New Britain herald., 1917-05-28
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have been misquoted and misunder- stood. And tonight as we are here under the circumstances I am going to ask you to consider with me what 1t all means and why it should be something we are to carry and bear as great burden until we can lay 1t down as task finished and well done.
 This war is different from any war ever waged since humane history be- gan, near parallels may be found for some of it's aspect, but as a whole there has nsver been a war like it. Not in respect to its magnitude. etc., although here also it is alone. But in the way in which two great and op- posing principals as to human gov ernment and society, as to human rights and privileges es to ideals of life and character are here locked in gigantic struggle ip which there can be no compromise but in which the issue must be settled, in other words in which the conflict must be fought to finish. On the outcome of this struggle the whole future of mankind is dependent. Such has never been the case before, at least on any such scale
 The makers of this war, at first only dimly apprehended by many, especially in England and America, but gradually becoming more clear is at last known, the issue at stake and the cohsequenee of defeat. Shall we try this more clearly tonight? What has now become evident is that the German government, which is not necessarily the same as the German people of their own free impulse, has been for a number of years and espe- cially during the reign of the present emperor been aiming at the control of the world and in the pursuit of this aim it has allowed no considera- ton of morals or the rights of nations :! to stand in the way. Every means to secure this desired end have been un- successfully used. Bribery, double dealing, intrigue. deceit. all directed l fropl the imperial headquarters, have
 been most lavishly used, on a scale
 that is appalling, now that so many l recent facts have been laid bare, for l! the past forty years or more. The ! bascst treacherics, spies masQuerad- l ing as friends and basely misusing the 1 hospitality unsuspiciously granted by ! friendly powers have been employed 1 by the German government, not only
 since the war began. but for years l before. and in preparation for the 1 war.
 l ''In further preparation for the ac-
 complishment of this great end, the
 control of the world hes been mili- 1 tarization of the German people, the 1 systematic and marvelously perfect ed scheme to make of the whole pop
 ulation of Germany and her ally one
 thoroughly organized army all abso- lutely under the control of the inn
 perial power. For forty years or
 more every German man capable of
 military service has had to have his
 three to four consecutive years of ac-
 tive training and service. Before the
 German youth goes into his army
 training he is taught by order of the
 government in the public schools the
 military imperial theory of the state
 the German state and all that thai
 means. During his four years o1 active training these ideals are in.
 cessa santly drilled into him. Can you imagine the effect of this on the whole , nation, thus educated and trained fo, , forty years?
 'In still further preparation for thi: } end the control of the world the whole intellectual and economic lif< , of Germany has been more and more completely organized and controlled } by the government. Its science, it. industries have all been controlled
 and concentrated toward this one end to make the German people one vast l mighty. unified and efficient fghtin, ! machine to control the world. To tn,