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gsiliffcl, IrtolifiJ n II, t gst-Ht
hu lu'l timrrt thrm from lh t
tin ti'lik, Mitli ttiri-'u nj
tomhrc ftret. Tliry iertiKl tu tricw
lunerl cortege. And,
inmethiriK in otir jtlie lifc, lomc
llnng ilut very dcsr tu u, wi
burifd tlicte thit Ijy,
Thfr re ltnly-siv triicki,
Th rar end oi eacli ai clufcd
v,nli , thick ilecl w u 1 1 1 k . l rom
hcliind .ich ol thrse gratingt on
couM distinKuish thc grint formt
and f.nr cf (nur men, witb rilSca
tnd automatic pituls in their hands.
it wat in llus way thut King
George of England ent to J. l'ier
pont Morgan, hi accrtdited agcnt,
the gold in parnent für bayonets
and Urapnel.
And aa I itood tlicre on the ide
walk the blood wclled to my face
ana rage aurged througU my hcart.
For i asked myscli, wiiom da
armed men threatcn on the open
street? At whorn do they aim fhose
loaded ritle?
lirother, tbey er nieant for you
and nie.
lt was the desiance of Morgan and
hi, Money Trust to the silent wrath
of honest men. He said: "Bow to
my will or I siiall shoot you down.
The pieasing masks thcse , bankeri
wear had dropped, and there were
revealed the hideous males, the
prima! brutes, cowering over the
gold they had earned by the mangl
ing of human flesh, gnashing their
tusks in rage at the people whose
sympathies they had thwarted,
whose ideals they had crushed by
the shameful trade in war munitions.
To those who dwell in the vast
streiche, of-our country that spread
faf west of the Hudson Kiver, the
domgs of Wall btreet are an un
solved mystery. They suspect and
iear. They do not'know.
Wall Street'i Underworld,
I hall draw back a corner of this
mysterioua curtain and disclose the
workings of Wall Street' under
world. You hall read here some
thing incredible, unbelieveable, of
men wlio have duped deceived, dis-
honored you, and are now bent on
plundering you on a scale vasler
than bat ever before been attempted
in the history of our time.
Colonel Robert M. Thompson, a
high-minded American patriot, in
augurated on June Gth the Organisa
tion of the Navy League of the
United States. He advocated an im
mediate issue by the government of
$500,000,000, to be, devoted to the
construction of a greater army and
navy. He then invited a large
number of citizens, tupposedly im
bued with sirnilarly patriotic sen
titnents, to attend luncheon and
Conference on this important Subject.
But hold, one moment, Colonel.
Why, when you issued those in
vitations, did ou not address them
to pubiic-spinted and .disinterested
men, who have the pcace and wel
fare of our country at heart? Why,
on the contrary, did you invite the
members of J. P. Morgan & Co.,
off icial agents of the British gov
ernment in the purchase of war
munitions, and financial backers of
the Steel Trust, whose products are
being turned' Into bayonets and
shrapnel for the Allics? Why did
you invite to your patriotic luncheon
the directors of companies making
millions in the manufacture of war
material, and bankers who make
further millions fron, such concerns
Ly selling their securities and acting
as their transfer agents?
Why, when you purposed to tpend
Z 500,000.00 of the public money,
without Consulting the people who
tarn it, did you confer with the
members of Wall Street' Money
Trust, into whose pockett , those
$500,000,000 would flow?
Here are sonie of the gentlemen
to whom that ardent patriot, Colonel
Thompson, addressed hirnseif;
J. Pierpont Morgan
Thomas W. Lamont
William H. Porter
Henry P. Davisom
Charles Steele
Paul D. Cravath
Elbert H. Gary
. Harry Payne Whitney
Scward Prosser
5. H. P. Pell
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Ogden I Mills
Frederic R. Coudcrt
Prancis Iv Hine
Edmund C Converse
Daniel G. Rcid
Percy Rockefellcr
I'rqnk A. Vanderlip
L, L. Clarke.
The luncheon was held. The in
roceut Colonel, addressing las dis
tinguished and "disinterested"
guests, broached bis pet plan of dis
tributing $500,000,000 of American
money to America' armament man
ufacturers. To bis grntification, the
issue was "enthusiaslically advocat
td," as promptly recorded in the
Trust Waiil? War,
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Aitiiiist itr.t "(In l'ii,if, üK'fi
Mfl .ntfotaiion hm obuine.)
"I ff.hr moniiiitirf to
tJS.wminii," Meii. MLtujrt,
tljty nd C'oiivre rt menibr ol
t!t Mff l I tuet Iki.iiiI.
'lh .Sittrt Jouiiul d.ifd
tlut II, e i,it:ktuu Sie rl Luin
',my lu lern m war tirdfii
to ist xtut t.f $,Ht.'Mi (or r n
ant tccl. Im f the invited
flrio!i, Messrs. Cornelius Vander
'It und Ugden L. Mills, are director
lf thu c,i!,i,,,n v.
The Wall Street Journal further
rclatcd on W;iy tth: "Ihe Pres
ident of the .National Surety Com
pany estimatet that $l,500,0ou,0oo in
war ni.itenat hat been contracted
for. The estimate is based on the
application for surety bonds which
Ins Company Ins received. Strange
to relate, we find tmong the direct
ors ot the National surety Company
the nanie of Mr. I retleric R. Coudert
who, in the public prints, so bitterly
drnouncet Cermany every time a
delicate diplomatic crisis occurs
between that country and our own
Surely, Mr. Coudcrt does not desire
to see this country go to war on be
half of his beloved France, that the
.auonai may unuerwrite more sure
ty bonds !
The Colonel Unmasked
Again we find that on May 4th
the Wall Street Journal informs the
Street that "the international Nickel
Company is enjoying an imorove
ment in its busintss because of the
increase in the consumption of
nickel brought about by the war
And what do we hnd here? Oh,
sname to. teil itl Uh. Colonel, Col
onel, is it thut you dupe your coun
trymen? Colonel Robert M. Thomv
son is chairman of the board of the
International Nickel' Company, and
among the directors are Messrs. Ed
mund C. Converse, S. H. P. Pell,
an 6 dewara Grosser.
The Wall Street Journal further
chronicles that the American Loco.
motive Company's Order for shrap
nel amounts to apirroximately $65.-
000,000," which must be of specific
interest to Mr. L. L. Clarke, one of
the directors.
Westinghouse Electric & Man
ufacturing is one of the deadliest of
the war Stocks on the Stock Lx
change, and Mr. Paul D. Cravath is
a member of its board.
Another ?'war stock" it General
Electric, one of. whose directing
geniuses is Mr. Charles Steele, of
J. P. Morgan & Co.
The Farmers' Loan & Trust Com
pany is transfer agent for the Gen
eral Electric Company, and on the
trust cowpany board we locate
Messrs. Percy Rockefeller and
Frank A. Vanderlip.
The Guaranty Trust Company is
the transfer agent for the Westing
house, American Car & Foundry,
Atlas Powder Company, Hercules
Powder Company, and other war
munitions concerns. Messrs. Daniel
G. R td, Harry Payne Whitney, and
Thom,. W. Lamont are its direct
ors. The Bankers Trust Company Is
transfer agent for the Baldwin Loco
motive Works, and among the
directors of this concern are Messrs.
Reid, Hine, Davison, and Converse.
So there, all the disinterested
patriots are aecounted for, yea, even
the founder of the Navy League.
Why then, I ask, should not Col
onel Thompson' scheme to tpend
$500,000,000 of government money
have been "enthusiastically advocat
ed" by gentlemen so closely affil
iated with the war munitions fact
orics? Why should they not have
leaned back in their chair at the
obliging Coloorl's luncheon, clinked
their glasses, and cheered, laughing
in their sleeves over the jest they
were having at the expense of their
simple-minded countrymen, while
they slapped their capacious pockets
in the hope of soon secreting there
the $300,000,000 to be spent on
armamerut.
For, you see, the war in Europe
some time will be ended, and the
Money Trust's war munitions plants
must not be idle. No, it is the duty
of Wall Street patriots to organize
Navy Leagues and National decur-
ity Leagues and the like, that the
government may be urged by the
great patriotic clamor to spend vast
ums on war material.
coloiiei, i have a turtöer wora to
say to you. You are a personal
friend, I believe, of Mr. James Gor
don Bennett, owner of the Herald,
who. I see, subscribed several thous-
and dollars to your Singular scheine.
Mr. ennett s an expatnate, who is
cabling frantically to this side of
the water that the United States
must ioin the war to rescue his
adopted country. France.
Colonel, if the people of this
country wish to have a larger army
and navy, they will not consult the
chairman of the International Nickel
Company, nor Bennett, the Franco
American, nor your fnends, the
niakers of shrapnel. Their represent
atives in Congress will attend to
that. And the government will build
its own armaiucnt plants, It will
not buy the idle ones of the Money
Trust when the war ba ended ,
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V. nttiptlljr b'tl'f l'l l'tt h O'.lt n. I
I'i't np reut tiinliliM that dfl
thun tuf.f in the 't."--tSiiiii)y
ie, ii er t
June Jilli.Cluirte M. Sclmah,
of th Helhlehein fteel Compsny,
will l'tiild the Nord ,,. ry far tlie
müiiiili,cttir ol shnttMiel.
Amrtut ad. Followinn th recent
trip lure of Clurle M. Schwab,
wit!. lintish and Kusian arniy of
hcer, it i announced tlut thc
Bethlehem iteel Company will build
a large factory near itt theil proving
groiiiid at Cape May Point, for the
making of powder and theils.
August lüth The Dupont Powder
Company hat begun the work of
staking out the building on the
fourth addition to the Dupont plant
at Carney Point. The addition will
be larger than any of the other three
plant now in Operation. When the
war began, the Company had only
one plant, the other having been
auded in quick time as ordert in
creased. August Loth. Th Dupont
Company is to distribute $58,000,000
in new stock in a new Corporation.
August llth. The plant of the
dmitk oi Wallace Company, man
ufacturers of electrical supplics, hat
been leased to an association of New
York financiers and will immediately
be converted into a war munitions
factory.
. August llth The Bethlehem Steel
Company has purchased the modern
plant of the Detrick & Harvey
Machine Company. Ihe manufact
ure of munitions of war will be be
gun as soon as possible.
May LSth. The Atlas Powder
Company has secured control of
various powder rnills on the Pacific
coast. Stockholders of the Com
pany have authorized $5,500,000 6
cumulative preferred stock for
necessary financing.
Here is a faint Conception of the
tremendous new enterprises of the
Money Trust. Now I hall quote
tle Wall Street Journal of July 19th:
"Will the fcmand for war mated!
outlast the Conflict?- Will the great
industry that has been, established in
so short a time end with the war?
It is noticeable that those concerns
that are erecting plant extensions or
new plant to take care of the war
business, are not providing tempor
ary and inexpensive structures. They
are building modern ana permanent
structures of brick or concrete and
steel.
More War to Come
"If the war continues or is fol
lowed by others, the mumtion
makers would be in a position to
reap enormous prosit as a result
of having the plants ready.
Yes, our far-sighted financiers will
see to it that this war "is followed
by others." And they will . "reap
enormous proiits.
But who, at the dictum of the
Money Trust, will toil to pay for
those untold millions to be spent
by our country on armament. for
the upkeep of the new war plants?
Who. at the dictum of the Money
Trust, must thed their blood in the
wars that are "followed by others"?
Brothers, you and I.
Yes, my thoughtless brothers,
and then we, too, thall echo the
bitter groans we have heard emitted
by despairing millions, staggering
under the military burdens of
Europe's monarchies.
And now are we to be the dupes
of Wall Street "patriots"?
If we investigate the patriotism of
the members of the Money Trust we
shall find it to be thin-skinned, in-
decd. Their ambition is to amass
great fortunes, and then to seek
their homes abroad. They choose
new homes in France and England
for rcasons such as to escape un
pleasant public inquiries, or that
they may lead lives that would not
be approved by their fellow country
men. I refer to expatriatesi such as
James Stillman, one-time President
of the National City Bank; James
Hazen Hyde. of insurance tcandal
famc; William E. Corey, of the Steel
Trust, and James Gordon Bennett,
of unsavory name. I refer to men
like Henry James, who renounced
bis country; to men like Sir Thomas
Shaughnessy and Sir William C van
Hörne, who told their American
birthright for a foreign title.
But when the day of trouble
comes, such sine gentry troop back
home, as these have done. And then
they read us a lesson in patriotism,
and teil us that we must fight for
the countrie of their adoption.
Yes, they say that to us; we, the
millions who stay here and toil and
stiller for our country' good; we,
who are descended from races other
than the English; we, whose fatbers
tilled the soit in pioneer days, tnd
shed their blood in all our country'
wars.
They teil us that we must fight
for England, these expatriates, these
lip-patriots, their pockets fat with
British gold we inust fight for Eng
land, the hereditary enemy of our
and, for her agmnst whom- our
fathers fought, for England, our
worst enemy to-day.
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p'ihükt et ttttlrh .l: utif t. in
(irrest littl Kintte, ! they i
ttittilied I i'litt.ift t.
df title mn tt Ihert lls.it tttfn
y-'i wbi Nvft f Mii. ! n t featr
Si'Mf mtitttti you I Itti'i well, t
csn ft tliem letn b.'x k nd neer:
U!t I ibtit t tat whl it pnhl, ,!,,
hotit "1 in lh rathmani.
I he I aiherund U botiiiht
with German gohl," tnd then they
l.,,ih ttl wii.k Mild luiRle in their
pinkst their Mrittth R"ld inttle in
thamcful trd.
Do you ktto" why th!t it pul,
Ü'hed in The latherland ?
t thall teil you. 1 et pjunt out
tnong you ani your Wall Street
Irien.lj the rtamet of meti who ar
part ownert of the great New York
dailiet, who finance Ihcm, and dom-
inate them with their advertising,
Small wonder that the Money Trust
hat poisoned the public mind with
the taintcd tyndicate newt Services
sent broadeast tnrougnout our
country.
The New York newsoartera know
that what l write about the Money
lrust is true, but they do not dare
to print the truth. And that is why
it is pnnted in Ihe latherland.
Brothers, these men have wealth
and power, but they re few. We are
many, and as Edwin Lawrence God-
kin truly said: In the voice of the
majority there is all the majesty of
doom.
You, who love your country, join
us, work with us, for "the'dark night
cometh when no man can work."
(The Fatherland.)
Eritaln's Cornntereial War
on the United States.
. The United State government is
officially informed by one of its
trustad and capable representatives
that ßreat Britain, while shutting
off American commerce with the
neutral nations of northern Europe,
is increasing its own exports to
those countries. The merchandise
that Americans are not permitted to
seil js now sold by British export
ers, thanks to the fraudulent block
ade. In some commodities British
exports have quintupled during the
last year while American exports of
the same commodities have been
diverted to British ports.
Under the pretext of necessity,
Great Britain is preventing American
goods from going to Holland, Den
mark, Norway or Sweden. All car
goes are tubject to detention, and
most of them are detained in Brit
ish ports. When the Americans
make an extra clamor their cargoes
are purchased at its own priceby
the British government Then Brit
ish merchants send word to the
waiting consumers that the Amer
ican cargoes have been held up, but
that British goods are available.
Thus the trade of the neutral coun
tries named is being taken over by
Great Britain, all in the name of
"military necessity," and with the
smug Suggestion that "our American
cousins will sympathetically under
stand our necessities."
No more cold-blooded, rapacious
conspiraey was ever concocted than
this robbery of American commerce
under the- guise of legitimate war
operations.
Recently Great Britain has made
cotton contraband, so that it may be
seized without compensation to the
owner. At the same time British
exports of cotton to countries ad
jacent to Germany are rapidly in
creasing. Heretofore cotton cargoes
were paid for; now they are merely
robbed on the high seas.
Ihe United States government
has delayed making an efkectual Pro
test to Great Britain against this
high-sea piraey because of the
complications arising from the Lusi-
tania, Arabic and simuar horrors,
which fixed public attention upon
the questions affecting life rather
than property. In the meantime,
the British policy of destroying
American trade relation with Hol
land, Denmark, Norway and Swede
has been pursued with the utmost
diligence. It is time that the United
States should call all offenders to
aecount. Ine commercial war that
is being waged against this country
calls for decisive action, unless the
United States is willing to.become
an adjunct to the British commercial
System.
(Washington Post.)
Wenige Stunden nachdem
Frank Granco, der in Snow Hill bei
Cambridge, Md., or Menschen er
mordet hat, an Bord eines nach Bai
timore bestimmten Dampfers gebracht
worden war, stürmten 125 Lyncher
don Snolo Hill das Gefängnis in
Salisbury und waren bitter ent
täuscht, als sie unverrichtcter Dinge
wieder abziehen mußten. -
Allerdings. A.: .Du
sagst, Du lügst nie, aber neulich, als
Du Dich don einem langweiligen Tee
Abend drücken wolltest, schütztest Du,
obwohl Dir nicht daS Geringste fehl
te, Schwindel vor!"
B.: Nun, das war doch auch
Schwindel!"
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"'tkik'l ,it t'!rttfl.(;i(.fj Uni itl
ll'n Clfitifti in Unfern t"f,un
j.iZ steh!". h küh,!, die CotuVifl.
Iit im il.iüfuilttfrt tuxt in ,d tust
tuti'tutilch aus: .'.'.'! !,.'k Unkikschikd
zwij!!tt bis ff r hubnlutfn Gclibtti
tat, tt-rMe lintl Itt f 1 oti fEf n i'ifrf.
mall unfftfi ut ist. und teilt
CiKlkckkNökiMne. mi! tvtUUm tat
fttnMtche Herr zusammkiigkhaücn
rt ttD . tk sprich, di'n einer Iln
zahl don Cikatn und Gkfanaknen.
ohne auch nur eine koitku!e Äiigiide
zu matten, und all dni (iigt er in ei
nem Tone, all ob die sierreichisch
ungarisä.e Armee bereil ufgerikben
wäre. CadornaZ schwülstige Tiraden
wirken umso komischer, als die Jtg.
ener beianntlich in Wirklichkeit
nicht den geringsten Erfolg aufzuwel
sen haben.
Mit unnachahmlichem Humor glos,
siert die österreichisch ungarische
Heeresleitung diesen Sadornafchen
Bericht. .Selbst eine Schnecke, so
langsam sie sich bewegt, kommt".
o heim es m diesen Glossen, we
gen der Stetigkeit ihrer Fortbewegung
im Laufe der Zeit ganz beträchtlich
weiter. Cadorna, der zwei Monate
hindurch die Nennung von Ortsbe
Zeichnungen sorgsam vermied, um das
lÄeyelmnis des Tempos .stetigen
Fortschrittes zu verhüllen, fühlte sich
am 25. Juli, also bei Beginn des
dritten Kneasm'onats. endlich doch ae
drängt, der allgemeinen Spannung
Rechnung zu tragen. Was seine
Landleute hofften und wünschten, die
Ueberwindung der Jsonzofront,
konnte er allerdings nicht berichten,
nicht einmal die Einnahme von Görz.
dafür tischte er andere Trümpfe der
siegreichen Waffen auf". Bon diesen
Erfolgen ist aber nur einer ein wirk
sicher Erfolg: die Eroberung des
Monte bei sei Busi, und auch dieser
überlebte die Verlautbarung der Be
richte Cadornas nicht, da die Jtalie.
ner beim Abschluß der zweiten Gör.
zer Schlacht " aus diesen Stellungen
wieder hinausgeworfen ; wurden.
Wie wir Cadorna kennen gelernt ha
den." so fahren die Glossen fort,
.wird er sich indessen auch über diese
schwere, bluttriefende Niederlage zu
trösten wissen. Ein Schwall von
Phrasen wird auf das italienische
Publikum niederprasseln und in dessen
Seelen vollbringen, was der tage
lange Geschoßhagel bei unseren Trup
pen nicht zu erzielen vermochte. Das
Geschick will es eben, daß die Italic
ner trotz erdrückender Ueberzahl sich,
statt mit Eroberung der österreichisch
ungarischen Stellungen am Jsonzo,
mit stetigen" Fortschritten zufrieden
geben mußten zur Erleichterung
Cadornas, der bei einem wirklichen
Siege verlegen würde, wie er seine
bisherigen Berichte überbieten könnte".
Fürwahr eine köstliche und wohl
verdiente Abfertigung der großmäuli
gen Phrasendrescherei des italienischen
Oberfeldherrn!
Der FernsPrech Ver
kehr in Paris leidet unter dem Kriege
ganz erheblich. Vielen Geschäftsleu
n ist es fast unmöglich, die Fern
sprechanfchlußgebühr von 400 Frank
zu zahlen. Der Kleinhandel ist des
halb der der Post und Telegraphen
direktion vorstellig geworden, Einzel
gesprächsgebühren einzuführen, wo
durch auch die Fernsprechverwaltung
eine tägliche Einnahme hatte. Diese
Erscheinung wirft ein grelles Licht
auf die darniederliegenden Geschäfts
Verhältnisse in Paris.
Aus Königsberg wird
berichtet: In wenigen Wochen wird
sich nun auch hier au dem schönsten
Platz der Stadt, dem Paradeplatz,
ein eiserner Wehrmann erheben. Die
Lokalhistoriker waren entschieden 'da
für eingetreten,- als Gegenstand der
Darstellung Hans von Sagan zu
wählen: jenen wackeren Schuhkmcht,
der durch sein besonnenes und tapse
res Verhalten die ,m Jahre 1370 den
Heiden gelieferte Schlacht bei Rudau
zu gunsten des deutschen Ordens ent
schieden haben soll. Man hat sich
aber in den ausschlaggebenden Krei
sen schließlich für einen .eisernen"
Noland' entschieden. Etwas GuteS
wird in jedem Fall entstehen, da die
künstlerische Ausführung des Nage
lungdenimals von dem Bildhauer der
Königsberger Kunstakademie,' Prof.
StanislauS (lauer, übernommen wor
den ist.
Dre Llttauer haben für .lie
bcn" und .bewirten" ein und dasselbe
Wort jmZlöti)k
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(liuiiity of hüt England' meantr
ttt evoke distiain rather than rtg.
Intpotsilile it the pirture ot the
Ccrnunt which the l'.nglith have
cr-aletl (or themtclve, lt it one
with the monstrout jmsi,iliutit of
rn.ilfornied and nitirky braint that
flare iip with hat one Moment,
then are choked with inky turnet the
next. On reading the Englith papert
one atk oneself, half in norror, half
in a ort of ttunncd anius-tnent,
whether it he possible that human
being eould accept at real the
ghastly caricaturet and incredible
montier they have made of other
human beings? The belicf of the
Bushman in hit grotestjue chimerat
is at nothing compared to the belief
of the Britisher in his Monster Ger
tnan. In the days of Napoleon the
Ignorant Britisher firmly believed
that "Boney" ate wotnen and chil
dren; in our day the educated Brit
isher believes at firmly that the
Germans laughter them. In the
same way we must measure the pro
found debasement of a man capable
of uttering such low and revolting
words as those recently spoken by
Rudyard Kipling "there are but
two creatures in the world today
human beings and Germans"
(cheers.) by what they disclose of
the Speaker and not by what they
preposterously declare.
"sherefore we and our AHies
must continue to pres through fire
to Moloch till Moloch perishes."
(cheers).
Moloch! How came this incredible
German to take root in the British
brain? How was it possible to
make ane men accept as real the
crimson devil which the slanderous
British press painted in such horrid
hues upon the firmament? From
what wicked sorcery and poisonous
fumes did this hideous flamboyant
genie arise in the dull Imagination
of an easy-going and no longer
heroic race ? That is a psychological
puzzle for those whose minds can
probe national morbidity. But its
mere existence is damning not only
for the English but for that petite
nation of virulent and fanatic
garnins, the French.
The pendulura Swings constantly
from one extreme of madness to an
other from shrill jeers of contempt
at the weakness and despair of Ger
many to frenzied screams of terror
at her power and cold-bloodedness.
As I have more than once pointed
out, the mud-cemented, rotten-tim-bered
House of Lies which the Al
lies reared to heiter their so-called
"Cause", cracks. totters and melts
away under the low but elernental
attack of Truth. Hence desperate,
furious, ernbecile atternpts to prop
it with further struts and lashings
of lies like the Bryce Report of
German atrocities. The falsehoods
men believe accumulate to a moun
tain within their sight And this
mountain in the Imagination of the
real barbarians become in time a
mythical monster. That monster is
Germany as seen by the feverish,
war-maddened eyes of her western
enemies.
There is, to be sure, one deep
lyinz psychological reason for this.
The achievements, the victories, the
colossal physical power and moral
strength of Germany are by a
peculiar process of perverted thought
re-translated into evil attributes by
the Obsession in the bratn of her
enemies. Ii other words white it
deliberately transformed into black
because one sees nothing but red.
The inevitable results of modern
war waged in the most seien tif ic
and energetic and intelligent way in
the enemy' country, are converted
into black "atrocities" by her foes
who have not a tingle positive
achievement to how. The conviction
of this truth, which must at times
steal over such reason as is lest in
the hands of the Allies, produces in
turn that ill-balanced, impotent fury
that hnds no outlet save in coarse
abuse, or brutality against the help
less, or in torrents of indiscriminate
slander that bespeak the lllness of
the nausea at a nation' soul.
When the inky all that hansrs
before the eyes of these nations
shall be lifted and the clean cool
wind of a sweet reasonablenesa blow
once more over the hissing lava of
their bewildered minds the true
character of the Germans, that
Brandest of all modern nations, will
emerge stainless, serene and strong.
White will be white again, and black
black.
The atrocious attempt to hold up the
most cultivated, peaceful, kindly, in
dustrious and law-abiding people in
the world as Molochs and monster
merely because the same uperior in
telligence they display in the pur
suits of peace, guides them in the
conduct of war, will collapse like a
rank, uprooted weed.
Shall I declare to you why, in the
word of the Alliet, white is now
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the t,nit plintii of her rijhtciu
cütisr, 'in, nxli hroive.l, rtian.tii
irnotitt, in tlia l,t,.e of hrr drin tont
nennet h is tlurelfre dniotiiHcd
at "The Ma,I l.)ng of Europe."
Btit quite apart frotn Convention!
rnorslity, there it an iinniorul teil
acity in Truth, And because it it
iiiitiinrul it it terrihle. This iron law
is the evcrlasting Nenieti that
hangt above Ihe paper tentt ani
naktd tonguct of the arm, et of
falsehood and hypoerisy.
Can they bind the düster of the
Plciade or loose the band of
Orions
Terhaps this quotation may come
honte with a peculiar light to the
soul of Mr. Rudyard Kipling, with
its flair for the Biblicalf Perhapt
he will recall the sentiinent of his
"Recessional" and give us a new
desinition of hypoerisy? Perhaps he
will not refrain from clainiing a gift
for true prophetic analysis when re
reading the warning of his "Is
länders?" Perhaps he has not for
gotten those day when he lay ill
in America with a fever from which
he seems never to have entirely
recovered, and Moloch inquired akter
his condition in hourly telegrams?
One of the fatal signs of the dark
ness that has over taken a press
poisoned people is the peculiar
blight that seems to gnaw at the
minds of England' foremost think
er and gifted men. Their tongue
are wryed and what they utter is as
sand and gravel. Their brain ring
as hollow as the vibrant leather of
the recruiting drum, For all this is
the fatal, dreadful and inevitable
result of the attempt to des end a
cause begotten in iniquity, delivered
in darkness and nursed upon lies.
It has slain genius and numbed the
sinews of logic.
I am sitting her in the clear Ger
man sunlight, amidst the rustling of
the German linden and the sonar
and laughter of healthy, beautiful
uerman cmidren playin f? m one ot
the splendid, flower-decked park of
this brignt and peacetul üarbanan
Capital. All about me I feel, as
though it were an electric current,
the gigantic throbbing of the heroic
German heart, the masterly, deep,
harmonious rhythra of this people's
soul. A thousand evidences of their
innate kindliness blossom up before
my eyes the kindness to children.
to dogs, to the aged, yes, to their
very enemies, as I saw yesterday at
Doeberitz with my own eyes. This .
deep solicitude for the poor or help
less is but a spark from that wonder
ful and imperishable fire that towers
to heaven in Love of Fatherland.
Here are soldiers that fought in
Belgium now playing with the
children, or lost in sentimental
rha'psodie with their sweethearts.
And he who says these magnificent
men were guilty of the horrible
cruelties begotten in Belgian brains
and sown broadeast by the Franco
British press, lies in his heart of
heart.
I have three newspapers in my
band a German, a French and an
English. The German, like nearly all
German newspapers, is quiet, re
strained, seemly in its tone, a re
flection of the true values of the
gentleman which this war ha
proved as residing more deeply in
the German nation than in all others.
The second is Le Matin. It reads
as though written by maniacs and
men possessed of devils, the revela
tion of a people gone raving mad
with the red lunaey of war. Its
muddy prints swarms with the
mouth-missiles of the French hys
terical shrieks of "les Boches" rid
iculous, impotent yells of "les Bar
bares!" But the darkest depths of brutal
ity and malignity are reached with
the English paper. Here, black upon
white, in the pure sunlight pouring
from these blue heavens, I read
these words in the London Times
of June 19th. They occur in an art
icle entitled "A Tour Through the
Trenches." "Yesterday one of our
brave soldiers captured a German
and plunged his bayonet into his
body with the words: "This is for
the Lusitanial" Then, after a hört
pause, he transfixed him for the
second time; "And that's for my
seif." No love is lest between us
and the enemy. Not long ago a Ger
man came toward us shouting: "I am
a Christian." The answer was: "Are
you really a Christian I All right,
we'll make an angel of you." A bul
let ended the life of a German
scoundrel."
Without shame, without one sign
of recognizing the enormity of it
words, the leading English news
paper lays bare something that men
have hitherto ttriven to Eide in the
deepest depth of their souls.
You are right, you proud and hon
orable Germant: there it nc need to
li about your enemies. The inexor
able law of things ha brought it
about that even out of their own
mouths they must inevitably reveal
the truth about thunsei ve.
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