Arizona republican., 1918-03-29
WHY WE ARE | ATWARWITH GERMANY
6y EPHRAlM DOUGLASS ADAMS Executive Head, History Depart
 ment
 Leland Stanford Junior University

"The object of this war is to deliver the free peoples of the world from the menace and the actual power of a vast military establishment controlled by an irresponsible government, which, hav- ing secretly planned to dominate the world, proceeded to carry out the plan without regard either to the sacred ob iigations of treaty or the long estab lished practices and long cherished principles of international action and honor; This power is not the German people. 1t is the ruthless mas ter of the German people. IL is our business to see to it that the his tory of the rest of the world is no long CT left to it's handling."-President Will son, August 27, 1917.
 THE GERMANS AS A CHOSEN
 PEOPLE
 The foundation cause of this war is Germany's firm belief that she alone has the right to direct the progress of the world and to exploit it's resources For the last thirty years the military autocracy of Germany has seen to il that this belief was taught in the schools, and today that autocracy is reaping the benefits of a blind obe- dience to it's will. German politica writing of recent years is full of the idea that the German people is Gods chosen people, destined to impose i.s 'Kultur' upon all other peoples
 "The German soul is the world. soul, God and Germany belong to one another" Germany is the center o Gods plans for the world" "We hope that a great mission will be allotted to us Germans and this Ger. man mission is: to look after tho world" Germany is chosen, for hel own good and that of other nations to undertake their guidance. Provi. dence has placed the appointed people at the appointed moment, ready fol the appointed task
 The German people is always right because it is the German people, ant numbers S7,000,000 souls.' ''Kultur il best promoted when the strongest in dividual Kultur, that of given na tion, enlarges its field of activity a the expense of the other national Kul turs.' "The attempt of Napoleon t, graft the Kulture of Western Europ, upon the empire of the Muscovit, ended in failure. Today history ha. made us the Germans the inheritors O the Napoleonic idea" "The further W, carry our Kultur into the east, tn, more and the more profitable outlet shall we find for our wares. Economi, rrofit is of course not the main motiv, of our Kultur- r-activity, but it is no un welcome by-product." Our belief i that the salvation of the whole Kultu of Europe depends upon the victor, which German 'Militarism' is about t. achieve"
 These quotations are but a few o hundreds of like, expression, and tn last one cited is from a manifest, signed by thirty five hundred German professors and lecturers. Reduced t simple terms, the German belief at tn beginning of this war was: God di rects Germany. Civilization advance only by combats between Kulturs i which the stronger and God -directe, one has the right to prevail and mus prevail. The immediate and presen object is to make our Kultur 2revai in the East Gin 'Muscovy), and in ac complaining this we shall also gai economic advantages. This is the frs step in our world domination"
 Where does America stand in tn theory of a chosen people?" Americ denies that theory; she denies tha God has chosen any one people a His own; she asserts rather that ther are many civilizations, each with it own merits and defects, and that t each must be left the working out C it's own problems.
 We Americans are unable to under stand, or sympathiZe with, peopl who conceive of themselves as a chose people. chosen of Coda people t