The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-03-07
(Salt Lake Mining Review

west said not long ago: Won Goethe
knew the German nature when he de-
clared The Prussian is cruel and
civilization will make him barbar-
IAN When German soldier says
that il was once hard for him to pay
onet a girl on her knees, pleading for
ner life, but that he has now grown
used to it, we can see the degradation
of his nature. When we hear of babies
crucified while still alive, we catch
glimpse of the beast which he has be-
come"
Is IL not about time to face the is
sue squarely, to Danish the talk OF
fighting the German rulers and not
the German people?-meaning by the
latter term the Prussians, Bavarians,
Hessians, Thuringians and the inhab-
itants of the score of other states
which compose that nation The civ
ilized world is fighting the entire
structure of autocracy and militarism;
and it must be remembered that the
German peoples are an integral part
OF that structure. Their training,
their education, the very groundwork
of their union as a nation, are based
upon the doctrine that might Is
right" and that they are nation or
supermen, foreordained by God to rule
the world and to rule it by oppression
and cruelty never before known. The
idea has become an obsession with
them-a religion; until now they are
become a horde of monomaniaes, an
organized nation of crazed brutes bent
upon cruelty, murder, rapine, destruc-
tion-upon conquest above all else.
The "Superman."
The doctrine of the "uebermensch,'
or "over man." was first propounded
by Frederick Nietzche, but has been
elaborated and broadened by many
! later German writers and "philoso-
piers The idea seems to be that the
all powerful "superman" must ruth
lessly trample upon and exploit the
weak 1t is his duty and the duty of
the superior nation to gain and hold
power by brute force, and to disregard
all laws of nature, of decency and OF
Justice to attain that end The Ger
man nation must be supreme and the
German kaiser must rule over the en-
tire world and every living thing
! therein.
The kaiser! Seach the leaves of
history as you will, you can not find
duplicate of this staggering brag-
cart this red handed lunatic who has
plunged the world into an orgy of
slaughter beside which all former
wars were as child's play, His opin-
ion of himself is best expressed in his
own words, as in his proclamation OF
June 1914, when he announced: "The
spirit of God has descended upon me
because | am German emperor. | am
the instrument of the Most High,
am His sword, His representative on
earth Woe and death to those who
oppose my will! Death to the infdel
who denies my mission! Let all the
enemies of the German nation perish!
God demands their destruction-God,
who by my mouth summons YOU to
carry out His DEGREES"
German Dupes Believed.
And the German people-poor,
down trodden fools!-believed him;
believed him because the doctrine of
the German superman and the mis-
sion of the German nation" has been
pounded into them, generation after
generation, from the cradle to the
grave, until now they accept 1t with a
childish and unquestioning faith which
would be ludicrous were it not a grow
| ing menace. But the time has come
! to disabuse their minds and to scar
the fact into the intellect of even the
dullest among them that their nation
is the one benighted spot in modern
civilization.
For q half century. the Germans,
rulers and common herd alike. had
been awaiting and praying for der
tag" 1t came; and the receding-
chinned progeny Of the arch plotter
led the German hosts bravely into a
neutral and apparently defenseless
country. They came with banners
flying, pennons futtering in the
breezes, spiked helmets and FURNISHED
accouterments of war glittering in the
sunlight: they came by myriads,
goose stepping proudly to martial
music and to the long roll of the war
drum; day after day, the never ending
! lines of men poured over the border
! in wave upon wave Of glittering steel,
with the thought ever uppermost in
every mind: Paris in three weeks:
London in three months; America in
three years" Supermen! The most
highly trained body of soldiers and the
finest equipment in history, And they
were attacking a friendly people and
civilization which was entirely I'M
prepared,
Superman Now Shiny Reptile.
What do we see now? Today these
brave warriors, these self-styled sup
ermen," are burrowed deep in the
earth like overgrown rodents. They
live in tunnels and dugouts, far from
the surface. and when they come into