Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-27

the hundred and some few years OF
, their national existence have had a
few fairly severe ihlts Now we arc
, in the midst OF the German affair
= and an amazing numbcr OF our people
refuse 10 realize what II means TO uR
or 10 appreciate the menace to our
nntlonal Oxistence
America they know, wants no terri
tory. no cOnqucets: therefore, they ask,
why should Ucrmnny, II IL win. want
thcm1 why should America send
troops 10 Europe 10 fight Europe =
hnttles7 Germany ir In no danger
from VA, 30 why should We be IN
danger from Germany? We shall not
do anything 10 Germany. even after
We we're victorious over her no why
should Germany, II sho In victorious.
do anything to us Let Europs settle
her own battles. they say We. OF an
other continent, nre not concerned.
n we let Germany alone. Germany
viii let ny alone
II ~ quite likely that some Ameri-
cans who now have such ideas will
have changed those ideas by the time
this nrtlclc appears; but II is certain
that others viii still be deluding
Themselves IN perE.sting In the old
! American habit OF estimating others
even an enemy on the American
bHsit
PrnssiHu without Honor.
! And with some enemies s--cvcnosome
EuvngcS--the estimate would not be
far amias, because they are not wholly
| lost "a honor and dcceucy and hu-
munlty Hut the prusslRu Is not or
them; IN war no has neither honor
nor doconcy, nor humanity. Az such
qualities are Understood by civilized
! nations. In war; particularly the
present war-tho prussinns have put
aside even the temporary veneer that
they had assumed To conceal from the
rest OF the world--a decent and
human world, Il is-the true nature
OF the Prussian brutes. and, because
they had thought to win the world
war. and 10 establish on the basis
OF might, they have dared to stand
forth In tho buff They bully Of Eu-
rope, having prepared himself with,
M he thought, an inyincible thorough
neHB proceeded TO carry out his long
| nursed Intentions, and bv brute force
and actroCity. Impose his imperial viii
on an omOzod and helpless world and
draEoon It to It's kultur-- Prussian
! kultur God save us
| ! sny PruSsinn, because ns every
one knows, the central powers. as
thcy ARE today, are dominated abso-
lutely by and subservient by Prussia
And IN the process Of conquest and
ensluvement, the prussians have foe
more than three years, inflicted on
the helpless nations and peoples ,
whom they overrnn such cruelties. /
such unspeakablc actroCities. ms his |
tory never recorded. All the famous, |
or Infamous conqucrers OF the past are !
insignificant IN comparison with the I
savage prussian brute-the brute WIN
IN h..
dierH march onward with God"
along his bloody way.
Contemplate for IA moment n nation
which insists that God Is with IL I'm !
lm flendish work, and then reflect
now far back into tho dlmnesa OF the
past one must so 10 find n nation
which had the effrontery to claim that
II was simply Gods chosen instru- |
ment 10 work his VIII Contemplate
he Gentle One " Bethlehem whom |
The Prusslan processes TO revere ns |
iod--wadlnR IA the blood OF mankind
contemplate Christ In n prlssian hel. |
met, with a Prussian sword and Prus- |
san mannors' Contemplate william |
liohenzoliern, Won Hlndcnhutg, Won |
iudcndor1f Won Mackinsen as dis |
clples or him OF GethsemRne and Cal |
vary!
To the Dark Ages.
ono must 30 back 60 the darkest !
period OF the dark ages 10 find srplilar |
eiirontery--to Alaric and the rest who |
claimed, as william OF Pruss,la claims
in all his published felicitations 10 his
armies, that they were doing the viii
OF the Almighty, that they were
marching onward with God"
~ must be peculiar mentality that
In thls day and generation. could have
tho arrogance to advance such "A
clalm-hnd "A queer. very queer pro-
pie that has the inert lity and docility
10 accept such rot--lnd actually be-
ieVe H.
We Americans freely admit that we
that would k0sve such claim ,or
would use such me~Aods In war. and
YET there are those OF US who persist
IN judging what the prussiaus Will do
TO us if they win this war. by what we
VIII do TO them IN we win II. Which
necessarily JuuEt mean that as soon ns
the IrusSian has won he will eNperi-
enoe change OF heart, abandon his
savage methods, and be converted To
our terms OF peace that Victorious he
WI forcgo the PrussiJn fruits OF VIC
tory, VIII cease 20 march onward
win his God" will pat his God aside
ana fe converted 10 the God of civil
TSton. the God Of the Golden trle and
the Sermon on the Mount. the follower
Of meek and lowly lesus. him of the
m'nrer ~ Gothsemane. Of Calvary
German History Significant
Go buck To the prussinn nationa,
hero, Frederick the Gtaat. "Old
tri1," ms they fondly call hlm-as
Contemrtihle bully and sneak and
hlackruard ard liar "a ever lived.
Would he have turned back from an
aNoVed purpose 10 make America
pay the cost n this war" II he we're
victorious hid h" ever turn aside
from any purpose II he could effect Il
by force, hy choAuery. hy lies. by
bluff bV dishonor. nv any crime Ills.
tory nj least Prussiqn history gives
Mm tho title OF MpcRt." hut I'm the ,
civilized sense, thFd is nothing great
about him except Meanness Of charac- :
ter and of action He was. when
compared with his contemporaries. ,
a successful warrior. but no. like the !
traditional kingly honor. which In as
sumed To he the heritage OF throne. ,
was utterly wanting to him: and his ,
chief claim Ga live In history liz based !
IN the fact that he robbed a woman, q
mat without cause he made war on a I
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