The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-10

ick the Great, Prusslas law has been
 the law of the jungle, her doctrine
 Might is Right" and her policy, in
 dealing with other nations, one of rob
 ping the weak and terrorizing the
 strong. Germany has grabbed terri
 tory and exacted tribute from her
 neighbors, and finally, her greed be-
 coming greater, has looked out over
 more distant lands, and has commit
 ted herself to policy of world domi-
 nation which menaces the continued
 free existence of every nation which
 will not submit to her will.
 Germany's policy is not an acciden-
 tai one. It has been carried out with
 remarkable singleness of purpose
 from generation to generation of
 Hohenzollern rule, from the time
 of the Great Frederick until to-
 day. Germanys atrocities are not
 accidental. They are deliber-
 ate, well thought out part of this
 Hohenzollern policy, which was to
 break down the resistance of her op-
 ponents, not only by fighting and de-
 feating their armies but by killing,
 torturing and terrorizing the civil
 populations.
 The German rulers committed them-
 selves to the doctrine of the survival
 of the Attest. Through generations of
 teaching they made the German peo-
 pie believe that they, and they alone,
 were the fit.
 We have the words of the German rulers and German warriors and Ger.
 man leaders of thought for all of this. More than that we have the perform ance of German officers and German
 armies in conquered lands to prove it Let's start with Frederick the Great in presenting the evidence This monarch, who earned his sou briquet through despoiling his neigh bors, rather than through any real qualities of mind which he showed said, in letter to his minister, Rad ziwill:
 eff there is anything to be gained by it, we will be honest; if deception Is necessary, let us be cheats. One ] takes what one can, and one is wrong
 only when obliged to give back" This philosophy, applied to present conditions. means that Germany was right when she took Belgium, and will be wrong only If she is not able t(
 hold it.
 1 From Frederick the Great to Bis
 marck is a long jump in the matter | of time; but we find the Prussisn pol l icy unchanged. Speaking before tho | military committee of the Prussiar Chamber of Deputies in 1862 Bis | marck said:
 | Not by speeches and resolution, | of majorities are the great questions 1 of the time decided, but by iron anC | blood"
 Then, with blood and iron, Prussis went out and despolled Denmark o1 I territory in 1864, beat and robbed Aus tria in 1866. and finally. in 1870 brought France to her knees and took | her richest provinces.
 Here is what the present kaiser told
 his troops when, in 1900, they were | about to depart for China to put dowr | the boxer uprising:
 ''Use your weapons In such way | that for a thousand years no Chi nese shall dare to look upon German askance. Be as terrible as Attilla': Huns"
 Coming on down to the present wal we find a German minister accredited to neutral state far across the sea one which one would think should he free from the entanglements of world politics-writing home to his govern ment, fin a state paper, advising the sinking of two ships from this neutral nation, in such manner that no trace be left. Dead men, he believed tell no tales.
 It was Baron Luxburg. minister pleni' potentiary to Argentina, who wrote this amazing dispatch on May 13, I9fT ''I beg that the small steamers Gran and Guazo which are nearing Bordeaux be spared if possi- ble. or else sunk without a trace be- ing left"
 This telegram was intercepted in the United States and published. It sent thrill of horror around the world. Chancellor won Bethmann-Hollweg is true disciple of Frederick tho Great, Bismarck and his royal master. In public speech on January 31, 1917, he said:
 "When the most ruthless methods are calculated to lead us to victory, swift victory, they must be employed" So they were used. and are being used today. They include sinking of hundreds of neutral ships, the burning
 of cities, the deliberate devastating of the fair lands of France, the ravish- ing of women, the achievement of workmen and the murder of little chil- dren.
 Horrors such as these are told in de- tail In 'The Prussian System" by F. c. Walcott, who, for long time, was en- gagged in behalf of America in trying to get food to the Poles whom the Ger mans were deliberately starving by the hundreds of thousands so that they might not cumber the land which the
 Germans intended to occupy. Knowing all this, can the American people talk Of any peace by negotia-