Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-06-20


Club OF Nashville
We are at war with Germany be.
cause Prussia dominates Ger
many, and from the days of Freder
tick the Great, Prussia's law has been
the law Of the jungle. her doctrine
might is Right" and hen policy, in
deaAng with other nations, one Of rob.
bing the weak and terrorizing the
strong. Germany has grabbed terri
tory and exacted tribute from her
neighbors, and finally, her greed be-
coming greater, has looked out over
more distant lands, and has commit
ted herself to a policy of world domi-
nation which menaces the continued
free existence of every nation which
will not submit to her will.
Germany's policy is not an acclden-
tai one. 1t has been carried out with
remarkable slngleness Of purpose
from generation TO generation Of
Hohenzollern rule, from the time
of the Great Frederick until to-
day. Germapy's atrocities are not
accidental. They are deliber.
ate, well thought out part of this
HoheRzsllern policy, which was to
break down the resistance of her op-
ponents. not only by fighting and de.
feating fheir armies but by killing,
terturing and terForiZing the civil
populations.
4he German rulers committed them.
selves to the doctrine Of the survival
Of the fittest. Throngh generations OF
teaching they made the German peo.
pie believe that they, and they alone,
were the fit.
We have the words of the German
rulers ana German warriors and Ger
man leaders Of thought for all of this.
M0so than that we have the perform
anes Of German officers and German
armies In conquered lands to prove it
Let's start with Frederick the
GFs2t in presenting the evidence,
This monarch. who earned his SOU
briquet through despoiling his neigh
bors. rather than through any real
qualities Of mind which he showed,
said, In a letter to his minister, Rad
twill:
"E there Is anything to be gained
by 1t, we will be honest; If deception
is necessary, let us be cheats. One
takes what one can, and one is wrong
only when obliged to give back"
This philosophy, applied to present
conditions, means that Germany was
right when she took Belgium, and will
be wrong only IL she is not able to
hold 1t.
From Frederick the Great to Bis
naarxk Is long jump in the matter
Of time; but we find the Prussian pol
leg unchanged. Speaking before the
nei}stary eompittee Of the Prxssian
chamher Of Deputies in 1852 Bis.
march said:
"Not by speeches and resolutions
Of n4njeFities are the great questions
Of the time decided. but by iron and
bfosd."
Then. with blood and iron, Prussia
went out and despoiled Denmark Of
territory IN 1854, beat and robbed Aus
tkia h 1865, and finally, In 1870.
breygHt France to her knees and took
her richest provinces.
Here Is what the present kaiser told
his treobs when, in 1900, they were
about to depart for China to put down
the boxer uprising:
"Use your weapons In such way
that for a thousand years no Chi
nese shall dare to look upon a German
askancs. Be AZ terrible as Attilla's
Huna"
Coming on down to the present war
we Ind a German minister accredited
to q neutral state far across the sea-
one which one would think should be
ffee from the entanglements of world
politios-wrttng home to his govern
meat. in state paper, advising the
sinking Of two ships from this neutral
nation. In such q manner that no trace
bs lGft. Dead men, he believed tell
NO tales. :
II was Baron Luxburg, minister pleni-
petcntiary TO Argentina, who wrote
this anasing dispatch on May 10, 1917 !:
II beg that the small steamers Oran
and G1aEo which are nearing
bordeaux be spared II possi-
hfs, or else sank without a trace be-
ing left"
This telegram was intercepted in the
United States and published. 1t sent
thrill of horror around the world
Chancellor. vdr BethT onn- -Hellweg is
a true disciple Of Frederick the
Great, Bismarck and his royal master.
In public speech on January 81, 1917,
he said:
"When the most ruthless methods
are calculated to lead Us to victory,
s1tft victory they must be employed"
80 they were used, and are being
used today. They include sinking of
hundreds Of neutrh ships. the burning
q cities, the deliberate devastating
of.the fair lands of France, the ravish-