Washington telegraph., 1918-06-07

rulers and German warriors ana 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 H.
Let's start with Frederick the
Great in presenting the evidence,
This monarch, who earned his SOU
briquet through despolling his neigh
bors, rather than through any real
qualities of mind which he showed
said, in letter TO his minister, Rad.
twill:
"If there is anything to be gained
by 1t, we win be honest; If deception
is necessary, let US be cheats. One
takes what oRe Gun, and one is wrong
only when obliged TO give back"
This philosophy applied to present
conditions, means that Germany was
right when she took Belgium, and will
be wrong only If she is not able to
hold Il.
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:
mot by speeches and resolutions
Of maJoritles are the great questions
of the time decided, but by iron and
blood"
Then, with blood and iron, Prussia
went out and despolled Denmark OF
territory In 1864, beat and robbed Aus
tria in 1860, 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 way
that for thousand years no Chi
nese shall dare to look upon German
askance. BE as terrible as Attilla's
Huns"
Coming on down to the present war
we find a German minister accredited
to a neutral state far across the seq
one which one would think should be
free from the entanglements of world
polltlcs-wrlting home to his govern
ment, In n state paper, advising the
sinking of two ships from this neutral
nation, In such manner that no trace
be left. Dead men, he believed tell
no tales.
1t was Baron Luxburg, minister pleni-
potentlnry to Argentina, who wrote
this amazing dispatch on May 10, 1917:
II beg that the small steamers Oran
and Guazo which are nearing
Bordeaux be spared If possi-
bic. or else sunk without u trace be
ing left"
This telegram was intercepted in the
United States and published. 1t sent
a thrill of horror around the world.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg is
u true disciple Of Frederick the
Great, Bismarck and his roynl master.
In II public speech on January 81, 1917,
he said:
"When the most ruthless methods
are calculated to lead US to victory.
swift victory, they must be employed"
So they were used. md nre heing
used today. They include sinking of
hundreds of neutral ships. the burning
Of cities, the deliberate devastating
of the fair lands Of France, the ravish-
ing of women, the enslavement Of
workmen and the murder Of little chill
dren.
Horrors such as these are told In de-
tail In "The Prusslan System" by +. G..
Walcott, who, for long time, was en-
gagged in behalf of America in trying to
get food to the Poles whom the Ger
mans were deliberately starving by
the hundreds of thousands so that they
might not cumber the land which the
Germans intended to occupy.
Knowing all this, can the American
people talk of any peace by negotia-
ton? Can they stop this war until
this mad dog Of nations is freed from
he military rulers who teach frlghtful-
Hoss from the cradle, and will only
izc Al respite now to prepare them.
s.''cs Tor further conquests2
We are fighting Germany for the
right to live our own lives as we see
fit We nre fighting for our laws, our
ideals, our homes, our institutions
"But, how" one may ask, "were all
these things threatened by Germany
before the war started2 II is easy tC
see how they may be threatened now