The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-06-15

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sbiight is Right" and her policy In
dealing with other nations, one OF ROD
bling the weak and terrOrizing the
strong. Germany has grabbed terri
tory and exacted tribute from her
neighbors, and finally, her greed be-
coming greater, has looked out over
more distant lands, and has commit
ted herself to policy of world domi-
nation which menaces the continued
free existence of every nation Whlch
will not submit to her will.
Germanys policy is not an acciden-
tai one. It has been carried out with
remarkable slngleness OF purpose
from generation to generation Oh
Hohenzollern rule, from the time
of the Great Frederick until to-
day. Germany's atrocities are not
accidental. They are deliDer-
ate, we'll thought out part OF TINS
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 terrorizlng the civil
| pOpuluLiOAo' =,
The German rulers committed them
selves to the doctrine OF the survlvai
of the fittest. Through generations OF
teaching they made the German peo-
ple believe that they, and they alone,
were the fit.
We have the words Of the German
rulers and German warriors ana 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 IT,
Let's start with Frederick the
Great in presenting the evidence
This monarch, who earned his SOU
briquet through despoiling his neigh
bors, rather than through any real
oualities of mind which he showed,
said. in a letter to his minister, Rad
twill:
eff there is anything to be gained
by 1t, we will be honest; IL 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 TO
hold it.
From Frederick the Great to Bis.
marck Is long jump In the matter
of time: but we find the Prussian pol
lev unchanged. Speaking before the
military committee Of the Prussian
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 1871
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:
elise your weapons In such way
that for a thousand years no chi
nese shall dare to look upon 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 D'
free from the entanglements OF worit
politics-writing home to his govern
ment In a state paper, advising I'M
sinking of two ships from this neutra
nation. in such manner that no trac'
be left. Dead men, he believed tel
no tales.
1t was Baron Luxburg, minister plenl
potentiary to Argentina, who wrot
- this amazing dispatch on May 10, 1917
= 81 beg that the small steamers Ora
/ and GuaZo Wmch are nearln
Rordeaux be spared ii poss
BILE. or else sunk without a trace b.
ing left"
/ This telegram was intercepted In tn
| United States and published. 1t ser
a thrill of horror around the world.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg
n true disciple of Frederick tn
Great. Bismarck and his royal maste
In public speech on January 81, III
he said:
"When the most ruthless methoc
are calculated to lead US to victor
3 swift victory, they must be employed
n So they were used, and are bein
a used today. They include sinking
a hundreds of neutral ships, the burnir
II of cities, the deliberate devastatiI
81 of the fair lands of France, the ravis
j ing of women, the enslavement
ri workmen and the murder OF little en-
dren.
Horrors such as these are told In q
tail in "The Prussian System" by II.
Walcott, who, for long time, was
gagged in behalf Of America in trying
get food to the Poles whom the Ge
mans were deliberately starving
the hundreds of thousands SO that tn
might not cumber the land which t
Germans intended to occupy.
Knowing all this, can the Americ
people talk Of any peace by negoti
ton? Can they stop this war un
this mad dog of nations is freed FRI
the military rulers who teach fright