Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-24
TEUTON CREED
is SAvACERY
Says Historian Myers, and
Flags Kaiser and His Huns
Germany Must Be Crushed and
Forced Into Original Boun.
daries. No Compromise Terms
Allies Will Win.

eve are beaten unless the Teuton is
forced back to his original boundaries on
all sides, and the Hohenzoilerns and
Hapsburgs are banished to an exile from
whence there is no return, said DR.. +. Y.
N. Myers the well known history text
book writer in a lecture delivered Mon
day morning to the y, men at lamp
Hancock Continuing, DR.. Myers said that
the German would be defeated in the
present battle and by fall would be suing
for peace on terms by which Belgium
and Northern France would be restored
and Alsace-Lorraine be given up to
Francet However. these terms would re-
uuire that all the territory occupied to
the eastward and the lands wrested
from Russia should remain under Teuton
control. To the war-weary people OF
France and Britain and Italy, this might
sound reasonable enough to make peace
upon, but DIR. Myers pointed out the
grave error that would be made should
peace be made on any such terms and
said it was for America, fresh and vigor-
Gus and just entering upon the hght To-
hold out for an absolute defeat of Ger
many making clear to the allies the dam
gers of anything less.
prussia Hatched from Cannon Bal"
The lecturer, in his intense narrative
style and dramatic presentation of his
subject charged the Germans with hay
ing thrown the civilization Of Christian
ity into the discard, charged the Kaiser
with having been instrumental IN the colo
massacre of 100000 Americans, pointed
out the fact that the Hun has started
out to conquer the world and marshalled
much evidence to prove this statement.
Quoting Napoleon, who declared. Prussia
was Matched from cannon bail" DR.. My
ers went on to prove the militarlst1c and
autocratic attitude of the Prussian peo-
pie to the rest of the world. Wars have
been forced by Prussia many times previ-
ousy for the sake of Prussian aggrandize-
ment and always have resulted in terri
tory being added to the Prussian do
main.
Ci,,iIiza+ion %yArr,.s prueeiap SaUaoerv
DR. Myers stated that this is the last
war between autocracy and democracy,
the last struggle of the new civilization of
brotherhood and kindness and righteous
justice over the dark and fiendish vandal-
ism and barbaric cruelties and blood
thirsty greed of medieval savagery. The
Christian world had thought that women
and children were safe from rape and
butchery, thought that things had grown
better, and they hadmgrown better, until
out of the shadows of Hunand where
had lurked this miserable remnant of
barbarism there leaped the monster that
had been nourished upon the offals of an
outgrown age, monster abnoHmal and
wholly out of place in the world today, a
monster labeled scientific sayagery, and
divine right of kings, and the Bismark
creed of blood and iron. q monster whom
the ast0unded world has decreed must. ba
driven from the earth.
Germans Have Deserted Christian Ideals.
Asked if the feeling of the German peo-
pie can be distinguished from the aims
of the kaiser the lecturer said that the
people of Germany to a great extent are
behind the kaiser in every move he makes
and all are imbued with the idea that
they are superior race, destined to rule
over the world. With such thought
ever present in their minds. it is easy for
them to accept the doctrine that it is
right for them to destroy the weaker ma
tons and effect their schemes by any
means. however foul They are no longer
Christians, but followers of Nietsche. who
says there is theft and murder in nature
and therefore it is right for man to ad-
vance himself in the world by theft and
murder
Allies VIII Win the Victory
The kaiser has not the vision OF our
God but holds in mind the picture of the
ancient Thor, the war-god, of Valhalla.
He also has reserved to himself the ex-
elusive use of the name of this god. not
allowing its mention in any dispatches.
Such in brief is the enemy the world
faces today, but the aged historian fer
wildly concluded his address by saying that
with the help of the God and the Christ
whom the Teuton has Knocked and cast
aside, we win win the victory.
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