The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-23
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY. MARCH % 1918

We assumed they were extremists. We
have them among ourselves-I do not
name them. We do not want to be
held responsible for them. But these
were not extremists. They spoke the
word that had sunk to the hearts of
the people. The principles were
taught in the primary schools, in the
academies, and from the lecture plat
forms of the universities. Their lee
| turers, their great leaders in philos-
ophy taught them. In their sermons
you saw it crop out here and there.
Read the sermons-one addressed to
German Cod; another a prayer to
Him who presides in the Heaven
above the seraphim and the cherubim
and the Zeppelins." The association
of the seraphim and the cherubim with
the Zeppelins is incongruous and ir-
reverent to us, but to the German
mind seems all right, for the reason
that all are agencies of the Diety, and
the Zeppelins are carrying out the
God-giyen purpose and policy of kul-
tur by dropping explosives on East
London, numbering among their vic
tins the school children and the old
men and old women of that city. 1t
is shocking, my friends, it is shocking
when you think of the change that has
come about through this horrible,
hideous philosophy into which the
Germans have led themselves.
If you wish proof in addition, read
what the Kaiser says. He is always
associating himself with God in a per-
sonal way: Forward with Cod" He
says that God 'is with us uncondition-
ally, with avowed support" "Uncon-
ditionally"-that is, without regard
to what we have done. The purpose,
the end, the destiny is what we must
look to, not the means" He claims
an intimate association with God and
communications denied to other peo-
verted mental state; but it is a condi-
tion so dangerous that we cannot al
low it to continue in this world when
it is backed up by the application of
the highest scientific principles to the
destruction of men.
| cannot take time to point out how
completely responsible Germany is for
this war and its character, but when
you meet those who have been at the
front and who have come back (as l
did the other day. and hear from them
the horrible nature of this war, its
mechanical physical brutality, its de-
sire to destroy men, and when you
look back upon our Civil War-that
was bloody, lives were lost, but there
was chivalry there was a kindliness
between the sides, there were obliga
tions even in war that were kept,
there was glamour about it, courage,
bravery and chivalry, reflecting on
the natural gentleness of the people
engaged-when you compare these
two wars you realize that today in
Europe, under the influence of this
cruel German philosophy, it is blood
and destruction of the most brutal
character-anything anything for mil
itary advance and military success.
That presents the problem to us.
Our Allies have been fighting this
monster for three years. They are
nearly exhausted, and we are praying
and should be praying that they may
hold out until we can get there with
our forces so as to predominant in
man power and win this world war
for righteousness and forever stamp
out this horrible philosophy, this Grass
materialism, this brutal murder of the
human race which Germany makes
the object of her government, in order
that, through the blood of other men,
she may march on to control the
world.
Therefore it is that you, my boys.
have before you an opportunity to