The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1918-04-25
Spirit of Militarism and Conquest
Is as Old as Germany
Itself.
SEEK CONTROL OF WORLD
Failure Due to Fact That II Did Not
include a Reckoning With HUI
man Nature as God
Made II.
10y HAPseURe LIEBE Of the Wig.
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tIanteB.)
The average man of those who
have kept up with current events dur
Ing the last few years will tell you
that Germany's colossal plan Is 40
years old. AS q matter of fact, the
seeds Of II were sown more than
dozen times 40 years ago. The spirit
of mllltarlsm and conquest and might
fs-right Is as old as the Teutonic war
party, which Is as old as Germany It.
self. The majority of the other ma
tions saw plenty of signs of the mon
ster, for the war lords were brag-
CARTS, and they could not refrain from
boosting of their scheme. The won
der of all is that these other nations,
the United States included, have not
been taking preparatory and defensive
measures for several decades.
The ultimate aim of the plan was,
Of course, the complete control and
kulturlzation of the world. It was
born of brains rendered british
through the over and over intermarry-
ing of an autocracy that was barba-
rian to begin with. A little like
moon-calf, 1t was at the outset, but Its
morally befuddled parents fostered 1t
until they actually believed 1t pos
sessed rare virtues; and they lnocu-
lated the people with its germs until
the people themselves fell for 1t.
Human Nature Left Out.
SO far this plan has failed, however
narrowly, for the simple reason that
It did not include reckoning with
the human nature that God made The
soldiermen Of other nations are ir the
long run stronger than the cast-ln-the-
mold iron soldiers Of Germany. 1t Is
the thorough organization Of the Ger
man armies that has been the chief
difficulty Of the entente allies. Per-
haps the greatest strength of the plan
itself, however, lay in the very stu
pendousness of 1t. Few would be-
lieve that any one nation would dare
attempt to enslave the rest of the
world. Half the rest Of the world does
not realize 1t yet. 1t Is too big for
their imaginatlons. Their magma
lions are, naturally, peace-time.
This Is the main trouble with lis
here in America. SO many Of us will
not see what we are facing or what
we are fighting for. If we did see, the
success of the Liberty Loan and the
Red Cross drives, the food-saving and
the fuel-saving campaigns, would be
much greater. It's of no use now to
harp that our administration leaders
should have seen the signs Of the times
several years ago; It kills no German
to blame our representatives at Wash
ington for having been in the past.
not statesmen, but politicians serving
their own instead of their country's in
terests during those fat, sleepy years
before Germany pried open the gates
OF He'll and loosel Its leglons upon
earth. The one thing to do now is to
make stepping-stones Of mistakes and
work for Liberty!
The Pregnant Truth.
There is great deal of truth which
we must not let go by us. You are apt
to push out your chest, know, and
say: "Impossible" Let me remind
you of the fact that the last three
years have been crowded with achieve
ments Of the impossible! Here Is that
pregnant truth: II we let Germany
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