Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-07
CERMANY'S BApBAR0US POLICY
/ BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF
/ MOST VICIOUS PHILOSOPHY
For Centuries the Worst that Emanated from
the Fertile Minds of Men Of Evil Genius
Have Been Adopted for Base OF
1 the German Propaganda
Bv John LEISK TAFT.
why should We subscribe TO a mind

the world war at all?
Do the people Of Germany, and thos
OF the Teuionic alliance generally
sympathize with the aims and pur
poses OF the German government o
are they simply bowling to conditions
they are unable to mend-yieidins un
willing assent TO war they would
81 not wage n they could have their way
what really caused the war When
may the world hope for It's ending!
An these and hundreds OF other kin
dred questions have been answered
and are daily being answered. In a
dozen different ways For the most
part. the answers are based upon 81.
perfcial and very partial aspects %
the matter. and are, necessarily. only
partly satisfactory and partly rue
II we would really understand -.
significance Of the world war W. mus
delve among certain musty manu-
scripts that lie Uouldering In the u
lraries OF the German universities. W.
must read what the masters Of the
Germanic PHILOSOPHY have written. W"
must learn what Ne Teujonic mini
has been taught-what II has been
thinking. in what II has been believ'
ing-cnd the reasons and the prin-
ciples upon which IL has based i's be
lie, We must get the mental sof'ir"
Of Germany past. f-r only in the lir-'
OF this shall We be- able 20 actually
comprei end The mental phenomena
thar underlia tho attitude and the ace
Of the Germany o. The present
rnrardles7 % any sympathy, or ia"i
OF sympathy thai ray exist bat"sH.
the German government and the Co.
mar people-vhctner the blame Cor
the war. and In particular for its ur
precedontod brutal.'ics. rests upon fha
Hohenzollsrn caste alone or upon tn
whole mass o. the people % Germany
lit Is 10 the philosophy OF Germany
that we must look Cor the real cause
OF this bloody iniQuity For. mediately
or Immediately. Germany has been
made the bloody instrument o. a fals7
philosophy philosophy that hloomrl
IN the blatant blasphemies of
Nietzsche and fruited upon the blood.
soaked fields OF France and Belgium
and servia and Roumania and Meso-
potamia and Russia.
This IL a philosophy that commends
c.boat outrages against undefended.
neutral merchantmen and passenger
slips upon the high seas: that gloats
over the mangled forms OF little chill.
dren slain In Zeppelin roads upon non.
combatants: that honor. the Judas
ambassadors who stir up sedition and
plot against the neutral nations 20
which they have been accredited-un.
less they commit the objectionable OF.
Tense OF failing 10 obliterate complete.
ly the evidences Of their duplicity
II would be interesting. II space per
mitted. TO go far back and trace the
development Of this fearful philosophy
and 20 identity the channels through
which II has been transmitted from
great antiquity For II had It's roots
many centuries ago and Is not a prod
uct. merely Of the present age. That
n found friendly environment among
the Teutonic peoples. and particularly
among their universities. many cen.
urles ago. no one who reads history
with an unbiased mind will attempt o
deny
But we must be content with u en-.
tioning only two or three philosoph srs
OF comparatively recent times. Tn .ss
are cited. not so much for whL; they
originated as becaise they gathered
6Ato definite and ;ransmissible form O
many OF these ieonoclastlc doctrines
which, maturing slowly beneath the
surface OF German thought, were des
tined 10 and their ultimate expression
In the writings OF Frederick Nietzscha
In.qui:y knows no fatherland Hence
Il need cause no lurprise that one NJ
the most potent factors in shaping IN
Ger1nanic philosophy was not Of Ger
man origin. In Niccolo Machiayelli
an Italian eourtier OF the Renaissance
appeared the unblushing champion o
tQGn DTdLtn lhAAArh' - eNeaN ''e w.
the most INSCRIPTIONS diplomats v
his day. Il required the mellowing In
iuence OF century or two. combined
with the vanishing impaired by inter
prefers more or less removed, 20 ~
far soften his pernicious teachings n
TO mike them acceptable 10 any but NJ
avowedly unprincipled people. le
Machiavelli's precepts, 30 softened. un
questionably went far toward prepar
ing German soil for the more yiril'
sowing OF Nie,zsche. They tended. a
least. 20 break down lingering scrupu
lousness and TO breed contempt fol
the moral law.
In Schopenhauer NietEsche found
his earliest master; and. although he
parted from him later on. II Is &c
schopenhauer. principally, that h.
owes his Characteristic doctrine Of the
WIN TO Power. In schopenhauer, Il II
true. this was merely the VIII TO Live
NietIsche carried that doctrine TO Il,
logical conelusion-if the Maehiavel
lian influence Ia properly taken int
consideration.
Ccka,auhausr nareatvaA that an.