Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-12

we refer briefly to the history of
the 10Th century" DR.. Taft said,
1--WE must understand the psyche
logical condition of the German
people. The only solution of this
war is to defeat the German peo-
pie. It's altogether a mistake to
say we are fighting the Hohenzol-
lern dynasty. We are fighting the
German people led by the Hohen-
zollern dynasty. They have sup
piled all the flower of their youth
they are following a viciously false
ideal. We are in this war. We
are fighting Austria, Bulgaria,
Turkey, ETC., but they are only the
trailers. We are fighting Germany.
What about the German peo-
Pile? Early in the Nineteenth Cen
fury Germany was divided into
twenty-e eight states. They were a
poetry, music-loving people of
great intelligence, apparently SIM
pie and kindly. Apparently they
liked to conform to absolute au-
thority. In 1S4S the liberty loving
Germans of courage and intellect
became tired of this system of des-
potism, with Austria and Prussia
at the head. Led by Carl
Schurz, General Woolley and men
of this type, they came to America.
Hating slavery as they did they
volunteered in our Civil War.
Every field was wet with their
blood. When this war came along,
believing those German lies, when
it wasn't treason to do so, they
sympathized with Germany. They
forgot that their fathers left be-
cause of this militarism. l believe
90 percent of these people are
loyal. If there are any who are
not, they, of course, when caught
and judicially tried, must have
their citizenship in any country
ended. We should not make their
path any harder; we should rely
upon the machinery of government
! to bring treason to punishment.
We can count upon our German
population and that solidarity of
the people that in this war means
! success.
bismarck influenced those who
remained on the other side. He
planned three wars-thoSe against
Austria, Denmark, and France.
Every war was completely plan
ned; for every war Germany was
completely ready although in
ever instance she held out to the
world that the war had been begun
by someone else. The result Of
these wars Swelled the heads of
the German people; they began to
feel that they were Supermen.
They applied science to agricul-
ture, to business, to navigation,
and education, developing that
thorough system of efficiency call
ed kultur. Their achievements
have awakened the admiration of
the world, but no less the admira-
ton of themselves. 1t has led
them to believe that hey are close
to God. The German people
love memorable logic. If they be-
! gin with an unsound premise, they
end with unsound facts. They be-
lieve that Germany is the agent of
state in spreading this God-given
Kultur throughout the world
There is no international law; nc
thing can stand in the way of theil
control of the world. This senti,
: ment has been deeply imbedded in
the German people. From child,
hood they have been taught that
the greatest glory is military glory
that the German people are the
greatest in the world. 1t has been
cultivated by their philosophers
and their university professors
The doctrine that might makes
right has been preached every.
where If this doctrine be true, il
means that we have made no pro-
. gress from savagery; we are not
removed from the days of the club
in Belgium Germany killed the
leaders in the villages, killed the
non-combatants, to terrorize the
country. Germany is responsible
for the killing of a million Ar.
. menians. Berlin howled when
: England sent for Mohammedans tC
. fight Christians, at the same time
having allied with Turkey, that
: eminent Christian nation. The Ar
, menians were deported to the des
: erts of Mesopatami and Syria
: they were killed with guns, bayo
5 nets, knives; thrown over preci
+ pies. 100000 men, women. anC
= children were killed 400 0OO dior