The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-09
GERMANY THREE YEARS AGO
AND TODAY.

Three years ago Germany was re
joicing in Astounding prosperity. It,
commerce encircled the globe; its in
dustrial activity was the wonder anC
admiration of all nations; its scien
fists ranked among the worlds fore
most leaders III achievements; it.
people were honOred by the whole
world, even though some OF thei
peculiarities caused many thoughtful
men to regard with some degree o.
fear the future of a country where
the teaching that might makes right
had been sapping the moral strength
of the nation. Ii was not realized
however, that the microbe OF this
disease had so thoroughly penetrated
the whole body OF German life as to
have made it rotten TO the core, says
the Macon Telegraph.
Outwardly Germany was fair to
look upon, and until the fearful day
when Kaiser William and his follow
ers Embossed the spirit of Evil upon
the world, Germany ranked among
the greatest and most honored ma
lions on earth.
Today, Germany is not merely
hated it is regarded with the most
supreme contempt and loathing by
every right-thinking man on earth.
Germany, the once rich and pro
gressive country is today staggering
beneath a load of Indebtedness which
bids fair to wreck and ruin the gov
ernment and the people OF that land
and of Austria as we'll
From 4 country OF civilization, it
has become a country Of barbarism.
From land of prosperity, it has
become land OF almost endless pow
erty, where woe and want and gaunt
hunger are everywhere i'll evidence.
Millions of its ablest men are dead.
Every family throughout its Dor
ders has suffered the agony OF the
three year OF its hell-born, unjus-
tiiiable war.
The very flower Of its life, the men
whose abilities would have carried
Germany to still greater world pre-
cminence in commerce and industry,
have, with their bodies, fattened the
fields Of Belgium and France and 9th
er countries.
1t was left to Germany to lead the
world i'll murder on the high seas, in
the outraging of women and in the
murder of women and children with
its hell-born work Oh dropping DC
Structive bombs on unfortihed cities
from the air.
1t was left to Germany to make the
submarine a crime unspeakable i'll
its atrocity against the world.
1t was left to Germany to write
on the pages Of history the blacklist
stains that ever marked the history
of mankind
Hundreds of millions of people III
the allied countries, as in neutral
countries, will for generations to
come. look upon the crimes commit
ted by German soldiers with a loath-
ing which nc human words can ex-
press.
From its high estate OF esteem and
prosperity three years ago, Germany
has fallen to the lowest depth of hui
man degradation. And for what? In
order that Kaiser Wilhelm and the
spirit OF evil which surrounds
him might destroy democracy and on
its grave build a world domination
OF autocracy.
In all the experience of mankind
there is nothing with which to com
pare the record OF Germany's descent
from civilization into barbarism. from
prosperity into woe and want from
the Astounding healthfulness of its
people into the awful toll of death
and suffering AMI sadness which, like
a pail of darkness, spreads over the
land; from its high place in the
worlds esteem to the loathing with
which it is now regarded by the
world.