Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-13
MUST KEEP HUN BEAST
ACROSS ATLANTIC OCEAN
America Awakes Late, but Now
Speeding Up Preparations
to Crush Kaiser.
PRECIOUS TINE ALREADY LOST
Delay Will Mean Increased Hard
ship and Burden, but Nothing Be
ing Left Cndonc to Gain Final
Victory.
rs, youy nEED SCu1.,,

take or judging eery other nation by
the American sta nda I'd. We do not al.
low for racial nor national ITS and
customs. Because al American wouldn't
do some thing, we fancy that no othe.
nation would do it. It's against our
conscience or against our ia.@:-or we
just don't DO it, Therefore. we assume
that IL must be against ,he other ma
TONS law or con5c:cnce-or il just
won't do ii.
And we have this peculiar idea not
b. reason Of any sclf-conccit Or fam
cicd national superiority, but because
OF our pronencss TO ploy square: 10
grant that the other nation is OF the
same mentality as ourSelve-; ana as
ready and anxious as we tc 60 the
right thing.
What we. as a nation. aim at in our
dealing with ether nations is the ulti-
mate right in a concrete form. And We
arc slow to reaiize--and quick 10 for
Get. when realizcG--tnat other natione
either may not have the same policy
fmay even be robbers and bru,cs. by
natural irstincD. may not have the
national aitruiatic idca-thc try to live
by the Golden Rule. and as a nation
be satisfied with what il has.
AS result. the American Ecople
in the hundred and some few years OK
their national existence. have had a
few fairly severe jolts. Now we are
IN til" midst OF the German affair
and an amazin. number OF our people
refuse 10 realize what it means to us
or TO appreciate the menace 10 our
national existence.
CAN'T ESTIMATE GERMANY
ON THE AMERICAN BASIS
America. they know wants TO Ger
ritory no conqucsts: therefore, they
ask. why should Germany If il win
want them: Why should America send
troops to Europe TO fight Europc's bat
Ties? Germany is in no danger from
us. So why should VIC be in danger
from Germany? Nc shall not do any
Trims to Germany, even after VIC were
victorious over her. SO why should
Germany, if she is victorious. do any
thing &c us" Let Europe settle her
own battles. the% say; we, of an
other continent. are no: concerned. Ii
VIC let Germany alone, Germany will
lc, us alone.
II is quito likely that som. Ameri-
cans who now have such ideas will
have changed those ideas by the time
this article appears; but IL Is certain
that others will still be dcludinS them
selves by pcrsistinG in the old .Amcri-
can habit OF estimating othors-cvcn
an cncmE-on the American basis
And with some cncmics-cvcn some
saraScs-thc estimate would not be
lost TO honor and dccency and hu-
manity. But the PruSsian is not of
them; in war he has neither honor
nor dccency nor humanity, as such
QUANTITIES arc understood by civilized
nations. IN war--particularly tho
present War-thc Pru5sians have nv;
aside even the temporary veneer that
they had assumed to conceal from Tho
rest OF the world-a decent and bu,nn,
world, 1t i5-thc true nature OF The
ifus3ian brutcs. and. because thcv
had thought to win the world war and
10 establish right on the basis of
might. they have dared to stand forth
IN INC Dun. The bully of Europe, hav-
ing prepared himself with. ss u.
thought, an invinciblc thorouchpos.
proceeded TO carry out his Iong-nursod
intentions, and by brute force and
atrocitE. impose his imperial will on
an amazed and helpless world and
draSoon it to his kultur-a prussi, !,
hnltnr God save US.
fRuSsIANS HAVE INFLICTED
oHSPEAkADIE ATROCITIES
say Prussian because, as every ono
Nno"s'. tho central powers, as thcv
'o-oaE' are dominated absolutely.
o! ana humbly gubacrvicnt 10 prus.;a
And in that process of conoucs, ard
ehaiaFcmcnt The PruSsians have, for
,iore 'hah three years, inflicted on the
"c'PieSS nations and peoDlcs whom,
nv! oIcrEan such crucltics, such IN.
spcakabic atrocities, as history has
nc; - recorded. All tho famous. or
;,sa -conquerors of the past arc
't'si6 hihcant in comparison with ,ba
savage Pruasian brutc-tbc hru,o III
mas inc cold cffrontcry to bid HE col,
uicrS march onward with Godr, ,,n,
III. bloody way. avis
Contemplate for a mom,nt nation
Mi'ch insists that God is with ~ in
rs nehaish work, and then reflect how
u.sh INTO the dimncss OF the past
one must go to find n nation u.h;,,,
had the effrontcry 70 clair, =.
was simply Gods chosen instrument To
Work Ills Will! Contemplate tho C,nn,lo
cue VI 6ethlehem-whom the Pruss,an
~ iesSes 10 revere as God-wadinc in
INC piood OF mankind! Contemnlatn
Shrlst in a Prussian helmet. with !,
russian sword and Prussian manners,
vi. William HonenzoiIcrn.
A. a,. houre' Won Ludendorff, Won
MeckehSen rs disciples Of Him Of
and Calvary.
one must go back to the darkest
PERIOD or tho Dark Ages to find sjmiIa,.
eHrontery-to Alaric and the rest WHO
Claimed. as William Of Prussia ella ,ms
IN al ms published Fluctuations TO his
that they were doing the will
%Nii"ioHtS. tn2t they wer,.
"n'chinS onward with God
IL must be peculiar mentality mn,
IN this day and generation. could have
inc arrogance TO advance such :,
eialfn-and queer, very queer. peo-
PIE mat mas the mentality and docility
TO accept such roland actually be-
lieve it. oe
we Americans freely admit that we
cannot follow the mental processes that
would evolve such claim or wouId
use such methods In war; and yet there
are those Of MS who persist in Judging
"hat the Prussians will do to us. IL they
WIN the war. By what we will do to
them II we win IT, Which necessarily
must mean that as soon as the Pruss;an
has Won he Will experience change of
neart' abandon his savage methods. and
be converted to- our terms Of peace
that victorious he will foreso the Prus-
sian fruits of victory; will cease to-
march onward with his Cod; will put
his God aside and be converted 10 the
God OF civilization. the God OF tho
Golden >Rule and the Sermon on the
Mount. the follower Of tho meek and
lowly Jesus. Him of the manager, OF