Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-27
A GERMAN is ALWAYS A GERMAN


control of their government, it is
timely to emphasize the fact that be-
| tween the imperial arbiters of Ger
manys fortunes and the citizenry OF
| that nation there is no essential diff
ference They are all of the same
flesh and blood-they have all been
reared in an atmosphere of blood
and IRON AS regards habits and
morals and mental traits, it is i'm
possible to make flesh of one and
fowl of the other. But, there is this
vital fact-there is hope of chang
ing the German people; there is no
possibility at all of converting the
Kaiser and his associates. Julius
Caesar described the Germans in his
| Commentaries, much as they may be
described today. They have always
had the same racial traits. I'm them,
as Nietzsche, one Of their philoso-
pliers, says, there has always lurked
Enthusiastically the beast of prey, the
blood beast, lustfully rowing in search
of loot and victory" 1t is going to
be hard, the, to change the German
people but it can be done 1t cannot
| be done in a day, nor in a year; it
cannot be done solely by giving them
their own government 1t is going to
require education.
Caesar found the task of cOnquering
| Gaul his hardest task, and it cannot
| be said that he ever subjected those
| tribes to his might. They have been
beaten before, almost hammered into
insensibility, but they have always
recovered. Napoleon crushed them,
but when they arose again it was to
deliver the blow that sent Napoleon
staggering into Imprisonment and
exile Frederick the Great first made
his Prussians great in a military
sense, and was the first to employ
| the cOnscriptive military service. This
was extended under the ministership
of Stein, and found its fullest EXPIRES
sion under Moltke and Bismarck.
Frederick stole Silesia, Bismarck
raped Schlesswig-H olstein, and
thereby laid the foundation for a di-
vision, division over loot, with Aus
tria.
Always it has been the blond
beast, lustfully roaving in search of
loot and victory
The Kaiser, so recently as 1914,
styled himself the prince of ''woe and
death" But he only reflected the
sentiments of his people, which have
always been in favor of Divine Right,
Conquest, Brute Force, and Frightful-
ness. These vicious teachings, to
! which the German people have listen
| ed for generations without murmur
of protest are now firmly inbedded in
their natures, and will be hard to
eradicate. And SO long as the Ger
man people hold to these principles
there can never be a permanent peace
for the world regardless of their form
of government.
Goethe, the ablest of German writ
! ers. wrote that THE Prussians are
cruel by nature, and civilization will
make them ferocious." Heine, anoth-
er acute thinker, declared of his own
people that Mature has made them
stupid, and science has made them
wicked.
These are the sentiments of the
German philosophers, the poets, even
the musicians, the sentiments of the
pastors, of the editors, and of the
teachers, the sentiments of the rul-
ers and the sentiments Of the people.
Did not pastor Baumgarten say that
the German who cannot give himself
up to honest delight" to the sinking
] of the Lusitania, I'VE judge to be no
i true German"
The Germans have always had a
! contempt for peace and the worship