign conquest and devastation.
AS soon as this belief is dispelled they
may be relied upon to turn against
Prussia as they did in 1866.
Dissatisfaction of South German.
Stories come from every hand of dis
satisfaction on the part of the non
Prussian troops in connection with
the present war. They claim to have
been made to bear the brunt of the
fighting in the west as in the east, and
to have been sacrificed in the most
reckless manner in order to- spare
Prussian regiments, it is asserted that
the rulers of these two Bavarian and
Wurtemberg armies have already been
placed hors de combat and it is as
serted that the rulers of these two
states have called the attention of the
kaiser to the fact that if the present
methods of saving Prussian troops at
the expense of those of Wurtemberg
and OF Bavaria were continued there
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