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rHE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, ft. C, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1918. ELEVEN. EFFORTSTO STIR UP BRITONS furious Propaganda Dropped On English Soldiers. f ! .,-'? ? 5 '., ' lcd to Engrlikme to' Watch Of Their Cloee Woe With KnsliJh Publications. (L S. Shipping Board). J Edward X. Hurley, chairman "of the hoard nas recently received ficrhting front a 'pamphlet by a German bombing: ma- as it flew across the English ojnpwhere in France. pipping1 from droprfrt lines The officer who mailed the piece- gf u1- dentiy picked it up about Octo- ermans first launch- The evident ,qe of the enemy was to spread 5 their "peace drive." Amprica bv false rsnnrta !iloirtt behind the work of the ship lnr board. . This what the leaflet" said: The American Peril." "Have yn reai tne Liverpool Jour- of c ommerce of July 20th? Well, paper publishes a leader under the -arming heading: 'Our Desperate Position' the following extract of rhich will interest you: 'Commercial- jn doubt about it. It i.tf perfectly .j hanoens. we snau sinK into tne tosition of a second-rate power. The jjjame for it is on the present and past governments, who have ignored, and Ire still flouting, the commercial com--anity and its interests. Government official?, when the matter is put before ftfm. will nearly always end up by v'n'r something of this nature: 'Well. ,ft(r all. our first business la to win g,e war is it not?" It is the business 0f war office and the admiralty bring the war to a satisfactory con clusion a? soon as possible, but It is Mt legitimately within their province to hamper commerce, with results they io not foresee, but which are ruining oar chances of retaining our overseas cade. The Americans are after it. Rtad the report of the speech of 3r. Hurley in the issue of July 15. He 'oes not veil , his proposals. America is building- her vast mercantile n jirefirst. to transport troops and ma -ttrial for the war, and then to attach mr trade in China, the east, our col mi. Russia, and South America, , and loubtless other places. Her new lines steamers are already running to ports where the trade was fostered by is and is by every right ours. All this ; brought about by the supineness sad crass stupidity of our ministers sad their nominees, to whom we pay princely salaries, and who are giving is away. Does Mr. Lloyd George see ar we are going to the wall? It is lonbtful. What is the use of winning ibe war at the expense of our iCom merce. and so that the Americans col- iir it? Are we to be content with an entrepot' trade, our manufactures killed by America: and shall our living b 'takinsr in each other's washing? or that is all we shall have left un ss there is an alternation immediate ly. Tt will be surprising if our people" sand it much longer. "So far the Journal of Commerce. It the mark. Isn't it foolish to ..stay i this war for the sole benefit of the Sited States? It is plain that Ameri a won t be satisfied with Germany's ijwnfall but actually aims .at control "rs the world's commerce. She points a Germany but is ready to incident uly ruin England, too, in fact, she rrepares to suck the marrow out of he whole of Europe. World-domina-rion, that's what America Is after! An exhausted and empovierished Europe rill make the United States , the ruler of the world. At any rate, difter -the. war. America will be the mOst power ful and pitiless competitor England ever had. . "Therefore, come to and Understand ing with Germany before it is too late. O-ly the T'nited States have something -o pain by continuing the war." Wit ri prophetic vision Mr. Hurley long a?o saw signs of an enemy attack upon our motives for upbuilding our merchant marine. As chairman of the dipping hoard as late as last August lie re-stated the broad aims of Ameri f and her shipbuilders. His statement s a complete answer to any and all pfforts of enemy propaganda along this Chairman Hurley again referred to tMf statement as "the best answer to stories spread by the enemy similar to the one contained in the pamphlet popped by a German aviator as he Hew over the British lines. . It follows: To carry' out her great military pro tram America ia building a large fleet f transports and food ships. After the war this merchant marine will be "sed in America's enormous ocean car Wng trade. "It is to be expected that enemy fropag-andists should endeavor to use -rnriran m A-TrOt flout n a o Vo r' for arousing distrust between the sines Guarantees of fair dealiner in this jitter are found in America's unsel nsh policy in fighting for democracy E USED TO BE GRAY Society Ladies Everywhere Use "LaCreole" Hair Dressing. x ns Tvu known society leader's 'hair as Permanently gray, perhaps just yours, but Mrs. J heard of "La ill Hair Dressing how thous as of people everywhere had used a with perfect satisfaction. It is not ye, but a preparation designed es re Uy for th -purpose of gradually , loriil." color to gray or faded hair, coJ-Which is easily applied by simply "mm? or brushing through the hair. eVCreole" Hair Dressing positively icates dandruff, keeps th scalp r.?rtithy condition and promotes .e growth of new -hair;., brings back natural, soft, even, -dark shade to ?.a" or faded hair, and makes it, lrts- full of life and beautiful. "La eravreVrnt your hair from growing colo restore a beautiful darx ' r t0 f,,.ay Qr faded hair sold and DrUr fc:-'!id by Jamian & . Futrelle ier7 - Wilmington, N. a Mail or te-f., prmp'.ly filled upon receipt Of r,w. 'ar ''ripe. 51.20. "La Creole" Hair money pacK USE ( REOLE" HAIR DRESSING Caaa"tee. Adv. sold on a MSe Of human tt- art A n ii.'- -'4 . , - i -- ' ii Ameri ca s past record. "President -nr?i , l t. 1, -L i "aB aemonstrateo 1 ttiJ irt" Lne peopie or the 0 r v uui uiKnunr- ior th b for h! vr" .T"."wiow "jiai3r? iuo-Ly oi civilisation eVw eyWhere. v It is- unthinkable that ,a wtt fnK tilig?" shoulder to shoulder Irtll Ah6r great democracies should, tnWarV tnrn its sources fS8 l?em for trade conquests of ZZTl kind whioh largely ffi bringing on the war Jf SEflSKS n0t brins Prosperity to ZY hb0r? a.S Wel1 as to ourselves, x?W Plidf in the achievement wfli inhed- Our ships will be lp erated after the war upon principles Hghts arnrfnl- m" naS rights and equities. This is a part of the constetentolicy of President w IUJ . 8 mad6 Plain in his public hStnS- 18 also plain til history 0f the United States, which SrSUS trad? areSsion in Amer,JUi!,ain - her merchant fleet w7.8 of a11 to the wn' 1 iLai overcome her ' nortfltim, 7" u "V,'U1II ocean trans BSKSSSS Pw? trade. To this are WBe United States tfn to develop transporta- tSStat ?h f6 Ute8' without dis natif -1 a irade or rights-of other thai ?w Ad ey' furthermore, hopl win nAmerican merchant marine nXhborW arSe Part ln brinmg the oiK u ?ner demooracies of the Ameri- Jtffi? Clo8er together 0. f68"0118 f selfish motives will ZitZ tZTn: Cremated in connexion rti We are Dding. Every "denen2e2 "P ainst autocracy ca be depended upon to detect the source an! .8Uf ?e8ti0ns and discount them! and maintain the solid line for dT mocracy and humanity till the So. PHILOSOPHY BACK OF GERMANY'S WORLD WAR (Paper read before the Wilmington Ministers' association by Rev. Dr. J a Seegers, pastor gt. Paul's Lutheran church, this uity.) There can be no doubt in the mind of the thoughful observer that mili- dSm T?f Gemany wa not an acci uent. it was a mere coincidence. It WaaJL,an outsrowth. It was a. logical ioPment. It was a consequence: Thought was back of the action. Poli tical theories expressive of philosophic tendencies were objectified in the war machine. Underlying, it all was ftie conception of the state, the ideal ex pression of which was an autocratic monarchy. Among the public and political thinkers there wras a unity of ideals, as well as a conformity of belief and outlook. This unity and conformity was shaped by influences o fthe past, and the logical results of tbe influence are to be seen in Tfflfo diplomacy and warfare which shoeKed the world and put a stain which will uc mracuu to remove upon a one-ti aim jugniy tnougnt or tion. 1 T , A . jrermii me, tnererore, to gts a wraf statement of dominating principle, s they have been given in a little booto "The Menace to the Ideal of the Free State." The writer aims not to ie original, lie will be content to present facts as gleaned from this book. This dominating thought of the 20th century in Germany was the growth -of generations.. Neither Nietzsche. Treifcs che, Bernhardi, Lasson or Nauman can be regarded, as its originator. It is found terminally already in the view pojpt of that sage of Europe Kant. FQr,as it has been said, although he advocated an eternal peace for tne different states of the world, ahd really outlined, the plan for a general court of arbitration, and a common league of nations, nevertheless his divotion to monarchy in the life of the individual state made no effect his dream Nof world peace. Nevershould a people overthrow a monarchy,- even under almost intol erable abuses of monarchical power. "With all of his critical freedom he endeavored to establish by reason the duty of unquestioning obedience ' to .every action of the,,' state." V " Kant was succeeded by- Fichte, rand in him fs to be found the thought of German culture being essential to the world. -Starting with the idea of the freedom of the ego he conceives the state as "the coexistence of reasonable being who mutually recognized each other as free beings and are willing to limit their freedom that there may be a common right. But this common right when it is established must be a common-will, and with which the private will of men is united. In this state in which the empasis is placed on will, Fichte desires the inner development of industry and commerce to take place.' He wants the state industrially closed as conditioned by its own natural boundaries. There is no conception of a world relationship. "He conbined what has been called an intense na tionalism and n extravagant patrio tism." . . He was convinced of the value of Germany's culture. In the last ad dress to the German nation he says "The old world with its glory and greatness and with its defects has gone under, through its own unworthi ness and through the power of your forefathers. If that which has been discussed in these addresses is truth, in which the germ of human prefecti bility is most definitely found, and upon which progress in the devolpment to ward prefection has been placed as a task; if you in your inner reality sue curiib, then hope of the whole human race to be delivered out of the depths of its evil must" succumb." "There is no escape, if without the hope of any possible restoration." Here then we have the idea of the superiority of the German culture. Out of -this grew an overbearing pride which disregarded tne mission -and value of other nations. And when you recognized that this was beneath Ger man thought and then coupled with this the triple thought that this cul ture must be carried forward through the nation, and that this nation must express itself through a strong will, and that this strong will is an indivi dual will in which the .private will is united, yOu can see how the absolute power of the state could be postulated. And this followed practically in the teachings of Hegel who succeeded Fiechte. He savr in the state - "the final and absolute spirit. The spirit as it became an object in the world was embodied in ethical' life and this found its free expression in the state. The state is not to serve, but to rule; it is not a means but an end, and the highest of all ends and porposes. Be cause the state rules and has itself as an end it is will, and all other purposes of human life must be subject to the state because it is the universal will. It is the moral organism. There is nothing higher in this world than the state and its absolute sovereignty is represented in the person of a mon arch." . L.i. For the maintenance oi me buus as the- essential moral organism" is necessary. In war the soul of the world rides ma jesticaly through the world. War is necessary for existence and non exisuuioe to protect the state against II I Buy Now and Pay When You Are Ready CASH kJlll X J DC The Great Credit Store. 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This is the prerogative of the great man to ascertain and express the ab solute will. All gather around his banner. He is their God. The state is the self certain absolute mind which recognizes no definite authority, but its own, which acknowledges no abstract rules of good and bad, shameful artd mean, craft and deception. It is abso lutely only universality as against particulism." As this absolute, ideal, universal, compared to which every thing is part icular, it is the phenomenon of God. Its words are His decision, and it can snmiir and exist" under no other form. The absolute is divine, self sanctioned, - , T J-1 - , ,- Tn n ana not maae. in uinci w ui is a pantheistic glorification of state. From this conception of the state with its justification o fwar as the means for existence there is not a very long step to the position of Neitzsche. His gospel was "be hard'K There is nothing in life that has ilue except the degree to power, assuming that life itself is this will to power. "The new God is power,' 'and power makes sthe strong cause the good cause." It is the conception of the super man, which values man only as a lad der to this super man. After Jftetzsche comeS Trelstche who was a professor at the unverisity of Berlin, which uni versity since 1890 has befeii the mouth piece of" the empire of William 1st and of Bismarck. He says "The state is the objectively revealed will of God," as unfolded in its life. "In a juridical and jn a politico-moral sense," the state is. a real personality. The center of this Per sonality is will. The State must have the most emphatic will that can be imagined. The strong will of different nations is bound to come into conflict) but the grandeur of history lies in the perpe- petual conflict of nations, and it is simply foolish to desire the suppression of their rivalry. . . Mankind. .has ever fpund .it to.be so. "The primary of the state, to whose f mictions no limit can be must be the case of its armies "and jurisprudence. Without war no state could be. All those we know of arose through war and the protection of their members by armed, forces remains their primary and essential task. War therefore, will endure to the end Of history, as long as there is a multi plicity of states. The laws of human thought and of human nature forbid any alternative, neither is one to be wished for.. The blind; worshiper of an etornal peace falls in to tne'; error of isolating the state, or dreams of one which is universal, which we have al ready seen to be at variance with reason. The state is no violet to .bloom unseen.. Jts j)ower. :Shourd stand forth proudly for ail the world to see, and it cannot allow even the symbols of it to be contested. From these sentences it is not very dimctrit. to pass to ;the idea of the divine right to rule "in hering in a given family or" individual, and. hence we here Treltscbe- saying that the inscrutabl will .of . Providenoe O.VLY A FEW DAYS MORE. of our Ten Day Shoe Sale. Wilming ton Shoe Go. (adVi) has decreed the elevation of a particu lar family above its rivals. Passing over the theory of Lasson with the exception of two statements viz "In he intercourse with state there are no laws and there can be none.", "In politics decisions may be postponed, but When the opportunity "presents its self, let him who has the power and feels himself prepared cut the knot With T:he sword. For great historical questions this is the only rational and permantltn solution" I say, leaving- Lasson with these few citations we come - to Bernhardi in whose writings the fullest development of, the threory ;6f war is the fullest expression of the life of the state oc cur, i This can be seen from one citation wherein he. declares "With the cessa tion of, the .unrestricted conpetition, whose ultimate appeal is arms, all real progress would soon be checked, and a inorajl, and intellectual stagnation would ensue which must end in de generation." Against the ieda of peace being a finality,, he says, "JSvery means must therefore be employed to oppose these visionary schemes: , These must be publicly denounced as what there really are, aS an unhealthy Utopia, or a cloak for political machina tions. Our people must learn to see that the maintenance of peacfe never can or maybe the goal of a policy." ' And even the Socialist "Nauman does not believe that, "the long jubilee years of an everlasting pep.ee, will begin at the "Conclusion of war." -. This in general was the molding philosphy and political tendency .of Germany. No one can doubt that back of te awful conflict r-was a controling idea. It is, but another proof of the Scrip tural statement that as a man thinketh in his heart so he is. It but shows the importance of the trth, keep thine heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life. Time does not permit entering into the religious situation. Suffice it is that the Bible has been emasculated-:-religion has been devitalised--faith has gone down before reason the great realities of Christianity have been de nied objective truth -.was being ob scured and indeed ignoked the cruciali ty of the cross was no longer central. The church lost its power, because it) gave up its vital and vitalising truth, j Negations were the order of the day: and negations alone never create life, j It seems to me that if we are to profit' by these things we can do nothing! beter than preach a factual Gospel , preach the, realities of our holy religion I the fact of Christ-h fact of at-' toBement--the fact of the resurrection the fact of Christ presence to make known to the world that .It Is Jesus. Christ crucified for our sins, .and raised, for our justification who controls the destinities of men and nations, . 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