The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-24


pamphlet distributed by the Kaiser
begins with these words: '"The Pan
German Empire: From Hamburg on
the North Sea to the Persian Gulf
Our immediate goal: 100000. 900 of
people. Our ultimate goal: the
Germanization of all the world, The
explanation of the Kaiser contains
these words From childhood I have
been under the influence of five men
Alexander, julius Caesar, Theodor-
ic III, Frederick the Great, Napoleon.
Each of these men dreamed a dream
of world empire-they failed. am
World Empire-and my mailed fist
shall succeed He printed one man
headed The Roman Empire" with
all the great States captured and
their capitals-Athens, Ephesus. Jeru-
salem, Alexandria, Carthage-reduc
ed to county-seat towns. paying trib-
ute to Rome. But the Kaiser prints;
side by side with the map another
world map, with Berlin the capital:
and by 1915 st. Petersburg, Paris and
London were to be cOunty-seat towns,
subdued provinces of Germany
and Washington and Ottowa 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 president heard.
but he did not tremble.
The originator of this world war
was the Kaiser; Treitschke was its
historian; Nietzsche its PHILOSOPHER;
Won Bissing 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
ton in deeds Of the inner philosophy
OF force. Their great master, whom
they celebrate and never tire of prais-
ing, Nietzsche, judges Germany Alright.
On page 3S. i'm his Ecce Homo
Nletzsche says: Wherever Ger
many extends her sway she ruins
culture" ON page 124 of the same
volume he says: II feel it my dutv to
ten 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
or Goliath, with the
club. Germany has no gift for cul-
ture Of the intellect. AS TO that there
is no other culture beside France"
Consider the reflex influence Of
Germany's philosophy of militarism
upon 'herestatesmen and diplomats. Ia
one OF his greatest speeches Edmund
Burke speaks of "the peculiar sanctity
attaching'to the word of foreign
minister From -Phocion to John
Hay prfnfe' ministers have been ieal-
Gus of their pledges. Lincoln speaks
OF the failure of government to
make good it's word rs "a crime
against civilization" Business men
scoif 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
moral atrocities of the Kaiser and
Bethmann-Hollweg. In 1911 the
German Foreign Office reaffrmed the
Treaty with England and France to
observe 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 governments now
have full knowledge of the confer
ence between the Austrian Emperor
and the Kaiser at the Potsdam Palace
on July 3, with the agreement to
launch the war August 1. When the
war proclamation was delayed until
August 3, the Kaiser's representative
used this sentence in his speech in
the Reichstag "We must not post
ponc the agreement entered into with
Austria at the conference of July s."
For more than three weeks, therefore,
before war was declared Germany
ana Austria were preparing cannon.
guns. equipment, and as soon us the
last buckle was on the harness and
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