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great master. whom they celebrate
and never tire OF praising. Nietzsche,
judges Germany Alright. On page :S.
in his Ecce Homo, he says: "Where-
ever Germany tends her sway she
ruins culture" On page l24 OF the
same volume he says; Il feel it my
duty to tell the Germans that every
crime against culture lies on their
conscience" BY culture he means
painting, sculpture, catiiedrals, inter
national laws, the Athenian sweet
ness, reaSonableness and light Oct
mans goal should be super Her
cules or Goliath, with the club Ger
many has no gift for culture of The
intellect. As TO that there is no 9TH
or culture beside France"
Consider the reflex influence of
Germany's philosophy of inilitarism
upon her statesmen and diplomats. In
one of his greatest speeches Edmund
Burks speaks OF "the peculiar sane
tity attaching 10 the word OF for
eign minister" From Phocion to John
Hay prime ministers have been jeal-
GUS Of their pledges Lincoln speaks
of the failure OF a government TO
make good its word as - crime
against civilization" Business men
scott at the trickster, who does not
count his written pledge more prec-
ious than life itself.
With the standards Of civilized
states in mind, recall the intellectual
and moral atrocities OF the Kaiser
and Bethfnann-Hollweg. In 1911 the
German Foreign Office reaffirmed
the Treaty with England and France
to observe the neutrality of Belgium
- ~" c,'rAt cf ,v~r viii Erance. On
Jaly 81 i9i.. t-c 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 con
ference between the Austrian En-
peror and the Kaiser at the Pots
dam Palace on.July 5, with the agree
ment to launch the war August |.
When the war proclamation was de-
iayed until August 3, the Kaiser's
representative used this sentence In
his speech in the Reichstag: "We
must not postpone the agreement
entered into with Austria at the con-
ference of July" For more than three
weeks. therefore, before war was le-
clared Germany and Austria were
preparing cannon, guns, equipment,
and as soon as the last buckle was
on the harness and the last rifle in
the hands OF the soldiers, on August
3, war was declared Then Betllman-
lfollweg. sent out this statement to
the world as to why the Kaiser and
himself counted an international
treaty g scrap OF paper"
He said; "AS 10 Belgium-we are
now in a state OF necessit" and ne
cessity knows no law The wrong
! speak openly-that we are commit
ting we will endeavor to make good
as soon as our military goal has been
reached. We have now only one
thought-how to hack the way thru"
So the international burglars excuse
is that he must hack his way through
the neighbor's house and Kill his
family because that house stands be-
tween himself and the Frenchman's
vault whose gold he wants to steal
That is why our President, answer
ing the Pope. said that no treaty sign
ed by the Kaiser and his govern
ment means anything. And here is
Bernstorff, German Ambassador in
Washington, who forgets that canni-
balls and savages, even consider that
eating salt in another Indians tent
or white mans house is pledge OF
truth; while this Judas Ambassador
dimes at the White House at night
and goes on plotting sedfions in
Mexico, blowing up our munition
factories and the killing of our peo-
pie. Bernstorff smiled as he kept one
hand above the table and in the 9th
er hand under the table whetted a
dagger on his boots with which to
stab his host in the back
Witness the discovery of treachery
to Norway two months ago. After
several Norwegian stemers had been
mysteriously sunk at sea the Ger
man Consul was found travelling
back and forth from the Foreign Of
flee in Berlin. filling his trunk with
bombs and glass tubes containing
the cultures of glanders to spread
one of the most deadly diseases, 10
annihilate men. horses and cattle,
and protecting these instruments of
death by the seal of the Berlin For
eiQn Office The substance of Ger