New Britain herald., 1917-10-10
"PRUSSIAN POISON"
Satanic Principles of Germany Laid
Down BY Old School of Writers
Who Translated Bible to
Suit Themselves.
Chicago Tribune)

We will keep meeting the sort of
man who exclaims, "How different this
| modern Germany from the Germany
of Heine's time!"-as If Heine him
self had not written, "Christianity has
in some degree softened, but it could
not destroy, the brutal German JOY Of
battle. When once the tanning tails
man, the Cross, breaks in two, the
savagery Of the old fighters will gush
up afresh. That talisman is deceyed,
and the day will come when it will
piteously collapse. Then Thor. with
his giants hammer, will at last spring
UP and shatter to bits the Gothic ca
thedrals.'
G. F. Childs quotes this prophecy Of
Heine's in a. pamphlet called "Prus-
sian Poison" and traces the long, slow
process that has achieved its fulfill
ment, We are fighting Germany sud
denly gone mad. We are fighting
Germany that has madness insti]1ed
into it by it's leaders and teachers for
a very considerable period. IT tho
Cross has "broken in two, it is not
from. decay" Heine was mistaken
there. It Is from the onslaught OF
Gernoany's leaders ard teachers. For
example, Nietszche.
Said Nietszche, THE infection of an
injury, forcible subjugation, exploit
tation or annihilation is not in Itself
a wrong; cannot be such since life In
its essence, in it's primary functions, is
nothing but oppression and annih1la-
ton" "Conditions Of justice can new
er be anything but eNceptional-con-
ditions. that is, as limitations of the
real desire of life, the object Of which
is power" 'The fight is not for life
h,,f at .3fp
does not seek preservation, but
self-increase or will to power" "The
love of fighting is for it's own sake, in
contrast to the modern humanitarian
view" "Spare not thy neighbour
"Sav not, I will do unto others as I
would they should do unto me" DO
not believe thou mayest not ROB.
"Christian piety and ideals of equality
and peace are impossible, since life is
nothing but inequality and war;
Tritschke, professor and historian,
followed Nietszche and argued thus:
at will always rebound to the glory
of Machiavelli that he has placed the
state on solid foundation and freed
it and it's morality from the moral
precepts taught by the church. Ger
man intellect has wrestled for CEN
turtles against Christianity. Must she
forever submit TO IIllS dlleI CIecu dlAo
borrow her religion? Germany, while
preparing for a world empire, must
also prepare to create a world religion
1t may be descibed as the religion OF
Valor.'
Then came Bernhard, with such
maxims as these: "Our people must
learn to see that the maintenance or
peace never can or may be the goal OF
a. policy" None of the wars which
Frederick the Great fought had been
forced upon him; none of them did
he postpone as long as possible
"The right to fight becomes the duty
to make war" Right is respected so
far only as is compatible with advan-
tage" might is the supreme right
and the dispute as to what is right is
decided by the arbitrament of war
Germans contend that Bernhard
was never influential in Germany, yet
the crown prince has declared that
"every German ought to read Bern
hardi's book" and his Germany and
the Next War; has served as at once
the Baedeker and the Bible Of the Ger
man war office. Whether or not Ger
mans should read 1t, Americans