Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-04-04

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were involved, he was without the
sense of shame as some men are with
out the sense OF smell. No territory
that he coveted was safe from his
rapacity if its owner could not defend
1t by force Of arms. A cold heart, a
narrow mind, a disregard of truth and
plighted faith, a brutal selfishness ard
a perverted moral sense have been
the characteristics of this accursed
House since it was spawned amid the
sands and marshes OF Brandenburg;
but we have not believed they belong
ed to the whole German race. What
astonishes the civilized world is the
h~elplessness of the German people
before the scions of this House and
the military caste it has created. The
entrance of the United States into
the present war was as much to liber-
ate the German people and help them
cast off the fatal paraly sis that binds
them as to secure our own national
rights. The important thing for US to
know is the attitude of the German
people, as a whole, toward the ruling
classes in the German Empire. If the
great body of the German people
approve of Its present government
and agree that it's head rules by
divine authority which no subject has
the moral right to question, if they
approve of the acts of the German
high command in Belgium, northern
France and Serbia, if they believe
that the anneXation and indemnity
demands of the German government
are right and reasonable and the
depopulizing Of the territory of a
neigkboring nation is permissible
when the overflow from their OWL
territory demands it; if President
Wilson has been wrong in distinguish.
ing between the German Government
and the German people, then there is
nothing for the self governing nations
of the earth to do but to unite and
wipe the German nation from the
face of the earth. This Is strong
language. But we who have believed
the German nation, if left to itself
would free itself from the net ii
which it has been entangled, are be-
ginning to doubt. We know that the
cream Of German manhood has come
to this country in search of the liberty
which it failed to attain at home. We
are anxious to know what you Ger
mans think OF the present outlook!
There is a violent struggle going OH
in Germany. The people are uneasy,
The birth pains of liberty are upor
them, We hope for a good deliver
ance, but we doubt. In the frs,
place, the minds of the German PEG.
pie have been taught to goose step.
as well as their feet. The ruling classes
were ~far-seeing. They knew tina
their scheme of government could
not endure unless its foundation
were laid deep down in the German
thought and life, &c they begar
Observation-Disclosures to recast The
German mind so that the thought 0,
the rulers would run to the extrem'
tiles OF the Empire. In moulding the
minds ef the German people they
overlooked some of the basic facts Of
human nature; they failed to note
that they we're conforming their own
minds to a pattern; they failed tc
realize that the limitations they i'm
posed upon others were being imposed
upon themselves. They sought tc
eject from the German mind the pre-.
cepts of the Prince OF Peace and sub.
stitute for them the dogmas of a mad
philosopher. We do not know tc
what extent they have succeeded
with their people, but we do know
that they have made the members Of
their own caste 10 much heather al
ever were the worsbippers of Thor
and Odin. In their eyes the common
people are cattle of the held--tht
men useful for work and to feed to
cannon--the women useful as brood.
mares that there may be no shortage
in the cannon fodder supply. Eacf
woman Of the lower class Is expected
to do her bit in keeping up the popu.
lation. that her masters may rule the
world. Whether she accomplished
this by monogamy, bigamy, polygamy
or polyandry is not the affair of hel
over-lords. To use a slang phrase
she is expected to come across or bt
treated rs q Stacker. This attitude
toward womsnkind a come only
from o wicked and corrupt heart. Il
explains how human brutes Q lool
upon the murder and outrage Of
women and children with no othel
emotion than amusement at the con
tortions OF the victims. Before Ger
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