South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-28

tend to submission; the Protestant Danes tend
to resistance. The Orthodox Pulgarians
render: the Orthodox serblans resist The
Mabometans OF Constantnople are fighting TO
establish this suzerainty; the Mahometans II
India and Algeria are fighting TO Illustrate &c.
The Emperor Of Austria consents TO be Q
vassal: the Emperor OF Russia refuses to DO
vassal
The democracy of France never entered this
servitude; the democracy OF Italy has broken
out OF IT, And England, long parslyzed also
by Prussian cynicism, has yet somehow stepped
to the right side. SO suddenly but so splendidly.
that an Englshman can only thank God he has
lived to see this dreadful day.
A warning being necessary against any weak
ness in treating with this enormous ambition,
now suffering from a partial failure. which, it
hopes. will be. a temporary failure, think our
most urgent requirement is a full realization
OF what Prussia is and OF what therefore, a
Prussianized world would be. But 1t is neces-
sary first to be quite clear about how narrow
Il it it, ''
II is not question OF German leadership any
more than of Hungarian leadership. The Ger
mans and the Hungarians are not leading. but
led. Ii Is a question Of the Hohenzoern
Mahometans of Constantinople fighting to
drilling and teaching all KINDS OF vague COM
munities. and which especially bends all its
discipline upon teaching them that they ara
being very we'll taught That the whole will
and direction comes. and always will come,
solely from Prussia Tor. rather, solely from
Potsdam) can be proved by any test whatever,
whether theoretical practical
The complete theoretic avowal OF II can be
found in the fact that the King OF Prussia
definitely refused to be Emperor OF the Ger
mans, exactly he would have refused to be-
President OF the United States; upon the dis
tnct ground that he must rule them and not
represent them. The complete practical proof
Of it can be found in Catholic priests MUIR
dered by Catholic soldiers to please their
Materialist masters who were only for q
time Lutherans and are now no longer Christ.
ians. If the heir of Frederick the Great wanted
to treat Cologne Cathedral in exactly the same
style as Rheims Cathedral II would certainly
be done. And that brings me to the first OF
the large facts which wish to emphasize about
Prussia in one or two articles which / shall
write In this place.
When the slaves OF the Prussian talk in ugly
undertone about his strength. they mean some
thing They do not mean anything connected
with the highly belated romanticism with which
he is posing as the dying hero, as a last
chance Of escaping death. Such thin senti-
mentalism contTadicts. but will scarcely con-
ceal the whole of his historical theory and
practice. He has never shown any sympathy
with defeated valor in other people; and he
has not even shown any particular examples
OF II in himself. His armies have fought with
the workaday courage of all white men: but
his success has always been due much more
TO their negative than their positive qualities.
1t may even be said, politically, at least that
the Prussian Is supreme not because Germans
fight. but because they don't fight Certainly
he has never once IL this business shown either
special skill or unexpected daring as apart from
numbers and obedience. ] know OF only two
cases In this war in which manhood and the
handling OF men made larger force give way
before a smaller One when Jofrre
trapped and turned the whole huge onset Just
before It could touch Paris: the other
when the Serbians rolled the second Austrian
invasion down their mountains 10 the Danube.
Mo NJ No q a
which Prussia has not only never had, but has
never admired.
Nevertheless. say. the sycophants OF the
Prussiar Imperialism have something IN their
minds when they talk OF the strength of
Prussia. And what they mean is this: That
Prussia has a certain directness of action as OK
a giant who is deaf or blind. She does not
feel atmospheres. In the sunlight and the
silence of staring multitudes she will act as a
wicked man will act when he is alone. Some
of her international acts were even more in
decent than immoral. This nakedness and
even deafness in her deeds does impress some
weak-minded scphists and willing slaves as
sort OF strength
And the truth to be emphasized here is that
wherever the Prussian goes and however he
stands, these deeds he will do. He will do
them when they are quite out OF the picture
he Is trying TO paint; for hS is judge OF
pictures. He will do them when they are In
fat contradiction OF the words he has just
uttered; for he is ignorant OF the magic Of
words. They break out Of him In calm sur
roundings and cold dispositions. like screams
out of a man possessed.
He smilingly assured the Americans that a
mere misunderstanding had obscured his good
intentions, which should henceforth be fulfilled
faultlessly; and then screamed and sank the
Arabic. He spread out his arms TO the Pope
and the princes OF the earth. asking for a halt
and hearing for his equitable claims: and
then screamed and shot the nurse who tended
his wounded.
here is this: that parade OF an
improved tone IN his highly disciplined Press,
no elaborate prelininaries of peace planned
out for impartial arbiters, no falling back on
abstract amiabilities will ever cast out this
devil that is in HIN; but when he mounts his
throne again robed IN white and with dove
for his eagle, he will give his command for
= crime.