The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1918

the day." meaning thf day that Prus-
 sia would rule the world and the oth- i CT nations were but her vassals. | And what Prussian conduct in this ] war would give an American any
 ground whatever for even the remotest | belief that this country would be l treated by Germany. were it to win | this war, as other than a conquered province. Certainly nothing in Prus- ! sia's treatment of the countries it has
 overrun--nor even her treatment of | neutral nations in proximity to her.
 CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH Necessity knows no law" said the ! imperial German chancellor, in his now famous addaess in the Reichstag on the day hostilities began 'our troops have occupied Buxemburg and perhaps are already on Belgium soil. | Gentlemen that is contrary to the dictates of international law. | We were compelled to override the just protest of Luxemburg and the Belgium governments" So the treaty, by which Germany, as one of the high contracting parties, solemnly guaran- 1 teed the inviolability of Belgium soil and solemnly engaged to defend Bel gium from invasion, was, by Germany, styled mere "scrap of paper" to be destroyed at it's pleasure-which pleas
 ure was then come.
 One may well ask these trusting Americans how they can Hull them selves into the fatuous security ot trusting Prussia's intentions and honor. when Prussia herself says frankly she has no honor no inten- tions but the exigency of the moment and the purpose of her government, that solemn treaties made have no binding effect on her. are made only for the moment, are but blind, under cover of which she can mobilize her force--a ruse de guerre-and to be scrapped when the moment is ripe fo1 faction.
 Would America, think you, be such a dastard?
 Yet your trusting American still persists in his foolish notion that Prussia, in it's dealing with America, will be actuated by American ideals l that Prussia thinsl1 as a Prussian in Europe but as an American in Amer ica
 God help us if the actual testing ol
 this supreme folly ever be brought td | these shores.
 DURING BOXER REBELLION William the Infamous, some years since when he was dispatching his Prus- sian contingent to join the march to Pekin in the Boxer rebellion, in gran | diloquent addess, called himself "Attlla and his soldiers Huns" and eXhorted l the latter to more than emulate the 1 soldiers of the "Scourge of God" | bidding them terrorize China and slay l her people, innocent as well as guilty. | It was the doctrine of force and blood I laid down by the almightiest-the Prus- | sian god, to the Hohenzollerns, is simply | the Almighty
 l And the world, except Prussia, smiled at what it took to be mere bombastic | effervescence of a montebank in uni- I form, shrugged it's shoulders and forgot | the effervescence. The world did not | then appreciate and possibly does not | now appreciate that William had the l solid facts of history behind him ill 1 thus vocing the true nature of the l Prussians, the racial nature For the Prussians are not Teutons-they are I orientals; and as oriental in nature and | concepts as the veriest Turk.
 | The Borussian, or PrusSan, is one | of the three branches of the LithuanianS l and of the Indo-European origin Ptole- l my mentions two clans, the Galiniae l and Student, who probably belonged to l the western division of this racial group, | the Borussians, or Prussians
 l The Prussian was hatched from cannon ball." Napoleon said. Her bus | mess is war-the oriental war with it's I lying, it's treachery, it's cruelty it's mas sacre of prisoners, it's disregard of truces, it's contempt for treaties. The fact that Prussia, as time went on, as- sociated with increasing intimacy With European nations, has not altered in the very slightest their mode of thought or their actual nature. Such western habits and manners as they adopted ware adopted for perfectly good reasons, either of state or comfort. But under and through and over all was the ori-
 ental method and mode of thought; that
 the end justified any and every means
 subject only to the expediency of the moment.
 Attila, Tamerlane, the other oriental
 warriors waded in blood and cruelty
 just as have their successors, the Plus-
 sians; but Attla ct a1 had some regard for the peoples they conquered-they
 did not methodicaly try to exterminate
 them; they respected their customs and religion and encouraged them to con-
 tinue their habits of life.
 POLICY TOWARD CONQUERED It has remained for the Prussian