Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-02

ress ceases: they want no progress:
ana they have none. 1t was also Ward,
the American. who declared that the
impotence OF the pacihcists Is explained
by the fact that the greater part OF
their agitation Is characterized by total
blindness to all the broader cosmic
facts and principles: that peace mar
rows rather than widcns culture
! might quote indefinitely from Eng
hshmen and Americans. statesmen and
scholars. soldiers and citizens who
have accepted the evolutionary theory
OF war. and who. in the main. like
clausewitz. have not concerned them
selves with the ethics OF group strug-
and immoral features. have accepted
IL as emanating from a force inherent
in all living organisms
Lesson Drilled Into Teuton
The reason why Usher SO we'll under
stood the German of to-day the mo-
tircs which inspired him. the ambi-
tons which lured him into the present
world struggle. was because he per-
ceived that the lessons OF war which
had beer drilled into the Teuton for
century. those teachings on war
stripped OF all accessories, az tho eS-
crclse OF force for the attainment OF
political object unrcstrained By any
law save that Of eXpedicncy. could
lead to but one result. He knew, as
the world might have known had IL
paused to examine the facts that the
evolutionary theory of war had become
not merely a Prussian. but a German
conviction. He knew that the doctrine
OF Clausewitz had become n creed for
the Teuton. n creed embodied In the
very colors OF the imperial flag
black. red and white - which
colors are Interpreted by the Ger
mans TO signify their soulful purpose
To dispel darkness with sunlight, and
to seek national supremacy by means
OF arms and blood, thus fulhlling the
destiny which nature holds for the
race
And Bcrnhardi? What has been his
part In the reaching out OF Germany
towards the goal which has been set
before the empire? Not TO PROFOUND
new theories. the world seems TO
believe. but merely to place In popular
form before the world without apology,
n doctrine which II Itself has done
much to establish, and before the Tcu-
tonic race the doctrine with which the
military caste OF the German empire
has been nurtured for all these years.
His part has been, as the spokesman
OF Prussian militarism, to place Its
doctrine. right or wrong as II may be,
and shorn OF all eQuivocation. before
the German people in order that they
might become indoctrinated with the
Prussian creed, the creed OF Clause
witt. and thereby be rendered ma
tion in arms 10 the last man. homo
Eencous In thought and purpose, and
united in action for the achievement
OF the racial destiny.
Truly may we say. he who ran might
have seen, and yet the world. the
stupid. over-trustful world, busy with
Its money making projects, at last be-
stirs Itself and condemns Bernhard for
the exposition Of cold. material,
sordid, cruel and inhuman creed, the
tenets Of which 1t processes never to
have known before! Indeed. the world
now. but all too late. stands aghast
at the spectacle OF virile. ambitious
and struggling race. loyal to the prin-
ciples embodied in the very national
standard 1t has borne for half n CEN
fury past. And yet we say the world
Is wise. and that with knowledge peace
will comet