Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-11-14
Why We Fight:
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Beeause Gsfmssy's Law 10 Dc Law /.
Of de Jun1ls asd Her Doetsise
"Milht 10 Rilht"


Union League Club Of Chicago.
We are at war with Germany be.
cause Prussia dominates Ger.
many. and from the days Of Freder-
lex the Great, Prussia's law has been
the law of the jungle, her doctrine
'Might is Right" and her policy. in
dealing with other nations. one Of rob.
bing the weak and terrorizlng the
strong. Germany has grabbed terri
tory and exacted tribute from her
neighbors, and finally, her greed be-
coming greater, has looked out over
more distant lands. and has commit.
ted herself to policy Of world domi-
nation which menaces the continued
free existence Of every nation which
will not submit to her will.
Germany's policy is not an acciden-
tai one. It has been carried out with
remarkable singleness Of purpose
from generation to generation Of
Hohenzollern rule, from the time
Of the Great Frederick until to-
day. Germany's atrocities are not
accidental. They are q deliber-
ate. well thought out part Of this
Hohenzollern policy, which wis to
break down the resistance Of her op-
ponents, not only by fighting and de.
feating their armies but BY killing,
torturing and terrorizing the civil
populations.
The German rulers committed them.
selves to the doctrine Of the survival
Of the fittest. Through generations Of
teaching they made the German peo-
I pie believe that they, and they alone.
were the at.
We have the words Of the German
rulers and German warriors and Ger.
man leaders Of thought for all Of this.
More than that we have the perform.
ance of German officers and German
armies in conquered lands to prove It.
Il Let's start with Frederick the
Great in presenting the evidence.
This monarch, who earned his SOU.
briquet through despoiling his neigh.
bors, rather than through any real
qualities Of mind which he showed.
said, in a letter to his minister, Rad
J. twill:
'4f there is anything to be gained
4 BY It, we will be honest; If deception
IL necessary, let us be cheats. One
takes what one can, and one is wrong
only when obliged to give back"
This philosophy, applied to present
conditions, means that Germany was
right when she took Belgium, and will
be wrong only if she 10 not able To
hold It.
From Frederick the Great to Bis
marck is long jump In the matter
Of time; but we ind the Prussian pol
icy unchanged. Speaking before the
military committee Of the Prussian
Chamber Of Deputies in 1862 Bis
marck said:
.Not by speeches and resolutions
! Of majorities are the great questions
Of the time decided, but By iron and
blood"
Then, with blood and iron, Prussis
went out and despoiled Denmark Of
~ territory in 1884, beat and robbed Aus
8 tria in 1896, and finally, in 1870
brought France to her knees and tool
her richest provinces.
Here is what the present kaiser told
8 his troops when, in 1900. they wert
o about to depart for China to put dowl
the boxer uprising:
use your weapons In such wa!
that for q thousand years no Chi
~nese shall dare to look upon a German
I askance. Be as terrible as Attilla',
Huns"
Coming on down to the present wal
we find German minister accredited
: to neutral state far across the sea
q one which one would think should bl
free from the entanglements Of worlt
politics-writing home to his govern
i ment, in a state paper, advising thu
. sinking Of two ships from this neutral
nation, in such q manner that no trace
be left. Dead men, he believed tel