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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND,
"SEPTEMBER 21, 1910.
WORSHIP OF MIGHT
IS GERMAN RELIGION
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Maximilian Harden Tells
Little Willie's Training.
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HISTORY IS PROPAGANDA
Militarism, Wars, Generals, Dates
Featured; Hatred Taught;
ltcsult, Disaster.
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Is told that he will not alter the divine
order of thinprs, and that instead of
wasting his time in useful speculations
he would do far better to strive to
"get ahead," so that he may not be
a financial burden to hi3 parents too
Ions.
Religion for Sunday Only.
To be strong, to have courage, to
"get ahead," to earn money, to achieve
respect those are the goals which
parents, relatives, teachers set up for
his life. What is told him during the
hour devoted to the study of religion
sounds different. There humility, sim
plicity, honesty are praised, the noth
ingness of all heroism, warlike suc
cesses and earthly goods is preached.
This teaching, however, has currency
only for the next world; at most for
Sundays and holidays. On such days
one may be a Christian. On week-days,
gentle, peaceful, sympathetic, not bent
on gain, filled with brotherly love and
ready to give the poor who begs for
stockings his shoes to boot such a one
would never get ahead and would have
to fear that he would end his life in
a garret. Between his lessons in re
ligion and his other studies there isn't
the slightest connection. And the
whole spirit of hi3 school is such, as
If the old Teuton gods still reigned in
heaven.
History as Germans See It.
History plays a big part in his
studies what one calls history. Is
there such a thing? Isn't it rather
merely the vision of an individual tem
perament, or tradition, a confidential
fable, passed on from generation to
generation? Picture to yourselves how
In the various countries the "history"
of the years 1914 to 1919 will once look
If things go on in the accustomed hack
neyed way.
The history which little Willie learns
Is sucked full of patriotism like a
sponge with water. The fatherland
was always In the holiest right and
has always done much more than any
other country. There are colossal
quantities of dates and names of rulers
to be stored up in memory. Its his
tory of kings and, generals, wars and
battles.
Glrla Mast Learn Strategy.
And not only for boys. Sister Ber
tha, going to the "gymnasium," must
in the next to the last year draw the
strategic plan and preliminary march
ing movements of the battle of Denne-.
witz. where the Prussian General von
Buelow is credited with having de
feated in 1S13 Marshal Ney of France.
Woe to the youth who haven't all the
principal battles from Cannae to Sedan
at the tip of their tongues! Of the
peoples, their culture, psychology. In
tellectual and economic development.
they don't need to know much. All the
Instruction is throughout "Germano
centric," and on the two national holi
days, the kaiser's birftiday and Sedan
day, this feature was particularly, em
phasized and illuminated by the orators
of the day.
. German Superiority Admitted.
"Because the German is the most in
dustrious and possesses the greatest
ability he is hated," this holiday orator
declares. "For centuries the sly ene
mies have prevented the harmless,
good-natured German from attaining
the goal of national unity. With the
sword the German has had to fight for
and achieve it. It became the ladder to
a new upward climb. The German, hav
ing reached the peak of power, now be
came verily hated and any day the hour
may strike which will force the Ger
man to draw the sword again. The
sword must be sharp in order to be
able to defend our most sacred posses
sions. "Therefore must the will to military
preparedness stand in the center of our
life. Universal compulsory military
service, high-tensioned sense of honor,
strong monarchy, rigid discipline, obe
diance only in possession of these in
stitutions and qualities are we sure of
our national future and protected
against treachery. If we maintain
these for ourselves then will the poet's
tvords come true: "The world will some
iay grow well, thanks to the German
nature and character."
"The republic is a sort of state of
wilting, degenerating nations and is in
separable from corruption. The French
man is vain, a hot-head or decadent, a
comedian or dancing master. The Eng
lishman is a treacherous beast of prey
with the long teeth, a world exploiter
and globe usurer. The Italian loafs his
time away in a gondola, plays the man
dolin, eats risotto, lives off the tourist
industry in the giga'ntic museum of his
peninsula.
American's God, the Dollar.
And every child knows that the
American, on every floor of his sky
ecrapers, prays to the dollar as his
god, is separated by oceans from all
idealism and that the best in his na
ture he owes to the German immi
grants, from Steuben to Carl Schurz.
Is not all that 'History?' Who ever
denies it does not think 'nationally' and
Is unworthy of respect.
The duty of thinking nationalistically
13 nammerea into every boy and eirl
from the time of playing with lead sol
diers, not the duty to rejoice over one
particular national character and to
strive with all ones strength to im
prove and render it finer and also to
be happy over the fact that in the gar
den or numamty other flowers bloom
and are fragrant.' No. The duty to
consider one's own nation as the high
est purpose and the crown of creation
that is what is hammered in. The
word "international," which shines
ahead of all history of Christianity, all
art and science, passes for a word o
abuse as synonymous with "unpatri
otic" or "without a country."
Humanity? An empty phrase im
ported from the west, from nations who
befog the German Samson with an in
toxication of words and then want to
cut off his locks.
Other "Empty PhraKi."
"Because we aped foreign ways and
were proud of intercourse with a Paris
tailor, a London cockney; because we,
parrot-like, repeated the phrase about
'liberty, equality, eternity,' our country
remained divided and impotent. We
must and will be Germans. If we are
Germans in every fiber, if we are na
tional to the marrow, then will the so
called humanity best be served."
That tendency pervades one's whole
life to the smallest detail. Besides chil
dren's books and historiography even
the street signs drill the memory con
stantly to remember the glory of the
empire, of its princes, heroes, institu
tions. Kaiser, King Kurfuerst, Crown
Prince, Hohenzollern, Wilhelm, Fred
erick, Bluecher, Moltke, Koeniggraetz,
Sedan every town has streets, ave
nues, squares baptized with, these
names. Schools and universities, acad- 1
emies and laboratories, hotels, beer I
palaces, drug stores borrow their 1
names from the court and military
spnere. In the tiniest hamlet war and
battle monuments irritate the wander
er's eye. Their artistic value is equiv
alent to zero. But they, too, "promote
patriotism." And that's the main
thing.
Willie Prefer Army.
Willie Krause is to become a busl-'
ness man after alL Too bad. He
would rather be an officer. But for
that, more money is needed than the
parents can still raise; and whoever
isn't of the aristocracy can only ;
through a very particularly favorable
chance get into the "fine" regiments.
To be a student would also be nice. :
Brother Emil. the philologist, wears a !
colored students' cap and sports three j
colored knots on his watch chain; !
sports also strange, warlike, healed
wounds on his cheeks and chin, the
result of student duelling, and can !
drink half a quart of beer at one
swallow; can, if desired, repeat this '
performance several times in sue- ',
cession. But who knows how long
the poor fellow will have to watt for ,
an appointment? And when he finally
lands one, the pay is wretchedly small
and there's small prospect of rapid j
advancement.
Kobillty of Sonl Uaelexm.
Willie has from his earliest youth
heard that one must be strong, self
assertive, self-confident, use one's el
bows, crowd the competitor out of the
way, get ah-ead. not let one's self be
intimidated and imposed on: only actual
performance, accomplishment, matters;
everything else is incidental. Always
and everywhere he has seen that peo
ple whose nobility of soul, whose spot
lessly clean character, is praised find
no place, no patron; that on the other
hand every one is eager to acquire
p--ople for his business or enterprise
who have the reputation of unscrupu
lous shiftiness. Nobility of soul is
therefore worth nothing; metaphysics
are merely phraseology or furniture
for the parlor, which one opens only
on Sundays and holidays. ''Deutsch
land uber alles" means performance
above everything. j
The two concepts blend into one. :
The ideas of fatherland and nation be- i
come identified with the concept of a.
"mutual association for gain," whose
power increases the power of each of
its members and therefore brings in
interest. He who is efficient performs
much, is thorough and doesn't "do any- ;
thing foolish" meaning deviate from
the highway of practical self-interest, !
to become conspicuous through some I
"incorrectness" or other, or even to:
marry "for love a girl without dowry
will quickly get to the top, and once
there can buy whatever his heart
craves orders, titles, state "honors"
of all kinds.
Pride Taken In Titles.
Willie knows no other world except
the one in which there are imperial,
royal, grand ducal purveyors to the
court, in which everyone is addressed
and referred to by his title, the wife
even by her husband's title, be it mere
ly that of an "expediting railroad sec
retary"; a world in which nearly every
gray-haired head is called a ' Herr Ge
ne imrat and in which the guests in
vited to even the smallest private din
ner wear all their order ribbons, stars.
crosses, oak leaves and swords on show.
Willie has been, brought up to be a
nationalist and militarist, educated to
rigid brusqueness and to underrating
everything foreign. Now he shall and
will become a busienss man, because
one can make a success in life quicker.
From his education and the sum of
beliefs which his education gave him
a bridge leads into his future occupa
tion in life. His father said comfort
ingly: "If you behave yourself, young fel
low, you can become a reserve officer."
Lieutenant's Rank Is Goal
There is a goal toward which all his
forces not otherwise absorbed by the
striving for profit can . passionately
strive. . One of brother -Emll's main
cares, asthat. qX every grown-up
German, was to see that his military
papers were always in good order; he
was commanded to report at control
meetings, he was called up for exer
cises with arms, his "politics," too, was
controlled;1 and he belonged to an as
sociation of regimental comrades. If
Willie could succeed In getting as far
up as a lieutenant of the reserve .then
would heaven open for him and he
would receive the initiation into the
"first estate of the state."
This, too, he achieves, competent in
every field of activity. He has his
own peculiar "honor," possessed onlv
by officers, whose injury must be
atoned in a' duel; he stands under a
'council of honor," a court of honor.
and can place on his visitinz- card.
"Lieutenant d.R., section chief in the
department store Rudolf Spiesrelberi?
ec. -o. ana may watch the parade In
uniform which the all-highest war lord
is graciously pleased personally to re
view.
Doable Life Led.
Did he ever dream of greater won
ders as he played with his lead and
tin soldiers on the floor of the nurs
ery? He leads a double life, like
Mollere's coachman-cook in "Harpagon,"
he is business man and officer, but al
ways in the service of the mutual bene
fit association, which bears different
names and which must be promoted
witn various tools.
The growing up and life experiences
oi sucn a vvniie urause are typically
German; typical in a nation which
attained unity and prosperity late
which therefore gives offense by many
a parvenu quality, which out of its
own resources cannot feed all its chil-
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dren; and to which the thought is al
ways hammered home that It ougni no
longer to remain a nation of dreamers
and poets; and which was dyed to the
roots by the Prussian ideal of "effi
cient performance at any price:" which
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have different histories, conditions of
life, qualities; have they only nobler
qualities? A Pharisee, blindly in love
with himself, may believe thafc, ,
Blind Obedience Harts.
Don't forget Willie Krause when, in
quick anger, you damn the strange
mentality of the latter-day Germans!
He was too competent, in order to be
moral in the highest sense; he was too
blindlv obedient and loyal to the state.
as a mutual benefit association, to feel
himself as a serving member or hu
manity; and for the worshipper of per
formance the noble content of the soul
had no market value. Was it really
so very much better elsewhere in the
time of the selfish mammon cult? Was
not only the outer husk, the form, dif
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