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“Why We Are At War"
By WM. MILTON HESS
Army Y. M. C. A 79, Camp Hancock
Minister Trinity Congregational Church, New York City.
Formerly Instructor in Philosophy and Recorder of Yale College
Dr. Hess is a militant patriot.
The first portion of his article ap
peared in last week’s Trench and
Camp, and we urge every soldier
at Camp Hancock or elsewhere, to
read carefully and memorize the
salient facts and reasonings pre
sented by Dr. Hess.—Editor.
(Continued from last week.)
The Germans must be made to real
ize that Paul’s great teaching in Ro
man 4:7, “None of us liveth unto him
self,” applies to nations as well as to
individuals. Instead of Deutschland
Über Alles,” they should say, Germany,
the servant and minister of all, or
Germany, the helper of all. *1 come not
to be ministered unto, but to minister,”
as Jesus said, is an eternal truth. It is
the truth of a really great career, be
it that of the individual or the' state.
And this is democracy’s ideal, and this
will be the ideal of all the states in the
future.
A state that exists only for itself
must die. This is the eternal law of
God, and this the wrongly educated
Germans have up to this time refused
to learn. But they will have to do so.
If the German government and peo
ple are one, as they claim, then both
must be disciplined, and that is one
reason for our ‘butting in.” The north
butted in on the south in 1861, and
preserved the Union and abolished the
slavery, and would not let the south
do as it pleased. Thus they forced the
northern social system on the south.
They wiped out an evil that seemed
hopelessly entrenched in the south. It
wos done for the good of the whole I
country.
So America now has had to ‘‘butt in” j
on Germany, and insist on a change
in its government. For the sake of
the peace of the whole world, it has had
to do this- The government as it now
is constituted, is a positive menace to
the rest of the world. It must go soon
er or later, no matter how hard or how
big a joo it is.
There can be no” permanent peace ir
the world until the brutal pagan, power
worshipping disturbers of the peace of
the world are exterminated or stripped
of their power. The world has become
too small for both autocracy and dem
ocracy. One or the other must go
down. The German leaders hate dem- '
ocracy, but democracy has come to
stay. It has been a long time coming
and it is not yet fully here, even in
America, but it has come to stay.
The Kaiser crowd, the Pan-Germans
or Junkers, are not very different from
old King-Canute, who sat by the sea
side and said to the tide of the Atlantic,
“Thus far and no further.” The rising
tide swept right over him. So with
Kaiserism and Democracy, it is only
a Neurasthenic one, half crazing, un
balanced religious maniacs, such as the
kaiser, who would say to democracy.
“Thus far and no further.” The rising
democratic tide will sweep right over
the kaiserites, the junkerites, and the
militarists.
The world is sick of war and wants
a perpetual peace. This will come, but
the kaisers must first go. Go to St.
Helena, to a school of democracy in Si
beria, to hell, or somewhere.
The kaiser is very religious, but so
has been many another man who has
been a curse to the world, as the Pro- |
testant Reformation movement has
proven. Even the devils can quote sa
cred scripture, as the Good Book shows.
Do you notice that the kaiser never
once mentions Jesus, the great, strong
son of God, the Prince of Peace, the
great teacher of love and good will?
The kaiser is very fond of blasprem
ously saying, “Gott mit uns” (God with
us). Os course, the Teuton God is the
devil: for only the devil could encour
age such brutality, such barbarism
such hell as the Germans are guilty of.
"Billy" Sunday is right when he says,
“if you could turn hell upside down,
you would find a label ‘made in Ger
many’ on it.”
These Hohenzollern pirates and vip
ers must be crushed then, before we
can get a permanent peace on the earth
before Jesus Christ can have His
chance , before human liberty, and
democracy can be safe, before the king
dom of God and righteousness can
come on the earth.
Prussian militarism is the great ob
stacle to all this, and so we say, “To
hell -with Prussian militarism.” The
war cannot end until every “Divine
Righter” is removed from power. The
invisible God alone is King of men and
Jesus Christ is man’s . only rightful
Lord; and they have and need no vice
gerents on earth. They and
now present but so are the agents of
the devil. Outside God and Jesus
Christ, let the people rule and choose
and remove their own rulers, just as
they do *in the great American repub
lic, and just as they will do some day
in Germany, when she is freed of her
medieval rulers.
For any government to talk of a di
vine right to rule the world is sheer
nonsense in this twentieth century.
1776 exploded that theory, but evident
ly the work of 1776 is not yet complete.
We in America thought it was. but we
find ourselves mistaken.
TRENCH AND CAMP
It is for the Americans in 1917 to
complete the work so ably done by the
men of 1776. George Washington and
his patriots fought to free the thirteen
colonies from the tyranny and despot
ism of the crazy German king on the
British throne. Abraham Lincoln and
the men of 1861 fought to preserve the
Union that Washington and his gener
ation gave us, and to set the black man
free, but President Wilson has the big
gest task of all .He and the Ameri
cans of today are fighting to set the
whole world free from Prussian domi
nation and tyranny and despotism. For
any government to talk of world dom
ination today as the German govern
ment is doing, is, I repeat, folly and
nonsense. It is too late in the world’s
history for that kind of talk. It is in
cative of a disordered brain. The
Prussian war party has gone crazy and
these crazy men have gained an awful
power which must be somehow taken
from them. They are enemies of the
whole world, and they must be crushed
with the spirit of 1776. No half-way
measures will do.
Bernhardi, the German militarist
has long been saying that it is either
German “world power or downfall.”
Your Uncle Saumel replies to him
then downfall; for German world pow
er is impossible. We have a big con
tract on our hands, but it must be
fulfilled, if we prize our liberties. We
need men.
“God give us men. The time demand)
Strong men. great hearts, true faith,
and willing hands.
For while the rabble with their thumb i
worn creeds
Their large profession and little deeds I
Mingle in selfish strife; lo! freedom i
weeps, i
Wrong rules the land, and waiting.
Justice sleeps.”
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We need strong men; men of great j
moral courage, as well as men of phys- |
ical strength. We need men of clear i
vision. We need men who will join >
the valorous French at Verdun and
cry:
“They shall not pass.’ ’
They shall not win.
Democracy must live.
Strong men of character are needed.
Men who appreciate liberty enough tn
work and sacrifice and fight and die, if
necessary, for it. We need clean, pure
strong men. We need men of poise
and confidence, such men as are pro
duced by our invaluable college ath
letes.
We need men to save society and civ
ilization and true Christianity.
We need men who will value the lib
erty that we have inherited and will
fight to maintain it and will sacrifice
to preserve the free state, the free
church and the free school.
It’s an heroic age. There never was
a more heroic one. Thank God, we are
living in it; thank God for the oppor
tunity to live a man’s part.
The slackers are unpopular today.
They will go down into history just
as the Tories of 1776, who bucked
Washington and his men.
Let us do our part, not our ‘“bit,”
but as much as we possibly can.
Let us vow that the government of
th people, for the people, and by the
people, shall not perish out of the land.”
Let us go further, and vow that such
a government shall be extended every
where for the sake of the higher wel
fare of the world.
Let us vow that it shall be extended
even into Germany.
Let us fall to, ye men and women of
America, and God speed the great work
we have on our hands, the work of
making the world safe for democracy.
WM. MILTON HESS.
WIVES IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Perhaps the wife of some enlisted
man would be willing to serve in a
good family in Augusta during the
period of training here. The wage
would be about $20.00 a month in ad
dition to meals and room. Also, the
fare to Augusta would be refunded if
service continued a reasonable time.
Several such places are open. Write to
Trench and Camp or call on Mr. Tom
linson at Administration Building,
corner Wheless and Wrightsboro road.
CHRISTMAS MAIL IN FRANCE.
Christmas mail began arriving in
France for the American soldiers last
week, more than 1,000 packages arriv
ing in one town. The packages were
marked, “Open at Christmas,” and every
effort will be made to deliver them to
their proper destination,
af+er TAPS.
To our soul there comes assurance
That the cause its good and just,
That we can’t be doomed to failure.
While in God we put our trust;
And should death’s .cold arms enfold us
There’ll be peace as Life’s cord snaps.
For we know we'll find our loved ones
Over yonder:
‘’After Taps."
—BY A MARINE.
Let us beware lest the dethronement of
custom to make place for right should
displace along with it the principle ot
reverence, which bestows a discipline
which is InvaluabJa m the formation oi
character
LIEUT. HEILMAN MARRIED.
Lieut. John L. Heilman, of the 112th
Infantry, and Miss Marguerite Stevenson, !
of Brooklyn, N. Y., were united in mar
riage Sunday afternoon, December 2nd,
in the pastor’s study in Reid Memorial
church, by Rev. S. J. McCarty.
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