St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-11-17

turned to go. ''Wait," he said
and he explained to me how Ger
many, official Germany, regards the
state of subject peoples.
Even now / find it hard to de-
scribe in comprehensive terms the
mind OF official Germany, which
dominates and shapes AL German
thought and action. Yet it is as
hard, as clear-cut, as real as any ma
terial thing. l saw it in Poland; l
saw the same thing in Belgium;
hear of it in Serbia and Roumania.
For weeks it was always before me,
always the same. Officers talked
talked freely, frankly, directly. All
the staff officers have the same1tiew.
Let me try to tell it, as Gen. Won
Kries told me, in Poland, in the
midst of a dying nation. Germany
is destined to rule the world, or at
least a great part of it. The Ger
man people are so much human ma
terial for building the German State:
other people do not count. All is
for the glory and might of the Ger
man State. The lives of human be-
ings are to be conserved only if it
their lives are to be sacrificed if it is
to the States advantage. The State
is all; the people are nothing.
Conquered people signify little in
the German account. Life, liberty,
happiness, human sentiment, fam ly
Hes, grace, and generous impulse.
these have no place beside the one
concern, the greatness of the Ger
man State.
Starvation "Working for Germany"
Starvation must excite no pity;
sympathy must not be allowed, If it
hampers the main design of promot-
ing Germany's ends.
'tStarvation is here" said Gen.
Won Kries. "Candidly, we would
like to see it relieved; we fear our
soldiers may be unfavorably affect
ed by these things they see. But
since it is here, starvation must serve
our purpose. So We set it to work
for Germany. By starvation we can
accomplish in two or three years in
East Poland more than we have in
West Poland, which is East Prussia,
in the last hundred years. With
that in view, we propose to turn this
force to our advantage"
"This country is meant for Ger
many" continued the keeper CT
starving Poland. eft is rich alluvial
country which Germany has needed
for some generations. We propose
to remove the able.bodied working
Poles from this country. 1t leaves
it open for the inflow of German
working people as fast as we can
spare them. They will occupy it
and work it,
Then with a cunning smile, Cant
you see how it works out? BY and
by we shall give back freedom to
Poland. When that happens Po-
land will appear automatically as a
German Province"
Same Method In Belgium.
In Belgium, Gen. Won Kissing told
me exactly the same thing. eff the
relief of Belgium breaks down we
can force the industrial population
into Germany through starvation
and colonize other Belgians in Meso-
potamia, where we have planned
large irrigation works; Germans Will
then overrun Belgium. Then WHOM
the war is over and freedom given
back to Belgium, it will be a Ger
man Belgium THAT is restored. Bel
GUM will be German Province,
and we have Antwerp-which is
what we are after"
In Poland the ablelbodied men are
being removed to relieve the German
workman and make the land vacant
for Germany. In Belgium the men
are deported that the country may
be a German colony. In Serbia,
where three-fourths of a million peo-
pie out of 100000 have persisted
miserably in the last three years,
Germany hardens its heart, shuts its
eyes to the suffering, thinks only of
Germany's gain. In Armenia, 6OO,-
900 people were slain in cold blood
by Kurds and Turks under the domi-
nation and leadership of German Of
ficers- Germany looking on, indif-
ferent to the horror and woe, intent