South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-28
England Must End
the Prussian domination.

We must first dismiss from our minds alto
Cetker a very current notion OF making treaty
with the men OF Germany. We might as well
talk about making a treaty with the horses Of
Germany. We dealing with the ambitious
and audacous Prussian Monarchy. which has
pursued one policy for two centuries.
Why the large. blond, bulky. handsome cart
horse of Germany allows itself to be ridden by
this beggar on horseback-or rather. burglar
on horseback-we do not know But we do
know that it's subordination is subordination
and nothing else that 1t is no case OF one
nation being deputed 10 represent a race. We
DO know, for a fact, that Germany no more
dreams Of directing Prussia than a horse rides
a man.
Il is not merely tina; the King OF Prussia does
not definitely claim to represent the Germans.
The King Of Prussia definitely refused to rep
resent the Germans. And he refused upon the
positive ground that he did not want to repre-
sent them because he did want TO rule them.
Some time before 1870 the Germans such,
still free and sitting in council. actually offered
the imperial crown TO a HohenZollern; and the
Hohenzollern refused il, wholly and solely be-
cause Il had been freely offered. The Hohen-
zollerns would only consent to rule Saxony and
Bavaria as directly and despotically as they
have ruled Poland and Alsace And they do.
The next fact is that the nearest approach
we can make 10 guessing at the ground Of the
general German obedience is this: The Ger
mans believe that the Prussians. who have con-
uuered them, can conquer anybody. They have
no fear of external danger for the same reason
that they have no hope Of internal revolt We
cannot rescue the German from the Prussian
until we can rescue him from the fear OF the
Prussan.
or. 10 put it even more correctly, spell.
Now IL is Characteristic of all such spells that
they cling on as long as there Is any sort OF
douht. and balf.defeate OF the.~ o. - 9efeats
at all " we made peace IN the manner now
proposed. even our victory would be considered
as a passing cloud, like Jena. to be followed by
fated victories like Leipzig. The Prussian
would remain supernatural is, superstE
ton.
With such superstftfons, n we honestly think
them evil and ntolerable. there is only one
thing that do. We must do the i'm
possible We must quench the upquenchable
lamp kill the immortal man, speak the I'M
speakable word, and conquer the unconquerable
army.
Prussia rules with rod OF iron because It is
also magic wand; and the only way TO break
the spell is TO break the rod. | would not ap-
prove such final proclamation in the temple OF
any god but a devil; but l think that the
Prussian superman. with his higher morality,
is devil / thought when il the almost
universal English custom to praise him.
Events since have not decreased the number
OF those who agree with me.
The third fact 10 be frmly grasped also re-
fers to the original Prussian plan. The Prussian
holds himself. and is held by the German
superior to the whole world. What we call his
crimes he calls his "culture-conQuests" We
do not do he does because we are not pure
enough to break promises or heroic enough to
shoot women
Being ignorant OF religion. he regards Russia
as barbaric
Being ignorant OF civilization, no regards
France as decadent
There is no exception to his ignorance and
disdain; but there is half-excep tion. To
France and Russia he regards himself as heir
by default: there is only country to which
be really eondescended 10 be heir by, conquest
The recipient OF his clumsy compliment are
ashamed to say. was England.
Ii is difficult for US who are dealing with
realities, and struggling with the muddle and
snObbery of our own system, to understand how
this could be so; but 1t was. II was part G.
his whole numbering TeUtonio theory.
England was the country which really dr.
Puted the world with him.
England is the country he viii hate and -,
II he is allowed 10 rally and return to he
attack. And he will not rest till she is dead