Arizona republican., 1918-04-01
MIGHT MAKES RIGHT IS CREED TAUGHT
 TO GERMAN PEOPLE


 'The object of this war is to deliver i the free peoples of the world from the menace and the actual power of a vast military establishment controlled by an irresponsible government, which, hay ing secretly planned to domlnate the world, proceeded to carry out the plan without regard either to the sacred ob- legations of treaty or the long estab- | lished practices and long-cherished principles of international action and honor; This power is not the l German people. It is the ruthless mas ter of the German people. It is our business to see to it that the his tory of the rest of the world is no longer left to it's handling. .'-President l Wilson, August 2. 1917.
 The Nation and Moral Duties
 The rulers of Germany believe that 1 they have the right to prevail over all other nations. They also believe that l the power of the state is the only ob l ject for which it's rulers should strug gle. Still further, they believe that moral principles and ideas have no place in determining the actions of the state, since the sole duty of the state is to get power. This is Ger man political philosophy. American i political philosophy, from the very be- | ginning of our institutions, has op
 posed this theory. and now in this war is fighting against ir. For the Ger man theory necessarily carries with it utter denial of the claims of moral feeling, of international right, of hu- man decency and chiyalry.
 Tho Cat.r,ooT rTrait CoblSp
 at whose feet princes and rulers sat, eagerly absorbing his teachings, de-
 voted his life to spreading this gospel
 of Power. It is true, he said sneer
 ingly, that "a stock of inherited con-
 captions of integrity and morality is
 a necessity for government" (useful
 that subjects of the state be obedient),
 but the end all and be all of a
 state is Power" The state is the
 sole judge of the morality of it's own
 actions. It is, in fact, above morality,
 or, in other words, whatever is nec-
 essary is moral"
 From this it follows, in international relations, that there, is no rule or
 guide to conduct except self-interest. In this present var a follower of 7 Treitschke, one of the leading com . mon-school educators of Germany, Kirschensteiner of Munich, drives . home the theory "The great lesson which the German people has had to
 learn is to think in terms of power. Let no one here say that ] small states. too, can have a national Q life of their own. True, so long as } the great states around them allow Q them to exist But any day may see e the end of their existence. in spite of all treaties to the contrary. } Neither alliances nor treaties provide
 the least security . There are t no ethical friendships between states 7, in our day. There are only
 friendships of convenience. And friend
 ships of convenience last just as lone
 as the convenience itself"
 Professor Eulenberg of Leipzig sums
 it LID. "All ethical considerations arc
 completely alien to the state and tho |, state must therefore resolutely keeI V them at arms length
 ! Can we wonder that the German , Foreign Secretary spoke of the broker
 treaty with Belgium as a scrap Q
 paper?" or that the school childreI
 of Germany celebrated the sinking O $ the Lusitania? or that German agent: e in America, smoothly friendly in. ap. l. pearance, secretly plotted, before WI IT were in the war; to destroy our in. If dustries. our railways, even our lives h Is there no such thing any more e as a common humanity-no "decen Q respect to the opinion. of mankind, e as Thomas Jefferson stated it in tht el Declaration of Independence? Is oul n ideal of righteousness. yes, even O :. unselfishness, impossible in interna 70 tional politics. This war, if Germany n is defeated, may decide these ques il tions. but if Germany wins. the strug
 gle has but just begun.
 ei This American democracy of ou l., denies. and has always denied tht g German theory; it asserts that tn le laws which formulate the duties O O linen toward each other are hindin, n upon nations equally with individuals
 For centuries civilization has beel = slowly advancing from ignorance i. prejudice, and selfishness toward sym \ pathv, understanding, and a desire t N see justice done, whether between in 4 dividuals or nations. The be all ant E end all" of a state is not Power-i
 is Justice.
 And the German government ha \ left us in no doubt as to the result \ of her theory, in application. Tha E government has broken a solem E treaty with Belgium, ordered the mur ! der of innocent hostages. bombarde s mortified towns, torpedoed unarme passenger ships, destroyed works C ! art where they could not be carrie s to Germany. plotted secret war agains s neutral nations-all of them action \ she once pledged herself to forego-
 has lost, in short all sense. appar \ ently, that she is dragging the forme k good name of the German peopl z through a mire of dishonor, the stai
 of which will not be removed fo
 generations. Against this mad phi s losophy and mad government the wa \ must be waged, until they are de feated. or there is no safety tor me
 or nations.
 This is the third of series of te articles by Professor Adams.