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Show KEEP THE BEAST ACROSS THE SEA Prussian in War Has Neither Honor Nor Decency Nor Humanity. INSIST GOD IS WITH THEM Past History of Germany Shows Only Barbaric Tendencies and an Inherent Inher-ent Desire to Rule the World. By JOHN REED SCOTT. (From the Committee on Public Information, Infor-mation, Washington, D. C.) The American always makes the mistake of judging every other nation l)y the American standard. We do not allow for racial nor national traits anl customs. Because an American wouldn't do something we fancy that no other nation would do it. It's against our conscience or against our laws or we just don't do it. Therefore, There-fore, we assume that it must he ugainst the other nation's law or conscience con-science or it just won't do it. And we have this peculiar idea, not by. reason of any self-conceit or fancied fan-cied national superiority, but because of our proneness to play square ; to , grant that the other nation is of the same mentality as ourselves nnd as ready and anxious as we to do the right thing. What we, as a nation, aim at in our dealing with other nations is the ultimate ulti-mate right in a concrete form. And we are slow to realize and quick to forget, when realized that other nations na-tions either may not have the same -yiollcy (may even be robbers and brutes by natural instinct), may not have the national altruistic idea that 1ry to live by the Golden Rule, and, as a nation, be satisfied with what It lias. As n result', (he American people, in the hundred and some few years of their national existence, have had a -few fairly severe jolts. Now we are inthe midst of the German affair; nnd n amazing number of our people refuse to realize what it means to us or to appreciate the menace to our national existence. America, they know, wants no territory, terri-tory, no conquests ; therefore, they ask why should Germany, if it win, want them? Why should America send troops to Europe to fight Europe's battles? bat-tles? Germany is in no danger from us, so why should we be in danger from Germany? We shall not do anything any-thing to Germany, even after we are victorious over her, so why should Germany, Ger-many, if she is victorious, do anything to us? Let Europe settle her own battles, bat-tles, they say; we, of another continent, con-tinent, are not concerned. If we let Germany alone, Germany will let us alone. William Ilolienzollern, Von HInden-burg, HInden-burg, Von Ludendorff, Von Maekinsen as disciples of him of Gelhsemane and Calvary ! One must go hack to the darkest period of the dark ages to find similar effrontery to Alaric and the rest who claimed, as William of Prussia claims in all his published felicitations to his armies, that they were doing the will of the Almighty, that they were marching march-ing "onward with Onrt." It must be a peculiar mentality that, in this day and generation, could have the arrogance to advance such a claim and a queer, a very queer, people peo-ple that has the mentality and docility to accept such rot and actually believe be-lieve it. We Americans freely admit that we cannot follow the mental processes that would evolve such a claim or would use such methods in war; and yet there are those of us who persist in judging what (he Prussians will do to us, If they win this war, by what we will do to them If we win it. Which n-wssarily must mean that as soon as (lie Prussian has won he will experience experi-ence a change of heart, abandon his savage methods, and be converted to our terms of peace that victorious he will forego the Prussian fruits of victory vic-tory ; will cease to march "onward with his God;" will put his God aside and be converted to the God of civilization, civil-ization, the God of the Golden Rule and the sermon on the Mount, the follower fol-lower of the meek and lowly Jesus, him of the manger, of Gethsemane, of Calvary. And these Americans have so much (?) on which to base their trust, so much to justify their belief that America has nothing to fear from Germany, Ger-many, because Germany has nothing to fear from her. Dates' Bak to Ancient Rulers. Go back to the Prussian national hero, Frederick the Great, "Old Fritz," as they fondly call him as contemptible a bully and sneak and blackguard and liar as ever lived. Would he have turned back from an avowed purpose to "make America pay the cost of this war" if be were victorious? Did he ever turn aside from any purpose if he could effect it in- force, bv chicanery, by lies., by bluff, by dishonor, by any crime? History His-tory at least Prussian history gives him the ytle of "Great," but in the civilized sense there is nothing great about him. except meanness of character charac-ter and of action. He was. when coin-pared coin-pared with his contemporaries, a successful suc-cessful warrior, but he, like the present pres-ent Hohenzollern, had for that time a marvelous army which was prepared to strike and struck. Magnanimity or any other of the attributes of greatness great-ness he had not at all, even the traditional tradi-tional kingly honor, which Is assumed to be the heritage of u throne, was utterly ut-terly ws-.nting to him; and his chief claim to live In history Is based on the fact that he robbed a woman; that without cause he made war on a helpless help-less queen, Maria Theresa, and despoiled de-spoiled her of a province, and cynically cyni-cally boasted to ail the world that he has caught her helpless and so stole what he desired. Moreover, he gloried in th infamy. Bismarck, who ruled while his stupid stu-pid sovereign reigned, deliberately forged altered as he put it a telegram tele-gram of that king, and so forced France into war and robbed her of billions of money and two provinces. And William the infamous was simply sim-ply running true to form and trying to outdo the shameful examples of his predecessors, when, absolutely ready, be forced the present war. Have we forgot that the toast for years at every Prussian officers' mess, drunk standing stand-ing and with cheersT was: '"To the day." meaning the day that Prussia would rule the world and the other nations were but her vassals. Admit They Have No Honor. One may well ask these tnisjlnsr Americans how they.c.'yi lull themselves them-selves into the fatuous security of trusting Prussia's intentions and honor, when Prussia herself says frankly she has no honor, no Intentions Inten-tions but the exigency of the moment and the purpose of her government, that solemn treaties made have no binding effect on her, are made only for the moment, are but a blind, under cover of which she can mobilize her forces a ruse do guerre and to be scrapped when the moment is ripe for action. Would America, think you, be such a dastard? Tet your trusting American still persists in his foolish notion that Prussia, In Its dealing with America, will he actuated by American ideals--tbat Prussia thinks as a Prussian In Kurope but as an American In America. Amer-ica. Gold help us if the actual testing of Ibis supremo folly ever be brought to ' these shores. Some years ago. nn his first visit to this country, a Prussian of high, very high, military rank sailed up New York harbor In a dense fog. Suddenly Sud-denly the fog lifted nnd the towering buildings of the mighty city burst upon him. For n moment he was speechless and when he spoke it wns softly, with the covetness of antl'-lpa-tlon : "God," he said, "what a city to loot !" Loot! Tt was the true Prussian, running true to type. Loot was his first thought on beholding for the first time the metropolis of the western hemisphere and loot will be the Prussian's only (bought If ever they land an army on these shor-;. Ts there no need, think you, for us to keep the Prussian in IOuropc? Loot ! Think you a mere crossing of tin' Atlantic would change I he ru- li.l itHNtv :f (his h'deons beast? " h.d. v. hill a cil v I" liol ." Estimating on American Basis. Tt is quite likely that some Americans Ameri-cans who now have such ideas will" have changed those ideas by the time "this article appears; but it is certain that others will still be deluding themselves by persisting In the old American habit of estimating others . even an enemy on the American basis. And with some enemies even some savages the estimate would not be far amiss, because they are not wholly lost to honor nnd decency and humanity. hu-manity. But the Prussian is not of (hem; in war he has neither honor nor decency nor humanity, as such qualities are understood by civilized nations. In war particularly the present war the Prussians have put aside? even the temporary veneer that they had assumed to conceal from the rest of the world a decent and liutnan world, it is the true nature of the Prussian brutes; and, because 1hey had thought to win the world war and to establish right on the basis of might, they have dared to stand forth in the buff. The bully of Europe, Eu-rope, having prepared himself with, as he thought, an Invincible thoroughness, thorough-ness, proceeded to carry out bis long-nursed long-nursed intentions and, by brute force and atrocity, Impose his Imperial will on an amazed and helpless world and dragoon It to his kultur a Prussian kttltur, God saveis! I say Prussian because, as everyone knows, the central powers, as they ;ire today, are dominated absolutely Iiy and humbly subservient to Prussia. Prus-sia. And in that process of conquest and enslavement tl Prussians have, for more than three years, Inflicted on the lielpless nations and peoples whom 1bey overran such cruelties, such unspeakable un-speakable atrocities, as history has never recorded. All the famous, or infamous, conquerors of the past are insignificant In comparison with the avage Prussian brute the brute who has (he cold effrontery to bid bis sol-lior sol-lior march "onward with God" along Ii's bloody way. Assert God Is With Them. Contemplate for n moment n nation' which insists that God is with it In lis fiendish work, nnd then reflect how far back Into the dimness of (be pfst one must go to find a nation which had tins effrontery to claim that It was simply God's chosen instrument; instru-ment; to work his will! Contemplate the gentle one of Bethlehem whom the Prussian professes to revere a'l Cod wading In (he blood of mankind man-kind ! 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