The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-03
Vox PobuH.
WAR SHOWS THAT HISTORY
is REPEATING ITSELF

Editor Of The Journal:
In reply to your letter asking my
opinion on the present war, have,
after due consideration, decided on
the following letter as my answer
Looking backwards to the Biblical
period, it seems as if history were re
peatirg itself, Ny cause for stating
this Is given below.
In Biblical times there was a GER
tain king of Babylon, called Nimrod,
who claimed to be a god. The Pba-
roahs, kings of Egypt, and Nebuchad-
ne2zar. king of Babylon. claimed the
same, as did most Of the other kings
Of that day.
The people, for the most part. Ee-
lieved their kings. but a few OF the
skertlcal ones. who disbeIeved the
kings. We're put TO death. The gen
eral run of people nowadays would
call this barbarism and ignorance.
But nowadays, We have a case Of
the same order. It seems as if a
certain class Of people are not any
more civilized than were the people
Of those days, namely the Germans.
When der Kaiser Wilhelm spaks Of
Colt Und Ich," it seems as if he con-
sidcrs himself a kind of second God
People, as | have said. consider the
early worship Of kings as barbarous,
but one class Of people hold this Se-
lief still. Cannot the people see the
! difference between a mere man and
the one and only God of the universe?
We may say the Germans are not civ
| ilized in some things, but we cannot
! say they are not educated. And when
| well-educated people accept a man as
a kind of second God can We cali
| these civilized?
The proof of the statement that
! the Germans consider the kaiser a
! kind of second God is that when he
/ orders them to fight, they fight Tor
hardly any other cause at all-fi@ht
| almost the whole world, even killing
women and children. And because
! he considers them as such, the Ger
mans recognize sacred agreements as
! mere scraps of paper" President
| Wilson says we are fighting the kali
| ser and not the Germans, and l, for
one, heartily agree with his senti-
! ments.
If Germany conquers Europe, they
will not stop at that. The Germans,
considering the kaiser a second God
| will, at his command, cross the ocean
to our shores, and, with the addition
| of the conquered Eoropean forces,
possibly conquer the United States,
and deprive US of our liberty. 1t is
not necessary to tell the United States
what liberty is; suffice it to say that
she has fought for her liberty time
and again, and would willingly fight
now if she realized how near to losing
our liberty we will be if we do not
do our part in this war. and Germany
wins. The present war is not fight
for more territory-'tis fight for
liberty. We must do our part!
Here is a story, which, I believe
will we'll illustrate the point. A
crowd of people were in a forest, when
some wolves began to attack them
In the crowd were a few brave boys
who began to fight the wolves bare
handed, but being unarmed, were
eaten by the wolves. The wolves then
began to attack the other people
when man with some guns appear
ed on the scene. The latter, without
handing guns to anyone, began tc
shoot the wolves. The wolves then ate
the unaTmed people, and afterwards
ate the man with the guns, for he
overpowered by force Of numbers
could do nothing.
But, upon another occasion, the
same thing happened. with an ending
entirely different. A party were out
in the woods and were attacked by
wolves. A man with a few guns ap
peared on the scans, bus remember