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GERMAN KULTUR.

Ill SOl1idoAAS - ANPOAR h'N
Committee on Correspondence to the
Grand Commandery of Knights Temp.
lar of Maryland, Mr.. John H. Miller, OF
Baltimore, makes the following very
appropriate reference to two of the
great German authors and morallsts,
which should be well digested at this
time:
Our report is again finished and we
are able to greet our visitors with a
glad hand and welcome smile, altho'
the "World War" is still occupying our
Nations careful thought-that is, all
except a few unreasonable people in
and out of Congress who have fads
that they insist upon being enacted
into law, no matter what the effect
may be upon the prosperity and happi-
ness of the American people. They
are like Hindoo and Mahomedan ia
natics and object to anyone living and
seeing unless they look through their
s~pectacles.
For the benefit of any pro-Germans
who may read this conclusion we give
the following extracts from a recent
address that vas made on Maundy
Thursday at a Rose CroiX banquet at
the Masonic Temple, in Baltimore, in
reference to two of the great German
Philosophers and Teachers:
NIETzsCHE-
Pity is the greatest impeachment to a full
developed life.
Pity is a waste of feeling a moral para
site which is injurious to health.
A man loses his power when he pities.
Christianity is the religion of pity and
should be avoided.
The great motive of organic life Is to ex-
Dand 10 grow 10 aDDrOnriatp TO gain
power.
Morality is based on utility.
Christianity has waged war against the
higher type of man, because 1t reverses
the biological law of selection.
War and struggle is a biological necessity,
a social necessity.
War and courage have done more and
greater things than charity.
Nations that are weak should be destroyed.
War is one OF the essential factors of
morality. 1t is right and power to bring
on war; war and courage have done
more great things than love to your
neighbor.
We should tear up books on permanent
peace as the product of weak minds.
Christian morality cannot be political.
Treaties are only DISCUSSES to conceal 9TH
er political aims.
TREITsCHKE-
drastic manner.
Military training is true culture.
War is just and moral. The idea of eter-
nal peace is both unjust. immoral and
impossible.
The hope of driving war out of the world
is not only senseless. it is deeply In
moral.
The State is power: therefore the highest
duty of the State is to care for power.
For this purpose all means are %justifia-
ble-spying, lying and bribery.
War is an institution ordained by God.
Might is right and decided by war.
Every youth who enters a beer drinking
and duelling club will receive the true
direction of life.
The sight of suffering does one good.
The infietion of suffering does one more
good this war must be conducted as
Futhlessly as possible.
Now, we leave it to any red-blooded
American to say what he thinks of any
race of people that believes in the
above heinous doctrine. Does he
der any longer at the Prussian Autoc-
racy giving orders to murder innocent
women and children, violate treaties
and bomb villages of peaceful inhabi-
tants, and do other hellish and bar
barous acts?
We think not.
We append the following from
Grand Master Smiths General Order
No. 5, which is just received, as it
shows what Christian K~nighthood
teaches:
LOYALTY"
There is not time to bubble or to fool
To argue over who is wrong, who is right /:
To measure fealty with a worn foot rule;
To ask: Shall we keep still or shall we
fght?'
The clock of fate has struck the hour is
here;
War is upon us now, not far away;
One question only arises, clarion clear:
How may | serve my country, day by
day.
There is no middle ground on which to
stand
We're done with useless pro-and-con de-
bates
The one-time friend, so welcome in this
land,
Has turned upon us at our very gates
There Is no way, with honor, to stand back
Real patriotism isn't cool-then hot
You cannot trim the flag to fit your lack
You are an Americdn-oT else you're not ~
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