The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-01-18

ders, of innumerable violations of
Hague conventions and the law of
nations, of abominable and perfidious
plotting in friendly countries and
shameless abuse of their hospitality,
of crime heaped upon crime in hid
eous defiance of the laws of God and
man.
II cherish memories of my youth,
but these very memories make me
cry out in pain and wrath against
those who have befouled and dis
credited the spiritual soil of the old
Germany in which they were rooted.
Long before the war / had come to
look upon Prussianism as amongst
the deadliest of poison growths that
ever sprang from the soil of the spir-
1t of man.
OUTLAW AMONG NATIONS.
1.-THE are some of you, probably.
who will still find it hard to believe
that the Germany you know can be
guilty of the crimes which have made
it an outlaw amongst the nations,
but do you know modern Germany?
Unless you have been there within
the last rs years, not once nor twice,
but at regular intervals. unless you
have looked below the glittering sur
face of marvellous material progress
and achievement, and seen how the
soil of Germany is being eaten away
by the virulent poison of Prussianism,
unless you have watched and follow
ed the appalling transformation of
German mentality and morality UNI
der the sinister and puissant in
tiuence of the priesthood of power
worship you do not know Germany
of this day and generation, the Ger
many which brought upon the world
the immeasurable disaster of this
war, and at. whose monstrous deeds
and doctrines the civilized nations of
the earth stand aghast. started into
being less than 80 years ago.
81 can almost lay my finger upon
the date and circumstances of it's ILL
omened advent And finally there
CAME The Day in which The New
Course fatally and inevitabIey was
bound to eliminate, and with re-
joicing they greeted The Day.
1T was to bring them, as one Ger
man in an important position here
expressed to me in 1914, "a merry
war and victory before the year is
out
CONTEMPT FOR DEMOCRACY.
THE spirit of Prussianism and the
spirit of Americanisms cannot live in
the same world. One or the other
must conquer. In the mad pride of
its contempt for democracy Prussian-
ism has thrown down the gauntlet
to us. We have taken up the chal-
lenge, and now we stand arrayed by
the side of the other freedom-loving
nations of the world. giving our fresh
strength and our boundless resources
to them, who, heroically striving.
have borne the heat and burden of a
dreadfully long and exhausting strug-
gle, yet stand unwearied and resolute.
"The enemy is of formidable
strength, but even if he were far
stronger than he is, even if we did
not have the men and the means
which are ours, even if our comrades
in arms had not demonstrated their
superb and indomitable prowess, still
must our cause prevail, for there is
lighting with us d force which has
ever proved itself stronger than any
other power on earth and again and
again has triun'phed over overwhelm-
ing odds. and that force. God in
spired. death-defying and unconquer-
able. is the soul Of man.
Some there are among us of for
eign birth. some even of American
birth, who, misguided, corrupt or
traitorous, have failed to join whole
heartedly our holy cause or even are
opposing it. AS far as they dare,
some there are kith and kin of the
Bolsheviks, who have been blinded
by the glare of liberty as a man is
blinded who after long confineaent
in darkness comes suddenly into
strong sunlight.
ABUSE OF TOLERANCE.
Blinded. they dare to aspire to |
force their guidance upon Americans
who for generations have walked in