Bingham Bulletin | 1918-01-04 | Page 5 | Would Life be Tolerable if the Power of Prussianism Held World by Throat?

: Would Life Be Tolerable if the Power of Prussianisrn Held World by Throat? I -. -'" By Otto H. Ktha, B.nkej tad PUanlKropul ---. r I It is the purpose of a common determination to fight and to bear find to dare everything and never to cease nor rest until the accursed I thing which has brought upon the world the unutterable calamity, the ( devil's visitation of this appalling, war, is destroyed beyond all possibility of resurrection. j That accursed thing is not a nation, but an evil spirit, a spirit which has made the government possessed by it and executing its abhorrent and bloody bidding, an abomination in the sight of God and men. ' Speaking as one born of German parents, I do not hesitate to state it as my deep conviction that the greatest service which men of German Lirth or antecedents can render to the country of their origin is to proclaim pro-claim and to stand up for the great and fine ideals and national qualities and traditions which they inherited from their ancestors, and to set their faces like flint against the monstrous doctrines and acts of a rulership which have robbed them of the Germany which they loved and in which x.t they took just pride, the Germany which had the good will, respect and w admiration of the entire world. . . . ; I measure my words. They are borne out all too emphatically by i the hideous eloquence of deeds which have appalled the conscience of V the civilized world. They are borne out by numberless expressions, writ ten and spoken, of German professors employed by the state to teach . its youth. v.- The burden of that teaching is that might makes right, and that the German nation has been chosen to exercise morally, mentally and t , actually, the overlordship of the world and must and will accomplish that task and that destiny whatever the cost in bloodshed, misery and ruin. Would life be tolerable if the power of Prussianisrn, run mad and f murderous held the world by the throat, if the primacy of the earth "I belonged to a government .steeped in the doctrines of . a barbarous past ; ' and supported by a ruling caste which preaches the deification of sheer might, which despises liberty, hates democracy and would destroy both if it could? ' ' : It is not for glory or for riches or for honor that we fight, but for liberty alone, which no good man loses but with his life.