Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1918 — A GERMAN HOPE DISPROVED AND A GERMAN FEAR CONFIRMED [ARTICLE]

A GERMAN HOPE DISPROVED AND A GERMAN FEAR CONFIRMED

A statement made by a prominent German official soon after this country was declared in a state of war with Germany shows that even in the enemy country clear thinking students did not undervalue the strength of the American republic. Only in his confidence that we could not land in Europe sufficient troops to affect the final decision was this German mistaken. “I do not fear the American soldiers,” he told a high official of our government, “because they cannot arrive in time. What I fear is the Intelligence and devotion of, one hundred million original minds and people trained to a faith in.individual initiative. Theday that these people, now so materialistic in outward appearance; —are stirred spiritually, that day is the day of Germany's doom.” •Je «£•