Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-24
INVADE GERMANY,
CRUSH ARMY-NAW,
MORGENTHAU PLAN
Must be Overwhelmingly Beaten
and Given Taste of War at
Home, Says Ex-Envoy
to Turkey.
HOHENZOLLERNS SHALL GO

| told the pro-war Socialists of New York
| a day or two ago that the allies should
| invade Germany, demobilizc her army.
! take her navy and dismantlc her ord
nance plants, especially the krupp works.
Mr.. Morgenthau said the German peo-
| pie and their government have worked
| as unit in this insane enterprise of
conquering the world but this did not
mean that the people could not be sep
| arnted from their kaiser; nor did it mean
that they could not be forced to over
| throw their autocratic system and to
cleanse themselves Of the foul crimes
which they have applauded for four
wears. and reform themselves into n
decent, self-respecting, lberty-lovine de
mocracy.'
MUST MENTALLY REFORM NATION.
Indeed he emphasized, they have
got 10 do this or they perish.
Mr.. Morgcnthau said The psychology
of whole nation could be changed
fundamentally. Democracy was not the
special privilege Of one race or people,
but the inheritance Of all mankind The
fundamentals of the Declaration Of
Independence and the French Revolu-
tion were just as applicable 10 the Ger
man people as 10 the nations which gave
them uttcrancc.
The speaker further believed that
the German character could be changed,
because il had been changed bv Prus-
sianism from what it was when he was
boy IN Baden He spoke OF the Germany
of Goethe and Schiller, the home-loving
German of his bovhnod DAYS. and said.
1T is Of this kind OF material that
PrIissianized Germany has created the
present arrogant, blood-thrSty citizen
Of tho empire The masters ot this
new Germany began, IN 1871, ono of
tho most monstruus experiments ever
made; this was nothing less than an
attempt 10 pervcrt the mentality OF
race. Fundamentally il was case %
hypnotism ON grand scale The masters
OF Germany proposed 10 regulate all the
thoughts OF their people and 10 control all
their emotions and aspirations We all
know thet there is nothing so susceptible
10 suggestion as the mind OF the growing
child All who have remained in tho
countries OF their birth are practically
what they were made IN the first 10 To IL
wears of their lives
THE new masters OF Germany nov.
seized their millions OF growing minds
and began 10 impress upon them the new
philosophy Of the German empire
TAUGHT To WORSHIP EMPEROR
This new pagansm revived certain
OF the cults that accompanied the pagan
ism of the ancient world Just rs the
citizens of imperial Rome were taught
To defy the emperor, SO the new citizens
of imperial Germany were taught to
deity the emperor, 80 he became the
human embodiment Of this new concep-
tion of the super-statc, man directly
sent by God to make II the overriling
power among the nations and as such, he
necessarily commanded the unquestIoning
obedience of all his subjects An es
sential part of this new kaiscr-worshlp
was the worship Of militarIsm. The
masters of the German people impressed
upon their minds the superiority Of the
Germans TO all other peoples, the SUI
periority Of German kultur to all other
kultur. and taught L en- that II was
Germany God-given duty 10 carry this
new national evangel To AL the world
They taught them also that once Ger
man always a German
The world is ROW sufficiently familiar
with All the hideous details with al the
cruelties. the suffering the calculated
indifference TO justice. decency and hu-
man rights which have accompanied tins
new barbarisrn Germany has succeeded
in her attempt TO perVert the mentality
oi her people, but she has failed IN her
underlying purpose Of subdung the world.
aoNsIRoUs CONSPIRACY \ WREcK.
This monstrous conspiracy against
human freedom and democracy now lies a
mass Of ruins st our feet. What are the
allied peoples TO do IN face Of this new
situation?
1T is not for me 10 sketch the terms
OF peace, but at least one point ! think
that we should insist on at this time
Unless peace can be restored upon terms
that will change the mental attitude Of the
German people toward its own masters
and toward the rest of the world, then
the war viii have been fought In vain.
regard this as the fundamental point
in the whole international situation. III
Mr.. Morgenthau said that Germany
must be shocked out Of what he had
described as her state Of hypnotism.
This shock should be complete military
defeat He proceeded:
STILL BELIEVE THEMSELVES sCPER-HUMAN
There is not the slightest doubt that
Germany still believes that she IS superior
to the rest Of the world in war. and that
she regards her present reyerses As merely
temporary serious enough, perhaps. to
Justify her in making ar inconclusiyc
peace. but not serious enough 10 dissuadc
her from her great enterprise Of uni
versal empire If permitted to do 50.
she will Temporarily lay down her arms
and immediately begin repairing the
injuries 10 her military machine
The German people have not aban-
doned their faith IN nilitarism as the
finest expression Of their national life
or in war as their first duty as Germans
Only an overwhelming defeat will ever
make them see a new light ] do not
believe that any, peace should be made
until this defeat has been administered
TO them"
TAKE WAR INTO GERMANY.
The speaker said the war should be
taken into Germany. so that she would
suffer the infections she has brought
on other peoples On this point he said:
Though ! do not believe that we
should ravage German cities as Germany
has ravaged those of France and Bel
gium, vet ] think that our armies might
give the German territories few whole
some examples of the kind of warfare their
soldiers have made on allied soil
II do not advocate this policy from
any feeling Of revenge, but merely from
a sense of justice. 1t is practically the
only way in which the world can protect
itself from another attack, the only way
in which we can permanently save our
own homes and our institutions from the
assault. ] believe that IL is the only way
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