Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-27


mans?
The Germans say we do not
Faw Americans even yet have the
SLIGHTEST conception of the ideas
with govern Germany Many Ans
cans have only lately come to be-
iI;eve the facts of German barbarlsfl.
They could not trust any evidence,
co absolutely impossible did such
things as the Germans have done
seem to be in this twentieth CEN
fury.
But everything Germany has done
has been done calmly, coolly and with
malice and 'afore thought. Germany
is not a mad dog foaming at the
mouth. The nation is mad, but IL IS
The cool lunacy of poisoned braln'
not the red fury of rabies.
To find out what is the matter
with Germany it is necessary to 60
10 the source Of German ideas-to
The thinkers who have fashioned her
IDEALS for the past two generations.
Following are some quotatlo?ns
which tell the tale. They are the
words: of the men who have been
most widely read and most widely
believed by the Germans of today. :
These thinkers have put into I'M
oualified statement the principles
upon which the Prussian power was
founded and has grown great. Like
all philosophers they have simply re-
elected in their books the world about
them. In turn their statements OF
the national ideals have had the Ell
feet of Strengthening and crystaiiz-
ing them.
The German gets his ideas from
books and from philosophers more
than any other modern man. The
German professor wields an m
renee of which we know nothing in
this country of unmuzzled '.newspa-
pers. free politics and unlimited dis
cussion on the stump.
Here is the German creed as for
mulated by Germany's own philo-
sophers:
"Not only must the state be obey
Cd. it must be venerated as God
ccccess insured by might is the
measure Of right" -Hegel.
"Weak nations have no right to
existence. and must be absorbed by
powerful nations. The essense of the
state is power. Nothing exists or can
twist which is superior to the state.
-Treitschke.
':The state can do no wrong. The
observance of treaties is not a mat
ter Of duty but of advantage" .
! .Adolphus Lassen.
Love God above all things and
thy neighbor as thyself. This law
! can claim no significance for the re-
| lations of one country to another
There never has been and never. will
be universal rights of men. BERN
hardi.
Morality is symptom Of decad-
ence War is as necessary to the
state as slavery is to society. Might
is the source of right. There IS no
right other than that of theft. usur-
patton and violence. "-Nietzche.
And finally the renegade English
man Houston Chamberlain. who
hates his own country and from his
Berlin home has for years savageiy
attacked Englishmen as decadent, be-
cause thew would not accept the
German theories. says: "Militarism
is the indispensable instrument OF
German culture, it builds its bright
est hopes of supremacy on the exter-
animation Of others"
There are Americans who believe
in such theories and try to practice
them. For them we maintain many
pcnitentaries and electric chairs. We
10 not honor them with decorations
nor place them in the chairs of our
universities. No American has ever
successfully published book up
holding such doctrines. In Germany
such books can be bought at any
railway news stand.
Is it any Wonder the Germans say
we can't understand them Hunt
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