Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-05-30
Why We Fight
No. 3
Rseause Germany's Law u the Law
Of the jungle and Her Doctrins
sMifht Il Right"

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BY CLARENCE L. SPEED
Secretary OF the War Committee Of the
Union League Club Of Chicago.
We are al. war with Germany be-
cause Prussia dominates Ger.
many. and from the days Of Freder-
lex the Great. Prussla's law has been
the law of the jungle. her doctrine
'shiight is Right" and her policy, In
dealing with other nations, one of rob
bling the weak and terrOrizing 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 policy of world domi-
nation which menaces the continued
free existence Of every nation which
will not submit to her will.
Germany's policy Is not an acciden-
tai one. 1t has been carried out with
remarkable singleness Of purpose
from generation to generation of
Hchenzollern rule, from the time
Of the Great Frederick until to-
day. Germany's atrocities are not
accidental. They IRE a deliber-
ate. well thought out part of this
Hohenzollern policy, which was to
break down the resistance of her op.
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 fittest. 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
rulers and German warriors and 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 It
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 it, we will be honest; If 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 t.
hold 1t.
From Frederick the Great to Bis
marck Is long jump In the matter
of time; but we find the Prussian pol
icy unchanged. Speaking before thu
military committee OF the Prussiar
Chamber Of Deputies in 1862 Bis
marck said:
mot by speeches and resolution.
Of majorities are the great question.
Of the time decided. but by iron ant
blood"
Then, with blood and iron. Prussis
went out and despoiled Denmark Of
territory in 1854. beat and robbed Aus
tria in 1865. and finally, in 1870
brought France to her knees and tool
her richest provinces.
Here is what the present kniser toll
his troops when, in 1900, they wer,
about to depart for China to put dow
the boxer uprising:
use your weapons in such q wa,
that for a thousand years no Chi
L nOn dor Tn No.
askance. Be as terrible as Attilla.
Huns"
Coming on down to the present wal
we find German minister accredited
to neutral state far across the sea-
one which one would think should bt
free from the entanglements of worlG
politics-writing home to his govern
ment. in state paper. advising tbs
sinking Of two ships from this neutral
nation, in such a manner that no trace
be left. Dead men, he believed tel
no tales.
1t was Baron Luxburg, minister pleni
potentiury to Argentina, who wrote
this amazing dispatch on May 10, 1917
Il beg that the small steamers Orar
and GuaZo which are nearing
Bordeaux be spared IL posi-
BILE, or else sunk without trace be
ing left"
This telegram was intercepted in the
United States and published. 1t sen,
thrill of horror around the world.
Chancellor Won Bethmann- Hollwec /.
true disciple of Frederick the
Great, Bismarck and his royal master
In 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, 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 rayish
ing of women, the enslavement OF
workmen and the murder Of little chill
dren.
Horrors such as these are told in de
tail in 1.-THE Prussian System" by F. G
Walcott, who, for long time, was en-
! On god in haha1f NJ Ap,arto, a., A..t.