Mohave County miner., 1917-12-15
WHY DESTROY THE GERMAN UNIVERSITIES?
 Washington POst)

This is against Germany, not only against the soldiers of Germany, but against the German ideas and methods, against German culture C"kul- tur')-and against German education and miversi- ties It is within those universities that the damn able philosophy has been brewe3 which caused this war and its barbaric horrors.
 There is no legal obligation upon a state to Ob- serve treaties" "A state cannot commit crirc." The weak are prone to cherish a comfortable belief in the inviolabIity of the treaties that them their miserable existence" 'The higher development of culture can be effected only through violence"
 Mo- Nietzsche did not sayl that The allies for some reason have atteI,pted to make Nietzsche the scapegoat for the brutal German philosophy; and the Germans lie till they red in the face insisting that nobody paid any attention to Nietzsche; that he of no importance freak, fool. But strangely his ideas his teachings, much like those of the most popular professors of Germany; and If nobody paid any attention to Netzsche it was be- they too busy paying attention to Lasson (who has been quoted abOve) Treitschke, Halle Haeckel Ostwald and ten thousand other professors violent in their claims, who urged Germany to be faithless in treaties brutal in war, and unmercfu in victory
 Shall the pestilentiaI universities that taught such things be allowed to endure? To resume their noxi propaganda in peace? To again teach the Germans that Eye shall love peace a means to new wars and the short peace than the long?" Trietz- schke was the most hOnored and popular professor that Germany ever had. His lectures crowded; and he taught that peace demOrazing; that the "state can acknowledge no arbiter above it," that weakness must always be condemned the most despicable of crime" and he gloried in the 'un- quenchable love of in the martial German race" The justification for sIashng off wOmens breasts, for npalng babies spikesl for the havoc of loot rape and fire for sinking hospital ships and murder ing nurses, for all the bestial and lOathsOme vO- lence of the mad Huns may be found in Treitschke's words that 'We have learned to recognize the moral majesty of precisely in those of its characters tics which to superficial observers brutal and inhuman."
 Ergo: All the world that is revOted by German barbarism is made up of Superficial observers" for they-the Gemans-have learned to recognize the moral majesty of in those unspeakabe horrors
 Shall that dabOlism longer be permitted in the uni versailles? Shall we send and daughters 'tO finish their educatons" at the feet of such apostles of kultur?
 "We are morally and intellectually superior to other nations; we are without equals" Prof. LassOn -v-ote since the war began. Prof. Daenell, well known in Leipsig, wrote: Belgium, like coward stabbed Germany in the back it is not Germany that attacked Belgium"
 Or Ju=c 2O 1915, petition signed by 352 pro- fessors handed to the chancellor saying of France: "We must ruthlessly weaken this cOuntry;' "we musR keep Belgium firmly in our hands, s Russia is Over-rch in land, and thd land of which she is to cOncede control shall be freed for the most part from private ttes;" "no policy of culture without policy of power"
 In May 1915 Prof. Oswald Flamm wrote in a Berlin paper: "If neutrals were destroyed that they disappeared without leaving any trace terror would soon keep seamen and travellers away from the danger zOnes-and thus many lves?'
 This is the kind of sOphistry and philosophy that is taught in German universities, cesspOOs of philO sophica inquity. Let them be wiped out, Obterat- ed, their potency destroyed and their philosophical structures razed to the earth They more dan gerOus to the world than the swashbucklers and junkers. True enough, German professors di- rectly in the service of the state, take oath of allegiance it and teach nothing that does not meet with its approval. Any professor in the realm can be removed by flip of the kaiser's finger; and when the HohenzOlerns fall the legion of professors will, tOO fall from their places of authority.