Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-09-27

oAucu sickCtO VI IdkcIl CneTeIrOm.
1t stands today as set forth in
frederick 8 memoirs and has been
savishly followed by the Imperial
German Government in its con.
duct OF the war now being waged
against our Allies and ourselves.
The cardinal principles of Fred
erick's philosophy are three:
First, an involuted egoism,
a self-centered, ingrowing chau.
ainism, unparalleled in the his.
tory of humanity.
Second, a deep and dark dishon.
or without limit and without dual.
ifcation;
Third, q cold calculating cruel.
ty, bestial beyond belief.
with these three, Frederick
though to conquer the world, and
with them William has striven,
and strives still, to conquer it
Frederick gave birth to the be-
lief that the Germans were super.
men, and William has nourish-
ed that belief.
Frederick maintained that
treaties were made but to be
broken, and William has broken
them.
Frederick advised that ones
enemies be terroized. and Will
lam has followed his advice by
ordering that conquered cities be
wantonly destroyed; that chill
dren be MANNED andmen be mu-
tilated; that women be ravished
and done to death by such best
iality as makes the minds of men
to writhe in horror at the very
thought.
These things William has done,
not through stupid brutishness,
but in the carrying out of a care
fully calculated policy, the prin-
cipal purpose of which is the
establishment of a Teutonic heg-
emory over all the earth.
And now that he finds terror
ism about to fail, he will present
ly turn again to deception.
Despite their hellish villainies
his armies are slowly being beat
en- back; despite their lifelong
devotion the blacklist arts of war,
his generals are being out-gener-
aled by the genius of Foch; and
so, while there is yet time, ere
his cohorts of hell are conquered,
he will try again false promises
and fair-seeming proposals of
peace and every vile which his
mind and the minds of his min.
listers can conceive.
He may offer to restore and
indemnify Belgium; to give back
to France Alsace- Lorraine; to re-
turn to Italy the Irredenta; to do
anything. so he be left with his
empire inviolate and his Eastern
conguests in his hands to do his
will Of them.
He may even encourage the
idea that line of demarcation
exists between the military mas
tiers of Germany and the German
people, striving to make US for.
get that the present German
generation is but the spawn of
these master minds, begotten
and conceived, born and bred
but to do their will.
But whatever William and his
ministers may say or do, we must
hold fast to the knowledge which
we have so iearly gained that
the Teutonic people of today are
a generation Of vipers, liars by
inheritance, by birth, and by
breeding, and that there is no
truth in them.
This, then, is our double strug-
and our Allies to de-
fend our minds against fraud and
falsehood while we defend our
homes and our bodies against
fire and sword.
If the world is to have aught
Of dignity or salty or peace for
3 thousand years, the Prussian
political philosophy and its out
ward and visible manifestation,
the Imperial German Government
must be ground into dust and
swept from the face of the earth. |
And though the struggle should |
70 on for years, and though pow
.rty and anguish should be our
and though ten millions
# our sons should shed their
blood to this great end, yet would
he sacrifice be fully justified
hat generations yet unborn may
ONE and 60 upon the earth free
men and unafraid. We, of this
generation, stand in the van
.uard of the armies of Sod we
re His shock troops and we must
lot fail. !
You, to whom we write, know
II these things. So to it, as a
art of your patriotic duty, as a
art Of your duty to mankind,
hat no mind within the sphere