The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-22
WHAT GERMANY HAS DONE

During the present war Germany
has accomplished many things; some
of these she expected to accomplish
and some she did not.
She over-ran Belgium and invaded
France, Poland, Serbia, great part
of Roumania, and Montenegro. All
these are feeling the iron rule of her
militarism.
These victories" she certainly ex-
pected to accomplish, and many more
that have not yet fallen to her arms.
Germany has done far more thar
this. These are but insignificant in
stances, most of which will be recti-
fed in the day of reckoning fast ap-
preaching. In aggressively starting
a world war, she consolidated the SEN
timent of the British people through
out the globe. Every nation in the
British commonwealth sprang to arms
India stood by her protective sovereign
power and volunteered men and mon
ey. Ireland united on the instant and
the men of Dublin and Belfast were
alike loyal in the support given to de-
mocracy.
Italy broke away from the central
powers and threw in her lot with
Western Europe.
Roumania Joined the Allied cause
and Greece called for the retirement
of her king.
The two greatest accomplishments
were recorded last year, when the
Russian autocracy was overthrown,
and the United States of Amrica en-
tered the war against Germany.
1t has been a wonderful and very
remarkable development, this spirit
of democracy against autocracy, for
there undoubtedly has existed in ev-
cry country, on both sides, engaged
in the war, those who have been
friendly towards autocratic and eXclu-
sive power, but no nation has exer-
cised that power so Systematically as
Prussia has done. Ever since 1908
when Prussia became kingdom, her
kings have reached out for military
power and imposed upon the people
that superstition of the divine right
of their rule. 1t is curious to notice
how this fetish has held the Prussians
and, through them, the whole of the
German people in bondage. A fetish
that the Stuart kings tried to impose
on the English people, and whose
king, Charles the First, was made to
suffer the death penalty for trying to
impose such a doctrine on people
whose desire was towards freedom,
and whose compatriots, rather than
submit to such an abominable creed,
sailed away in the "Mayfower", and
founded New England, which after
wards, when another English king,
of German origin, endeavored to force
his will on them, rebelled and formed
a new nation with new flag and a
new constitution which holds that men
are born to enjoy equal rights in the
pursuit of happiness.
Germany little dreamed that this
war would accomplish the unity of the
whole of the English-speaking peo-
pies of the world. That the whole of
the continents, both North and South
America-with the doubtful exception
of Mexico-would be lined up against
her, and that her great autocratic
neighbor, Russia, would be liberated
from autocratic rule and military
sway, yet, so far, these are some of
the remarkable accomplishments that
have come to pass, opening a new
world of possibilities, while in The CEN
trail powers themselves, there is to be
noticed distinct weakening in the au-
tocratic hold on the people. Austria
and Hungary are open to the recep-
ton of more democratic rule. The
power of Turkey has gone. Bulgaria,
drawn to the side of Germany by her
king, will be far more democratic af-
ter the war, while in Germany itself
revolutionary spirit is feared far more
than even the entrenched armies on
the western front
Germany, setting out to consolidate
the Prussan ideal of militarism and
divine right Of kingship on the whole |
world, has opened the eyes of the peo-
pie of all nations to the true concepts |
of her reign of force, and finds her.
self met by the divine wrath Of the !
nations, which is very real and very
terrible, in which the myth of the di-
vine right of the individual to lord it !
over humanity will be withered with |
the contempt it deserves, and finally |
the German people themselves will
see how they have been enslaved and |
fooled, since the great victories cul-
minating in 1870 over France, and
will avenge the deceit and imposture |
to which thew have been victims