Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-19
A Pottern of All Pert3dy.

Every nation that, deals with the Kaiser and
his followers finds late that they are alto
gether perfidious Now it is Sweden that is learn
ing this truth to her sorrow. OF all European
neutrals she has been counted most pro-German
and has been most serviceable to the German cause
From her Mines it is estimated, has come more
than half the iron used in the manufacture OF
German munitions; through her importers and
merchants great quantities of foodstuffs and other
necessares have found their way to Germany from
distant parts OF the world from Allied lands;
and in Swedish diplomacy the German Government
on numerous occasions has found valuable aid IL
ever one nation earned the friendly regard OF an
other, Sweden earned Germanys thousand times
over
YET no sooner were the Germans fairly estab-
lished in the Baltic provinces OF betrayed RUSSIA
and Iairy confident in their designs upon FINLAND
IMAM uhey began treating sweden, along with the
rest CT Scandinavia, like second-class lackey. NO
did they feel that their position in the North
was strong and assured than they dropped pre-
.-.-- -.4~-u5lp 10 tneir northern nelghDors
md Began darkly threatening them. That is the
way and the character of the HUNS Inc Kaiser
UnaL the lanas and outlying waters
ave been made permanently German lncluoed
,~.'.uyry are the Aland Islands, lying Oe-
tween Sweden and Finland, and as the geographers
say, as much part of Sweden as Newfoundland Is
or Canada The SWedeS' great fear has been that
Russia would seize those islands, but they find in
stead that their trusted German neighbors have
done Along with his plan to make Finland
Oscar, the Kaiser raises his flag over the naturally
Swedish territory of the Aland Islands, while the
Junkers boast that it never will come down. Such
the rewards of a nation that served the Ger
almost to the point Of renouncing its neu-
trality and going to their alliance.
When Sweden murmurs surprise and protest,
what answer does she receive? Why, simply
broadside of denunciation from the HohenZollern
press charging her, together with Norway and Den
mark with being practical accompLces Oh the
Entente" and warning her and her Scandinavian
neighbors that they need expect consideration
from Germany. There is about as much justice and
reason in this accusation there would be in the
United States charging Cuba with being an accom-
plice of the Central Powers. 1t is notorious that
for three years or the Scandinavian countries
were flooded food-inlets to Germany and that not
until America and the Allies reduced them to such
imports essential to the Scandinav1ans
themselves did the inflow to Germany cease. Pop
ular sympathy in Norway as in almost every non.
German land has been with the Entente; but even
Norway, despite her tremendous shipping losses
from German submarines has stood constantly
neutral Denmark, as a correspondent happily puts
it, has leaned backward" in maintaining her neu-
traty toward the Allies; that is, she has yielded
to German coercion rather than anIagonlzed it,
Yet, the inspired German press now attacks as
nro-Entente' these little countries who have borne
SO many German wrongs and have rendered the
blockaded Huns helpful service.
Prussianism knows little of gratitude as OF
good faith and honor 1t hesitates at lie,
perfidy no crime to promote its brutal ambition.
It's present attitude toward Scandinavia foreshad-
ows another adventure in land-grabbing and OPP
pression IT would seem that their Russian rob-
berries would satisfy the Huns for while. But
what really can satisfy their Unsuitable greed!
They are as ready to plumber Sweden, next-door
neighbor and friend they were to trick Russia
into a camoufage peace and then loot her of the
greater part of her possessions. Let us have done
with the illusion that we can deal with Germany
as with an honorable, humane and truly civilized
nation Repeatedly she has proved and goes on
proving with the shamelessness of criminal out
cast that honor and humanity and true civilization
have no lodging in her heart. There is but
wav to deal with this bandit nation, and that is
by overwhelmingly superior force. There is but
one way to divorce the German people from their
barbarous idols, and that is to demonstrate to
them that national outlawry does not pay
There is but way to save the worlds freedom
and insure it's peace, and that is to blot Prussan-
ism from the face of the earth.