New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-11
"A TRIBAL GOD"
The Prussian Spirit Worshippet
Through Violence and Crime.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The United States is entering upon a
new epoch. What shall we do in the war
Of the nations which are fighting the Prus-
sian spirit? The Prussian spirit. the wor-
shin Of which they are seeking to impose
upon the world, as they have succeeded in
imposing it upon the German people, is a
special, definite god It is a tribal god and
is opposed to the one God OF humanity. The
Neronic German Emperor is the arm and
iron fist of that tribal god
Il is an error to make light OF the En-
perors claim OF fellowship with that god
There is a serious side to the activities OF
the Prussian god, through William Of Lou
vain These activities have developed into
breathing out poison gases and into inhu-
man submarine numbering. There is spe-
cial nefariou. influence which works through
the Prussian god, its worshippers and It's
worship. To this fact the minds OF men
must be opened before that inhuman tribal
god which has had itself clothed in me
forms of Christian worship, and inspires
defence Of its worship with casuistry and
dialectics in trained logomachy can be
checked
Teutonic valor and nobility. such as the
Scotch still have. and the deep mystical de-
votion to ideals Of Tauler. Meister. Eckhart,
Jacob Boehme, Gichtel, Theophrastus Won
Hohenheim, Van Helmont Kunrath, Novalis.
Kernig. Leasing, Schiller and Hellcnbach
are now all swallowed up in the worship OF
the Prussian god. The worship of this tribal
deity has spread over Germany. The Prus-
sian god has hypnotized the German nat'1n
and inspired their actions in his war. The
rites by which the god is worshipped vary;
on the one hand, from Eulenburg orgies at
the Neronic court TO the violation of Belgian
and French women when the Prussian nobil-
ity first fall upon them; to the Hartlepool
and the Lusitania murders, on the other,
and to the unspeakable derisive cruelty
which the Bryce report demonstrates. War
is hell and cruel, and always will be, but he
acts of the Prussians and the Prussianlzed
Germans demonstrate the active operation
Of something more. They show worship de-
manded by this peculiar Prussian god.
President Wilson has stated in direct and
dignified language what the attitude Of the
American people is as to their rights under
the freedom of the seas. Now we receive on
May 80, 1915, the reply from Germany, which
amounts to denial Of our rights. Subma-
rine warfare has not stopped and will not be
stopped. What, then, shall our country do :?
How can we best defend ourselves and hu-
mainly against that Prussian tribal god and
its maddened followers?
We cannot help the Allies with an efficient
army or navy, because have neither. Our
activities have so far been to offer a home
to the homeless, help the helpless; and in the
service Of the spirit OF humanity we have
disregarded preparations for war, because
so far we had not recognized the Prussian
menace to humanity, masked this menace
was by efficiency, cooperation and clean
government. But now we see the tribal god
and the frenzed worship offered it by all
German nations under the rule of the Prus
sian r omeranian B rand enburg- Sarmatian loot
and lust and terror priests.
We should convoke the neutral nations to
deal with this tribal Prussian god. which is
now represented in the world by a criminal
Germany. We can produce result by con-
voking the neutral nations so that no time
is lost by travel of emissaries, but each ma
ton acts from its own seat of government,
jointly with the other neutral nations. at
once. When the nations are in touch with
each other let them invoke the Spirit Of
Humanity. In the name of the Spirit Of
Humanity and as the servants of it The IA
tons should pronounce officially their judg-
ment and put brand and seal on the ac-
tons and methods and inhumanity OF the
Prussianized Germans and on the cyncsm
and casuistry with which they face the neu-
trails.
Let each nation individually and our ma
ton as the spokesman for all collectively
put this brand in the form of proclama-
ton.
Such proclamation of the joint action of
the nations will focus the power of the Spirit
Of Humanity. That great spirit must have
human minds to act through, just as the
Prussan fend needed as a channel its human
hierarchy and the Germans they could inn
press.
We are entering upon a new epoch. II
we mark the entrance by taking stand
which identifies us as a nation with the in
terests of humanity, which have so far found
many of their most faithful servants among
the people born on American SOIL we shall
grow in power and influence as a nation, and
a epoch of freedom and justice will
descend upon this land. Our stand will in
spre the nations of Europe with the same
ideals HAROLD W. PERCIVAL.
New York, June 2, 1915.