The Cordova daily times., 1919-03-12
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1919
MENTAL POISON GAS.

"slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" The terms of the armistice and the stern prospects of peace of restitution and reparation burn into their very souls like thermit shells.
 Chancellor Ebert, at Weimar, warns the allies that they must not push the Germans too far and Professor Hans Delbrueck declares that Germany will fight a peace that makes the people the "wage-slaves of their enemies for decades"
 Professor .Delbrueck is one of the last Teutons who should raise his voice in protest. He is of that profes the Hohenzollern ring to conquer the world and impose on it Teutonic "kultur." The pedants of Germany falsified history to produce among the people a state of mind that would lead on to war and conquest. They taught the superior race" doctrine which drove the Germans mad with pride. They leagued science with militarism to provide the new instru- ments of destruction and 'frightful- ness" which should gain the victory in a few months. And after war had been declared Dr. Delbrueck and most of the leading educators and theolog- iS, eli oio mento upholding every argument to the Berlin government to prove that the conflict was defective. F
 These are the men who inoculated the German race with poisonous theories which, in the first place, con- vinced them that they had a God given mission to rule the other races of the world because all of them had degenerated and were unfit either to govern or to disseminate culture and which, in the second place, hardened the Germans against the moral ap- peals of humanity and made it pos sible for them to wage WET with a pitilessness and brutality unequaled in modern times ~
 Let us take the case of Professor Delbrueck himself. Is not this the same Professor Delbrueck who said of Bismarck:
 Blessed be the hand that falsified the Ems dispatch?"
 The Ems dispatch, in it's falsified form, drove the French into frenzy which produced the France-Prussian war. The sequel of that conflict was the cession of Alsace-Lorraine to Ger many
 Here we have a German professor who, for many years, has been calling down the blessings of heaven upon German hypocrisy and falsehood and who boasted that Alsace-Lorraine was won with lie. Listen now to his polemic against the French, uttered as if he were knight of Arthur's round table and were about to set out in search of the Holy Grail. He says:
 "Another example: France plainly indicates that it intends to take away the German territory of Saarbrucken, with it's coal fields. Saarbrucken has more than half million purely Ger man inhabitants This territory was ceded to France through the first Paris peace of 1874, but only a year later was given back to Germany Tn the second Paris peace. The 1nhabi- tants had undoubtedly in repeated ap- peals and petitions, especially In g great memorial, prayed for liberation from the French yoke and reunion with the German fatherland,' and had solemnly vowed to do everything they could to serve this end. This land belonged to Germany for a thousand years. excepting the very brief tenn porary periods of French domination.
 "The problem of nationality is much clearer and more certain here than ir Alsace-L Lorraine. Even if the German portions of Alsace- Lorraine are given to France, 1t can safely, be prophe