The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-11
Declares Prussians Are the
Lords Par Excellence
in Germany
OTHER NATIONS
HAVE NO RIGHT
Great Emperor viii End
Injustices and Extir-
pate the Weeds.


the German people into \ fanatic
unit under the rule of the war-mad
Prussians was never better expressed
than in the letter Of a German school
girl, which has been reprinted widely
in Europe. This truly remarkable
evidence Of Hun desire for world
domination has been given to thou
sands of American soldiers, so that
they may see just what sort Of foe
they are fighting.
In letter to his parents Lieut..
Arthur r. Knott, Princeton IT,
sends home a copy.
The letter was turned over to the
war records committee OF Princeton
University and published in the
Princeton Alumni Weekly.
The letter and introduction as pub
ltshed by the Princeton paper fol-
lows:
Well To Remember This.
1.-THE following letter written by a
PrUssian schoolgirl to a friend In
Switzerland, is published for the in
formation Of those inclined to think
that Germany was forced into this
war. The girls father is a public
| official, and she, although young, is
elders.
1T is we'll to keep all evidence like
this Of Germany's guilt in mind at
all times in order that our sympa-
| thtes may not be wasted on the
criminal, baked at his crimes and
now yelling for mercy.
Frankfort on Oder,
"20th July, 1915.
my Dear Louise:-The contents Of
your last letter would have hurt me
had I not known that your thoughts
| of our glorious war resulted from
sheer ignorance.
You are in a country rendered
effeminate by the influence of old
fashioned ideas Of liberty, country
which is at least two centuries be-
hind ours. You are in need OF a. good
| dose of Prussian culture.
ut is evident that you, q Swiss
girl, with your French sympathies,
cannot understand how my heart, the
heart Of young German girl, pas
sionately desired this war. Speak
ing Of it some years ago my father
said to us: Children, Germany is
getting too, small for us; we shall
have to go to France again in order
to find more room Is 1t our fault If
France will not understand that moro
Really "OnIy One Race.
Z And you. reproach U.S. that our
soldiers have been very cruel to the
| Belgian fabble, and you speak also
Of the destruction of Rheims and of
the burning of villages and towns.
Well, that is war. AS in every other
undertaking, we are past masters Of
war 81
"You have great deal to learn
before you can come UP to our stand
ards, and can assure you that what
has been done so far is a mere baga.-
telle compared with what will follow.
"As matter of fact there is but
one race worthy Of ruling the world.
and which has already attained the
highest degree OF civilization. That
race is ours, the Prussians; for al
though we Germans in general are
lords Of the worlds, the Prussians are
undoubtedly the lords par excellence
among the Germans. 1885,
"All other nations, and among
them, unfortunately, the. Swiss, ara
degenerate and OF inferior worth.
That is why have always been so
proud OF being a true PrusSian.
Yesterday, again, our pastor eX-
planned to us convincingiy that our
first parents, Adam and Eve, were
also Prussians That Is quite easy
to understand, because the Bible
tells us that the German God created
us all after his own image. If then
all men are descended from Adam
and his wife, it follows that only
Prussians, or at least Germans.
ought to exist In the world, and that
all who push on and prosper ought
to belong to us. You must admit
a. SYrIa~
our motto is, God with us, Ger.
many above everything
"Wo Are The Divine Fruit" II
''You know now why we wished
this war. Is it not shameful that
other nations, who have no right to
existence on the earth, wish to d.
ninish our heritage! We are the
divine fruit and the others are only
weeds. That is why our great en-
peror has decided to put an end to
all these injustices and to extirpate
the weeds. Do you understand that
now? remain, your school friend
KATIE HAMEI4,
Daughter Of the State Councillor
or Architecture
Referring to the letter, Lieutenant
Knott writes:
This shows very completely just
how the Kaiser gets so mucn support
from his poor idiot people. His whole
system OF education is just for the
purpose OF teaching them his own
ideals that he and they are 1t, and
for his own nefarious deeds.
'Tt may take us i've years, 1t may
be only six months, but from what
we have learned over here that ma
tIon must be soundly walloped that
it will never cause any more trouble.
"Once the United States gets
started and I wish to heaven we
were all ready when the Lusitania
went down Just you watch for a
little movement toward Berlin! I
believe we will make every one sit
up and take notice.
1T is sure encouraging to see how
every one Is behind us back home.
The Liberty Loan oversubscribed,
everything organizing for long serv-
foe. food controlled, etc, should re-
mind Kaiser Bill that we mean bust
ness"