The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-02
The Germans AS A Chosen People

The foundation of this is Germanys firm
belief that she alone has the right direct the progress
of the world and to exploit its resources. For the last
thirty years the military autocracy of Germany has
that this belief taught in the schools, and today
that autocracy reapng the benefits of blind obedience
its will. German political writing of recent years is
full of the idea THAI the German people is Gods chosen
people, destined to impose its 'Kultur upon all other
peoples.
The German soul is the worlds SOUL God and Ger
M belong og5x to o one hny the
mission will be allotted to Germans. and this German
mission is: to look after the world. Germany is chosen
for her good and that of other nations undertake
their guidance Providence has placed the appointed
R fssf the appointed "0"s" ready for the appointed
The German people always right, because it is the
German people, and numbers S7OOOOOO souls" "Kultur
is best promoted when the strongest individual Kultur,
that of given nation enarges its field of activity the
expense of other national Kulturs: The attempt of
Napoleon to graft the Kultur of Western Europe upon
the empire of the Muscove ended in failure Today his
tory has made Germans the nhertors of the Napo-
eonic idea The farther carry our Kultur into the
East the and the profitable outlets shall We
find for Economic profit is of the
motive of Kuture-actvity but it is unwelcome by
product Our belief is that the salvation of the whole
ku ur of Europe depends upon the victory which German
Militarsm is about to achieve
These quotations but few of hundreds of like
expressions and the last cited is from manifesto
signed by thryfve hundred German professors ad lee
the beginning of this war was: God directs Germany.
Civilization advances only by combats between Kulturs
which the stronger and Coddected has the right
to prevail and must prevail The immediate and present
object is to make Kutur prevail in the East Gin Mus
covy) and in accomplishing this shall also gain
mic advantages. This is the first step in world DOM
nation.
Where does America stand il this theory of chosen
people America denies that theory she denies that God
has chosen any people His own she rather
that there many civilizations each with merits
and defects and that each must be left the working
OF its own problems.
We Americans are unable to understand or sympa-
thize with, people who conceive of themselves as
chosen people, chosen of Coda people to whom all
things and actions, however nhuman brutal
garded permissible holy, because of faith in
their superior mission and civilization To us such be-
lief is direct evidence not of leading but of tagging
civilization.
This German IDEAL when expressed merely in theory,
though taught Germany for the last thirty years.
stirred but indifferent interest in other European nations
In this Germany has revealed in the application of
her theory lust for world power at the expense of other
peoples lack of good faith brutality that have stamped
her theory as involving return to barbarsm.
BY the application of German theory we were forced
unwlingly to 60 to But today know that there
was escape from between contradictory
ideals Germanys economic objects many and large
they will be pointed OUT but the basic of this
the German ideal of dominant nation. That ideal
by Germanys challenge, on trial in arms Against
it we must prevail, we shall perish