Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-05

the import of these words. They do
not believe, because they do not know,
that our democracy is threatened. They
DO not know that lot of crazy men in
Germany have gotten a lot of power,
power enough to make a whole nation
of 100000 German people do their
bidding. These crazy men are the pan
Germans or Junkers or Militarists Of
Germany and they are Germany's fore
most men, her leading professors, min
listers, editor s, bankers, lawmakers, big
business men, and, of course, the pro-
fessional warriors of her army and
navy. There may be 100000 of these
leaders, all of them thoroughly Kaiser
lied" through long process of wrong
education, and these lead on $500, 900
other Germans who are more or less
stupid, who are dupes and slaves, many
OF them not knowing that they are
such. The lager beer that they drink
does not make for clearness of think
irg. They have become stupid and
brutal largely through being saturated
with beer for generations, says the
psychologist. THE chickens are COM
ing home to roost" with the German
people.
The an-Germans are the slickest
widest crowd that ever gained power in
any nation in the worlds history. They
have all the modern inventions at their
command And for period of forty
YEARS they have been preparing with
lAg guns and big ships and an enor-
nous army and navy to dominate and
rule the world. Their Berlin to Bag
dZd" scheme of "Mittel Europa" is pos
tive proof of this. There are plenty
of other proofs. They freely predicted
that their day oder Tag') had come,
and that as Rome once ruled the world
and as Spain and France and England
did, now it was Germanys turn. They
ignore and despise and sneer at Ameri-
ca calling her simply an immigrant ma
ton, bent only on money making, and
too cowardly, to fight. All the while
we have ben developing along peace
lines and were preaching the Brother
hood of Man, and were pleading and
working for arbitration treaties and
peace movements, these Germans have
been arming to the teeth and preaching
the necessity of war They scott at
the peace idea and they absolutely re-.
feet the teaching of Jesus Christ as APP
plicable to nations.
They are pure power and force Wor-
shippers following Napoleon and Jul
Illus Caesar and Alexander the Great.
They utterly disregard Napoleon's
warning: THE more I study the world
the more l am convinced of the in
of force to create anything dur
able Alexander, Caesar. Charlemagne
and | myself have founded empires;
but upon what did these creations OF
our genius depend? They depended
upon force. JesusChrist founded His
empire upon love and to this very day
would die for him"
These pane Germans, i. e., the ruling
class or the government of Germany,
say that war is an unqualified neces-
sity." They claim it is "a perversion
of morality to wish to abolish heroisIp
among men" by abolishing war. They
know little o. nothing of American
college athletics.
The Germans are great Turn We
or gymnasts, but they are not
athletes. We in American can and do
teach all the heroic qualities through
athletics, football, baseball basketball,
etc.
From the true pain of view. war is
absolutely unnecessary to teach the he
roic virtues, and is a relic of barbarism
and complete anachronism in th.E
twentieth century OF social progress
1t is a reversion to the jungle ana tiger
age of man. and the German leaders arc
simply carrying out ,-)arwin's brutal
and partly untrue doctrine of the Sur
Vival of the Tittest."
This semi false doctrine drives the
weak to the wall but this Darwinian
theory was modified years ago by men
like Henry Drummond in his Ascent
of Man; by Kropotkin and others.
They proved that there is. altruism as
well as cgoism or selfishness at the
heart of the Cosnic process.
Eut the Germans have not only fol-
lowed Darwin's partly false and one
sided theory, but they have also fol-
lowed the, crazy teaching of their own
Metzsche and Schopenhauer, both of
whom were more or less crazy and died
so. These, two Atheists and cynical
pagans are the@ principals who have
cursed modern Germans- snd damned II
with their devilish and horribly selfish
doctrine that might makes right. These
two pagans, of course, rejected the
truthful Jesus. The unselfish teach
ings of Jesus do not harmonic with
the intensely selfish desires of the
Germans, and so they do not hesitate to
claim that they are right and that
Jesus and his gospel of love and good
will and kindness are wrong.
These Germans follow the Old pagan
Greeks and Romans, and look upon the