The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-01-21
DEMPSEY TALKS
OF MILITkRISM
OXFORD UNIVERSITY MAN SPOKE
AT PRAYER SERVICES AT METH.
ODlST SERVICES.

On Wednesday evening at the pray
er meeting hour the members of the
Methodist church were entertained
with rare treat when the pastor,
Rev. Walter Anthony, introduced Pro-
lessor Michael Dempsey, from Oxford
University, England, who is at pres.
ent travelling in the United States in
the interest of education.
Previous to the war Professor
Dempsey spent several years travel
ing over the European countries at
present engaged in the worlds great
est conflict. He is the author of a
series of articles which appeared some
years ago in The London Daily Chron-
icle and the Westminster Gazette,
two of the leading London papers, I'M
der whose auspices Prof Dempsey
prepared these articles on Pan-Ger-
manism in which he foretold the great
menace Of this doctrine so enthusiast
tically and agressively exploited by
the militaristic or Junker class of
Prussians all over Germany and the
Austria-Hungary Empire.
He prefaced most interesting and
led up to the great war in Europe
which he attributed in the first place
to the preparedness and pride of the
Prussian ruling classes. He outlined
very clearly the reasons why the Brit
ish people entered the conflict when
Belgium was invaded by the Teutonic
forces. He frankly stated that Eng
land was not actuated by merely
philanthropic motives in going to the
aid OF that brave little country. 1t
was a matter of the very existence
of the British Empire in the future,
as he explained; German possession of
Belgium would mean pistol per-
manently pointed to the heart of Eng
land"
He was unable to foretell when this
war will come to conclusion, but
he said when the people of the Cen
trail Empires realize the true condi-
tons and not the apparent conditions
as pictured on the map of Europe to-
day he believed they would eliminate
caste from their governing councils
and take into their own hands the di-
rection and the destiny of their coun-
tries.
when" said he, "The German peo-
pie offer to the people of the allied
countries peace terms which they, the
fpeople of Germany, are prepared to
abide by, it will be time enough Tor
the allied nations to give serious
thought to the subject. The offer re-
Gently made by the German Emperor
and his Chancellor representing only
themselves and the Junker class was
not genuine but rather made to i'm
press neutrals and justify the war in
the eyes of his own people. The allies
cannot afford at this stage to enter in
to any conference with the very caste
THAT SIdTICu IIlS COllLlcA51oIhoAi III IL"
rope in 1914 and while England and
her allies have no desire now, nor
have they had at any time, to destroy
Germany they are determined to elm
mate the cause for future wars by ma
tionalizing Europe and giving to the
SIavs and the Latins the same rights
to govern their own countries accord
ing to their own ideas and ideals and
not as heretofore been ruled by the
iron heel of Prussian Junkerdom and
the so-caller and much misunderstood
"Kultur."
He concluded his talk by asserting
that after peace and its blessings
come to the people of England, men
and women will give serious thought
to religious and he expects to see
great revival of what we people in
Georgia term "The old time religion"
and the great sufferings at present en-
dured by the British and other peo-
nles will not have been in vain and
the spirit of God will be more in evil
dence in the future in all the countries
of Europe than it was in the past.