Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-05-02

useless and base. II combats all Eoou.
red blood, all love aud all hope for
life, with its snaemic ideal OF holiness.
II sets up the other world as a mega
tion OF every reality. The cross Is the
rallying post for q conspiracy against
health. beauty. well-being. courage. In
tellect, benevolence-against life IT.
self This eternal accusation
shall write upon all walls: I call
Christianity the me great curse. the
n great, intrinsic depravity :.
for which no expedient is sufficiently
poisonous. secret. subterranean and
mean. l call 1t the n immortal shame
and blemish upon the human race"
Nor is he kindlier toward Judaism
toward the Judaism of later days at
least. He has words Of admiration. in
deed, for that warrior nation which
came flaming out of Egyptian bondage
to the conquest of Palestine; this ac-
corded with his ideal superman. But
that Judaism which followed the Baby.
lonian captivity excites only his bitter
contempt. And his dissertation upon
the origin Of morality, al taught by
Jewish history. is one of the most
Enthusiastically Nietzschean Of all
that he has written.
In the last analysis. Nietzsche taught
a dual system OF mOrality--a master
morality for his beloved superman and
a slave morality for the masses who
We're too impotent, too spiritless or
too foolish to make headway against
the predatory proclivities of their mas.
tiers. And in the earlier Hebrew, the
man of war and conquest, swarming
into a land of milk and honey and
making it his own by the edge of his
sword-putting its men, women and
children to a bloody death-he beheld
his superman. for whom God was
synonymous with strength, power.
beauty, courage, ruthlessness, ferocity.
because these things contributed to
the exercise and realization of his Will
to Power. and gave him added great
ness ana supremacy.
But when the Jews were carried into
captivity-when they were no longer
masters, but slaves-the reversed con-
ditions of their lot (reasoned Met.
zsche) reversed for them the defini.
ton Of God. Resort to the sword be-
came, then. the worst thing in the
world for them; it meant extermina-
tion. Unable to combat their masters
with the.sword, they resorted to the SUI.
preme weapon Of the slave Gas Met.
zsche styles it); they adopted the
moral law as their instrument in the
irrepressible struggle for supremacy.
And thus the characteristics of COW.
ardice, timidity, obsequiousness-the
marks of the slave-were elevated into
virtues. They became love Of ones
enemies, obedience to God, meekness
Of heart; and the suppressed envy,
malice and c~ovetousness of these en-.
shaved people were thus transmitted,
through the alchemy of the moral law
into their opposite virtues. Thus in
Christianity Nietzsche beheld the su
preme triumph of the slave over the
truly great and powerful and good.
1t is characteristic of the Germanit
philosophy, however, that in spite o.
its terrific condemnation of Christian
ity it would not abolish this. Met
zsche's objections to both Christianity
and the moral law are based, not upor
their intrinsic qualities, but upon the
fact that they impose restrictions upor
the ruthlessness and aggressiveness O.
the superman. He would even per
petuate Christianity and the mora
law, as mea Of more easily control
ling the Slaves"
Such, in brief, are the teachings o
the Germanic philosophy.
1t is to that philosophy that Gel
many's policies of treachery and in
trigue. Of falsehood and deceit, of ruth
less brutality and %unblushing viola
; ton of every law that humanity hold
. sacred, are directly attributable. I
the eyes of Germany the Hohenzollei.
/ caste are supermen; and, as suci
. clothed with divine right to murde
1 and pillage and lay waste, to lie an
6 intrigue and to do whatever else ma
, promise to further their own sove
eign Will to Power.
, Herein lies the key to the characte
{ Of Kaiser Wilhelm, and Of Hindenbur
{ and Of Won Tirpitz and Of all the Ion
c list whose names have become anatl
ema upon the lips Of civilization
Y This explains the wanton tearing
: that scrap Of paper which breache
II the Belgian frontier and poured
Y flood Of barbarism upon an unoffen
ing people. This is the reason--tf
&c horrible unreason--that lies bat
s of the shiny, midnight activities
le the most perfectly organized syste
Is of espionage the world ever saw, ar
a that projected and maintains the br
tai and cowardly "untersee" outrag,
N against international law upon Il
ID high seas. 1t was this philosopi
which inspired the war song, "Deutsc
land uber Alles!"
~ Until civilization shall have taug
" rarc,npp <hn totv;.,;o hor,th1e.~u