The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-19
PRUSSIAN WAR LEARNING

A s AUSTRIA crumbes and Germany approaches nearer A to the hour when she must yield obedience to Democ- racy the predacous Hohenzoerns the time is spcous consider the preeps by which the Teuonc states have been brought to such forOrn condition
 Maximilan Harden, great German editor writing in 1914 disdaned the his government was making when it denied responsibility for the war, and said:
 "OR what weak excuses? We Willed this war ''WIed it because we were sure we could Wln' Goethe and Heine great Germans great poets and great philosophers Long they appraised the PrQSan character. Said Goethe:
 "The Prussians cruel by natlTe civilization will make them ferOcOus" The language of Hene was equally firm and time has equally proved his estimate of those of whom he spoke Sad Heine:
 "The Prussians mature has made them stupid science has made them wicked" Said M sirner thinker much admired by the German cholastcs,
 'NVhat right matter to me? have no need of it"'"I have the right to do what have the power to do"
 Pounded upon such teachings these here indicated the Kaiser, in his proclamation of 1914, declared
 "VVOe and death to all those who shall oppose my will Woe and death to those who do not believe in my mission"
 On the roadside from Pinsk, 23O miles, half million persons died of hunger exposure and disease Their srewed the roadsids and their flesh picked by The denuded bo s were collected by German soldiers and used for fertilizer.
 In Belgium thousands of and needlessy sacrificed by German cruelty Of the Armenians, than 6OO massacred by direction and supervision of Ger officers
 Tannenberg had assured the Teutonc peoples and they believed him:
 "The German people is always right because it is the German people and numbers eighty-Seven million souls"
 When Wilhelm now about be punished by the judicial power of democracy expedition to the Chinese mere expedition to restore order during the Boxer rebeions he said to his soldiers,
 "USe your weapons in such way that for thou sand years Chinese shall dare to look upon Ger man askance. Be terrible AtiTa's Huns"
 Yale ambulance driver, in simple recital of facts to which he eye witness proves how completely, German eommanders have adopted the advice to make hemseEgE more terrible than Attla
 "As we drove through the shattered town and past the Hotel de Vile sight greeted eyes which than anything had yet encountered Stretch ed out number of blanks three French SOL ders. Two long bayOneS used spikes pierced each through the shoulders, while the hands and feet of each had been severed nterchanged, and tied place. Underneath the poor fellows the Germans had scrawled in charcoal on a white board: Stare and Wonder"
 President Wilson speaks for the American people. He tells why democracy makes
 ''They desire peace by the overcoming of evil by the defeat for all of the Sinister that interrupt peace and render it impossible.
 "They are impatient with those who desire peace by any sort of cOmprOmise-deeply and indqnantly impatient.
 "This ntOlerabIe Thing of which the masters of Germany have shown the ugly face, this of combined intrigue and force, which so \ clearly the German pOWery-a Thing without con- science honor capacity for cOvenanted peace,- crushed and if it be utterly brought to an end, shut out from the friendly intercourse of the nations.
 This the of the emperors. They and their en- pires perish Democracy with it's Christian code is proving itself stronger than the pagan philosophy of the dngs.