Licking Valley courier., 1917-03-29
The German Viewpoint.

lhlS letter from q young Ter
man woman to a friend in neu.
tral Switzerland is published in
the Tribune de Geneva, publish
ed in French in Geneva:
my dear little Louise:
THE contents of your last let
ter would have wounded me if
had not known that your opinions
on our glorious war were the out
come of ignorance.
You live in a country which
is effeminated by the influence of
old-fashioned ideas of liberty,
and which is now centuries be-
hind US. You require strong
dose of Prussian culture. 1t is
evident that you a Swiss, fash
ioned to French thought, cannot
understand that my young Ger
man girls heart has ardently,
passionately desired this war; it
has been talked of with us for
years, and my father used to say
to us, Children, Germany is be-
coming too small for us; we must
return to France in order to
make a place for ourselves and
to get money!
"You have something to learn
IN order to equal US. There is
only one country worthy to dom
mate the whole world, which has
attained a high degree Of civil
zation, and that is ours the Prus-
slams! say Prussians, for if as
Germans we are overlords of the
world, the Prussian is par excel
lence the overlords Of the Ger
mans. All other nations are de-
generate and of inferior value.
"Only yesterday our pastor
was explaining in a convincing
manner that the first human be-
ings, Adam and Eve, were also
Prussians. That is easy to un-
derstand, for in the Bible it is
written that our German God has
created US accorring to his own
image. If, therefore, all men
have descended from a Prussian
Adam and from his wife, there
should exist only Prussians, OF
at least Germans, and everything
that grows and exists should be-
long to US. That is why our de-
vice is God with US and Ger
many over all.
is it not shameful that other
= peoples, who have no right to eX-
.istlnn this earth, should wish to
reduce our inheritance? We are
the divine fruit, and all others
are but weeds, That is why our
! great emperor, representing God
on earth, has decided to put an
end to all these injustices and tC
exterminate the weeds.
And yet there are people ir
this good land who can see nc
menace to free government ir
Germany's success in this war;
We are apt to sympathize with
the German people and attribute
the whole blame of the war anC
its ruthlessness to the ruling
class, but here we have startling
evidence that the German people,
including the women and child,
rem, believe that the universe is
run under the firm name of THE
Kaiser & God," and that individ
ual liberty is a dream Of the ig
norant.
Such a state of universal be-
lief in the divinity of the Kaisel
could be produced in but one wa!
and the Prussian lords have fol
lowed that way; i. e., they taxi
the child from the parents in in
fancy and direct its education
early instilling in its mind a ven
GRAFTON for royalty and a hatret
for democracy. The clergy ais,
is requisitioned to further teacI
the idea, and the thought Of free
dom is a stranger to the German
mind. The Russian Gar sough
to keep his people in subjectiol
by force and neglected to edu
them along the Prussian plan
and the democratic idea grey
and expanded until it depose
the Gar and established a re
public. A democracy will neve
come to Germany from withir
Outside forces will have to con
pei a democracy in that unhapp
country, as every German is
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