The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-02-07

currlcull. 1t is not gong to be the
language OF commerce after the
war, so why waste time with it? |.
is not going to be the language Of
art. or of science. or Of literature.
or of religion.
The world has no use for the
German God. "In our country. 8"
| writes one eminent German auth
or. "God Almighty is reserved for
the personal use of the Emper-
or" 1t sounds like a skit from
some American fun maker, but is
a serious observance on the Ger
man belief of the familiarity of
William" the Infamous, with, the
Creator.
In the eyes of the German PEG
pie who have been schooled in
government schools and educated
in the government churches, Will
liam the Infamous, is reigning by
Divine right, and they are, there.
fore, the Chosen People, the
Scourage of God hose duty it is
to become matters of the world
and make it German,-their meth
DDS are exemplified in their treat
ment of Schleiswng- Holstein, in
Alsace-Lorraine, in Belgium, in
Poland where the gentle Ger
mans confined in a cathedral of
the people for ten days without
food or water, and amused them
selves by tossing scraps of meat tc
those left alive, to see the gaunt,
starving creatures struggle for a
taste.
1t is a mistake to try to judge of
the German nation or the German
people by the standards of the
Americans. 1t is necessary to view
them from the standpoint of the
German. The German nation has
announced its viewpoint to the
world for the past twenty years,
but the world has smiled as at the
vaporings of children, and even
now, when these doctrines are be-
ing exercised by them in the coun
tries so unfortunate as to be under
the Nominations of the German
Huns and Vandals. there are peo-
| pie here in the United States who
say: "Why it can't be possible.
I know many Germans and have
many German friends. and they
are all the finest kind of people. {"
And so say 1, and every one Of us.
But those Germans came here to
escape militarism, and other things
their democratic souls could not
denure, or else like my ancestry,
they came here while Germany was
under old order-when the State
existed for the welfare of the peo-
pie, and not the people for the
welfare Of the State. The wages of
the working people had increased
for ten years Immediately before
the war 81 per cent, while the tax
es for military appropriation had
increased thirteen hundred times.
Germany demands a place in the
sun on property wrested from her
neighbors.
War preparations are being
made as though the struggle is to be
continued for five more years. It
is no idle advice which the man
Hoover is giving when he says con.
serve food, raiment and fueE I
advise in more emphatic terms to
count every cent before it is spent.
Be stingy, be misery. Every cent
will be needed before this war is
brought to termination which will
make it safe for us here in Ameri-
ca to breathe with undated breath.
If men returning from the front
are to be believed, there is no
crime, no brutality, no act of
fiendishness which can be imagined
but has been committed by these
kultured Germans upon the de
fenseless. When they advanced on
Leige they pushed the Belgian wo-
men, old men and children before
them that the Be:gians might not
fire on their own flesh a,d blood.
The same brave Germans filled the
front line trenches at Verdum be-
fore Verdun with the French wo-
men and children, and when the
French began their artillery fire
the screams of these women could
be heard across No Mans Land.
l do not wish as of German de-
scent to be identified with the
minions Of William the Infamous.
There is today in the city Of
Washington in active operation AZ,
army whose exploits attract little
notice, but those members are d.
ing a very large "bit" toward
winning the war for America-an
| &c