Imperial Valley press., 1918-02-28
HUNS RELIGION
OF VAL0R MENACE
Sheriff OF San Jose Describes the
German Frame of Mind Regarding
World ConQuest-Plans of the Prus-
sian Wars Gods Related by an Of
ficial.
(By Associated Press)


Sacramento, Feb. 23-Members o.
the Rotary Clubs of the Thirteenth
district met here today in annual con-
vention. Addresses We're made ex-
tolling the memory of George Wash
ington and touching on the presen,
world war.
Alexander Sheriff of San Joe out
lined the various influences which lei
Germany to instigate the great calam-
ity. He said in part:
German philosophers practically
set up a new religion which the
called the Religion of Valor.' Iiva
dangerously is on of its notices
They taught parody on the Beati-
tudes. Blessed are the peace makers
was changed to Blessed are the wa.
makers, for they shall conquer th2
earth and receive the applause, no
of Jehova, but of OG:n, who is great
err than Jehova' Inc God of German.
who the Kaiser appeals to so ofte
is not the Christian God, but thc
manufactured God of German con
quest and German world dominion.
This philosophy of conquest has
been systematically taught to the
children of Germany for the past 40
years, and when you realize that all
the teachers of Germany, from the
kindergarten to the university, are
rejected by and receive their salaries
from the state, and are promoted or
discharged according as they please
or displease those in authority in that
state, you can readily understand how
it is that the great force of highly
trained teachers of the empire was
thrown in to the work of leading the
nation into a career of world conquest
and world dominion. These teachers
taught that it was the duty of Ger
many to subjugate inferior peoples,
and to exterminate them if necessary.
The welfare of the world, they said,
could be served best by German su-
,premacy, and in attaining this suprem-
acy nothing that the German people
did could be called a crime as long as
it was done in the name of the state.
This is the doctrine of Pan-German-
ism.
"We as Americans never dreamed
that any race Of men could exist who
were so depraved that they would
commite the horrors and bestialities
that were devised by the German
General Staff.
"If there are any here who doubt
that these horrors were committed; ;
if there are any who care to deny
that old men and women and chill
dren were mutilated and crucified, let
them head as / have, the official re-
ports of the Bryce commission on
atrocities in Belgium and northern
France; Of the commission appointed
by the French Senate; let them read
the reports Of the field newspapers;
let them view the photographs which
accompany these reports, and, bet
ter still, let than read the daries
found on captured German prisoners
Of war, in which the most revolving
Of these cruelties are duly chronicled
as being done upon the orders of the
military authorities Of Potsdam Why,
the proof Of these German atrocities
has become so strong that they are
no longer refuted by the German gov
ernment itself.
"The American people have always
fought for political and religious free
dom. That they hold the same senti-
ments in regard to these principles to-
day as they did at any time in the
past is shown by the fact that our
liberty-loving people have again unit
ed their lives and their fortunes 10
preserve the equal and inalienable
rights of man. And it will 90 down
in history that the United States Of
America waged its last great war
likewise in the name Of liberty, but
this time TO make, not alone our
own country, but the whole world
safe for democracy