Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-01-18
THE NAY THE WAR LOOKS TOA
YOUNG GERMAN GIRL.

tnat amazing state or nina
| the Prussian people which lead
them to support and applaud
their king in plunging the worl'
into war. For behind the war
and the real cause of It, there j
a Prussian way of looking a
things. That way is so foreign
to our American ideas Of RICH
a I'd wrong that Americans Cal
hardly understand it or believe
tn t it exists.
The letter is printed in til.
G ngresSional Record, and j.
ia II from page S046 of the VOL
UNI for the recent session. Nc
do bit this girl is just an average
Prussian in the ideas she show,
re arding a supposed Prussiar
rig ut to rule the world. She ex.
presses tile idea a little more
sim 'ly and frankly than the
Pr ssian statesmen, that is all.
TIL 1t great intelligent people
lik. the Prussians can be 50
ignorant and perverted in their
mo Il ideas is what is hardest
for Americans to understand.
Frankfort on Order,
July 20, 1916.
My dear Louise:-
The contents of your last
lett-r would have hurt me had
| not known that your thoughts
of our glorious war resulted from
she-r ignorance.
YOU are in a country rendered
effe innate by the influence of
old-fasllioned ideas of liberty, a
cou try which is at least two
centuries behind ours. You are
in n I'd of a good dose of Prus-
sian culture.
1t IS evident that you, Swiss
girl. with your French SYM
path rs, can not understand how
my !Ieart, the heart of young
Germ girl, passionately desired
this ar. Speaking of it some
year ago. my father said to H.:
"Ch dren. Germany is getting
too snail for us, we shall have
to G to France again in order
to fl ID more room" Is it our
faul if France will not under
stan that more money and land
are necessary for US?
CRUELTY A MERE INCIDENT.
And you reproach us that oui
soldi RS have been very cruel to
the B lgianrabble, and you speak
also Of the destruction of Rheims
and of the burning OF villa, es
and towns. Well, that is war.
AS in every other undertaking,
we ace past masters in the max.
ing o. war.
YoI have great deal to Learn
before you can come up to our
stand I'd, and | can assure you
that what has been done so far
is a mere bagatelle compared
with what will follow.
ONLY RACE WORTHY TO RULE.
As matter of fact, there is
but one race worthy of ruling the
world, and which has already
attained the highest degree Of
civilization. That race is ours,
the Pfussians; for though we
Germ ms in general are tile lords
Of the world, the Prussians is UNI
doubtedly the lord par excellence
among the Germans.
All other nations, and among
them, unfortunately, the Swiss,
are degenerate and of inferior
worth. That is why have al.
ways been so proud of being a
true Prussian.
THE CHOSEN PEoPLE.
Yesterday, again, our pastor
expla ned to us convincingly that
our f st areuts, Adam and Eve,
were also Prussian. That is
quite easy to understand, be.
cause tie Bible tells us that
the G ,rnan God created US al
after bis own image. If, then,
all mel are descended from Adam
and his wife, it follows that onl,
Prpss ans, or at least Germans
ouGh, to exist in the world and
that all who push on and pros.
per GU .ht to belong to us. Yor
must admit that that is logic
and that is why our motto is
God with us. Germany abov.
Everything"
You know now why we wished
this war. Is it not shameful
that other nations, who have n,
right to existence on the eartl
wish to diminish our heritage
We are the divine fruit and til,
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