The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-07-13
2russian in War Has Neither
honor Nor Decency Nor
Humanity.
INSIST GOD IS WITH Them
Past History Of Germany Shows Only
Rarbaric Tendencies and an inner.
ent Desire to Rule the
World.
ey JOHN REED SCOTT.
rFrom the Committee on Public infos-
nation, Washington, .. C.)

nation, Washington, o. CO.
The American always makes the
mistake of Judging every other nation
BY the American standard We 90
not allow for racial nor national traits
anil customs. Because an American
wouldn't do something we fancy that
no other nation would do IT. It's
against our conscience or against our
laws-or we just don't do It There
fore. we assume that 1t must be
acainst the other nations law or con-
science-or 1t Just won't do It
And we have this peculiar idea, not
nv reason Of any self-cOnceit or fan
cied national superiority, but because
of our proneness to play square; 10
grant that the other nation is OF the
same mentality as ourselves and as
ready and anxious as we to do the
right thing
What we, as nation, aim at In our
dealing with other nations fs the ulu-
mate right in q concrete form And
we are slow TO realiZe-and quick TO
forget, when realized-that other no
lions either may not have the same
pOIicv (may even be robbers ana
brutes by natural instinct), may not
have the national altrustic idea-that
trv to live by the Golden Rule, and.
as a nation, be satisfied with what II
has.
AS q result, the American people N
the hundred and some few years OF
their national existence, have had q
few fairly severe tofts- Now We arr
in the midst Of the German afrair
and an amazing number Of our people
refuse to realize what II means to III
or to appreciate the menace to onl
national existence
America. they know, wants no terri
tory, no conQuests; therefore, they asl
why should Germany, II 1t win, wan
them? Why should America sem
troops to Europe to fight Europe's bat
ties? Germany Is In no danger iron
us. so why should we be in DANCE
: from Germany We shall not do any
thing to Germany, even after we ar
victorious over her, so why should Gel
many, If she is victorious, do anythin
to us? Let Europe settle her own oa'
ties. they say: we. Of another COZ
tinent. are not concerned. If we le
Germany alone. Germany will let u
= alone.
Estimating on American Basis
4 II Is quite likely that some Amer
ems who now have such Ideas WI
have changed those ideas by the tin
this article appears; but tt Is certal
= that others will still be deludir
themselves by persisting in the o.
u American habit Of estimating others
even an enemy-on the America
basis.
And with some enemieS-even son
savage+the estimate would not
far amiss, because they are not Who'll
lost to honor and decency and n
manity. But the Prussian Is not
them: In war he has neither hon
nor decency nor humanity, as su
qualities are understood by cvlllz
nations. In war-partfculariy I
present war-the Prussians have
aside even the temporary veneer tn
they had assumed to conceal from t
rest Of the world-a decent a
y human world. 1t is-the true natu
Of the Prussian brutes; and. becau
they had thought to win the world "
i'd and to establish right on the ba
er of might, they have dared to sta
forth in the buff. The bully Of
es rope, having prepared himself WI
ut as he thought. an invincible thorou'
ness, proceeded to carry out his lol
nursed intentions and, by brute To-
and atrocity, impose his imperial
l." on an amazed and helpless world q
he dragon 1t to his kultur-e Pruss
lit. kultur, God save US!
I say Prussian because, as eVery'
he knows, the central powers, as Il
al are today, are dominated absoiut
by and humbly subservient to Fl
STA.
And in that process OF conquest
do enslavement the Prussians have,
more than three years, inflicted on
helpless nations and peoples WI
Do they overran such cruelties. such
y. speakable atrocities, as history
cd never recorded. All the famous,
on- Infamous, conQuerors Of the past
Ase Insignificant in comparison with
ess savage Prussian brute-the brute
20 has the cold efrrontery to bid his
ing fliers march coward with Cod al
IN his bloody way.
.. Assert God 10 With Then.
II Contemplate for a moment a ma
ire which insists that God is with II
ere its fiendish work, and then ref
ere how far back into the dimness OF
sas past one must 60 to find a ma
,ot. which had the eftrontery to claim
I n It was simply Gods chosen ms
tho uent to work his will! Contemp
rhe the gentle one of Bethlehem-wl
fri the Prussian processes to revere
sod God-wat!ng In the blood OF n
no Kind, Contemplate Christ in T
10, sian helmet, with Prussian sV
and Prussian manners! Contemp