Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-12-25

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be able, at least in this generation, to get
out OF the narrow, intense, exclusive
tribal feeling into the larger feeling OF
world kinship or brotherhood, which
France and England and the United
States have eyempIified over and over;
such a feeling, for instance, as would
have enabled her to appreciate the course
OF this country in regard to Cube after
we had released her from the Spanish
yoke, or of Great Britain in the freedom
she grants to her colonies. You cannot
put soul into a soulless people. What
is born in the bone cannot be got out of
the flesh, and the tribal psychology is
certainly in the bone of Germany.
The only safe way for the guardians OF
civilization 10, now that we have the iron
heel on the NECK of the brute, to keep it
there. Keep it there for generation at
least, and see what time will do. The
tremendous and growing spirit of human
itarianism of our time, like a genial
climate, ought to make itself felt at last.
II we think the brute abdicated with
the kaiser, we deceive ourselves. He is
still there in every one OF those unre-
pentent junkers and pan-Germans who
nodded the kaiser to their will and
brought on the war. The whole German
army was thoroughly brutalized. The
atrocities and cruelties they committed
admit of no other Interpretation. And
not man of them has changed. The
leopard cannot change his spots. A less
chiyalrous, less decent, less honorable
race never appeared in history. Who
else but a German would mock and
insult a defeated enemy? Who else but
German would erect ironical signs on
the site of a church or a villa which their
guns had demolished, as they did in
Belgium and France? Who but German
would desecrate cemeteries, or make
swine OF themselves in private dwellings,
or wantonly destroy works OF art, or
lombard century-old cathedrais? All
such things are in keeping with their
rabid tribal spirit.
One may say; show non Germanic are
the British and the Americans" Think
of London fairly outdoing New York and
Washington in celebrating the Fourth of
July the past seasons day COMMUNICATING
the loss to England of great colonial
empire-or of Great Britain's armies
marching to bate singing the boches
'Song OF Hate" or OF sppropriating the
term "old ContemptibIestn That Great
Britain should frankly publish her losses
of men in battle, and the number OF her
ships sunk, filed the Teutonic leaders
with astonishment. Such thinge are
long way from the spirit of the tribe.
What attitude this country should as
sumo toward Germany and the Germans
is serious problem. The German people
have for years abused the privileges and
the hospitality which we and other
nations have extended to them by their
secret and ceaseless efforts to prepare
the way for world dominion. Their
propaganda has been tireless and thor
ongh. Its ramifcations, like a system OF
hidden telegraph or telephone wires, ex-
tended everywhere, plotting the German
ization of the world. Their business and
economic hold upon this country had
reached the danger point when we were
drawn into the war.
Shall we allow them to resume their
subtle and INSCRIPTIONS conquest? As
we have already taken over most OF their
property in this country, shall we not de-
bar them from any future economic hold
upon us2 Shall we not prohibit the in
vestment of any German capital in this
country, and the residence here of any
individual Huns, unless they become citi-
zens of the United States? Let us pro-
tect ourselves against the contagion ofthe
German spirit as we would against the
plague.