Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-25
Crowd Quivers With
Anger at Beastliness

and looted hospitals, He'd Cross
buildings; violated the white
fIag-while the worst atrocities
cannot even be named in this
mixed audience.
Branded His People as "Huns."
mo one understands the German
people as well as the Kaiser. Our
President, in a spirit of magnani-
nifty, patience and good will, distin-
guished between the Kaiser and the
Prussian government, and over
against them put the German people.
But Germany's Chambers of Conf
merce, Hamburg's Board of Trade,
and certain popular assemblies,
would have none of this, and in the
fury of their anger passed resolu-
tions, saying: w hat our govern
ment is, we are. Their acts are our
acts. Their deeds and military plans
are our plans. knowing his people
through and through, the Kaiser
called his soldiers before him and
gave them this charge: Make your
selves more frightful than the Huns
under Atilla. See that for a thous-
and years. no enemy mentions the
very name of Germany without
shuddering.'
Why do the German people
say they feel so terribly because
the authors of the world call
then Huns and 'barbarians?'
Who named them 'Huns?' Their
Kaiser. Who christened them
barbarians? Their Kaiser, Who
lilened the German soldiers TO
bloodhounds held upon the leash
by the Kaiser = tIliong, as they
strained upon the leash with
bloody jaws, longing to tear their
French and Belgian prey? With
bloody fingers, the Kaiser said,
Il baptize the "Hun" and "bar-
barian." Let the KaiSer'S words
stand: For a thousand years no
man shall speak the word Hun"
without shuddcring.'
Philosophy That Produced Cruelty.
"All wise men trace deeds, wicked
or good, back to the philosophic
thinking of the doer, just as they
trace bitter water back to a poisoned
spring. What the individual or the
nation thinks in the heart, that he
does in the lie. Judas thinks in
terms of avarice and greed, and his
philosophy results in treason and
murder. The Kaiser. Nietzsche. Won
Bethmann-Hollweg, Won Bissing and
Plauss, think and teach the theory
of iron force, the right of big Ger
many TO loot little belgium or North
France, and drill them in the belief
that Germany's right is the right of
the lion over the lamb, and that no
questions will he asked by q Just God
on the Day of Judgment. This war
began in a conference in the Pots
dam Palace in 1892. The pamphlet
distributed by the Kaiser begins with
these words: The Pan-German En-
pire; From Hamburg on the North
Sea to the Persian Gulf. Our imme-
diate goal: 25O,O00,0OO of people.
Our ultimate goal: The GermaniZa-
ton of all the world The eXplana-
ton of the Kaiser contains these
words: "From childhood l have been
under the influence of five men.
Alexander, Julius Caesar, Theodore
II, Frederick the Great, Napoleon.
Each of these men dreamed a dream
of world empire-they failed. l am
dreaming q dream of the German
World Empire-and my mailed fist
shall succeed He printed one map
headed, The Roman Empire with
all the great states captured and
their capitals-Athens, Ephesus, Je-
rusalem, Alexandria, Carthage-re-
duced to county-seat towns, paving
tribute to Rome. But the Kaiser
prints side by side with that map
another world man. with Berlin the
capital; and by 1915, st. Petersburg,
seat towns, Subdued provinces of
Germany-and Washington and OF
tawa were to follow with the word
'Germania' stamped on the United
States and Canada. That is why the
Kaiser told Mr.. Gerard: After this
war, / shall not stand any nonsense
from the United States The Presi-
dent, heard, but he did not tremble.
The originator of this World War
was the Kaiser; Treitschke was it's
historian; Nietzsche it's philosopher;
Won Kissing and Won Hindenburg its
executives. The murder of Edith
Cavell, hundreds of women and chill
dren on the Lusitania, the rape of
Belgium, the assassination of North
ern France, were the\ outer exhibit
ton in deeds of the inner philosophy
of force. Their great master whom
they celebrate andne tire of prais-
ing-Nietzsche judges Germany
Alright. On page SO, in his Ecco
Homo, NietZsche says: Wherever
Germany extends her sway, she ruins
culture" On page 124 of the same
volume, he says: L feel it my duty to
tell the Germans that every crime
against culture lies on their con-
science BY culture Nietzsche
means painting, sculpture, cathe-
drals, international laws, the Athen-
ian sweetness, reasonableness and
light Germany's goal should be a
super-Hercules or Goliath, with the
club. Germany has no gift for Gull
ture of the intellect. AS to that
there is no other culture beside
France
Reflex Influence of Philosophy.
Consider the reflex influence of
Germany's philosophy of militarism
upon her statesmen and diplomats.
In one of his greatest speeches, Ed
mund Burke speaks of the peculiar
sanctity attaching to the word of q
foreign minister From Phocion to
John Hayk Prime Ministers have
been jealous of their pledges. Lin
coin speaks of the failure of a gov
ernment to make good it's word as "a
crime against civilization Business
men scott at the trickster, who does
not count his written pledge more
precious than life itself. With the
standards of civilized states in mind,
recall the intellectual and moral
atrocities of the Kaiser and Beth
mann-Hollweg. In 1911 the German
Foreign Office reaffirmed the Treaty
with England and France, to OBJ
serve the neutrality of Belgium in
the event of war with France. On
July 81, 1914, the Kaiser's Prime
Minister telegraphed Lord Grey that
Germany would of course keep her
treaty obligations as to Belgium
The French and English govern
ments now have fun knowledge of
the conference between the Austrian
Emperor and the Kaiser at the Pots
dam Palace on July 8, with the
agreement to launch the war August
i. When the war proclamation was
delayed until August 8, the Kaiser's