Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-08
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| Children That War
Horrors Are Sublime

any people in this age Of enlighten-
ment.
Tho book shows how these war ideals
have been entertained by all classes of
Germans from the kaiser down, in
GLIDING philosophers, teachers and
preachers as we'll as the military lead
ers. 1t Is similar in character to the
book "Out of Their Own Mouths" re-
Gently compiled by the distinguished
historian. William Roscoe Thayer, and
published by d. Appleton & Co. In
some instances It duplicates the EVIL
dence there given, but it adds many
more representative utterances of Ger
mans, thus Strengthening the evidence
as to their convictions and purposes.
This book from the government print
ing office at Washington was compiled
by Wallace Notestein and Elmer F.,
Stoll of the University of Minnesota.
ABUNDANCE OF MATERIAL FOUND
There has been no dearth of ma
terial for this collection" says Guy
Stanton Ford in foreword. "The
compilers collected three times as mucn
as has been urged and could find new
passages of similar import as long as
they had library facilities"
America knows what it Is defend
ing it is stated in explaining the pur-
pose of the compilation. Does it az
clearly understand what 1t is fighting
against? Does 1t realize that other
peoples have had imposed upon them
ways of thinking between which and
our thought and the thought of ell for
xUa I'D
compromise? Does it know that the
ideals Of government which it struck
down in its farthest past. bringing new
to all English speaking peoples
tho ideals which France banished
with the Bourbons and the Bonapartes,
and Italy drove out with the Hapsburgs,
ideals that crashed to earth in Russia
but yesterday with the fall of the Ro-
manoffs-does 1t know that these ideals
now dominate the Teutonic powers and
make them the fitting allies of the Turk
in thought and purpose and method2"
DECLARES MISSION OF GERMANY.
The first section is headed 1.-THE Mis-
sion Of Germany" It Is given over to
such quotations as I'VE are the salt of
the EARTH" from the kaiser; IF you
ask me How shall build up the King
dom Of God?" my answer is: Be u
good German" from religious news
paper; I'VE feel ourselves to be the
bearers Of a superior kultur." from the
kaiser's pastor; 1.-THE German nation
leads in the domains Of kultur, science,
intelligence, morality, art. and religion.
in the entire domain of the inner life,"
from q sermon by another pastor.
The kaiser is quoted as declaring
that the wars meaning and aim is the
unification and publication of Ger
many in order that 1t may be qualified
for it's historical task, to be the heart
Of Europe and to prepare for the real
izing Of the hopes Of European human
ity." A distinguished professor of law
declares that the more German kultur
remains faithful to itself the better
will 1t be able to enlighten the under
standing Of the foreign races absorbed
and incorporated into the empire, and
to make them see that only from Ger
man kultur can they derive those
treasures which they need for the fer
tilizing Of their own particular life.-
I'VE execute God Almighty's will and
fill. imbued with holy rage. in ven-
geance upon the ungodly," declares q
poem by Fritz Philippi.
DIVINE LEADERSHIP OF GER
MANY.
The foregoing are only small frag-
ments of the quotations declaring the
divine leadership Of Germany. The
second section. World Power or
DOWNFALL" is devoted to German ex-
pressions of the idea that Germany
must dominate the world or be crush
ed. The third section displays THE
Worship Of Power" shown by typical
German utterances. Section 4, headed
"WaF as Part of the Divine Order"
Is full Of expressions that must make
all peace loving Americans gasp. Per-
haps the most impressive Of these ex-
tracts are two that gain interest from
the fact that they were from publica-
tions addressed to young people in
1918, the year before the outbreak Of
the great war. One IL from a weekly
paper for Juvenile readers, the jung
deutschland-Po Post. In the issue Of which
on January Is, 1918. the following ap-
peared:
I'VE Germans and Christians are
also taught by honor and duty that
there can be no peace for the souls
Of the dead or the living until
conflict II settled by the victory
and triumph Of our arms. >
Pagan belief and Christian faith
alike teach US that we should give
our lives for our brothers, for our
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