The Nome daily nugget., 1917-11-10

ton III pIeIeTcnCe tO r,lnk or biltOn. Germany is as wholly foreign to them as any other nation involved What ever. favor they possess for Germany is, therefore, a favor born of the in-
 tellect; of, we may presume, the an alysis of the testimony, the weighing
 and sitting of the evidence that may
 be observed for or against In short
 their favor would appear to be based
 entirely upon judgement of what they
 see or hear. It is. therefore, extremely
 puzzling to find that they are not able
 to see in such statements as the fol-
 lowing. nearly all of which were made
 by some of Germanys ablest thinkers and scholars, the answer to the Ques-
 ton of Germany's culpability
 Even when dcvoided of all their
 overwhelming egoism they still dis
 play enough of the German mind to convince the most skeptical of the real aims and intentions of that nation to-
 ward the rest of the world. The first
 Is an extract from an article written
 by Professor Ostwald. a Noble prize
 winner Gas a chemisD and a famous German scientist He says:
 Germany thanks to her genius for organization or social efficiency, has at tained d stage of civilization far higher war will in the future compel these war willin the future compel these other peoples to partici ipste, under the form of German social efficiency. in
 a civilization higher than their own. Among our enemy the Russians, in brief. are still in that period of the undsciphned tribe, while the French and the English have only attained the degree of cultural development which we ourselves left behind fifty years ago.
 If this is not convincing evidence of the real aims and intentions of Ger many, the following from Baron von Stengel. Professor at Munich and one of Germanys ablest scholars, may give further insight into the German mind and reveal in still clearer light the ultimate fate projected for the world and humanity.
 IL will be noted that the remarks of Baron Stengel were made in answer 10 an invitation to address the Anti war League of Holland and give his opinion on the subject of a future peace conference
 It would be completely superhous. l nc says, to say. because it is beyond ,ll doubt that the final and decisive l 'ictory must rest with Germany Then l ye shall be in a position to restrain all | he enemies of peace, and to win and 1 maintain permanent peace; the only l ,eace that will be assured. alike for | ourselves and for all civilized human ty. The war has demonstrated. it's course, that we, the Ger 1ans, have been chosen by Providence, rom among all the earth's peoples, to ut ourselves at the head of all eivi- zed nations and guide them to a sure cacc under our protection. For this ve possess not only the necessary bower and force, but also in the high st degree the intellectual gifts re- luisite and we are the flower of tho 1 ntire creation's KULTUR. Conse- luently. if has been reserved for us to ! To what no nation hitherto has been | ,ble 10 do. to giv" all the world peace. l
 Subjection to our guardianship, l which is in every sense superior to any ,ther,is the sure and only road to 1 prosperity for every nation, and es- oeciallv for the neutrals. No people l 8 richer in sentiment and in ideals | han are we. the Germans Therefore under our protection, all international law is perfectly superfIuous; for by our own natural instinct we give each his own.
 This worthy gentleman does not he's ltate 10 openly intimate the belief that the Kultured ones are morally entitled to put to the sword if necessary a suf- ficient number to make the rest obe- dient and then "civilize" them by German ideas and German methods into their heads under duress of the prison or rife muzzle
 Not quite so openly but none the less clearly, pr. Lasson. Privy Coun- cilor aud Professor of Philosophy at the University of Berlin, reveals that feeling of superior excellence which, in the minds of those less careful Of their utterances, grants Germany the l right to lead all humanity into the | light of that all embracing German love which tortures the bodies of in- nocent women and children. attacks 1 harmless noncombatants. sinks Lus-