Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1918-07-31
WHAT GERMAN VICTORY woul q
MEAN.

Contributed by ARTHUR TRAIN
to the National Security Leagues cam
pa1gn OF Patriotism Through Educa-
tion.)
A German victory-or an inconcIu-
sive peace-Would mean the ultimate
realization of the German idea khat
Germany for the good of the world
must rule the world. This has been
taught in her universities as philoso-
ply and in her pulpits as religion.
The German nation unquestioningly
accepts it and intends to force the resi-
of the world to accept it. This they
call "Kultur," which they claim is
'above morality, reaso and science."i
kultur teaches that there is only
one sort of right-that of the strongers
1t argues with specious profunditv
that IN the relations Of nations with
n another there al be no such thing
as truth or honor. Frederick the Great
taught that the Germans must make if
their "study to deceive others in or.
der to get the better of them.''s Fred
erivk William ". 70 years ago said
that all written constitutions were
only scraps Of paper" and Beth
mann-Hollweg in 1914 referred to The
Hague convention in the identical
words. The scrap of paper" idea is
al old one in German diplomacy.
The Germans believe themselves to
be a nation of supermen and the Kais-
er the war Partner-not of the God of
humanity but fhn Hr11+nr a1tnr To.+r
Of the Pagan North-the War God
who revels in the shrieks of women
and the torture Of children, in blood
shed and cruelty. Il am his sword.
his agent! !" declares William Hohen-
zollern, LET all the enemies of the
German people perish! God demands
their Decentralization, who by my
mouth bids you do his will !'6
To accomplish this t"divine'' will the
German military authorities believe
that any means are justifiable-the
moving down of crowds of helpless
civilians with machine guns, the cut
ting off Of the breasts Of women, tEe
battering in of the skulls of tn,
wounded with rifle butts. BE as ter
rible as AttiIla's Huns! ordered tht
Kaiser" 1T is better to let a hun
dred women belonging to the enenr
die of hunger than to let a single Ger
man soldier suffer.T "AIl prisoner
are to be put to DEATH" ordered Gei
eral Stenger in Belgium Writes
Bavarian private: During the battl
of Budonwiller l did way with fou,
women and young girls in tiN
minutes. The captain had told me t.
shoot these French sows, but l pre-
ferred to run my bayonet through
Them"
This is the concrete result of wha'
the Germans call 1.-THE Religion o.
Valor'' and THE Gospel of Hate
Says one of their spokesman: Mus!
Kultur build its cathedrals on hills OF
corpses, seas of tears and the death
rattle of the vanquished? Yes, it
must"
If Germany wins the war the Unit.
ed States will either be paying tribute
to the Kaiser or German soldiers vii
be hayonetting American girls and Wn
men in Jersey City rather than take
the trouble to shoot them.
If Germany wins all our ideals o.
truth. Justice and humanity-whicl,
we call C~hristian-will be trodden
down into bloody mire under the iron
heel of the Kaiser's armies, and the
coming generation will be taught that
there is no God but the merciless God
of Battle, who speaks through Ger
many's ~treacherous tongue and by her
brutal sword.