The Washington herald., 1917-12-03
GERMANY UNFIT
FOR ANY PART IN
PACT OF HONOR
Must Drive Out Spirit Of
Prussianism. Says Of
cial U. S. Pamphlet.

No peace. no matter when L
may come, nor what may be rs
terms. can ever make Of Ger
many a ht partner for league
of honor until the German peo-
pie have driven out the spirit which
inspired these utteranees made in
their name" -.
Conquest and Kultur.
This is Amenes's conservative
conclusion as expressed in Con
quest and Kulur." I" the 6fth Of the
Red. White and Blue Series deal
ing with the war. compiled for the
Publie's enlightenment by the Com
mittee on Public Information.
The pamphlet contains a sum-
mary of German thought as e1-
pressed by the. Kaiser. sehnO~d-
edged government agencies and
eminent Germans. Il indicates Ger
man desire for expansion at the
cost of her neighbors and BY the
sword In the most rJthless faxh,on
Kaiser on GermanIsm.
I'VE are the salt Of the earth the
Kaiser told his subjects IN q speech at
Bremen in March. $50.
II you ask me How shall / buiid
up the Kingdom Of Godr my answer
Is: Be n good German. Stand fast hy
the Fhtheriand. Do your duty ana
fulhif your mission. Seek 70 submerre
yourself IN German spirit, In oerr1En
mind Be German IN pier and WI,
which simply means be true, fafthfrd
and VALIANT Help az beat you can 10
ward our victory. help 70 make our
Fatheriand grow and wax mighty
This advice Ia cOntained in German
publication Of standing. Protestahten-
blatt. published in lsl6.
''Germany's mission in history s. to
rejuvenate the exhausted members of
Europe by a diffusion OF Germanic
blood" This Ia what is taught the
children OF Germany In The school
and Fetheriand." a manusl for school
children. ~
These are only few Of the damninr
declarations which have been made IN
past years and are being made today
IN the Teutonic empire. instilling in It's
people a creed which viii never per-
NIT them 20 be. II they continue in
their practice and belief. mt partners
in league Of honor" -
What Anerfes FIeh1A
America knows what tits defend
ing" the committees pamphlet ssys.
But does il as clearly understand
what IL is lighting againsts Il ASKS.
Does it realize that other peoples
have had imposed upon them WAYS
Of thinking between which and our
thought and the thought OF an for
wsrd-lOoking people there can be no
compromise? Does Il know that the
ideals Of government which Il struck
down in its farthest past. bringing
new liberties to all EnEiish-spesilinE
peoples-the ideals which France
banished with the Bourbons and the
Bonaosrtes, snd-Itsly drove out with
the Hapsburgs. ideals that crashed
10 earth in Russia but yesterday
with the fall OF the Romanons-does
II know that these ideals now DOM
mate the Teutonic powers and make
them the fitting allies Of the Turk
IN thought and purpose and method.
The pied pipers Of PT-assianism who
have led the German people 10 con-
quest and TO igDominy snd to infsmy
are here given their unending day be-
fore the court OF public opinion. Il
y a motley thronE who are here heard
IN praise Of war and international sus-
picion and conquest and intrigue and
oeTsstation-emperors. kinEs. prince. ,
poets, philosophers. educators, Jour
nalistS, legislators, manufacturers
statesmen. Line upon line
precept upon precept, the4y have urii-
ten this ritual Of envy and broken
faith and rapine. Before them Is the
war god 70 whom they have offered
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.