Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-19
The Nation Of WolOeS.

The wolf is bowling that all his bloody ravages
have been in sef-defense and that the sole object
of his trickery and slaughter is to protect his own
unsuotted innocence. Says the German Imperial
Chancellor. speaking for the Potsdam pack:
while for years there can have been no
doubt whatever of our willingness to hold out
our hand toward an honorable peace, we have
heard until these last few days melting
speeches delivered by enemy statesmen
President Wilson wants war until we are de-
stroyed and what Mr.. Balfour, the British
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has
said must really drive the flush of anger to
the cheeks of every German. We feel for the
honor of our Fatherland, and we cannot allow
ourselves to be constantly and openly insulted
in this manner Behind these insults is the
desire for our destruction. AS long this de-
sire for our destruction exists we must endure,
together with our faithful nation"
The assertion that Germany wages a
of defense is as palpably false as the reference
to German honor is ridiculous Was it to eseape
destruction that the Huns spent forty years IN
preparing their raid upon Europe? Was it to
protect the FatherIand that they plotted against
the peace and freedom of their neighbors? Was
il to defend themselves that they laying plans
as far back as twenty years ago to attack the
United States as part of their gigantic adventure
for world domination?
Germany's entire course in this war has been
that of the aggressor. and her methods have been
those of barbarously criminal aggressor At the
outset she made IL plain that law no treaty, no
promptings of honor or humanity should stand in
the way of her long and carefully schemed
paign of conquest. Every step she has taken, from
the invasion of inoffensive Belgium to the tear
ing apart of betrayed Russia, has been that of
a cunning beast of prey. 1t in self-defense,
Germany would tell us, that she has burnt and
sacred Belgian villages slaughtered little children,
and forced French girls into hideous slavery
captives of Hindenburg's brutes. 1t in self-de
Tense she would Iave believe. that she infested
the United States with her intriguers and spies
while this country doing its. best to keep the
peace, and wantonly slew our people the high
seas. women and children we'll men. 1t was
in self-defense. she is brazen enough to declare,
that she lured Russia into a peace conference and
then, with the perfdious scheme fully working fell
TO pIundering her victim without pity shame.
This predatory. bloOd-lustfuI. wolfish spirit
marks the entire history of the Hohenzollerns and
OF Prussianism and will continue to menace the
world until it is stripped if its habitation and
power. Prussanism bent upon destroying de-
mocracy; wherefore democracy must destroy Prus-
sianism. If that is what the Imperial German
Chancellor means when he speaks of the Allies
desire for destruction, he is quite correct That
monstrous embodiment OF crime known as German
mitarism must be crushed and bIotted out if there
is be any freedom honor left the world That
murderous conspiracy represented by the present
German Government must be cast into the dust #
there is TO be peace security for law abiding
nations.
But the purpose born of this necessity does not
aim at the destructiO. Of Germany; it aims rather
at the salvation of any elements of conscience and
good faith and human kindness that may be left IN
that disgraced and outlawed land. The Allied peo-
Piles and their armies stand for redemption and
construction. The Kaiser and his followers are
forces OF damnation and destruction.