The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-04-16
WHAT GERMAN VICTORY WOULD
MEAN.

Contributed by ARTHUR TRAIN
to the National Security Leagues cam
paisn of Patriotism Through Educa-
tion)
A German victOry-Or an inconclu-
sive peace-wOuld mean the ultimate
realization Of the German idea that
Germany for the good of the world
must rule the world. This has been
taught in her universities as philoso-
ply and in her pulpits as religion.
The German nation unquestionin@ly
accepts it and intends to force the rest
Of the world to accept 1t. This hey
cal! "kultur," which they claim is
";shnve morality, reason and science.
Nultur teaches that there is only
one sort Of right-that of the stronger
II argues with SpeciOuS profunhlty
thai in the relations of nations with
one another there can be no such thingI
as truth or honor. Frederick the Great
taught that the Germans must make 1t
their study to deceive others In or
der to get the better Of them" Fred
erick William ". 20 years ago said
that all written constitutions wereI
only SCRAPS Of paper" and Beth |
mann ollweg in 1914 referred to TheI
Hague convention in the identical
words. The "scrap Of paper" idea isl
an old one in German diplomacy.
The Germans believe themselves tol
be a nation of supermen and the kals-
er the war partner-nOt OF the COO OH
humanity, but the "guter alter Gott'
Of the Pagan North-the War Cod
who revels in the shrieks of women
| and the torture Of children, in blood
shed and cruelty II am his sword.
! his AGENT" declares William Hohen-
zollern. LET all the enemies of the
| German people perish! God demands
| their dcstruction-God, who by my
mouth bids YOU do his will w.
To accomplish this divine" will the
| German military authorities believe
| that any means are justifiable-the
moving down Of crowds Of helpless
! civilians with machine guns, the cut
ting off Of the breasts OF women, the
| battering in Of the skulls OF the
wounded with rifle butts. BE rs ter
rible as Attilla's Huns! ordered the
Kaiser."' ut is better to let hun
dred women belonging to the enemy
die of hunger than to let single Ger
man soldier suffer-" "All prisoners
are to be put to DEATH" ordered Cen
eral Stenger in Belgium Writes
Bavarian private: During the battle
of Budonwiller l did away with four
women and seven young girls in five
minutes. The captain had told me to
shoot these French sows, but pre-
ferred to run my bayonet through
them"
This IL the concrete result Of what
the Germans call 1.-THE Religion Of
Valor" and 1.-THE Gospel Of Hate"
Says one of their spokesmen: Must
Kultur build its cathedrals on hills of
corpses, seas Of tears and the death
rattle Of the vanQuished7 Yes, It
must.'S
II Germany wins the war the Unit
ed States will either be paying tribute
to the Kaiser or German soldiers will
be bayonetting American girls and wo-
men in Jersey City rather than take
the trouble to shoot them.
n Germany wins an our ideals Of
truth, Justice and humanity-which
we call Christian-will be trodden
down into bloody mire under the iron
heel Of the Kaiser's armies, and tho
coming generation will be taught that
there is no God but the merciless God
Of Battle, who speaks through Ger
many's treacherous tongue and by her
brutal sword.