The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-12-18
The Future of the Hun.

! lated.
The Future Of the Hun:
! (By f. E. Hartman OF the N1S!iantes)
There must be future Tor the 1ei-
man. He can not stop and resolve
into a mere memory. 1t is out OF the
question for the civilized nations TO
annihilate him. For their own sakes
they can not be as savage as he
planned to be. However many may
| be killed in this war, there will still
be many millions left to propagate.
What manner of future awaits
those naillions? What will they do?
What will be their status in the
world? How will they prosper,
Already many thinking people are
considering the matter OF German
trade, German industry, German aeot
paying. The nation itself is making
active preparations for the after the
war campaign.
When the war is ended Germany
will find herself handicapped with
double load. The debts she has m
CURED through the financing OF the
war, and the rehabilitation Of devas-
tated countries In order to pay
either bill she must be able to manu-
facture and sell. She must have mar
kets and supply them.
In order to secure markets she
must first establish confidence in her
wares and in her business me.1ioas. 1.e,1l Ss
She must gain a certain, and very de-
Icided, amount of friendly regard or
the rival statesmen, the rival n1anufac-
turer, will hold too great an advan-
tage. She can only hope to be
lscavenger otherwise, for the other ma
|tions will leave her only that which
they do not wish to handle.
HOW is She going to acquire the
necessary standing, the confidence OF
buying nations, to give her these
markets? Once she would have sent
ther thousands Of emigrants to colon
ize, with rigid instructions to demand
German goods and thereby create a
Icondition that would force importa-
tons That day is past, if the ma
tions are wise, for in all such cases
Germans colonial idea carried with
it the control of politics through
colony ballots. It is inconceivable
that any nation should ever again
cater to the German vote or allow it
to be in control Of even a fraction OF
national activities.
With all nations on guard against
Germanising influence, that plan
rnust be abandoned. If Germany, IN
her stupid disregard of all rights and
prejudices, should attempt to again
Get control of any part of the nation
Ial affairs of America or Canada or
Brazil, for instance, it will probably
lead to the barring of intercourse
with her definitely.
1t is difficult to ascertain where
she can first gain a foothold. With
! her reputation blackened by her own
acts, her rotten methods, thoroughly
Exposed, it will be a hazardous thing
for any nation to attempt to deal
with her.
It is "a matter that calls for the
sober, calm study of master minds,
the consideration of all nations op-
posed to Germanic ideas and the
autocratic domination Of Germany.
II must be made a matter Of the most
careful consideration, for upon the
policy adopted by the nations will de-
pend much of their own welfare.
There must be a limit set for Teutonic
activity, bound beyond which they
dare not go or it will be only a ques-
| ton of time until the world will again
have to take up the task Of beating
Hun devilishness.
It is time for the nations and their
deepest thinkers to begin to plan and
consider, for it will not be long now
until the Hun will be wanting to en-
igrate from Hunland to escape the
burdens he has helped to create. He
must not be allowed to shirk his task.
He must be the one to pick up the
burden and stagger along under it.
He must not be allowed to shift it to,
other shoulders.
The forces of many nations have
been harnessed in the effort to ham
mer some reasonable degree Of sense
| into the Hunnish head. Next will
come the prodigious effort to hold
him to his work and force him to
walk the straight and narrow path.
1t is to be almost as hard a task AS
fighting. him into submission. if the
way he is preparing for a commercial
campaign is any criterion.
Unless he is so hedged about by
rigid infexible guards that he can do
only the right thing. he will soon be
doing the wrong one. 1t is folly TO-
think that getting a whipping viii
change the Hun nature. a cracked
crown will not ensure a rejuvenation
or any degree Of reformation. He
will be no more spiritually redeemed
than he will be physically restored by
the war. The living Hun will need a
process of refining that will require
more than one generation. The dead
Hun. thank God will help TO
lGlO MN WIltlt llt DtlpilSS DS tIt
thinning out Of evil blood when he !
died.
So let us plan now for what comes
later, that we may enjoy life with no
fear Of despotic oppression in the fu-
ture years. We must weld a steel
ring. such as Kaiser Wilhelm loved To I
rave about. that will keep the Prus-
sian on his good behavior for the next
two thousand years. In that length |
of time. the world of decency may
make some progress toward the