GERMAN PROFESSOR UNMASKS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16037, 23 January 1918, Page 2

GERMAN PROFESSOR UNMASKS.

SLAVE DAYS FOR AUSTRALIA. AFTER THE WAR. , A correspondent forwards the Sydney Morning Herald an extract from a newspaper in which Professor Jacob Burckhardt, who attended the last Science Congress in Australia; foreshadows Australia's future under German rule. Professor Burckhardt received the warmest hospitality during his stay in this country, and the newspaper shows that it was not until he returned to Germany that he ihade the following astounding comments;—“When wc come to Australia we do not anticipate any difficulty with the young generation. They have proved themselves to be the most arrant cowards. The young males are spineless jellyfish. The only .people they nil/ axe their aged parents, to whom they should be a blessing in their old age. but are a curse. It would have been better for the world to-day had they been strangled at birth. They only speak the truth by accident, or only wiien a lie dill pot serve their purpose. They have no respect for the aged. The only time they go to church is when divine service is ended, and then for the purpose of waylaying the young middens, who, for outward appearances and respectability, attend the evening devotions. Their only ambition is to work in a dry goods store, an office, or emporium. They have not any desire to exercise their intellect. We will put them in gangs on the road and making fortifications, locking thopj in stockades at night. Only the German conquerors will Be permitted to the drama, sports, and other amusements. After a time wo. will allow the womenfolk freedom, but they will not be permitted to speak even to their Australian boys—our slaves. They will toon forget them and embrace us, as witness the -number of girls, to sny nothing of married women, who are our avowed friends. All the same, they prove very uninteresting companions, owing to la'ck of intellectuality, but will soon become at least docile in our hands. They are hot on a much higher plane than the Black or brown savage, save their skin is white, when the paint and powder admit \of n. glimpse. Wc are inclined to forgive them because they admire our German youth, especially those with plenty of coin. We look forward with interest to our twentieth century Arabian TS T ights in Austral land. The— factory girls and sewing girls are even worse. They are utterly impossible creatures. 'The domestic servants are a lazy, insolent, brainless lot, with onlv one thought—that is, to get away from toil and promenade the streets in which they appear to consider smart frocks, often costing as much, if not m'cfre. than their mistress’ costumes, leaning on the arm of pimple-faced boys or old rakes. Our womenfolk will straighten them up. If they rebel wo will put them on the roads or in the fields.”