The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-11-08
The Passing of the Superman


For fory-four years great nation of people abored
as one man to certain ends, while the energies OF
the rest of the world directed into the various indus
tries and pursuits essential to the wealth and happiness
Of mankind.
During all those years since 1870 the German Empire
and the German people have looked forward to the day
when German fleets should rule the seas OF the whole
world German rulers dominate every other nation
or earth The word of the German Kaiser was to be
the law of all peoples.
They went about the task of conquering the world
quietly and systematically and of the strongest forces
was the propaganda which industriously spread that
the Germans were "supermen"
Everywhere the story told and was repeated and
enlarged upon that German efficiency and proficiency
was the greatest the world The tale told that
the Germans sort Of superior in fact they
were "supermen"
And like any other lie that is repeated often enough
great many people finally to accept it as the truth
as old Horace Greey say by the damnable power
of reiteraton lie is believed the truth"
: In every nation on earth the German spies were
planted and paid and the German "superman myth
was made to seem a reality.
Thousands of good patriotic Americans believed it,
and even few still believe it, but the events of the
past four years. particularly the events of the
past six months have done much to the scales
from the eyes of those blinded.
In hardly anything has Germany ever excelled, in
music and art and invention, they have only been follow
ers not leaders They have been industrious podders
INT thew have shown none of the brilance which has
marked the talent other nations, and the stories that
they have, fakes.
When the started it was heralded that tney
the greatest warriors the greatest military genuses
in the world and that they absolutely invnclble
The "A wears of preparation had indeed given them the
upper hand of the other nations who were unprepared
for war but the little kingdom of Belgium kept them
at bay long enough for France and England to gather
enough forces to keep them out of Paris.
In the following three years those democracles kept
the Germans bay and saved the worlds freedom while
the rulers of Germany became autocrac to force
America into the
In less than two years the American people, with
democratic government, have raised an army and all
that goes with it, almost equal in size and certainly sup
eror in spirit the much vaunted Prussian machine
We never believed any of the "superman stuff, and
while the Huns crushing the people of Belgium and
France heapng outrages and insults upon the whole
civilized world we knew that they were yellow at
heart and that when the day of retribuon came, as
come it must they would crnge before the judgment
and try to evade responsibility, which alone is theirs
Whenever the war shall end, and whatever may be
the terms of German surrender, sincerely hope that
not only shall the power eyer again to disturb the
of the world be taken from them but that they be
fully exposed and stripped of all the supeman glamour
in which they have basked before the world.