Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 24, 1917, Page 6

‘ domlnateg,hy’Berlln Eajger fo ; today, she dares not ask tor' it. til et the .Kaiser hds gfven the word. g an Austrian army officer;who had :"&:"P" “"‘:;‘l’,i::m" llougln. through the Galician camp_tign acid_poison is- m-wt ,m' mmu' mm- “Our worst enemy.is not Russia but clel or. nerves. By experimen m the Prussian government. If the war at the" Imahd.g Hohl Sun is won by the Germans there will be no-Austria.” " To an even greater de- gree Bulgaria and Turkey have |;e~ come vassals. of ~the_: Hohenzollern state, taking their orders direct from Berlin. German troops in Constan- tinople and_German warships_in the harbor hold th &OV men'tl’h of the fingmhewz J;nme‘ of H en;tu‘ern Po! dr;%n Thls idea, gzé:dl}m&nt W over a small tract of country sur- phenome into Enp‘ roundingthe little town 'of- ‘Berlin (see’ ‘ernment’should today to;lh rive | map; Figure1.)" 'Syccessive rplers of ) don. that policy in tavor of another p iFrance | this ‘line ‘added ‘to ‘their’ holdings by | which it truthfully. admits would lead it for a space, then perman- |conquering neighboring lands, . . until to. the: downfall of. & painstakingly Jiontly--rejected-‘it:* ‘Russia“endured it | the scattered domains under Prussian | reared autocracy. ‘Both ‘the nature of | with ever increasing protest, and after | control stretched from the:banks of |'the Prussian ideal of government and | flong yurs of bitter struggle and {the Rhine eastward beyond:the Vi#- | the facts of Prussian history assure us |threatening.'.revolution has at last |tula. - In 1640, there came to ‘the | that Germany is wdsy. as she has trampled it under foot. But among.|throne one of the most’ famous ‘among | ever been ‘in.the past, struggling. for Teutonic peoples it has thriven amaz- |the early exponents of the''Prussian | world domination in order to prevent ‘ingly. - Its supreme development i |ideal of’ government, Frederick Wil- | the-downfallof the autocratic Hohan- bound:up with the history of Prussis; Ham, 'the .Great Elector, -He.ls des: lollorn rulo. mg reaches’ its most perfect m-nltek erbod as “eoa.ru by nature, heartless | i - tation in the modern state of Prussians |in - ponents, treacherous \ fn_diplomatic negotiations, and:entire- | ly devoid of-refinement.”—Fully real- : cErassny th be v Ger sid: ppet he —-Lolloming--pages-econtain-—~the-F unts bt the HAIVIAUEIS ToF (hE State. Mmpldfuvmulrr step 3 , 2| pav oo iU n?fi’ ‘bonvinice tance of an address delivered by:|Both Kai: d mplo unite prey:| sad extendingi the - X ( They N g | sl wir before-the~annuat-conven-| sentingl wfl:' i e wie § e mats, actary oF Th ‘“my“ pa oa the Iowa Bankers Am;emlon. cient examp) o of & pate AP ! Moines on June:14, 1917. A’ ., i i P g 1 q @ uuipihh pd by M . ; e e ; within a few miles of th livee and bowels have been IAVM' ¢ ” William II. " began™ thh»wlr known fof néarly:50 iyears - : : L : '{ questioning obedience to the con b RSB 3 : jong the large ( mands of their soyereign. ~Assured), of! their district, this second idexl-of government ’ ber vo!’ ln_qumo- 1v ‘. 4‘ pmr“nently {%F?Ifinwt aving placed in contrast the Amer fcan idea)}and therPruidian 43éal of|mer ‘| government, let us next consider this ‘lang exist in the world side by si rope in search of ull men-‘for his Y ¢ This atatgment may, on firat thoughti{armies, selling the royal jewels and fist as_it moves’the pieces .on.the || J n is no longer ponlblo in.a world seem enhme.: *One-flny sk, ‘“Cannot’} turning the family (table ‘silver into European chessboard’ m preparation fdered wondrous:-small by the swift évery nation select that onme of th - tor defray-the ‘cost gg building for 'tha coup of 1914. mship and express train, the tele- | two idesjsof goyernment which i e’ sée the evil hand: in Vienna, ph and telephions, the cable and |prefers, leaving every other nation fn} i shiaping. the .policy. of the Dyal-Mon- 5 h 7 archy and gaining that ascendency | Prus 15 - over {ts‘affairs which'has reducéd Aus-| marck applied his policy of blood i | 7oom? aribehs in (el (WORNF Itor: the peacetul development of both ideals?’] ;1 The -angwar.-is {n.-the-negativ iron. The Rhenisn -provinces, ol tria-Hungary’ to’ a 'state of vunlua half of Saxony. and' further Toliah We' observe Italy bound in ‘unholy al-| : .. tersitory have been -annexed. . :: liance with the historic enemy. of Ital- the ‘center of Europe. ‘As Cheradame |:* 5 fan freedom. We realize. that it 1s|truly says: ‘”This is. the brutal, over- 5 ; S- 5T |the mailed fist acting through Austria | whelming fact which Americans must » ) = in the seizure of Bosnia and' Herzego-{ face 1t they-wish to learn; the sole solu- FTIVARY R .vina ‘fn flagrant: violation :of - treaty | tion of. the war which will assure to firought, to.§ againat, R~ pledges. | We behold the Frussian war | them, as:well:as: to'the rest of ‘the conntfi wer.D !? ' butal. [~ 3 ring “ir hg armor” ‘be- | world, & durable-pesace” etnclent government of his own crea- : V ; m sh pnum ireaten ] ok | against this injury to ' her; . brother Slavs. ' We:see Servia-robbed of her sooner or Ia y d-n‘imlu."‘ ‘With the war beginning to - will-agsert itself and the nmla growjcespor disliked military punum. pro- r-eo'ni‘te the old, fnmmn methods of .againet her; she is ‘generously will- the issues of the pr | restiens. Especially is this true where}ferring the company of music and |the Hohensollern. We find the mafled: Inx to surrender-(for-the present) all clear to every the people enslaved by an autocratic g But he, too; realised on ascend- | fist clasping in fraternal l’l'“fllll the | the lands conquered from Ru: Rou- s will not suppart with’ ondlluhlll i ‘rance and Belgium, and all of men who govern themselves. leeny 'Servia ‘save & narrow strip borderi uclous prose- m & policy of aggressive militarism, | Germany becoming a bmther to 'the | the Berlin 'to Bagdad railway 5:: 'and ‘skillfully employing' the military | anspeakable Turk, training and offic- | could: restore. all - these; an: the th.t tocr-tk: gov- [ machine painstaking perfected by his | ering hkis armies, and securing 'from victory:. in the. hi go.-y of enimntj,’bu,t one procedure.. It must thrifty fdther, be ‘became:the al;pow- | him corncessfons for the future Berlin | Hohenzollern conquests. The blind offer to its subjects compensation mr(eflul Frederick the Great, one of the |to Bagdad. railway. We see puppet | would see only the status quo ante. thefr slavery, and destroy, the proselyt. | OBt renowned. military geniuses of | Hohenzollern : kings placed on the | Germany wotld see, and soon the rest | g /influence which,‘aurrounds: them, -history. Silesia .was.brutally wrench- | thrones of Bulgarfa and Roumania and'| of the world would-see, the dream of Nole people to s cause- they: believe red. It is imperative @h_ en ip vuin ] JACR d 1 he helpl Ki 1 cwseleg o s w. Both are accomplished e ‘stroke '€d from the helpless young Empress | King Constantine of Greece married |a great Central European Germanic Nev Yor‘:o},lg:“l 1917, JOH‘X?SON by ‘military conquest. Just &s freemen ! 10t Austria without the pr: ofian jto the Kaiser’s sister. We watch thé | Empire come true (Figure 7). A real To OUR customers - status quo ante is beyond tha pover will undergo’ stern ‘milita nd the shameful partition ot meshes of German fntrigue wound ’|about the Russian government, and |of man to establish:; ol We .._Vlish to express:. 5 e the ‘mighty * Slay-'reduced to partial ) If there be-those who, -dmming tho Deo) ‘ : E assures them military glary and the impotence.’ By ruthless conquest and | Hohenzollern policy'of conquest up to our appreciation-- -of - B y ‘opposed ideals. of . govern- ‘of triumphing’ thelr ;man, y -peaceful ‘penetration,. the stage is | and including the present war, never- : ment. One: is based ‘oh ‘the concep- | 1 qighbor: 2 ' The time soon came' when et for. the great Central European theless' imagine that Germany would your confidence in HoMi that the government is the ser-| niiiearier are inextricably bound to OFmal grawth of: the Prassigh ideal | Empire;- while ‘at home ‘thie war lord {be willing to retire from the bloody st prepares for the coming contest by ac- cumulating military stores in quantf- ties which ‘have since astonished. the world, by forcing the passage of a aval bill destined to make Germany struggle contented to. let well ‘enough alone provided her domination of: Aus- tria, Bulgaria.and Turkey were unim- paired, they should remember, in' the | first place, that the new and vastly' u'g of its citizens and exists for ‘gether. : Through militarls th r benefit: According to this ‘¢éon: must_conquer ‘mé' worl ception the divine right of the -indi. peacelul penatrnuon ‘of vidual to life, liberty, and the pursuit | jjperty it will suffer decay. " of happiness must be conserved; and | No one understandg-this truth more give acquisitions from a small pr thls store and the ; generous patronage !hq, ‘most successful government 18 the | clearly than does ‘the_autocrati¢ gov vince surrounding Berlin to a Euro-fformidable on. sea as well as on land, | stronger Germany would be ruled by ,glven us. g‘ which_most effectively pr‘omutes érmment of ‘Germany. . Its by enlarging the Kiel Canal to permit | the same Hohenzollern dynasty as be- the freé”development ‘vi. its" citizens. | wworld power or dnwn(all."Js i| the passage of the largest battleships;|{ore, imbued by the same passion for A T growth of this ideal of-govern: "ot ) To accompllsh this ' two thines|by building heavy metalled;~ double- conquest which for more than five hun- racked raflways along'the borders of Belgium and other peaceful neighbors, securing a grant of $250,000,000 in zecial war taxes with which to raise e army to a. peace footing of 700,000 of bur forefathers in dcdlcltlng their sible, her influence must be destroye 4 n-and a war footing of nearly ten livés, their fdrtunes, and their’ sacred | | % i By military defeat. With Austri: Hon and oy marshalling ithe ‘voices: hmpr to the maintenance of this ideal r; J P ¥l eliminated; Prussiaii: domination . overi};8f obedient professors and the pens of' in the New World;, Canadd’ and ‘othen~i P - 1 1!11& remaining German ‘states must gervile writers in one vast campaign English colonies today enjoy a free-| Eoflaolldnted to the end that a greatfof education, -designed to'poison the ible annexation-of the country-to Ger- hich, would not .otherwise be: Germanlc power, pledged ‘to-the su| lerman mind with dreams of Pan- T OTheloss ©f her American’ | ks - Iport of Hohenzollernism and the Prus-[Germanic power. colonies, taught. England -the, fearful =3 32 | Bfan ideal of government, ghould arise} " At -last the propitious ‘moment fs|many. Let them consider the sinister co!g of obatructing man's’ aspirdtiona "','-‘,‘;0“:I.',‘,;',‘."‘;’lif,';,}‘c‘.i“;'{,"emc‘:fi“{";;fl:dfi“ Two remarkable men {grrived, and the mailed fist pulls the | fmport of his candid declaration that toritrue self-government, with the rg-. _ed the unrone. The uw omains. .| indertbok: this colossal task. Willlam | strings. -Austria approaches Italy with | reconciliation and peaceful domination sult“that ‘both in" her colonies and” nt| ‘extend he) on d the “,‘m i "".d_ 1. of Prussia, grandfather of the pres: | the.proposition, that-they-unite in-the| are impossble, and that possession of home--the-growth of democratic-ideals: et R b energies to | canquest..of .Servia;.-but. Italy refuses. | Belgium is absolutely essential to-the has -seldom. been seriously -checked: 'B“IY ranting- of-a-wild-extremist; but fdeveloping the military; resources of | A delay of some months ensues, whilé | success of; Germany’s: plans for future France . lit: her torch.of freedom: at. brutally frank statément of-a‘profound 'hls kingdom, while Bismarck proceed- European diplomats struggle to avert| wars against England and France. Let the American altar, and in Russia'truth. The German government’s oft- ed to apply his policy of blood and |the impending calamity. Then an Aus-|them listen to the intellectual leaders wheu ‘the bureaucrats would denounce repeated assertion_that it is flghting iiron. .In deflance of -the:Prussian par:| tpian priiice is mirdered in the cap-| of Germany: to Nietzsche teaching, W essential. Austris .had lon been a powertil rival 6f Prussia in th struggle for déminant ‘influence amon the smaller German states. Since th pb orption ‘of ‘Austria- was not yet po: dred years had been eminently suc- cesgful, .and never so.much as in the present struggle. Let them give héed,| in the second place, to -the testimony of eminent Germans concerning thefr own'ideas of Germany's, future pol(cy Let them read von Bissing’s memor- andum . to his government in - which as _Governor General of Belgium ' he boldly advocates the dethronement: of the Belgian royal house and the'fore- / ent can be traced through the whole TO you, ard o ke : Ms)ory of the Anglo-Saxon race, but ).! 1 ! H first, reached its full fruition in the | A ercan Declaration: ; of :; Indepen: / dexxce Because of thie supreme faith’| pufihc g_enerélly. we extend smcere 1 Chnstmas greeungs. E.A.Barker Jowblor 217 Thlrd Sf. Mllvnkor for his’ democratic” aspira- a defensive warfare shonld inot be —Ilment which refused to vote taxes | ga) City of conquered Bosnia. This|“Ye shall love peace as a meahs to Plumoyraphs , ( tions they hurl:at him the epithet pushed aside as'an idle'falsehood. The for a great army, 1 deflance of tie | pyrnishes the desired excuse for be-|new wars,—and tbe short peace more . L wm not, appear un- tide of popular discontent”with auto-}constitution which guaranteed to the | ginning the long-pldnned war. Vienna | than the long”; to Treitschke describ- Kodaks cracy . was beginning' to:rise in Ger-yparliament control ‘over taxes, and in many, and the autocratic govern-|defiance of the voice of the people as ment's most effective defence was a|expressed in the public press, the mil- war which should unite ~the ‘people | itary machine . . wds = enormously once more in loyal subjection. - Prior|strengthenel. Wflliam ‘T. and the to July, 1914, the German papers were | Iron Chancellor knew that all crimes publicly ridiculing” the Kaiser’s ponip: | against the people’s liberty. would be ous assertion of his .devine right to|forgotten when a war of conquest had rule, and were indignantly denouncing|been successfully- conc¢luded. his angry threat to tear the Constitu- In, the course of a few months, the tion of Alsace in shreds and annex the | Danish provinces of Schleswig and unhappy province to Prussia; repre- | Holstein were conquered and annexed gentatives of the people in increasing | to-Prussia, Austria-was: overwhelming- numbers were refusing to vote: the|ly defeated-‘and her influence des- government’s burdensome war taxes|troyed, and a number of the indepen- and were -protesting against the ex-|dent north German states whi~h sided altation 'of military- above- civil ‘au: | with Austria were brought under Prus- thority. A month, later, the entire na-|sian. control. Soon affer, the south tion; [was~ enthusiastically actlaiming. German states 'were brought int~ the the war lord whose victorious legions | Prussian unjon for A new war -of con- world as its champion and defender. | were sweeping;across; Belgtum:to carry quest, Alsace-Lofraine and a ‘huze in- The ‘second ideal of governmrent is % the shores, of | demnity were extracted from prostrate diametrically opposed to the first. It : rNever was_the | France, and the Hohenzollérn king .of on the conception ‘that" the | HoHenzoliern aynasty more securely in | Prussia ‘became theé ‘autocratic ruler “individual is the servant of ‘the gov:|'the “saddle=than dufing the many of a great world power. the modern armqgfit and exists for the benefit of | monthe when flag-bedecked Germany |German Empire (Figure - 5). The| o iy full swing according to the he gayernment. According to this| wag celebrating her yictories on every Prussian ideal of government was now | . -, approved Hohenzollern methods. dea&me State is B_Egrythlns. the in-| front. An offensive warfare against|firmly egstabliuhed among a great peo-, %3 divi nothing.. e perfect gov- s neighbors had provén the!ple-pledged to a policy of nggreaslve z ernment is one which so disciplinesits S:::n ;:y&anuivelgwarlne for Germany's|militarism. ~ A WOLF IN N’IEEPS CLOTHING. citizafig that they render absolute and gqve xnent. It is well for us to review these| It cannot be denfed that as things unquestioning obedience to. every’ or- ! salient facts of Prussian history, lest | stand today the plans for a Prussian- der Of the State, performing with ma- GROWTH OF PRUSS!ANISM we forget that from the earliest time | ized Central Europe have succeeded to 91““ e precision the tasks assigned |, ; 'Tne T historical ' development -of the |the’ house of Hohenzollern -has. effi | & remarkable degree - (see Figure 6). in. Organizéd” efficiency and | Pryssian ideal of government shows|ciently and consistently pursued a Austria has come wholly under qu- : bamF‘iDrk replace the uncoordinated | Prussia’s realization of the, fact that/.single, policy . Which - inevitably in-| man domination, and is dependent up-} ing war as “an ordinance zet by God” and “the —ost powerful maker of na- tions”; to Bernhardi declaring, “The lesson of history confirm the view that wars which have heen deliberately provoked by farseeing statesmen nave had the happiest results®; and to Eucken asserting, “To us more than to any other nation is intrusted the true| structure of human existence.” Let L them hear the revered pastors of Ger.[ many: Francke saying, “Germany is Py vt e This Newspaper§ the representative of the highest mor- i o ! ality, of the purest humanity, of the B most chastened Christianity; its de. v g feat would mean falling back to the|: That’s Vllly Itwould be worst ‘barbarism”; Lehman preaching |-l pnfihble foryuuo “The German soul is- God's soul. It I you wanl a job. shall and will rule over mankind”; and Konig exhorting, “We must van. quish, because the downfall of Ger-| M manism would mean the downfall ot | ” you want to hire somebody: humanity.” -Then perhaps will: the thoughtless realize that the German} ’fyw want to sell "Mln; natton, driven by a policy it cannot|§ If you want to buy something control, presses inevitably forward to [ If you want to rent W‘”‘m new conquests, ever toward the goal | If you want to sell yoar Gbuse \ If yoa want to sell your farm If you want to buy property If there (s anything that you | want the quickest and Sest way of world dominion. | to supply that want ts by placing an advertisement in this paper secretly confers with Berlin, and at the end of a month of silence sudden- ly astounds the civilized world by accusing the Servian government of the murder and submitting ten de- mands designed :to.be so humiliating in their nature and so insulting in their tone:as to insure a prompt re- jection. But untortunately for the Hohenzollern plan Servia, on the ad- vice of her peacebly inclined friends, accepts. outright eight of the unjust demands and agrees to submit to arbi- tration the remaining two which ser- fously threaten her independence. This {8 most disconcerting, but the plan must not be balked. War is therefore declared on Servia despite her humil- fating surrender, and the mobilization of Russia in support of Servia gives Berlin the pretext for declarations of: war against Russia, France and Bel- glum. The work of conquering and| consolidating & great Central Euro-| pean Empire under Prussian control 1s People -Réadi The Hohenzollern dominions in 1477. A small province surrounding the little town of Berlin. seemly, therefore, to:call the ideal ot government just described “The Am- erican ideal.”” In-a- peculiar, degree America has ‘long stood before the sz\ be Continued). Let Us Print and Mfleflm efforts of individuals |-nothing @ave the most/ aggressive ‘ex-|volves the mainténance of a great :l the Ptsialtl“ mi“mhmfim; flOl' A = ~whi reverelog the‘clumsy mechan: | pigitation of that ideal would prevent | military machine and the periodic em- | her very e”istence. out its help, > : 4 05k fem emocracy. Individual liberty | it ultimate extinction. Some time be~ ployment of that machine in ever-en-| Serbs and Russians are able to defeat . Your s ale Bllls The results will surprise is p ed only where it does not by M“M terri-| her-at,will-. Her armies;are but-tools - and please you i g00d ‘of the in the hands of German. higher. officers." ’ - snd: “State, not the Citisen, a | while her political edministration is ; e Defectiv