The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-06-06
Why We Fight
Because Cermany's Law IL the Law
Of the jungle and Her Doctrine
Might 10 Right"
BY CLARENCE l.. PEE

lex the Great. Prussla's law has been
the law Of the jungle, her doctrine
might IL Right" and her policy, In
dealing with other nations, one Of rob-
bling the weak and t~errorizing 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 u policy of world doIni-
nation which menaces the continued
free existence Of every nation which
will not submit e her will.
G%ermany's policy Is not an acciden-
tai one. II has been carried out with
remarkable singlcness OF purpose
from generation to generation of
Hohenzollern rule, from the time
of the Great Frederick until to-
day. Germany's atrocities are not
accidental. They are a dellber.
ate. well thought out part Of this
Hohenzollern policy, which was to
break down the resistance of her OPP
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 fttest. Through generations of
teaching they made the German PEG.
pie believe that they, and they alone.
were the fit.
We have the words Of the German
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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 1t,
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 1t, we will be honest; II 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. means that Germany was
right when she took Belgium. and will
be wrong only II she Is not able to
hold 1t.
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 majorlties 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 1854, beat and robbed Aus
tria in 1866, and finally. in 1870,
brought France to her knees ana 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 Il way
that for II thousand years no Chi.
nese shall dare TO look upon u German
aSkance. Be as terrible as Attllla's
Huns"
Coming on down to the present wal
we find a German minister accredited
10 IA neutral state far across the sea
one which one would think should b.
Tree from the entanglements Of world
politics-writing ZONE to his govern.
ment, In n state paper. advising the
sinking Of two ships from this neutral
nntlon, In such u manner that no trace
b. left. Dead men, he believed tell
40 tales.
II was Baron L%uxburg. minister pleni.
%pOtentiary to Argentina. who wrote
this amazing dispatch On May 10, 1917:
II beg that the small steamers Oran
and GuuZo . which are nearing
Bordeaux . be spared II posi-.
BILE. or else sunk without u trace be-
Ing left"
This telegram was intercepted in the
United States and published. II sent
a thrill of horror around the world.
Chancellor Won Bethmann.Hollweg Ia
n true disciple OF Frederick the
Great. Bismarck and his royal master.
~ BdDiiN Sl''ti oh Juhuhty or lOlss
he said:
"When the most ruthless methods
are calculated to lead us to victory,
swift victory, they must be employed"
So they were used, and are being
used today. They include sinking Of
hundreds OF neutral ships. the burning
OF cities, the deliberate devastating
of the fair lands Of France. the ravlsh-
lag Of women, the ensluvemept of
workmen and the murder Of little chill.
dren.
Horrors such as these are told In de-
tall In 1.-THE Prussian System" by II. G.
Walcott, who. for u 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 tho
Germans intended to occupy.
Knowing all this. can the American
people talk Of any peace by negotia.
tionf Can they stop this war Until!
this mad dog OF nations Is freed from