The Springdale news., 1918-06-07

S6SItA6f4 DI TIE W dF committee VI NiiS
Union League Club of Chicago.
We are at war with Germany be-
cause Prussia dominates Ger
many. and from the days Of Freder-
lex The Great, PrusSias law has been
tie law of the jungle. her doctrine
Might is Right and her policy, in
dealing with other nations. one Of rob
hing TIE weak and terreriZing the
strong. Germany has grabbed terri
tory and exacted tribute from her
neishb6rs, and finally, her greed te-
coming greater. has looked out over
more distant lands. and has commit
ted herself 10 a policy Of world doni-
nation which menaces the continued
free existence of every nation which
viii not submit 10 her will.
Germany's policy IS not Al aeciden-
tai one. # has been carried eut with
remarkable sinsleIess Of purpose
from generation to generation Of
Eohenzellern rule, from the time
Of the Great Frederick until to-
day. Germany's atrocities are not
accidental. They are deliber-
ate, we'll thought oct part of this
Hohenzollern policy which was TO
break down the resistance of her OPP
ponents, not only by fighting and de
feating their armies but by killing
torturing and terroriZing the civil
populations.
The German rulers committed them
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of the fittest. Through generations of
teaching they made the German peo-
pie believe that they, and they alone
were the fit.
We have the words of the German
rulers and German warriors and 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 rea
qualities Of mind which he showed
said, in letter to his minister, Rad
twill:
If there is anything to be gained
by it, we will be honest; if deception
is necessary, let US be cheats On.
takes what one can, and one is wront
only when obliged to give back"
This philosophy, applied TO presenl
conditions, means that Germany was
right when she took Belgium, and viii
be wrong only If she is not able t.
hold it
From Frederick the Great to Bis
marck is long jump in the matter
of time; but we find the Prussian pol
icy unchanged. Speaking before the
military committee of the PrussiaI
Chamber of Deputies in 1862 Bis
marck said:
mot by speeches and resolution,
OF majorities are the great question.
of the time decided, but by iron ant
blood"
Then. with blood and iron, Prussis
went out and despoiled Denmark OF
territory in 1864, beat and robbed Aus
tria in 1866, and finally, in 1870
brought France to her knees and tool
her richest provinces.
Here is what the present kaiser tolo
his troops when, in 1900, they were
about TO depart for China to put dowI
the boxer uprising:
Use your weapons iH such a way
that for a thousand years no Chi
nese shall dare to look upon a German
askance. Be as terrible as Attilla's
Huns"
Coming ON down to the present wal
we find German minister accredited
to neutral state far across the sea-
one which one would think should be
free from the entanglements of world
politics-writing home to his govern
ment, in state paper. advising the
sinking of two ships from this neutral
nation, in such a manner that no trace
be left. Dead men, he believed tell
no tales.
1t was Baron Luxburg. minister pleni.
potentiary to Argentina. who wrote
this amazing dispatch on May 10, 1917:
II beg that the small steamers Orap