The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-06-06
Why We Fight
No.2
Because Germany Law Il tho Law
of the jungle and Her Doctrine
"Mieht 10 Right"

Might 10 Right
BY CLARENCE L: SPEED
Secretary of the War Committee Of the
Union League Club Of Chicago.
We are at war with Germany be-
cause Prussia dominates Gel.
many, and from the days of Freder-
lex the Great, Prussia's law has been
the law of the jungle. her doctrine
"Might is Right and her policy, in
dealing with other nations, n of rob-
bling the weak and terrorizing the
strong. Germany has grabbed terri
tory and exacted tribute from her
neighbors, and finally, her greed be-
coming greater, has looked out over
more distant lands, and has commit
ted herself to a policy of world domi-
nation which menaces the continued
free existence of every nation which
will not submit to her will.
Germany's policy is not an Ccciden-
tai one. 1t has been carried out with
remarkable s%ingleness Of purpose
from generation to generation Of
H%ohenzollern rule, from the time
of the Great Frederick until to-
day. Germany's atrocities are not
accidental. They are a deliber-
ate, we'll thought out part Of this
Hohenzollern policy, which was to
break down the resistance of her op-
ponents, not only by fighting and de-
feating their armies but by killing,
torturing and terrorizing the civil
populations.
The German rulers committed them.
selves to the doctrine of the survival
of the fittest. Through generations of
teaching they made the German peo-
pie believe that they, and they alone,
were the fit.
We have the words Of the German
rulers and German warriors and Ger.
man leaders of thought for all of this.
More than that we have the perform.
ance of German officers and German
armies in conquered lands to prove it.
Let's start with Frederick the
Great in presenting the evidence.
This monarch, who earned his sou.
briquet through despoiling his neigh.
bors, rather than through any real
qualities Of mind which he showed,
said, in q letter to his minister, Rad.
twill:
IF there is anything to be gained
by it, we will be honest; if deception
is necessary, let us be cheats. One
takes what one can, and one is wrong
only when obliged to give back"
This philosophy, applied to present
conditions, mean that Germany was
right when she took Belgium, and will
be wrong only if she is not able to
hold it.
From Frederick the Great to Bis.
marck is a long jump in the matter
of time; but we find the Prussian pol.
icy unchanged. Speaking before the
military committee Of the Prussian
Chamber Of Deputies in 1862 Bis
marck said:
"Not by speeches and resolutions
Of majorities are the great questions
of the time decided, but by iron and
blood"
Then, with blood and iron, Prussia
went out and despoiled Denmark of
territory in 1864, beat and robbed Aus.
tria in 1866, and finally, in 1870,
brought France to her knees and took
her richest provinces.
!, Here is what the present kaiser told
his troops when, in 1900, they were
about to depart for China to put down
the boxer uprising:
"Use your weapons in such a Wy
that for q thousand years no Chi
q nese shall dare to look upon a German
askance. Be as terrible as Attilla's
Huns"
Coming on down to the present wal
We find a German minister accredited
to q neutral state far across the sea-
g one which one would think should be
free from the entanglements of world
) politics-writing home to his govern.
ment, in q state paper, advising the
e sinking of two ships from this neutral
k nation, in such a manner that no trace
be left. Dead men, he believed tell
no tales.
It was Baron Luxburg, minister pleni,
Il potentiary to Argentina, who wrote
this amazing dispatch on May 10, 1917
Ell II beg that the small steamers Oran
and Guazo which are nearing
q Bordeaux . . be spared If posi-
OAC1 VI CAoC 0uAA WAIAIOu u IIuCC UC
ing left"
This telegram was intercepted in the
United States and published. It sent
a thrill Of horror around the world.
Chancellor Won Bethmann.Hollweg Is
II a true disciple of Frederick the
q Great, Bismarck and his royal master
is In a public speech on January 81, 1917
he said:
d "When the most ruthless methods
are calculated to lead us to victory
swift victory, they must be employed
y So they were used, and are being
II used today. They include sinking Of
hundreds of neutral ships, the burning
Of cities, the deliberate devastating
IL of the fair lands Of France, the ravish.
l. ing Of women, the enslavement oil
= workmen and the murder of little chill
dren.