Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-04-05

III the treasury fails or falterS or
finds itself unable to respond to
every call upon it, the war is lost.
Do you realize that?
Your son and all the nations sons
are relying on the United States
treasury to furnish things with which
they may fight.
Their lives are lost If the treasury
fails. Our country is lost if the
treasury fails.
Germany wins if the treasury fails.
Therefore every cent you can rake
and scrape together belongs to the
treasury that our soldiers may come
back to us alive and victorious. This
is literally true. We can whip the
Germans with our money; but not
with the money in our pockets or
bank accounts. 1t must 60 into the
United States treasury in subscrip-
tons to Liberty bonds.
While Gerard was our ambassador
in Berlin the kaiser said to him one
day that he would stand no nonsense
from America after the war.
Do you know what that means? 1t
means that the Germans intend to
subjugate this country if they come
out of this war victorious.
The German Imperial government
has preached the superiority of Ger
many to all the rest of the world
until the German nation is drunk
with megalomania. One of their
great writer's expressed the prevail
ing, official view in 1903, when he
wrote:
1.-THE Teutonic race Is called upon
to circle the earth with its rule, to
exploit the treasures of nature and of
human power, and to make the pas
sive races servient elements in it's
cultural development. Who
ever has the characteristics of the
Teutonic race is superior. All the
dark peoples are mentally inferior,
because they belong to the passive
races. The cultural value of a ma
tion is measured by the quantity of
Teutonisn it contains
Where Do You Belong?
Are you one of the darker races?
Are you willing to be rated as one
of the "servient elements" in Ger
many's cultural development?
You began to be one of the SER
Went elements when peaceful people
were slaughtered as they carried
your produce to market. Was it be-
cause you belonged to a 'passive
race?
This war is for the purpose of say
ing to that insane claim, with the
roar of a hundred thousand cannon,
"No!"
In Won Tannenberg's book Gross
deutschland" he says-and in say
ing it he voiced the orthodox official
vieY-"It is Germany's task today to
pass from the position of European
power to that of a world power.
A policy of sentiment is folly. En-
thusiasm for humanity is idiocy.
Right and wrong are notions needed
in civil life only. The German people
is always right because 1t is the Ger
man people and because 1t numbers
81, 900, 900"
If the people of the United States
should ever go insane enough to
think such things of itself, it would
be the duty of the rest of the world
to crush the United States the mo-
ment it drew it's sword and started
out to establish itself on that super
man basis. It would be it's duty to
crush US, not only for the sake of the
world. but for our own sakes. Until
this thing is crushed out Of Germany
all other nations will be looked upon
by Junkerdom as they now look upon
us, as "servient elements" in the de-
velopment of German kultur, as
passive races" while they are the
active ones, as mentally inferior"
as peoples in dealing with whom
Germany will never be so foolish as
to be guided by those notions of right
and wrong which are needed in 'civil
life only"
Never since the Turks threatened
to overwhelm Europe, perhaps not
even then, was the world in such
danger as now. Germany is not yet
defeated. We must defeat her this
year. Unless We win, our place in
the world is lost and our history as
one Of the "servient nations begins.
We must withhold nothing from the
support of the war. We must give
our sons. We must bring forth food
in abundance, multiplying our labor
i to that end. We must give into the
! treasury of the United States every
cent We can spare.
This summer the support Of the
war is up to the farmers; and Uncle
Sam has never called upon the farm
ers in vain!