Identifier: perilofprussiani00johnrich (find matches)
Title: The peril of Prussianism
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Douglas Wilson, 1878-
Subjects: European war, 1914-1918 -- Causes Germany -- Civilization Germany -- Politics and government 1871-1918
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h taught its people to commitsuch damnable atrocities. We fight thatnever again may a great nation with 49 50 The Peril of Prussianism cynical insolence throw in the face of theworld the base assertions that treaties arescraps of paper, that necessity knows nolaw, that might is the right of the strong-est, and that the State can do no wrong.We fight to hurl the Hohenzollern and hisdangerous doctrine of divine right uponthe scrap-heap of useless trumpery, and toset the German people in his place, thatthey may learn to rule themselves. How shall the end be achieved? Notby a half-way war, not by conciliation orcompromise. Great ends are not achiev-ed by petty measures. The Imperial\ German armies must be defeated on thei battlefield and driven from the lands they(conquered. The German people mustlearn that for all its inefficiency, demo-cracy is stronger than disciplined auto-cracy. Restitution of the fruits of pastconquest must be required, Bosnia andHerzegovina, Alsace-Lorraine and Po-
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The Issue 51 land restored to rightful sovereignty.The German people must learn that thedream of a Central European Empire,fotinded on military conquest, is foreverdashed to earth. Reparation for griev-ous wrongs, so far as these may berepaired by money indemnities, must beexacted. The German people must learnthat upon the guilty aggressor, not uponthe innocent victim, falls the heavy bur-den of restoring ravished lands, rehabihtat-ing burned and pillaged cities, supportingruined homes, and indemnifying thosewhose innocent loved ones were foullywronged or slain. War in the past hasbeen immensely profitable to Germany.She must be taught that it is the mostcostly crime a nation can commit. Withthese ends achieved we may reasonablyhope that the German people, sick of thebloody disasters born of Prussian militar-ism, will awaken from the trance in which 52 The Peril of Prussianism they live and throw off the hatefulHohenzoUern yoke. If they do not, thenwe must fight to force the central c

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