The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-06-14
Why We Fight
No. Z
Because GermaDy's Law Il the Law
Of the Juaeie sAd Her Doctrine
Might Is Right"
By CLARENCE L SPEED
Secretary Of the War Committee OF
Union League Club OF Chicago.

! hNAOAes oNAAh0hJ AuDDCA
tory and exacted tribute from h5r
neighbors, and finally her greed be
coming greater, has looked out owe
more distant lands, and has commit
ted herself to policy of world DOM
nation which menaces the continue!
free existence of every nation whiel
will not submit TO her will.
Germany's policy is not an acciden.
tai one. 1t has been carried out witt
remarkable singleness of purpose
from generation to generation 81
Hohenzollern rule, from the tim4
of the Great Frederick until to-
day. Germany's atrocities are hot
accidental. They are deliber
ate, well thought out part of this
Hohenzollern policy, which was to-
break down the resistance of her op.
ponents, not only by fighting and de-
feating their armies but by killing,
torturing and terrorizing the civil
populations.
The German rulers committed them!
selves to the doctrine of the survival
of the fittest. Through generations Of
teaching they made the German PEG.
pie believe that they, and they alone,
were the fit.
We have the words OF the German
rulers and German warriors and Ger.
man leaders of thought for all of this
More than that we have the perform
ance of German officers and German
armies in conquered lands to prove 1t
Let's start with Frederick the
Great in presenting the evidence,
This monarch, who earned his SOU
briquet through despoiIing his neigh
bors, rather than through any real
qualities of mind which he showed
said, in letter to his minister, Rad
twill:
IF 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 if she is not able te
hold 1t.
From Frederick the Great to Bis
marck is long jump In the mSttei,
of time: but e.ena .ts,p.-assss a
To- nchans .a.hey Dean of Shelbvvi
1oe the guest Of Miss Eraaees- ST,s..
I NJ tho committee Nof the Ptussiar'
Chamber of Deputies in 1862 Bis
marck said:
''Not by speeches and resolutions
of majorities are the great questions
of the time decided, but by iron and
blood"
Then, with blood and iron, Prussia
went out and despoiled Denmark OF
territory in 1864, beat and robbed Aus
tria in 1866, and finally, in 1870
brought France to her knees and TOOK
her richest provinces.
Here is what the present kaiser told
his troops 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
askance. Be as terrible as Attilla's
Huns"
Coming on down to the present wal
we find a German minister accredited
to a neutral state far across the sea-
one which one would think should be
free from the entanglemepts of world
| politics-writing home to his govern
ment, in a state paper, advising the
sinking Of two ships from this neutral
nation, in such a manner that pc trace
be lett. Dead men, he believed tell
| 40 tales,
1t was Baron Luxburg, minister pleni.
potentiary to Argentina, who wrote
this amazing dispatch on May 10, 1917:
Il beg that the small steamers Oran
and Guazo which are nearing
Bordeaux be spared if posi-.
BILE, or else sunk without a trace be.
/
Ing left"
This telegram was intercepted in the
! United States and published. 1t sent
a thrill Of horror around the world.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg is
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,
swift victory, they must he employed"
So they were used, and are being
used today. They include sinking VI
hundreds of neutral ships, the burning
Of cities, the deliberate devastating
of the fair lands of France, the Faylsh-
ing of women, the enslavement of
workmen and the murder of little chill
dren.
Horrors such as these are told in de-
tail in @The Prussian SYSTEM" by F. G.
WalcOtt, who, for a lons time, was en-.
gagged n behalf of America in trying to
get food to the Poles whom the Ger
mans were deliberately starving by
tie hundreds Of thousands SO that they
might not cUmbef the land which the
Germans intended to occupy.
Knowing all this, can the American
people talk of any peace by negotia-
ton? Can they stop this war until
this mad dog Of nations is freed from
the military rulers who teach frightful-
ness from the cradle. and win only
seize a respite new to prepare them
selves for further conquests7