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Vol. XII. No. 43. WHY WE ARE AT WAR WITH GERMANY By EPHRAIM DOUGLASS ADAMS Executive Head History Depart ment Leland Stanford Junior University “The object of tí is war is to deliver the free Leoples of the world from the menace and tie actual power of a vast military establishment controlled by an irresponsible government, which, having secretly planned to dominate the world, proceeded to carry out the plan without regard either to the sacred obligations cf treaty or the leng-establis ed prac tices and long-cherished principles of In te national action and honor; . . . This power is not the German people. It is the ruthless master of the German peo ple. ... It is our business to see to It that the history of the rest of the world is no longer left to its handling.” —President Wilson, August 27, 1917. GERMAN RUTHLESSNESS AN IN- CULCATED BARBARISM A government asserting its rit;ht to conquer the world, denying any duty except that of increasing its own power, and a people drilled in this theory, produce a nation whose ai:i horrify humanity. Yet those acts are but the logical result of a ruthless ness in war deliberately planned. It was at first said by Americans: “Yes there are occasional German atrocities no doubt, but so there are in every war.” We now know that cruelty and barbarism are a definite part of the German method of making war. First the teachers and professors “Where German soldiers had to seize the incendiary torch, or even to pro ce ed to the slaughter of citizens, it was only in pursrance of the rights of war.” “One single highly cultured German warrior represents a higher intellectual and moral life-value than hundreds of the raw children of nature whom England and France, Russia and Italy, oppose to them.” "Even if there were no question of vengeance. . . . the crime of opposing the de velopment of Germany is so great that the most trenchant measures are scarcely a sufficient punishment for it.” “The more pitiless is the vae vieti», the greater is the security of the ensuing peace. In the days of old, conquered peoples were completely an nihilated. Today that is physically impracticable, but one can imagine conditions which should approach very closely to. total destruction.” Next the army officers: “By steen Ing himself in military history an officer will be able to guard himself against excessive humanitarian no tions; it will teach him that certain severities are indispensable to war. nay, more, that the only true humanity very often lies in a ruthless applica- tion of them.' “The warrior has need be of passion. It must not regarded as a necessary evil: nor con demned as a regrettable consequence of physical contact; nor must we seek to restrain it and curb it as a savage and brutal force.” Last the clergy: one incident, and one quotation from an address on the Sermon on the Mount is enough for Americans. “Whoever can not prevail upon himself to approve from the bottom of his heart the sinking of the Lusitania. . . . and give himself up to honest delight at this victorious exploit of German defensive power— him we judge to be no true German.” German teaching has borne fruit and the world is aghast. Yet we have be come so accustomed to “German atrocities” that some of our horror at them has waned. It Is wiser to re- member. Volumes are needed to list, merely, the prored cases of barbarity Saturday, July 13, 1918 SUPPLEMENT TO THE HERMISTON HERALD —for Germany by refusing investiga W. J. WARNER tion through a neutral jury proposed by Cardinal Mercier, has confessed guilt. No. rather, she acknowledges OREGON the acts charged against her and glo HERMISTON. rifies them. But let us not forget that German J. T. 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