The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-10-10
,nre,orIc LETTER FROM A
PROMINENT NORTH CAHO-NN
cTIzEN TO THE TRADE

crIzEN TO THE TRADE
pob+ T. Thompson, of Greensboro
,,,ho made a stirring patriotic ADDRESS
hero on a recent Sunday Wr1tes EetS
interestingly to his correspondent ~
tho cotton. business. Mr.. AntoCA
4 snent four years in Germany anu -
familiar with conditions there" 1niS
latter follows:
On Guard.
We are addressing this genera 1et
fer to our correspondents. 1ne sre0s
majority of whom are leaoers va
thought and action In tne1r seN9 "a
81 comEnunities, not chiefly with the
idea Of informing them VINO are ~
doubt as well informed as We Dut
eu;-,oorlv for the purpose of urging
thono Instantly to impart their m1or-
roation to all about them, so that none
NAV remain in ignorance or the
double struggle which hes ahead OF
us in the further prosecution of this
war or he in any wise unprepareo
therefor.
no this end, let us clarity our VI
sion bv a. steady and unblinklng con-
templation of the facts; refresh our
minds with a. careful consideration OF
the truth: and strengthen our purpose
bva renewed study of the 1nnuu7r
able and unimpeachable author1les
unon whose assurances our conV1c-
lions are founded.
The Prussian political philosophy
developing slowly through the cen
turtles, nearly two hundr?1 years ago
reached it's final finished form in me
mind. of Frederick the CREATING
vilest. because the ab1est. scion OF
the House of EOhenzOI9Tn. since
then. it has been carried out with
consistency, by his royal descendants
to conquer the world, and with them
William has striven, and strives stlll'
to conquer it.
Frederick gave birth to the belief
that the Germans were super-men'
and William has nourished that De-
lief
Frederick maintained shat treaties
we're made but to be broken ana
William has broken them.
Frederick advised that ones enc
mics he terrorized, Sand William has
followed his advice by ordering that
the Imperial German Government in
its conduct, of the war now being
waged against our Allies and our
selves.
The cardinal principles of Freder-
ick's philosophy are three:
First. an involuted egotism, self
centered, ingrowing chauvinism, un-
varying ability, but with answering
paralle1ed in the history Of humanity;
Second, a deep and dark dishonor
without limit and without quallhca-
ton;
Third, a cold calculating cruelty,
CONQUERED cities be wantonly Destroy
ed: that children be manned and men
be mutilatad; that women be raVlsh-
ed and done to death by such bestlal-
itv as makes the minds Of men writhe
in horror at the very thought.
With these thre54 Frederick thought
as set forth in Frederlck's memoirs
and has been slavishlv followed by
or taken therefrom- It stands today
best al bev'ond belief.
There things William has done. not
through stupid brutishness, but in the
carrying out Of carefully calculated
rolicv, TIL, principal purpose Of which
is the es: bFshment OF Teutonic
hegemony over all the earth.
And now that he finds terrorism
about to fail, he will presently turn
again to deception.
DESPITE th3ir he.lish yillainies his
armies are slowly being beaten back;
despite their lifelong devotion to the
blacklist arts of war: his generals are
being c;1t-ecnera1ed by the genius Of
Foch: and so, while there is yet time,
ere his cohorts Of he'll are conquered.
ha will try again false promises and
fairseeming proposals of peace and
every vile which his mind and the
minds of his ministers can conceive.
- ~ SRa1A
nifty Belgium; to give back to France
Alsace-LOrraine: 20 return to Italy
the Irredenta; to do anything. so he
be left with his empire inviolate and
his Eastern conquests in his hands to
do his will of them.
He may even encourage the idea
that a line Of demarca5ion exists be
tween the military masters of Ger
many and the German people, striving
to make us forget that the present
German generation is but the spawn
of these master minds, begotten anG
conceived, born and bred but to d.
their will.
But whatever William and his min
listers may say or Go. we must holt
fast to the knowledge which we havs
so dearly gained that the TeutoniC
people OF today are a. generation o
vipers, liars by inheritance by birth
and by breeding, and that there is NJ
truth in them.
This, then Is our double struggle
ours and our Allies'-to defend gu
minds against fraud and fa!sehoo,
while we defend our homes and GU
bodies against fire and sword
II the world is to have aught of dis
nifty or safety or peace for a thousan
years, the Prussian political philosc
nhv and it's outward and visible mar
Hesitation, the Imperial German Coz
eminent, must be ground into dust an
swept from the face of the earth.
And though the struggle should e
on for years, and though poverty an