El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-16
Germans Are dught
To Believe In War
Their Educators and Preachers Had
Filled Them with Lust For
Conquest Long Before the
Present War Was
Commenced.
BY MADISON c. PETERS.

IN previous articles the writer has
l declared that the professors in the
universities Of Germany. the news
papers throughout the empire and
even the preachers, spent the past so
years proclaiming 10 the people Of
Germany the Hohenzolern doctrine
Of conquest. subjusation, slaughter
and world dominion
Otto Won Gottburg, writing in a
magazine for youths in the year 1918.
said:
War is the most august and sacred
OF human activities For US too
the great joyful hour or battle Will
one day strike. The openly expressed
longing for war often deEenerateS
into vain Boosting and ludicrous sa-
Der rattling: but still and deep in the
German heart must the JOY in war
and the longing for war endure
That Isn't Our Way.
Compare that kind Of talk with the
spirit of service and brotherhood
which is taught in all our schools and
colleges. published in all our young
peoples papers and magazines our
highest measure OF manhood is not
murder. but that the finest achieve
ment is kindness and good will
Prof. Sombart. one of the foremost
in the University Of Berlin and dis
tinguished writer, whose books are
in nearly all our public libraries, in
a book entitled "Hucksters and He
roes" emphasizes that the Germans
are the heroes. that the hucksters, an
inferior civilization, are the rest OF
mankind and that it is the will Of
God that the German heroes should
rule the hucksters. He says in his
book:
Now we see why the other nations
pursue US with their hatred They
do not understand US. but they are
conscious OF our enormous spiritual
superiority. So the Jews were hated
in antiquity because they were Gods
chosen Representatives in the world"
Get Rid OF These Books.
By the way. won't you go through
your public libraries and see II this
or any other book by Sombart is on
the shelves2 II so. it is your patri-
otto duty TO buy Il from the library
and publicly burn It.
Shortly after this war broke out a
book entitled Wars Devotions," in
tended to cheer the heart OF the pious
German as they suffered the sorrows
Of war, a pastor by the name Of Rump
declared:
Verify. the Bible is our book. given
and assigned to Us, and we read in IL
proclaims TO mankind. salvation or
disaster according as We will it"
In the book entitled The German
God" a preacher by the name OF
Lehman says. Germany is the cen
ter OF Gods plans for the world"
Even the preachers wearing the garb
Of Him who came to preach love. have
dragged down the loving Father 10
be the tribal deity-Gott of the
marching Hun hordes. The German
Colt is my devil.
In one Of the foremost churches OF
Berlin pastor Bautmgarten. who is
looked upon by the people as a dear
the Lusitania, in published address,
said:
JusSifies Lusltania Sinking.
Whoever cannot prevail upon him
self to approve from the bottom Of
his heart the sinking OF the Lusi-
tania, whoever cannot conquer his
sense of the gigantic cruelty TO IN
and give himself up to honest delight
at this victorious exploit Of German
defensive power, him we Judge 10 be
no true German"
We have no doubt that there are
some people still left in Germany
who. with the rest Of the world.
stand abashed at the atrocities which
many proclaimed a national holiday
to celebrate the sinking or the Lusi-
tania and the little children were
marched out from the schools 10
carry Tags, singing Deutschland
Uber Alles," gloatinE over the women
and children whom their government
deliberately sent down 10 the bottom
Of the sea This is modern Germany.
The Germany the world once respectz
ed - the Germany OF Goethe and
Fichte, OF Wagner and Schubert IS no
more.