The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-26
German Discovery Of America.


1t is somewhat late in the day to dis
cover America, yet only now is this ma
tion being discovered by the Germans.
We doubt ii they will think OF the dis
covery as being better late than never
They had better have let it alone than
have pursued their course of frightful-
ness to the point at which they find that
an America strong in arms confronts
them. Warning enough was given, but
it was not needed. Kulture had appsr.
emily killed conscience and nourished
eonceit until there was no capacity to
recognize wrong or to perceive the pos
sibility of punishment by any earthly
power The idea Of the United States
ever daring TO enter the war as an enemy
of the mighty German empire was ridiy
culed Treistschke had said, 1T is hard
ly conceivable that in the former Brit
ish colonies in America any civilization
can be produced that will stand morally
on the same plane with the old civil.
zation of Europe" and, Of course, it
would be preposterous TO suppose that
America could be strong enough mate
rally to stand up against the German
war machine that had taken forty years
to build.
While we still were neutral the Ger
mans had it pretty well settled what
they would do to us for the war trea-
son of selling supplies OF food and mu-
nitions to the allies We could not be
forgiven for helping hated England.
Speaking for the Germans in 1918, Pro-
lessor Hermann Schumacher said by
the right Of victory and on grounds of
Justice, we have a claim for indemnity
at the cost of England and of the Unit
ed States" The plan of invasion in
cluded the capture of Several OF the
large Atlantic seaport towns, at which
converge the threads Of the whole wealth
of the nation" and they were to be
'penalized by levying them heavy war
contributions. When the wicked Brit
ish navy would not let the German war
ships and transports come over to per-
form these pleasant operations, Foreign
Secretary Zimmerman, 1t win be re-
membered, devised in January, 1915, the
pretty plan of setting Mexico and Japan
on to America, and requested that Pres
ident Carranza should be assured that
"the employment of ruthless submarine
warfare now promises to compel England
to make peace in few months" Yet
to-day Japan is more our friend than
ever. Mexico is prudently peaceabe,
and America and England together are
destroying the greatly reduced feet of
submarines.
The discovery Of naval America was
an important addition to German knowl-
edge and discontinue. Yet far more i'm
pressiye and disconcerting to the Ger
mans, including the kaiser and his gem
erals, il their later discovery of mill
tary America, They are only beginning
to believe the testimony of their eyes
and ears, their dead and wounded, their
retreating armies and territorial losses.
That which was deemed incredible has
happened, and is causing all Germany
very grave anxiety, If not positive dis
NAV, Macbeth was not more astouished
as he saw Birnam Wood come to Dun
shane than the Germans are as they
see the American forces come to France.
For this was declared impossible Did
not the U.boats block the wayi Were
not the Americans without an army?
And was not their talk Of war mere bluff
that would never get beyond the stage
Of fag-wayingH SO the sabre-rattling
critics had assured the people.
But they have now discovered the
American army. They have discovered
that 1t can fight, and that man for man
it fights better than the remaining Ger
man best. These are revelations that
penetrate the densed Prussian craniums.
The tradition of military invincibility
totters. There may be discoveries that
Weld little relief, such as seeing that
the Americans do not kill and eat the
prisoners they take, But, on the whole,
| the new experience is teaching bitter
lessons to the German military caste,
its servants and its dupes, compelling
them to face a future in which II armed
autocraey raise its head the head will
fall. The enemies of fredeom have more
to learn from American freemen. They
will know us better before we have
done with them. And when we do have
done with them the world will be a bet
ter place to live in.-Boston Transcript.