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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: A searchlight on Germany: Germany's Blunders, Crimes and Punishment - -Author: Dr. William T. Hornaday - -Release Date: December 27, 2016 [EBook #53814] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SEARCHLIGHT ON GERMANY *** - - - - -Produced by Brian Coe, Graeme Mackreth and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - - - - - - _Price 3 cents per copy in lots of 25 or more_ - - A - SEARCHLIGHT ON GERMANY - - GERMANY'S BLUNDERS, CRIMES - AND PUNISHMENT - - BY - DR. WILLIAM T. HORNADAY - - _Member Board of Trustees American Defense Society_ - - _Preparation Pamphlet Series_ - - PUBLISHED BY - AMERICAN DEFENSE SOCIETY - 44 EAST 23d STREET - NEW YORK CITY - - - - -I. The Blunders of Germany. - -BY WILLIAM T. HORNADAY. - -Member Board of Trustees American Defense Society. - - -Already in America there are signs of the inevitable "magnanimity" -toward the great world criminal of the present world war, and of -a movement for a whitewashed peace with "no annexations and no -indemnities." There is danger that within six months Americans who do -not know Germany will seek to snatch the boon of durable peace and -human freedom from the Allied nations who have given their bravest -and best men, literally by millions, and their wealth by billions, to -protect the rights of man. A German peace means a German triumph, and -the certainty of another war in the near future. As an approach toward -a settlement, it is now very necessary that every American should know -Germany exactly as that bloody military dragon really is. As a means to -that end, these three chapters have been written. - -The blunders, crimes and punishment of Germany are inseparably linked -together. - -The blunders of Germany constitute a spectacle of very much more than -passing interest. The questions they raise are by no means academic. -The logic of them is as inexorable as Death. They are of vital interest -to every freeman, and to every state and nation that sincerely -undertakes to conserve the rights of its people. To unhappy Austria, -shoved into the war by Germany, they are of life or death interest. -=A correct view of Germany is now absolutely essential to the future -freedom of man!= - -Germany now resembles a rat in a pit, furious from countless defeats, -insane with baffled hate and rage, and wild with a fearful certainty of -her Finish. All her fine plans, and twenty years of active preparation, -have gone awry. Her vast naval and military preparations have brought -her only death, poverty, ruin and hatred. Even her own allies now -thoroughly hate and detest her, and one and all would break away from -her if they dared. - -All her long years of lying and spying and plotting have been revealed -in their naked and hideous ugliness. She stands before the world as a -foiled conquestador, a black-hearted murderer of defenseless women, -children and old men, and the wholesale ravisher of helpless women. -The "skull-cracker" spiked club of Germany, and the deadly "murderer's -mace" of Austria, now abundantly shown in Italy's war museum, are used -for the murdering of wounded prisoners in the trenches and on the -battlefields. - -And now Germany, like a mortally wounded wolf with the hounds at his -throat, undertakes to propose terms of peace to the Allies! With -a great show of large-heartedness, the Reichstag now talks very -magnanimously of peace with "no annexations and no indemnities." Yes, -indeed! A peace on that basis would suit Germany well. Tricky and -shifty to the last gasp, she seeks thus to catch the swell-headed -"soldiers and workmen" of Russia, the large-mouthed and blatant -anarchists and radical socialists of America, and the traitor-pacifists -of the world at large. =But all honest men who are wide awake know full -well that a peace of that nature would spell "victory" for Germany, and -as certain as death and taxes another war with her later on!= - -The Entente Allies presently will fix the terms of peace, as they -should be fixed, and Germany will accept them; but first there will be -another eighteen months of war. - -With new German-made peace talk streaming out of Berlin, it is now time -to post the books for the past three years, and see how the German -account stands. Nothing is more conducive to peace and prosperity than -a true sense of proportion, and a correct point of view. In all times -of danger it is best to know the worst. - -The debit side of Germany's account quickly resolves itself, first of -all, into a catalogue of Germany's blunders, as the reasons for her -crimes, and her present state of impotent rage. It is highly necessary -that Americans should study this list, in order to judge the case -fairly, and to be able to act intelligently when the times comes for -the Allies to discuss the peace terms that Germany, Austria and Turkey -must accept. - -It is the natural impulse of high-minded and humane people to be -over-magnanimous to beaten enemies, =to condone crime altogether too -often=, and to help the down-and-out criminal to get back upon his -feet. It is also a sadly common thing for a confirmed criminal to turn, -cur-like, and bite the hand that helps him; and many a criminal has -murdered the generous man or woman who gave him a place to lay his head. - -There are criminals and criminals. Some deserve succor; others -merit quick extermination. The confirmed criminal is in a class by -himself. He is unfit to live; but as the very smallest measure of -self-protection, society should punish him for his crimes, and render -him innocuous for the future. In other words, every confirmed criminal -should either be killed or segregated, and made to exist in a little -hell of his own, while decent people go their respective ways in peace -and security. - -Eight million men, to whom America shortly will add at least two -million more, bravely are risking their lives on the battlefields of -Europe and Asia in an effort to put two criminal nations,--Germany and -Turkey,--into an exclusive hell of their own, and keep them there for -the protection of civilization. - -In courts of law, it is customary to consider the motives of the -prisoner at the bar, to search out his lines of thought, and study his -methods. An annotated catalogue of the blunders of Germany will afford -a clear insight into the present world situation, and the Teutonic -frame of temper. It will also serve a good purpose when the time comes -to arraign Germany and her allies for sentence. - - * * * * * - -Before we open the door of the German den of mixed wolves and mad-dogs, -let us read this marvelously true and prophetic pen picture of Kaiser -William as it was published by Harold Frederic, in the New York -_Times_, on April 2, =1888, twenty-nine years ago=: - -"In the same way you look into the face of this young heir of the -Hohenzollerns and remember the malignant tales which have been told -of his inner nature by those who know him best. Apparently all the -women--at least all the English women--who have had to do with the -bringing up of Prince William hold him in horror and detestation. I -have had numerous proofs of this, although I have never been able to -fasten upon any specific reason for it. Their dislike for him is based -on a general conception of his character. This view is that he is -utterly cold, entirely selfish, wantonly cruel; a young man without -conscience or compassion, or any softening virtues whatever. That he -has great abilities they all admit, but they stop there. Heart he has -none, upon their reckoning.... - -"It seems very probable that some future Taine a century hence, -perhaps, will write to show that William II of Prussia was =a -mysterious belated survival of the ante-mediaeval Goths and -Vandals,--an Attila born a thousand and more years after his time=." - -How many Americans are willing to trust themselves in the power of such -a man? - - -1. THE GREAT BLUNDER OF GERMANY AND HER KAISER IN STARTING THE WAR. - -By the light of the official documents of Austria, Servia, Germany, -Russia, France and England, now open before us, it is an easy task to -write the history of the beginning of the war in one paragraph. The -most conclusive evidence of Germany's guilt is the official "German -white book," dated "Foreign Office, August, 1914." It has convinced -many a reader. - -On July 25, 1914, Servia humbled herself to the dust at the feet of -Austria, to appease her for the murder of her crown prince by a crazy -and criminal fool; and little Servia conceded everything that giant -Austria demanded, save a practical surrender of her national honor. -Austria had fully made up her mind to destroy Servia, anyhow; and in -that connection Germany and her Kaiser decided the event would serve -well for starting the great war of conquest for which the Germans had -long and lovingly been preparing. The Czar begged the Kaiser not to -consent to the slaughter of little Servia by the Austrian big bully. -The Kaiser replied that Austria should have a free hand. The Czar -appealed to England and to France, to help him avert a war; and both -those nations did their level best to avert hostilities. No plea that -could postpone the clash of armies, or promote a peaceful settlement -was omitted. The last telegram of Czar Nicholas to Kaiser Wilhelm -(August 1) was a pathetic appeal for delay, and a chance "to negotiate -for the welfare of our two countries and the universal peace which -is so dear to our hearts. With the aid of God," said the Czar, "it -must be possible to our long-tried friendship to prevent the shedding -of blood." To this the Kaiser icily replied: "Although I asked for -a reply by to-day noon [to his telegraphed ultimatum], no telegram -from my Ambassador has reached me," and "I therefore have been forced -to mobilize my army." Germany's many statements that France began -hostilities with her are one and all totally false. - -Now, here is a significant fact: - -On July 14, 1917, in a speech before the Austrian Reichsrath former -Minister Praschek (a Czech) cried out: - -"=Must we continue to sacrifice our interests for the expansion of -Germany? Must we continue to submit to the German militarism that has -drawn us into this war?=" - -Alas! At last the truth is out, officially and openly! We thought as -much! Many men have believed that Germany shoved Austria into the -war, because Germany was all ready for her great offense, and the -murder at Sarajevo served as a convenient excuse. If Germany had not -backed up Austria, and Russia had forbidden Austria to attack Servia, -=there would have been no war=! But Germany hailed that murder as her -heaven-sent opportunity to begin. It was to her "Der Tag"! - -All the world knows that if the Kaiser had sent a nine-word telegram -to Austria, at a cost of one mark, saying: "Do not begin war on Servia -until further notice," Austria would not have dared go on! But no! -William and his Germans refused to admonish Austria, or to delay -hostilities by Germany. "We can not interfere with the plans of our -Ally;" said William, "and we have mobilized." - -=And thus did the German people and their Kaiser begin the war to which -they had so long and so eagerly looked forward.= - - -2. GERMANY'S RUTHLESS DEVOTION TO SELF INTEREST. - -When Rapacity moves into the next house, it is time to lock your cellar -door. Yoke up insatiable Appetite with colossal Egotism, and the -inevitable runaway is only a question of time. - -While enjoying the benefits of an industrial prosperity and a -world-wide commerce that had won the admiration of the world, the -Germans complained about being denied their "place in the sun"; and -they reached out after world supremacy. England and the United States -were like twin thorns in the side of the Kaiser and the German people -at large. The pan-Germanists busily plotted against both those nations. - -Concerning England, a distinguished German-born citizen of New York, -Mr. Otto H. Kahn, wrote to a relative in Germany (June 28, 1915) as -follows: - -"England has not abused her power at sea, ... any more than previous -to the present war you have abused your power on land. Not only has -she not stood in the way of your development, but =on the contrary she -has given you fair and free access to her markets, with unparalleled -liberality=." - -In fact, it was so "unparalleled" that by August, 1914, German -commercial houses had crowded out of Singapore every British house save -two! Wherever the British flag went, prior to the war, along with it -went the German trader. - -But, like the horseleech, Germany's cry was for "More"; and to get it -"=British sea power must be crushed!=" - -Unmitigated rapacity, in men or in nations, ever has been and always -will be a colossal blunder. - - -3. THE BLUNDER OF WORLD-WIDE TREACHERY. - -While America was sound asleep in the lap of Peace, and England -slumbered with only her sea eye open, Germany armed herself to the -teeth, and planted throughout England, France, America, Belgium, -Holland, Russia and India the most colossal spy-and-traitor system ever -developed. She secretly armed her African colonies so that on receipt -of the famous "Willie-is-ill" telegram, each one of her colonies -instantly was ready to fight. - -In 1911, while crossing Lake Tanganyika, Central Africa, on a steamer, -an American lady said to a German officer who sat beside her at the -dinner table, "Have you and your comrade been shooting?" "Not =yet=!" -said the officer, significantly; whereat his brother officer laughed -heartily, as if at a good joke. Later it became known that the business -of those two officers was the supplying of machine guns to German East -Africa. And still later it was learned that those guns were shipped to -Dar-es-Salaam in piano-boxes, marked "Pianos." No wonder Dar-es-Salaam -was so ready to begin fighting on August 2, 1914! - -There are times when the blunderings of German "statesmen" are so -crude and raw that, when they harm no one, they are comical. Even -amid the horrors of war all America is laughing over the wholesale -discomfiture and final undoing of Dr. Dumba, Papen, Boy-Ed (an -anything-but-precocious Boy), and Bernstorff, by a restless American -newspaper man with a taste for amateur detective work after amateur -crooks. - -One would naturally suppose that men officially designated by their -wise and honorable government to play dirty tricks on the people of a -friendly nation would at least have as much intelligence as ordinary -horses and dogs. But, no; not so with that Austro-German galaxy of -shining stars. - -One lonesome and harmless American newspaper man, John R. Rathom, -of the Providence _Journal_, had the gall to plant an employee in a -secretarial position at Excellency von Bernstorff's elbow. Also, he put -a bright American girl stenographer (=with= a red pencil) in the office -of the Austrian Consul-General in New York. And not content with those -outrages, he generously planted an office on each side of the German -fake-passport factory in New York, instead of on one side only. - -And it was a Providence _Journal_ man who with most criminal -carelessness changed portfolios with the astute Dr. Albert of Austria, -and staged a fight in a street car,--without extra charge,--while that -horrible mistake was being made. And the saddest part of it all is that -nearly forty-eight long hours elapsed ere the lynx-eyed Doctor noticed -the substitution, and made a fuss about it. - -Mr. Rathom's most delightful story is of his girl stenographer sitting -demurely on a big box of incriminating papers, just prior to its -shipment to Germany, sharing her frugal lunch with the shrewd Papen, -and dreamily drawing two large red hearts on the box-cover, to which -the sentimental Von thoughtfully and tenderly added a red transfixing -arrow. This spooning led to the cheap and easy identification of the -box in Merrie England. It reads like a foolishly impossible romance; -but the joke of it is, it is quite true. - -"Oh, mon! but it was peetiful!" - -With all their training in treachery, and education in plotting and -lying and concealment, Dumba, Bernstorff, Papen, Boy-Ed and Albert -were one and all the most stupid donkeys that ever came down the pike. -Not one of them knew the first principles of the self-protection -system that (temporarily) keeps expert liars and thieves and forgers -from being caught. Just fancy keeping check-stubs, and receipts, -and copies of letters, =in lawless proceedings=! Great is "German -thoroughness"--in being caught with the goods by an amateur sleuth, -acting on his own brass hook. - -Mr. Rathom, who has enough to laugh over at the expense of -Deutschland-über-alles for the rest of his life, has not shown to the -world more than one-twentieth of his mirth-provoking materials. But how -we do wish that by hook or by crook William the Witless might be told -just how stupid his diplomatic representatives really were, and how -much their stupidity helped the Allies. - -It has been said that liars need long memories; and it can safely be -added that they also need as much intelligence as pet monkeys. A rogue -who pays his fellow rogues =by checks on his bank account= is utterly -hopeless. The only proper place for him is the cooling room of an -asylum for idiots. - -The playgrounds of the great American schoolboy have produced many a -nugget of worldly wisdom. One of them is the unanswerable admonition -that "Cheating never thrives." - -All mankind hates treachery under the cloak of friendship. After -Boy-Ed, Papen, Bernstorff, Dumba and Albert, what will we think of the -Germans and Austrians who are sent to us after the war, to represent -their governments? How can Americans regard them as anything else -than spies and traitors of the same brands as their predecessors, -who will lie to us, and knife us in the back as often and as deeply -as the interests of their governments may seem to require? All such -"diplomats" deserve to be hanged by the governments to which they are -sent. Fancy the next "His Excellency, the German Ambassador" being -presented to the President of the United States a few months from now, -shaking hands, and proffering "friendship"! - - -4. THE BLUNDER IN GERMANY'S CONTEMPT OF ENGLAND. - -Among fighters, only the fool will underrate his adversary. Per contra, -it is only the fool who overestimates his own strength. The Germans of -Germany made both those blunders. - -The German navy is a strange mixture, of brave men and cowards, of -gallant gentlemen and murderous curs; and all of them are directed by -asses. No sooner is a gallant feat of seamanship recorded and acclaimed -than it is completely beclouded and besmirched by some act of dirty -cruelty which turns admiration into loathing. The history of German -naval doings in this war is like a checkerboard of black and white -squares; but the few remaining white squares are rapidly turning black. - -In commerce-raiding the Germans are great; and the U-boat is a wonder. -The more humble the prey, the better for the boat. But the U-boat is -mighty careful not to tackle a destroyer, and take a sporting chance; -and when he finds that his tramp-freighter prey is armed, he feels -that he is indeed in hard luck. His favorite warfare is fighting, with -torpedoes and guns galore, unarmed fishing smacks and rusty tramp -steamers. His favorite order is: "Fire when you see them spit on the -bait!" - -And now he has taken on the habit of shelling life-boats loaded to -the gunwales with helpless crews, and sending them all to the bottom. -Sometimes the gallant U-boat captain comes close up, and he and his -crew come out and jeer at drowning men and women as they struggle in -icy waters. - -The German High Seas Fleet is grand--at running for cover whenever the -British get a chance at it. The manner in which the _Bluecher_ was left -to its fate while all the other gallant battleships of the German fleet -madly scuttled for the Kiel Canal, had its comical side; but it was -truly typical of the Kaiser's navy. It is said that after that event -Tirpitz provided his naval code with a new signal, reading, "Every man -for himself, and England take the hindmost." - -Germany's bid for the supremacy of the seas was far too low; and it has -cost her heavily. - - -5. BLUNDERING ESTIMATES OF NATIONAL IDEALS. - -It is natural for a wolf to take a wolf's point of view; but often it -is expensive to the wolf. - -Germany's big men who have been masquerading as "statesmen" have been -proven by the logic of events to be the most colossal blunderers the -world has ever seen; and of them Kaiser Wilhelm is the chief. - -They had it figured out (1) that Italy would necessarily cast in her -lot with the nation who had robbed her of her Adriatic provinces, and -with the other nation who by crafty methods had grasped her commerce, -railroads and banks by the throat with a German grip not pleasant to -feel. - -(2).--They believed that Belgium would, for the sake of "peace," submit -to being overrun and converted into a German camp, with the ultimately -certain seizure and retention of the port of Antwerp. - -(3).--They believed that because of having no army worth mentioning, -and for Irish and Indian reasons, England could be bribed into a state -of degrading passivity while Germany completely destroyed her ally, -France. And Chancellor Hollweg nearly wept when he could not convince -Sir Edward Goschen that a pledge of neutrality was a thing to be -ignored at will, and that a solemn international treaty was only "a -scrap of paper." In failing to understand that England possesses a -sense of national honor to which Germany was a total stranger, which -bore no taint of either commercialism or cowardice, and which Britons -throughout the world will maintain with all their lives, regardless of -cost, the Chancellor and Jagow made a strictly German blunder, which no -child with a taste for history ever should have made. On this point the -stupidity of the Kaiser and his cabinet looms up like the Pyramid of -Cheops. They judged the English by themselves. - - -6. BLUNDERING WITH AMERICA. - -Germany's chief blunder regarding America was due to her contempt for -this sleepy, easy-going, unarmed, peace-loving nation of Quixotic -chivalry toward small nations, or big ones that are weak, and her -utterly grotesque worship of riches and luxury. On no other hypothesis -is it possible to account for the endless series of insults, injuries -and treacheries that were handed out to the United States from the -early sinking of the _Robert Dollar_ down to the final declaration of -ruthless submarine war on American commerce and American lives. - -Never in all the history of nations did any strong nation ever endure -without war one one-hundredth part of the causes for war that were -heaped upon us by Germany between August 1, 1914, and the final -severance of relations. For the sake of "peace" with a mad-dog military -despotism, we endured insults, injuries and murders until the whole -world looked at us in stupefied amazement. Why, in the first year of -our Civil War, we came to the very verge of war with England because -we halted at sea the British steamer _Trent_, and took from it, as -ordinary prisoners of war, the two Confederate commissioners, Mason -and Slidell. But Germany sank scores of American ships, and drowned -hundreds of Americans,--and still we went on seeking to avoid the clash -of arms. - -But, always "Beware the fury of a patient man!" - -Now that we have put our hand to the plough, the furrow will be turned -to the uttermost finish, whether it takes one year or ten years. We -will not leave a living Pfafner,--a great, stinking German military -dragon,--as a heritage for our children. - - -7. THE BLUNDER OF "FRIGHTFULNESS." - -There are some blunders that dogs and horses, and even sensible wild -animals, do not commit. Of all the stupidities of the German people, -the crowning glory of their blundering is their idea that German -savagery and "frightfulness" could so appal their enemies that they -would be paralyzed by the shock of atrocities, and purchase peace at -any price. It is difficult to believe that such fantastic theories -as these originated anywhere outside of a madhouse. No words at our -command can so well describe this situation as do the words of a -once-German, of New York and of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, Mr. Otto H. Kahn. -They were written on June 28, 1915, to a relative in Germany, and -published in the N.Y. _Times_ of July 4, 1917. - -"The theory of 'frightfulness' in the conduct of warfare which Germany -now preaches and practices is no new discovery. On the contrary, it -is a very ancient one,--so old, in fact, that long ago it came to be -discarded and superseded in European warfare, and passed into the limbo -of forgotten things. There, until resurrected by your countrymen, it -lay for generations, along with much else that the human race had -overcome and left behind in the progress of culture and humanity,--a -progress achieved by strenuous toil, sacrifices and suffering in the -course of many centuries. - -"=And what have you gained from your 'frightfulness'?= Your victories -have been due to quite other qualities. =By your 'frightfulness' you -have steeled your enemies to the utmost limit of sacrifice; you have -embittered neutral opinion; you have disappointed and grieved your -friends, and sown dragon's teeth, the offspring of which will arise -against you many years, even after the conclusion of peace.=" - -These are indeed words of wisdom and truth. Even after the conclusion -of peace, the exponents of "frightfulness" and the knights of the -"skull-cracker" will be accorded a hell of their own. - - -8. THE BLUNDER AS TO AMERICANS OF GERMAN DESCENT. - -One of Germany's colossal blunders was her estimate of the sentiments -and principles of German-born people who have made their homes in -America, and the American sons and daughters of German-born parents. -German statesmen whose criminal wishes shaped their thoughts sincerely -believed that the admiration and love of the Kaiser's despotism, -including even the military iron heel, was so great that the influence -of American liberty, open-hearted hospitality and vast opportunity -would count for naught when the Kaiser cracked his whip. - -The Simple Simons of Wilhelmstrasse actually believed that in any -struggle with America, all Americans of German ancestry necessarily -would be traitors to their own hearthstones, and would rise en masse, -fully-armed, cobra-like, to strike the government of the United States. -Being themselves ruthlessly devoted to the idea of might and conquest, -and the merciless subjugation of small and weak nations, they judged -their kindred in America by their own rotten standards. They foolishly -assumed that a German forty years in America would willingly become a -black-hearted traitor to the land that for years had sheltered him, -and made much of him,--simply because the ruthless builders of modern -Germany had endeavored to keep a grip on him, and had willed that he -should obey their orders. - -But the people of America made no mistakes of that kind. They -recognized that so long as the United States was not at war with -Germany, the sympathy of all Americans of German descent would be -against the Allies. That was as natural as it is for water to run -down hill. But when war with Germany was declared, after a multitude -of insults and injuries and too many efforts at avoidance, the -native American felt no serious misgiving regarding the great body -of Americans of German ancestry. All that they did fear was the -crazy possibilities of individual hot-heads; and it was pointed out -to German-Americans that the insane and treasonable acts of such -irresponsibles might easily involve great masses of perfectly innocent -people. The Americans of German descent sternly forbade all such folly -by their people, and it will be a pleasure for the historians of these -times to record the fact that the German-born Americans have, as a -mass, elected to be Americans first, and the others have wisely feared -to be openly hostile to the United States. - -Except the Anarchists, Socialists and I.W.W's., American ideals have -made lasting impressions upon many of our people whose veins contain -foreign blood, though not upon all. Young Ernest and Heinrich are in -the National Guard, and lads August and Herman are in the Boy Scouts, -busy saluting the flag; and all are quite ready to fight for the only -home country that they know. They are not in the ranks of the alien -malcontents who are organized to fight all American efforts at national -defense. But we will deal with that element. - -The brutal German government, and the odious Junkers, now frantically -lying to the people of Germany and ruthlessly concealing the truth from -them, have few allies in the United States save the spies and traitors -planted here for spy purposes. There will be no "uprising of Germans" -here. The extinguishment by the Providence _Journal_ of the reptilian -Bernstorff, the chuckleheaded Boy-Ed, the blundering Papen, and Dumba -the easy mark, effectually ended the treasonable plots that aided very -materially in opening the chasm between the United States and Germany, -and driving the United States whole-heartedly into the war. Dumba -has been decorated for his part in all this, and we hope his fellow -plotters will be equally appreciated. - -But there are some capital blunders that Germany never makes. Her -people are an absolute unit, in body, spirit and resources, in backing -up the leaders of the nation in the hour of strife and danger. She does -not make the mistake of tolerating traitors and assassins at home. If -her soldiers mutinied on the firing line, and refused to fight the -enemy, as some rotten-hearted Russian soldiers recently have done most -disastrously, Germany would not make the mistake of letting one of them -live to tell it. In solidarity, unity of purpose and devotion to the -nation's policy, the German people are a shining example to America. -They are more devoted to a bad cause than our slackers and traitors are -to a good one. It is high time for us to teach our traitors some severe -lessons; and I warn them, one and all: =Beware!= - -And now what about Germany's crimes? In the next chapter, let us see. - - - - -II. The Crimes of Germany. - - -In the affairs of the individual and the state, we hear a lot about -"crime" and "criminals"; but it is an idiotic fact that the greatest -of all crimes, those committed by nations on a vast scale, rarely are -spoken of as crimes, and easily are condoned after the fighting stops. -The world calls them either "wars" or "atrocities"; and the men who -instigate them never are spoken of as criminals, and never are punished -as such. Is it not curious? - -Still less is the author of an inexcusable war, or a series of brutal -atrocities, hanged, or shot, or even permanently imprisoned for his -crimes. What fools these mortals be! - -In our civilization, a wife who ends long years of torture by killing -a brutal husband, always is tried, sentenced, and either imprisoned -for life, or executed. This asinine world is most virtuous in the -punishment of weak individuals; but we notice that it rarely tackles -the job of meting out real justice to the greatest of all criminals. -After this war is over, will any criminal, either at Berlin or -Constantinople, be hanged or shot for the deliberate slaughter of -1,500,000 helpless Armenians, or for any of the hideous crimes -committed in this war? Not on your life. Mushy-hearted individuals will -advise that they be treated "magnanimously," and will urge that we -"become friends." - -The world has grown hardened to the habit of lumping the crimes and -atrocities of organized conflicts together under a short and easy -word. "War" is made to cover and gloss over millions of the bloody and -malicious crimes of millions of men who ought to be punished according -to their deserts. I am thinking of the Kaiser, Stenger, Tirpitz and -Hindenberg, and the Young Turks en masse. - -The Hague conventions did their utmost to reform the world's war -practices, establish an international code of war ethics, and thereby -reduce the horrors of armed conflict. But with what results? - -Closely following those well-meant and humane efforts, two nations, -Germany and Turkey, have given the world a continuous performance of -wholesale murder, rape, burnings, drownings and starvation such as the -world never before saw, even in the bloodiest days of barbarism. The -Turkish crimes in Armenia must be computed in millions, and the wanton -murder of a million Armenians is directly chargeable to the rulers of -Germany, who deliberately permitted it to be done. - -And even now, many good people who refuse to concern themselves with -the woes of men and women who are far away, will decry all attempts -to punish the Germans and Turks for their crimes. They will talk -about "magnanimity in peace terms," and a quick return to ante-bellum -friendships. Think of a treaty of friendship with ravishers, and with -the murderers of women and children and prisoners! - -All sensible men know that the proper punishment of criminals is -necessary for the protection of society from wolves and dragons, and -for the general welfare of mankind. Unpunished crime always encourages -and produces more crime. The world must not mistake softness of head -for soundness of heart. - -It is indeed high time that criminal nations should be punished for -their crimes. Are any nations before the bar of the Court of Nations -charged with deliberate and premeditated crimes against helpless -humanity? - -Yes; two. Germany and Turkey are so accused; and =no power on earth can -stop the trial=! Austria comes next. - -Let us call first the case of Germany. - -In opening the worst of these two cases, we distinctly leave out of our -specifications all those acts which may be put down as chargeable to -the ordinary and inevitable horrors of war. At the same time we must -remember that even the most brutal prize ring has its rules and its -ethics, which are rigidly enforced. Even a fighter whose face is being -beaten to a pulp may not bite, kick, gouge, or strike below the belt; -no, not even when defeat and ruin stare him in the face. The fighting -must be "fair," or the decision is at once given to the recipient of -the "foul" act. - -Until Germany invaded Belgium, and Turkey went to work to exterminate -the Armenians, the world supposed that the Christian nations -had reformed, that all civilized nations recognized the latest -international code of ethics in war, and would live up to it. It was -then against the rules of civilized warfare to shoot, stab, burn or -beat to death the civilian populations of captured territory, to starve -prisoners, to kill prisoners and wounded men, to use expanding bullets, -to rape women, to force women to become soldier's prostitutes, to -poison wells, to use poison in any form, to destroy maliciously works -of art, science and literature; to sink merchant ships at sea without -assuring the safety of passengers and crew, and to bombard cities from -the air for the slaughter of their helpless civilian inhabitants. - -According to a great mass of official records, all of those barbarous, -cruel, inhumane and wild-animal acts have been done by Germany, on -well-nigh countless occasions. The evidence is thoroughly conclusive. -The German soldiers and sailors, both officers and men, are the most -cruel and brutal criminals of all the world. In Servia the Austrian -record is almost as rotten. - -In 1898, Count Goetzen said, regarding the treacherous designs of -Germany on France, England and America: "If you do speak of this, =no -one will believe you=, and everyone will laugh at you!" - -To-day, the American people as a mass do not know more than one -one-hundredth part of the crimes of Germany during the past three -years. The reason is that it is impossible to place before them the -great mass of publications and documents, such as that which now lies -before me, that is necessary to convey full knowledge of this ghastly -subject. Without this evidence, or at least a lengthy digest of it, -the utter depravity of the German Germans is, to a clean and humane -American, absolutely incomprehensible. It takes strong nerves to go -through these thousands of pages of printed documents, and scores of -ghastly pictures, without becoming thoroughly shaken. - -It is not a pleasing task to set forth the details of revolting crimes, -but it now has become very necessary that all Americans, of South -America as well as North, should be shown the true character of the -soldiers and civilians of Germany, and the men in high places who have -=ordered= and =fostered= the high crimes of the past three years. This -is no time to side-step the truth regarding the deadliest foes of human -liberty and the rights of man. - -By way of illustration. Consider the character of the German crown -prince,--the hero(?) of Verdun. When in Zabern the highborn German -Captain Forstner beat a lame Alsatian shoemaker with his sword, for -being "short" in love for his German masters. When a great outcry was -raised outside of Germany, the precious crown-princeling telegraphed -the brave and gallant Forstner, "=Fester d'rauf!=" which means "=Hit -him again!=" Forstner was promoted, for gallantry on the field, of -course. (New York _Times_, July 15.) - -In making up this all too brief exposition, I shall set down neither -facts nor conclusions save those that are supported by an abundance of -evidence such as might well be offered in any court of law. The most -damaging evidences of German crimes and atrocities are =those that have -been collected from German sources=! - - * * * * * - -The "peace resolutions" introduced in the German Reichstag say: - -"Germany took up arms in defense of its liberty and independence, and -for the integrity of its territories." - -All the world now knows that both those statements are brazen lies, and -that the people of Germany started the war as a war of conquest, and -nothing else. But the lying leaders of Germany, including the 70 men -of science who signed and sent out their now famous manifesto late in -1914, have for three long years been injecting that falsehood into the -ignorant masses of Germany, to make them feel like fighting and going -hungry. - -No. Germany's whining plea that she is "fighting for her very -existence" is no excuse whatever for her diabolical crimes. No one is, -or has been, seeking to "destroy" Germany, or anything German, save -only her domineering, dangerous and thoroughly accursed military power. -Even in the prize ring all such excuses as that are ruled out; and the -fear of being beaten in a fight is no excuse for crime, nor even for -brutality in method. - -One curious psychological fact is to be noted at the very outset. It is -this: - -The moment the average German dons a military uniform, and becomes a -soldier, with deadly weapons in his hands, he is at once transformed -as if by magic into a cruel monster. Frequently he becomes a savage -and bloodthirsty dragon; and it would be a gross libel on the lower -animals to call him a beast. He becomes a stranger to the feelings -of the home-loving husband, father, son or churchman. In the name of -"Germany," and "war," he is ready to commit any atrocity and write -it down, exultingly, in his diary. Ah! those soldier diaries! There -is where German efficiency unwittingly provided instruments for the -punishment of German crimes. - - * * * * * - -But the German in uniform is not the only agent of hate and brutality. -"The people of Germany" are only one short step behind him. Let every -person who doubts this send five cents to the _Saturday Evening Post_, -Philadelphia, for its issue of July 14, 1917, and on page 16 read -"Englander Schwein" ("English Swine") the diary of Corporal Edwards, of -Canada's top regiment, the Princess Patricia's C.L.I., who was captured -by the Germans. Read it, if you have in your heart even one soft spot -for "the people of Germany." - -It is a story of revolting filth inflicted upon refined gentlemen, of -three days utterly needless hunger torture inflicted on half-starved -men taken out of their cars three times a day, lined up and compelled -to watch German soldiers stuffed with food by German women, with -"Nein!" "Nein!" to them when they begged for food. It is a story of -horribly neglected wounds, arms rotting off, slow starvation in the -prison camp on food consisting of 200 gallons of water to one small bag -of potatoes, and so forth. - -Of the murders and mutilations in the trenches there is not time to -speak. But read this account of the treatment the Canadians received -along the railway from the women of Germany,--even "gentlewomen": - -"The mob surged around us, heaping on us insults and blows; -=particularly the women=. They spat on us, with hate in their eyes. We -had to take that, or the bayonet. These were the acts not only of the -rabble, =but also of the people of good appearance and address=. One -very well-dressed woman came rushing up. Under other circumstances I -would have judged her to be a gentlewoman. She was screaming invectives -at us as she forced her way through the crowd. 'Schwein!' she screamed, -and struck at the man next me. =Then, drawing deep from the very bottom -of her lungs, she spat the mass full in his face.=" - - * * * * * - -In essaying to give in one article even an outline sketch of the crimes -of Germany, one is perplexed by the many different kinds of atrocities, -and the great mass of instances and proofs bearing upon them. Out of -it all there thrusts up the ugly fact, like a spear from a pile of -corpses, that many of these crimes were committed intentionally, with -malice aforethought, and often were deliberately =ordered by German -officers, both high and low=. For example: - -General Stenger issued a printed order to kill all the wounded; - -Bissing was the refined torturer of all Belgium, in many orders; - -Manteuffel was the chief murderer at Louvain; - -Bulow and Schonmann were the wild beasts of Ardenne; - -And it was Bayer at Dinant, Bohn at Sommerfeld and Termonde; Nieher -at Wavre; Wittenstein at Clermont-en-Argonne, and so on until you are -tired. - - -1. THE MURDER OF CIVILIANS. - -This flourishing German industry began at Louvain, at the very outbreak -of the war, and has continued right down to the present. It is -astounding to see how quickly murders began, with the most revolting -brutality, immediately after the Germans entered Belgium! Sometimes -the excuse was made that "Mann hat geschossen",--that "civilians have -fired";--and then the indiscriminate slaughter began. - -The thick volume of "Evidence" taken by the Bryce Commission on the -German Atrocities is crowded full of testimony; and so are many -subsequent publications of the British and French governments. The -stories written down in their diaries by German soldiers are both -terrible and amazing. In an uncountable number of villages old men, -old women, boys, girls, women and children were shot by dozens and by -hundreds; and hundreds were stabbed to death by bayonets. - -There are sickening accounts, from eye-witness testimony, of German -soldiers =bayoneting children= and girls, but the most spectacular -crime of that kind was committed at Malaines (d4, Bryce Evidence), when -a German soldier walking down the main street, singing, "drove his -bayonet with both hands through a living child's stomach, lifting the -child into the air on his bayonet, and carrying it away on his bayonet, -he and his comrades still singing." (Page 82.) - -In the village of Sempst, an Uhlan cut off the breast of a woman with -his sword; and a little boy was burned to death in an attic. (K. 33.) -At Aerschot a girl of 18 or 20 was found "absolutely naked, with her -abdomen cut open", and "her body covered with bruises, showing that she -had made a struggle." Jack the Ripper in a spiked helmet! - -And again at Aerschot (C. 38) did the German Jack get in his work on -another girl of 18. She was found (dead) with "her arms nailed to the -door in extended fashion, ... her left breast cut away, and numerous -bayonet wounds in the chest, some piercing through to the back." (Told -by a Belgian soldier, who helped to recapture the place.) - -A British subject saw on September 15, 1914, in the Wetteren Hospital, -a girl of 11 from Alost with 17 bayonet thrusts in her back, -"practically flayed, and at the point of death." (F. 13.) "Out of the -1300 inhabitants of Noumeny, at least 150 were killed (murdered) by the -Germans." (French Police Report, Aug. 24, 1914.) - -This list could be extended by hundreds of other cases; and a -long chapter could be filled with such instances as the above. -Geographically they reach all the way from Louvain to the beginning of -the great German defeat before Paris. - -In order to form estimates of what the quiet little country villages of -New England might expect if the armed wolves and mad dogs of Germany -ever gained a foothold here, let us consider a few figures compiled -from official reports and published by the _Illustrated London News_. -They relate solely to the murder of unarmed, inoffensive civilians--old -men, women, girls, boys and children. - - In Brabant 897 persons shot or bayoneted. - In Luxembourg Province, over 1,000 " " " " - At Arlon 119 " " " " - Dinant Arrondissement (Fr.) 606 killed, from 3 weeks to 77 years old. - Neufchatel 18 shot. - Etalle 30 " - Hondemont 11 " - Tintiguy 157 " - Izele 10 " - Rossignol 106 " - Bertrix 21 " - Ethe about 300 shot; "530 in all missing." - Latour only 17 men left. - Maissin 12 shot, 1 a young girl. - Aloy 52 men and women shot. - Claireuse 2 men hanged. - ---and so on, indefinitely. On the most trivial pretexts, or none at -all, the Germans slaughtered unresisting non-combatants who were in -their power. Out of a lot of 40 German soldier diaries, only 6 express -disapproval or disgust, and at least 30 diaries treat murders either -exultingly or as being merely a part of the day's work. - -The slaughtered innocents of Belgium, France, Servia and Poland would, -in each of those countries, undoubtedly run far up into thousands if it -were possible to count them. - -Thanks to the diligence of the British and French governments in -collecting evidence now while evidence is procurable, there is already -enough printed testimony to damn Germany in the eyes of the world for -at least two centuries. - - -2. KILLING OF PRISONERS AND WOUNDED MEN BY GERMANS. - -The crimes of Germany under this head have been literally innumerable. -Judging by German, French, Belgian and English evidence, it seems as if -German soldiers have slaughtered probably 100,000 defenseless prisoners -and wounded men. Prof. J.H. Morgan states that von der Goltz, the evil -genius of Turkey, "predicted some years ago that the next war would be -one of inconceivable violence"; and he declares that "the Germans have -no sense of honor in the field." He was hideously correct. - -German prisoner murder began before Antwerp on October 6, 1914, when -the Captain of the 85th Regt. IXth Corps, 4th Company, said to his men: -"=I do not want to see any Englishmen prisoners in the hands of this -company!=" To which the company cried, "=Bravo!=" And Richard Gerhold, -71st Regiment Reserve, 4th Army Corps (killed in September, 1914), -wrote in his precious diary thus: "Great atrocities are =of course= -committed upon Englishmen and Belgians. =Every one of them is now -knocked on the head without mercy.=" - -The famous Stenger order of August 26, 1914, brings us to a capital -case. A German Brigadier-General, Stenger by name, issued this written -order to his brigade: - -"=To date from this day, no prisoners will be made any longer. All the -prisoners will be executed. The wounded, whether armed or defenseless, -will be executed. Prisoners, even in large and compact formations, will -be executed. Not a man will be left alive behind us.=" - -The instances of the murder of helpless prisoners by Germans are far -too numerous to be cited in detail. Beyond reasonable doubt, a hundred -thousand soldiers were murdered on the Stenger basis. - -And after the war is over, if we resume friendly "relations" with -Germany, we may see Stenger in Washington as Military Attaché to his -Excellency the German Ambassador, shaking hands with the President of -the United States. - - -3. THE BOMBING OF CIVILIANS IN LONDON AND ELSEWHERE. - -The Kaiser and Zeppelin, and the German people, have spent many -millions of dollars in deliberate attempts to slaughter the unarmed -inhabitants of London, and strafe England. All the German talk about -attacking "the fortress of London" is beneath contempt. Rarely indeed -has a soldier been injured in London, or any other English city, -by a Zeppelin or an airplane bomb. It has been the helpless women, -school-children and other non-combatants who have been blown to pieces. - -These murders of civilian men, women and children have served only -to send furious Englishmen rushing to the trenches in droves, for -vengeance! Had the square-heads deliberately attempted to stimulate -British enlistments, the dropping of bombs on London would have been -the ideal plan. At last the British public demand reprisals, on the -basis of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; which would be -absolutely right. - -But thus far the statesmen of England firmly say: - -"No! We will not descend to the low level of the Huns of Germany." - -Nevertheless, Zeppelin died of a broken heart. From a military point of -view his campaign has proven a complete fiasco,--just as Americans long -ago predicted that it would, and his "frightfulness" gas bags are now -on the scrap-heap. - - -4. TIRPITZ AND THE SUBMARINE MURDERS. - -For a submarine to sink a war vessel with all on board is merely war, -no more and no less. No one whines about atrocities of that sort. All -the world does object, however, and very strongly, too, to the sinking -of unarmed passenger steamers, hospital ships, and Belgian relief -ships. All such acts of murder as these are the acts of monsters, not -of men. Of course we know that Germany sees her doom, and her people -are wild over the certainty of defeat. But even a 90 per cent. defeated -prize-fighter must not deliver a foul blow. - -The submarine murders are so well known to Americans as to require -no comment; but a few murder statistics will be worth while, lest we -forget. - - March 28, 1915. Steamer _Falaba_ 111 lost - May 7, " " _Lusitania_ 1,198 " - June 28, " " _Armenian_ 30 " - Aug. 19, " " _Arabic_ 30 " - Nov. 7, " " _Ancona_ 208 " - Dec. 30, " " _Persia_ 385 " - March 24, 1916. " _Sussex_ (Channel boat) 52 " - -HOSPITAL SHIPS MALICIOUSLY DESTROYED BY THE GERMAN "NAVY." - - _Portugal._ March 17, 1916 45 Red Cross nurses lost. - 40 of the crew. - _Britannic._ Nov., 1915 about 50 lost. - _Asturias._ March 20, 1915 43 lost. - _Gloucester Castle._ March 30, 1915 all wounded saved. - _Donegal._ 41 lost. - _Lanfranc._ (152 wounded Germans - saved by the British Navy!) 19 British wounded lost. - 15 German wounded lost. - -On a very few occasions, a few German submarine captains have acted -humanely, and some even gallantly; but all these acts have been -besmirched by the acts of cowardly and brutal men who have deliberately -fired upon hospital ships and open life-boats loaded with men -attempting to save themselves from drowning. In one celebrated instance -a U-boat captain and his crew came out upon their deck, and at close -range jeered at drowning men and women who were struggling in icy water. - -And here is the latest feat of the brave and gallant German "navy": - -On July 31, 1917, 200 miles from land a German submarine engaged in -combat and sank the unarmed British freighter, _Belgian Prince_. They -assembled the entire crew of 40 men on the submarine's deck, stripped -from them their life-belts, and smashed all their life-boats, with -axes. Then the brave Germans went below, closed their hatches, ran on -the surface for two miles, then suddenly submerged. Thirty-eight were -drowned, but two lived to be picked up and tell the story. - -A new trick. Look for frequent repetitions. - - -5. POISON GAS, LIQUID FIRE AND POISONED WELLS. - -Early in the war the much-vaunted German "men of science" invented -poisonous gases (chiefly of chlorine), liquid fire apparatus, and other -forms of deviltry forbidden in civilized warfare. The "flammenwerfer" -is now a favorite German institution; but occasionally it gets into -trouble by being exploded by shell fire, in the hands of the men using -it. One result of poison gas and liquid fire is the everlasting odium -that it has fastened upon the German army. The British soldiers say -that "the Germans are dirty fighters"; and the name will stick forever. - -In German South-West Africa, when the Boer General, Louis Botha, -captured Swakopmund he found that all six of the wells had been -poisoned with arsenical cattle-dip. Bags of the poison hung in the -wells; and the crime was acknowledged and defended in writing by -Lieut.-Col. Franke, commander of the German forces. Previous to that -time, the new German governor had murdered in cold blood 208 of the -leading natives of the capital town, to teach the surviving Hereros the -advantages of life under the black vulture of Germany. - - -6. BACTERIA OF GLANDERS AND ANTHRAX SENT INTO RUMANIA. - -"The world owes much to German science." This remark is not original. -We have heard it about 147,500 times; but the world has not heard quite -so often how the worthy "scientists" of Germany sent large collections -of living and active bacilli of glanders for horses, and anthrax for -cattle, into Rumania, =under the German diplomatic seal=, just before -war was declared by Rumania! The precious cultures were found buried in -the garden of the German consulate; and in their usual blundering way, -the dunderheads did not know enough to destroy the evidence of their -newest species of crime. All this has been set forth by the Rumanian -government in a neat little pamphlet, very useful to students of -criminology and degeneracy. - - -7. THE MURDER OF EDITH CAVELL. - -Not in two hundred years will the world forget or forgive this -dastardly crime. If Bissing is not now in hell for it, then there -is no such place. The cities of civilized countries should erect -Cavell monuments, and name streets Cavell, lest we forget. Only -Germans or Turks could have done a deed so unnecessary, so brutal and -unchivalrous. But it seems that the German Germans stick at no atrocity. - - -8. THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN FRYATT. - -This crime was committed in cold blood, unchecked by the criminal -Kaiser, because on March 28, 1915, Captain Fryatt escaped from a German -submarine by attempting to ram it. On June 23, 1916, he was captured, -taken to Zeebrugge, and by a naval court martial sentenced to death. -Great "sports" were those German naval officers! They have in their -veins about as much sporting blood as so many hyenas, but no more. - -On several occasions the British have actually honored the fine -seamanship and daring and skill of German sea raiders, even after -great destruction while at sea. But the British navy men are good -sports, while the men of the German navy do not seem to recognize a -bold and capable seaman when they see one; and they have no sense of -sportsmanship. When did the German navy ever rescue a British or French -sailor from drowning? But British sailors have saved many Germans. - -The murder of Captain Fryatt brands the whole German navy with a mark -that it will wear forever. - - -9. THE GERMAN OUTRAGES UPON WOMEN. - -It is here that the pen falters, and the heart turns sick with horror -and loathing. Thus far the newspapers of the United States have shrunk -from printing the awful details that have been available on this -subject. - -For fifty years we have been reading of the wars of nations,--white, -black, red, brown and yellow,--but never in modern times have we seen -such ghastly, such loathsome, such shocking and sickening brutalities -of lust as German officers and soldiers inflicted, wholesale, upon the -women of Belgium and northern France. At present we will say little of -Poland, for the subject is too vast. - -I shall not give instances, even though there are hundreds at hand, -well authenticated, and undoubtedly true. But let all Americans -remember this: Never within the last four hundreds years or more -have any women ever been so brutally abused, so extensively raped by -violence, often accompanied by murder in Jack the Ripper fashion, or so -disgustingly maltreated before the eyes of fathers, mothers, sisters, -brothers and groups of men as were the wretched women of Belgium and -northern France. - -The rage of the German brutes whose great conquest of France was balked -seemed to be visited with particular fury and cruelty upon the women of -the captured territory between fourteen and forty years of age. I have -before me one instance so awful and so revolting that the woman upon -whom it was inflicted immediately went mad. The details are published -only in French, in order that only a few English-speaking persons may -read them. - -No wonder that when the armies of General Joffre and General Foch were -chasing the German ravishers back to the banks of the Marne, that the -French women of the recaptured towns and villages dragged themselves to -their windows, leaned out, and begged the French soldiers to "=Take no -prisoners! Kill them,--all!=" - -The total number of women who have been cruelly abused by German -officers and private soldiers never will be known; but it must run -up into hundreds of thousands. Only the devil himself knows how many -miserables have been "given to the soldiers," just as was the Polish -maid of an American lady, Madame Turczynowics, now in New York, who -tells about it in her book, "When the Prussians Came to Poland" (page -138). This is the passage: - -... we pushed our way into the room where Manya was, ... =what had -been= Manya.... An officer came in to ask our business with the girl. - -"She is my maid--stolen! This is her father. I have come to take her -home." - -"I am very sorry, but you are not allowed to take her. =She belongs to -the soldiers.=" - -"Don't you see, Herr Offizier, the girl is =dying=?" - -"Ill she is, and shall have the best of care. We have a doctor to -attend to just such cases."--And =I had to leave her=! - - -10. GERMANY'S COLOSSAL CRIME IN ARMENIA. - -A little pamphlet of 24 pages, obtainable from the G.H. Doran Company, -New York, for five cents, is quite enough to damn Germany, past all -forgiveness, from now to the end of Time. It is entitled "The Horrors -of Aleppo. Seen by a German Eyewitness," and it is "A Word to Germany's -Accredited Representatives, by Dr. Martin Niepage, Higher Grade Teacher -in the German Technical School at Aleppo." - -The enormous extent, and the extreme savagery, of the slaughter of -Armenian Christians by the Turkish allies of Germany literally stagger -the imagination and sicken the heart. The mind can scarcely grasp the -idea of men, women and children being massacred =en masse, in 1916, -literally by the thousand=! But let me quote a few lines of strictly -German testimony: - -Page 14. "It is utterly erroneous to think that the Turkish government -will refrain of its own accord even from the destruction of the women -and children unless the strongest pressure is exerted by the German -government. Only just before I left Aleppo last May (1916) =the crowds -of exiles encamped at Ras-el-Ain on the Bagdad Railway, estimated at -20,000 women and children, were slaughtered to the last one=." - -Page 11. "Many more appalling things were reported by the engineer -of the Bagdad Railway ... or by German travelers who met the convoys -of exiles on their journeys. Many of these gentlemen had seen such -appalling sights they could eat nothing for days. One of them, Herr -Grief, of Aleppo, reported corpses of violated women lying about -naked in heaps on the railway embankment at Tel-Abiad and Ras-el-Ain. -Another, Herr Spiecker, of Aleppo, had seen Turks tie Armenian men -together, fire several volleys of small shot with fowling pieces into -the human mass, and go off laughing while their victims slowly perished -in frightful convulsions. - -"The German Consul from Mosul related, in my presence, at the German -Club at Aleppo, that in many places on the road from Mosul to Aleppo -he had seen children's hands hacked off in such numbers that one could -have paved the road with them.... The Arabs of the village declared -that they had killed the Armenians by the Government's (Young Turks) -orders." - ---And so forth, and so on, until you are sick! - -Thus do the "Young Turks" of Turkey (on whom may all the curses of -Allah alight) who are determined to Turkify all Asia Minor. Thus have -1,500,000 =Christians= perished, at the hands of Germany's ally,--=an -ally absolutely under German control=, and without one protest or -prohibition from the arch-criminals of Potsdam and Berlin. And this -under "our dear, good, kind Emperor" William! - -The crimes of Germany were not committed by the officers of the Army -or the Navy, or of the State, alone. They were perpetrated partly by -the common people of Germany, as represented by the fathers, sons and -husbands making up the army and the navy. The officers are not alone -to blame. Therefore, the curses of mankind, and the punishment of the -ages, should fall and will fall upon all the Germans of Germany, and -their children unto the tenth generation. To them the Germans of to-day -will bequeath a vast legacy of world scorn and world aversion. - -Americans should be the last people on earth to talk to outraged -England, France, Russia and Servia of "magnanimous" terms to Germany, -and peace "without annexations or indemnities." =Germany must Pay for -her war and her crimes.= - - - - -III. The Punishment of Germany. - - -Without stopping to give any serious thought to the matter, some people -assert, "You cannot punish a nation." If not, why not? Ask a student -of history, and he will tell you, without hesitation, "Decidedly, yes. -Ever since the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, countless tribes, cities, -states and nations have been soundly punished for their crimes." - -To-morrow, or soon after, Germany, the arch-criminal of nations, will -be up before the bar of Christian Civilization for sentence. In courts -of justice it is customary to review the criminal record of the accused -before judgment is pronounced. It is now a case of Germany to the bar, -to face her police record. - -Guilty nations are no more immune from punishment for their crimes than -are individuals guilty of high crimes. By their acts the German people -now are heaping up dire punishment for themselves. The world is losing, -with tremendous rapidity, its original and totally erroneous impression -that "the German people" are innocent of the crimes that have been -committed under the German uniform and the black-vulture flag. - -The mental attitude of President Wilson as it was expressed in his -message to Congress as late as April 2, 1917, is not the mental -attitude to-day of the American people at large. He said: "We have no -quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but -of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their -government acted in entering upon this war." - -All the world outside of Germany now knows full well that Kaiser -Wilhelm, representing the whole German people, is the man who started -the war, who keeps it going, and who brought the war's consequences -upon Germany. He pressed the button, with the united and enthusiastic -approval of "the German people." It is an undeniable fact that from the -very beginning until now the people of Germany have gloried and exulted -in the war, and steadily have acclaimed the ruthless leaders who have -directed it,--Wilhelm, Bissing, Hindenberg, Tirpitz and Zeppelin. In -spite of all their losses and miseries, even to-day the "German people" -are absolutely devoted to the Kaiser, and cheerfully swallow all the -lies that his cabinet and the Reichstag hand out to them. Why should -even one American deceive himself about the millions of Germans who -are at heart as mean and as cruel as Tirpitz and Zeppelin? Remember -that German women hawk and spit in the faces of heroes who happen to be -their prisoners! - - * * * * * - -There is much idle talk in newspaper correspondence about "unrest in -Germany," and a "demand for a change." All that empty talk is only -an effort to throw dust into the eyes of the world, and deceive the -enemies of Germany. There has been no change of heart at Berlin, and -there never will be. - -Beyond a doubt, Arthur S. Draper is absolutely right when he assures -us that the German people are devoted to the Kaiser and kaiserism, -and that under no circumstances will Wilhelm and the Hohenzollerns be -kicked off the throne. Mr. Draper says that even if a change is made, -it will be to a "constitutional monarchy" =under the Kaiser=; which we -know would be no change whatsoever! We know what Germany will be like -under the Chinless Hero (?) of Verdun. - -Americans must now be very careful not to fool themselves in measuring -out sympathy for "the German people"; for every particle of it will be -wickedly misplaced. At least let us not make ourselves a laughing-stock -for Hans and Gretchen. - -With all due regard for our war President, we respectfully claim that -in the minds of many millions of Americans both his premises and his -conclusions are wrong. Once,--three full years ago,--many Americans -(like ourselves) felt sympathy for "the German people"; but by outrage -upon outrage the fact has been driven home to Americans that all such -sympathy is utterly misplaced. The official publications of the war -have opened our eyes. The great mass of the German people are guilty -of an unprovoked war, and of wholesale and retail murder, rape, -destruction and tortures unparalleled even among the lowest savages of -modern times. - -For forty years the swell-headed pan-germanists and the odious Junkers -deliberately have educated the German people into this fearful war of -attempted conquest. The millions of Germany smilingly kow-towed to -the war lords and approved colossal annual expenditures in preparing -for =this very war=! The man who says that the conquest of France and -England was not ardently desired and deliberately planned by "the -German people" is very ignorant of current history. Excepting a few -Socialists, all Germany was ready "to the last gaiter button" on August -1, 1914, and feverishly eager for the war to begin! Was the great Kiel -Canal built for commercial purposes? Not on your life! Every German -knows that it was built as a means for the vanquishment of England on -the sea; and one German friend who claims much inside knowledge has -solemnly assured me that Germany had long intended to strike France and -England just as soon as the Canal was finished. - -Never in the history of the world was any war ever planned and -developed through so long a period, or with such loving pains and -thoroughness, as Germany's present war. Its construction covered thirty -years, and throughout that period German newspapers, lectures, books -and speeches were full of it. It was taught to the children of Germany, -for at least twenty years. For at least ten years the officers of the -German navy had been drinking to "Der Tag,"--"The Day" when they would -attack the British navy and crush it. - - * * * * * - -Bismarck was a very shrewd statesman, as well as a ruthless -conquestador and a changer of telegrams. But he left Germany in peace -and friendship with England and Russia, while William the Egotist, -hungry to be the boss of all Europe, promptly estranged both. William -alone created the Triple Entente! - -Outside the British Army and Navy, there were practically no British -statesmen who realized the real trend of Germany's ambitions. That is -why the outbreak found England without a powerful army. - -Let no American think for a moment that the press and the people -of Germany were ignorant of what was coming, or opposed to it. The -whole nation, Socialists and all, had become afflicted with acute -megalomania, and a real elephantiasis of egotism. They thought that by -being sufficiently prepared, and sufficiently treacherous and cruel, -they could bring all Europe under the German heel, to toil forever in -the German yoke. To-day even the German Socialists support Kaiserism; -and while they vociferously are shouting for "peace," remember that -=they wish only a German-made peace that will leave Germany in the -saddle=! Let all other Socialists make due note of this. - -The first incident that shocked the American people into a realization -of the true character of "the German people" was the sinking of the -_Lusitania_, and the drowning of its great company of women, children -and other non-combatants. And then, while England and America were -laying their streaming dead in long rows on the dock at Queenstown, -"the people" of Germany were literally dancing with joy! The German -people called it a glorious "victory"! "Were some women and children -lost? Well, they should not have sailed on the _Lusitania_. They were -warned,--=by the German Ambassador himself=!" - -And the beautiful city of Frankfort-on-the-Main gave all its school -children A HOLIDAY, in which to indulge in unrestrained rejoicing over -the sinking of the _Lusitania_! In Frankfort, if you were to throw a -banana peel on the street, or in the Palm Garden, you would fiercely be -arrested, and savagely fined 5 marks for the atrocity. - -And some of "the people" of Germany struck a joy medal in celebration -of the _Lusitania_ victory. A reproduction shows that it was a charming -and soulful work of German art. - -And the submarine reptile who sank the _Lusitania_ =was decorated (with -the "Order Pour la Merite"), and promoted=, by the man whom young -Hagenbeck of Hamburg characterized as "our dear, good, kind Emperor." - -Faugh! - - "Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, - To sweeten mine imagination!" - -Last week it was reported by wounded British prisoners, exchanged -and sent from Germany via Switzerland, that "as we lay in the train, -crowded and helpless, many German women came up to the cars and spit -upon us." I have already cited the story of a Canadian prisoner. - -During the past three years I have read every scrap of eye-witness -information that has come before me in print recording observations -in Germany, by war correspondents and others. My reading covers many -newspapers, magazines, books and official publications of various -kinds. Through all this mass I have looked in vain for expressions from -the common people of Germany of some disapproval of German cruelties -and atrocities on land or sea, or of sympathy for the victims of German -cruelty. Find just one, if you can. I can not. Not once have I seen -an expression or sentiment of that kind reported from Germany. The -callousness of the women of Germany toward the ravishment, wounding, -torture and ghastly mutilation of their sisters in Belgium, France, -England, Servia, Poland and Armenia is astounding, beyond belief. But -we are learning a lot these days. - -Germany deliberately permitted the atrocious Turks to murder about -1,500,000 helpless Armenians; and so far as we know, not one person -in Germany, high or low, has uttered one little protest against that -colossal crime. Can you beat it! As the world knows very well, Germany -absolutely controls Turkey, and drove her into the war; and Germany is -guilty of complicity in the death of every non-combatant Armenian of -that whole two millions of helpless persons who were slaughtered, or -drowned, or starved on the deserts. - -The ghastly murder of Edith Cavell, the nurse, and the Apache-like -slaughter of Captain Fryatt "go" in Germany. The forcible abduction and -enslavement of 5,000 young women, boys and men of Lille, Roubaix and -Tourcoing, and all the younger women of Noyon, France, just before the -latter was recaptured by the British, is all right in Germany. In the -New York _Evening World_ of July 27 you will find in an interview with -Louis Raemakers, the Dutch cartoonist nemesis of Germany, a fearful -account of what the German officers do with the girls of France, -Belgium and Servia. There are photographs by the score of dead children -in Servia "upon whom the most frightful crimes had been committed -before they were slashed to death across the body," and "woman after -woman whose breasts had been cut off." - -I believe that if the German soldiers were to kill and eat their -prisoners, in the name of "Germany," the German people would accept it -as justified by the "attack" on Germany, and the utterly false formula -that "Germany is fighting for her life." - -The military ring has by hard and continuous lying made the German -masses believe that "The Allies wish to destroy Germany"; whereas the -Allies wish to do nothing of the kind. All they wish to do is to secure -the safety of the world against the barbarians of Berlin. - - * * * * * - -After the war is over, will the men and women of America and England -and France enjoy traveling in Germany, eating in German hotels, -promenading in the Thiergarten of Berlin, and fraternizing with German -army officers fresh from the war? Can they tell the ravishers of -helpless women, and the murderers of children and old men, from the -other men of Germany? No; they can not. The trail of the serpent will -be over them all. - -After this war how will Americans relish the sound of the German -language, and the teaching of it in their schools? Will they patronize -German operas as of yore? Of what will the strains of the "Blue Danube" -waltz remind them? - -How will American men of science now regard the nation whose scientists -invented poison gas, and sent bacteria of glanders and anthrax for -horses and cattle, into friendly Rumania, =under the privileged seal -of "diplomacy"=? We can give all the details of that episode, from -official sources. - -Except by rare flashes of side light, the people of America have -had few opportunities to learn what the Allies really think now -of the German Germans. The catalogue of a dealer in second hand -books ordinarily is the very last place in which one would look for -expressions of opinion of nations and people. But in war, always look -for the unexpected. Book Catalogue No. 767, of Henry Sotheran & Co., -London, contains this, soberly set forth on page 21: - - BENEDEN (Pierre Joseph van: Univ. LOUVAIN, BELGIUM) ANIMAL - PARASITES AND MESSMATES. 18 woodcuts, post 8vo, 2s. (pub. 5s.). - - Belgium came to know viler human parasites from German universities - than the filthiest bloodsuckers of the insect world. - -And on page 28 this item appears: - - HARTMAN (Robert: Univ. BERLIN) ANTHROPOID APES, with 63 woodcuts, - post 8vo, cl. 2s. (pub. 5s.). - - These would suggest the University-bred German officers who defiled - with their own filth the French houses in which they were billeted. - -We will add that they also suggest the ethics of the wolverine, whose -favorite habit it is systematically to defile all the food in a miner's -cabin which he can neither eat nor carry away. - -All the world now knows that the Allies, of whom, thank God, America -at last is one, never will cease fighting the mad-dogs, the wolves -and wolverines of Germany until they are thoroughly whipped. Be the -time long or short, the Allies will outlast the Teuton and the Turk, -and will dictate the terms that both shall accept. America is ready to -throw into the scale one-half of all that she possesses, if need be, to -secure that end. - -And then what? - -When Germany is thoroughly beaten, as assuredly she will be, what shall -be her punishment for her crimes? - -The only sensible and correct policy to pursue toward a dirty-fighting -enemy is to =get him down and keep him down=! No greater mistake -could be made than for the Allies to become "magnanimous" to brutal -Germany when the time comes to hand her what is coming to her in final -settlement. We want no sissies nor weak sisters representing us at the -peace conference, pleading for easy terms for Germany. Any man who -cannot guess how much Germany would be "magnanimous" to the Entente -allies =if she should win=, is a colossal idiot. Think of the size of -the cash indemnities that Germany would exact of America, England and -France if she could win! - -It would seem that no matter how rapacious or egotistic are Germany's -intentions, always and everywhere there is a garrulous German ready to -blab them out in public. If Germany had the chance, she would utterly -ruin all of the Allies. There is no conceivable insult or injury that -she would not visit upon them, just as she has upon the conquered -districts of Belgium and France. =The United States would be called -upon to pay an indemnity of just about $20,000,000,000; and quickly, -too!= Make no mistake about that! - -We have been reading German anticipations of the taking of British East -Africa and the Congo Free State, to join them to the (late lamented) -"German colonies" for the making of a vast African empire under the -"dear, good, kind Kaiser" of Belgian fame. This is well known to the -English; and the answer is that =Germany's lost African colonies are -already lost to Germany forever and a day!= To give back to Germany -any one of those African colonies would be criminal folly, and of a -certainty it would breed no end of future trouble in Africa. Knowing -this, the Boers of South Africa will see Germany in hades before any -influence on earth can persuade, or force them, to hand back one foot -of "German" East Africa,--a colony that was armed to the teeth long -prior to 1914, and that started fighting immediately that war was -declared in August, 1914! - -Even if overweening magnanimity should beg that "German" Southwest -Africa be given back, the dictates of humanity would sternly forbid it. -After the brutal murder by Germany of 208 of the leading natives of the -German capital at Walfish Bay for no reason whatever save the innate -German brutality of the new governor, and the poisoning of the wells of -Swakopmund, it would be a high crime against the native population ever -again to place them within the power of any German governor. - -No; decidedly not. Germany will not be given back a single foot of any -one of her former African colonies. The close of this war will be no -time for mushy sentiment toward the dirtiest fighters on earth. - -The war should not and will not end until Germany has surrendered -every foot of invaded territory now occupied by the Teutonic allies, -and agreed to pay to Belgium an indemnity of about $5,000,000,000 with -another $5,000,000,000 to France, or the equivalent thereof, and the -return of Alsace and Lorraine. The delivery to England of her cowardly -navy as a pledge of future good behavior is really immaterial. The -German navy is chiefly a scuttling navy, great only against unarmed -ships and fishing boats, but never willing to meet any foe on equal -terms. - -When the peace terms are written, England should take back Heligoland, -as a German bond to keep the peace. The giving away to her only enemy -of that immensely valuable island was one of the greatest blunders in -statecraft that England ever committed. Now, there is only one way to -redeem it,--make Germany surrender Heligoland before any German ship is -permitted to sail the seas. - -All the world now knows that the preservation of a Slavic Balkan -barrier now is absolutely necessary to the peace of Asia. - - * * * * * - -And what will be the attitude of Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, -Italians and Russians after the war, toward the mad-dogs and wolves of -Germany? For the sake of "business" and "trade" and "cheap goods" will -we fraternize once more with the red-handed murderers of ten thousand -Belgian and French civilians, the ravishers and enslavers of 100,000 -Belgian and French women, the sinkers of the _Lusitania_, and the -murderers of Captain Fryatt and Nurse Cavell? Will we buy goods made -by blood-stained German hands, that have dragged Belgian and French -girls from their screaming mothers? Will we buy and use goods made -on stolen Belgian machines, of materials stolen from France? Will we -patronize the German "science" that produced chlorine gas for British -soldiers, or the German artillery artists who have gleefully pounded -the Cathedral of Rheims into ruins? - -Will we not hear with the swan song of _Lohengrin_ the dying shrieks of -the _Lusitania_ women and children as they struggle in the icy waters? - -In view of the records of the past three years, what two words are more -loathsome and detestable than "German kultur"? - -The only logical conclusion of Germany's career of crime and dirty -fighting is, at the close of the war, the contempt, the aversion -and the loathing of the civilized world, and =a universal policy -of non-intercourse=. Let Germany go and live with Austria, and the -loathsome Turk, in a hell of their own. Can any American not of German -birth ever again desire to visit and travel in the land of the criminal -Kaiser who started the war, the land of the murderers, ravishers and -traitors whom the war brought to the surface? We cannot conceive it -possible. - -And after the war is over, the less we hear in America of the German -language and of German literature, music, art and science, the better -for all concerned. The German idols one and all lie in the mud, in -fragments,--cast down and smashed by the mad-dogs of Germany, =and no -one else=! Americans of German descent may build monuments to their -memory, but never again can they be set up for Americans to worship. - -Through her crimes and her dirty fighting, Germany has earned the -contempt and aversion of the world, and it will be paid to her as long -as civilization endures. Whole libraries will be written about the -brutalities of the German Germans, the cowardice of their navy, the -blunders of their alleged statesmen, and the carnival of lies of the -Kaiser and his advisors. - -Men who fight honorably take their punishment like men, get over it, -and often become friends again. But not so when one party is "a dirty -fighter," a gouger, and a hitter below the belt. Even the youngest -American schoolboy despises the unfair fighter, and loathes the sight -of him. - -After this war is over, no man outside the Teutonic-Turco mad-dog -influence will be so poor or so mean as to look upon a German German -with real respect, much less with admiration. The world will cheerfully -go naked and hungry ere it accepts food and clothes made in Germany. -Americans with self respect will refuse to buy German goods, or to -trade in stores that offer them for sale,--not indeed to "punish" -Germany, but because the source is so loathsome and offensive. Germany, -Austria and Turkey already have the contempt, the scorn and the hatred -of the whole world, and after the war they should be ostracised and -shunned for a thousand years. - -It will be only the most sordid and mean-spirited people of America, -England and France who will again buy of Germany because her goods -are cheap. It is now time publicly to declare in America the existing -aversion to Germany, in order that all importers may be made to know -and understand the intentions of the public, and thereby avoid loading -their shelves with goods that they can not sell to Americans. Let signs -go up now reading: "No German goods sold here." - -It is now time to drop the German language from every school in -America, finally and forever. It is ludicrous folly to permit the -language of America's only real enemy to be taught in our schools. -Never again will Americans need it. We can well do without the language -of brutality and tyranny. - - * * * * * - -One of the few good services rendered by this German-made war concerns -South America. It has shown Brazil, Argentina and even Mexico exactly -where they stand with respect to the Monroe doctrine. If Germany should -win this war, then should all the nations of South and Central America -pray to God for deliverance; for with Germany in the saddle, their -peace and prosperity would be gone forever. With perfect clearness of -vision, Brazil now sees this, and has the indomitable courage to act -the part of a great and self-respecting nation, bent upon preserving -the rights of her people. - -Argentina sees the light, but hesitates to take up her share of the -white man's burden; and Chili says: "Let George do it!" - -If there is now even one Central or South American state which can not -see that the United States,--with the moral support of the British -navy,--has for years stood like a rock between them and the most -rapacious and cruel people on earth, then that state is hopelessly -blind. And for this service the United States has not asked anything -but common friendship,--and sometimes has failed to receive even that! - -The Central and South American republics should now set their houses in -order in regard to their future dealings with the German "influence," -and German commercial aggression. They should take warning from the -condition of Italy before the war, when German capital and German -greed held the banks, railroads, and sea commerce of Italy literally -by the throat. Do Argentina, Chili, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia wish -that condition to obtain with them? After the war, Germany will make a -tremendous push to secure commercial supremacy in South America; and -let South America beware! The time to build dykes is before the floods -come, not after. - - * * * * * - -Saith the Psalmist with inspiration from the same God whom the German -Kaiser piously and persistently claims as his silent partner, - -"=The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget -God.=" - -And to pan-Germany, Turkey and Austria we transmit that solemn promise -of Holy Writ of what is in store for them, in punishment for their high -crimes against humanity. - -After the war, nothing can save them from existence in a hell of -national poverty, and world-wide scorn and aversion, all of their own -making. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A searchlight on Germany: Germany's -Blunders, Crimes and Punishment, by Dr. William T. 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Hornaday - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: A searchlight on Germany: Germany's Blunders, Crimes and Punishment - -Author: Dr. William T. Hornaday - -Release Date: December 27, 2016 [EBook #53814] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SEARCHLIGHT ON GERMANY *** - - - - -Produced by Brian Coe, Graeme Mackreth and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - - -<p class="center" style="margin-bottom: 5em;"><small><i>Price 3 cents per copy in lots of 25 or more</i></small></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<p class="ph1">A<br /> -SEARCHLIGHT ON GERMANY</p> - -<p class="ph3">GERMANY'S BLUNDERS, CRIMES<br /> -AND PUNISHMENT</p> - -<p class="ph5" style="margin-top: 2em;">BY</p> -<p class="ph4">DR. WILLIAM T. HORNADAY</p> - -<p class="ph5"><i>Member Board of Trustees American Defense Society</i></p> - -<p class="ph4" style="margin-top: 5em;"><i>Preparation Pamphlet Series</i></p> - -<p class="ph5" style="margin-top: 5em;">PUBLISHED BY</p> -<p class="ph2"><span class="smcap">American Defense Society</span></p> -<p class="ph4">44 EAST 23d STREET<br /> -NEW YORK CITY -</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p class="ph2">I. The Blunders of Germany.</p> - -<p class="ph4">BY WILLIAM T. HORNADAY.</p> - -<p class="ph5">Member Board of Trustees American Defense Society.</p> - - -<p>Already in America there are signs of the inevitable "magnanimity" -toward the great world criminal of the present world war, and of -a movement for a whitewashed peace with "no annexations and no -indemnities." There is danger that within six months Americans who do -not know Germany will seek to snatch the boon of durable peace and -human freedom from the Allied nations who have given their bravest -and best men, literally by millions, and their wealth by billions, to -protect the rights of man. A German peace means a German triumph, and -the certainty of another war in the near future. As an approach toward -a settlement, it is now very necessary that every American should know -Germany exactly as that bloody military dragon really is. As a means to -that end, these three chapters have been written.</p> - -<p>The blunders, crimes and punishment of Germany are inseparably linked -together.</p> - -<p>The blunders of Germany constitute a spectacle of very much more than -passing interest. The questions they raise are by no means academic. -The logic of them is as inexorable as Death. They are of vital interest -to every freeman, and to every state and nation that sincerely -undertakes to conserve the rights of its people. To unhappy Austria, -shoved into the war by Germany, they are of life or death interest. -<b>A correct view of Germany is now absolutely essential to the future -freedom of man!</b></p> - -<p>Germany now resembles a rat in a pit, furious from countless defeats, -insane with baffled hate and rage, and wild with a fearful certainty of -her Finish. All her fine plans, and twenty years of active preparation, -have gone awry. Her vast naval and military preparations have brought -her only death, poverty, ruin and hatred. Even her own allies now -thoroughly hate and detest her, and one and all would break away from -her if they dared.</p> - -<p>All her long years of lying and spying and plotting have been revealed -in their naked and hideous ugliness. She stands before the world as a -foiled conquestador, a black-hearted murderer of defenseless women, -children and old men, and the wholesale ravisher of helpless women. -The "skull-cracker" spiked club of Germany, and the deadly "murderer's -mace" of Austria, now abundantly shown in Italy's war museum, are used -for the murdering of wounded prisoners in the trenches and on the -battlefields.</p> - -<p>And now Germany, like a mortally wounded wolf with the hounds at his -throat, undertakes to propose terms of peace to the Allies! With -a great show of large-heartedness, the Reichstag now talks very -magnanimously of peace with "no annexations and no indemnities." Yes, -indeed! A peace on that basis would suit Germany well. Tricky and -shifty to the last gasp, she seeks thus to catch the swell-headed -"soldiers and workmen" of Russia, the large-mouthed and blatant -anarchists and radical socialists of America, and the traitor-pacifists -of the world at large. <b>But all honest men who are wide awake know -full well that a peace of that nature would spell "victory" for -Germany, and as certain as death and taxes another war with her later -on!</b></p> - -<p>The Entente Allies presently will fix the terms of peace, as they -should be fixed, and Germany will accept them; but first there will be -another eighteen months of war.</p> - -<p>With new German-made peace talk streaming out of Berlin, it is now time -to post the books for the past three years, and see how the German -account stands. Nothing is more conducive to peace and prosperity than -a true sense of proportion, and a correct point of view. In all times -of danger it is best to know the worst.</p> - -<p>The debit side of Germany's account quickly resolves itself, first of -all, into a catalogue of Germany's blunders, as the reasons for her -crimes, and her present state of impotent rage. It is highly necessary -that Americans should study this list, in order to judge the case -fairly, and to be able to act intelligently when the times comes for -the Allies to discuss the peace terms that Germany, Austria and Turkey -must accept.</p> - -<p>It is the natural impulse of high-minded and humane people to be -over-magnanimous to beaten enemies, <b>to condone crime altogether too -often</b>, and to help the down-and-out criminal to get back upon his -feet. It is also a sadly common thing for a confirmed criminal to turn, -cur-like, and bite the hand that helps him; and many a criminal has -murdered the generous man or woman who gave him a place to lay his head.</p> - -<p>There are criminals and criminals. Some deserve succor; others -merit quick extermination. The confirmed criminal is in a class by -himself. He is unfit to live; but as the very smallest measure of -self-protection, society should punish him for his crimes, and render -him innocuous for the future. In other words, every confirmed criminal -should either be killed or segregated, and made to exist in a little -hell of his own, while decent people go their respective ways in peace -and security.</p> - -<p>Eight million men, to whom America shortly will add at least two -million more, bravely are risking their lives on the battlefields of -Europe and Asia in an effort to put two criminal nations,—Germany and -Turkey,—into an exclusive hell of their own, and keep them there for -the protection of civilization.</p> - -<p>In courts of law, it is customary to consider the motives of the -prisoner at the bar, to search out his lines of thought, and study his -methods. An annotated catalogue of the blunders of Germany will afford -a clear insight into the present world situation, and the Teutonic -frame of temper. It will also serve a good purpose when the time comes -to arraign Germany and her allies for sentence.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Before we open the door of the German den of mixed wolves and mad-dogs, -let us read this marvelously true and prophetic pen picture of Kaiser -William as it was published by Harold Frederic, in the New York -<i>Times</i>, on April 2, <b>1888, twenty-nine years ago</b>:</p> - -<p>"In the same way you look into the face of this young heir of the -Hohenzollerns and remember the malignant tales which have been told -of his inner nature by those who know him best. Apparently all the -women—at least all the English women—who have had to do with the -bringing up of Prince William hold him in horror and detestation. I -have had numerous proofs of this, although I have never been able to -fasten upon any specific reason for it. Their dislike for him is based -on a general conception of his character. This view is that he is -utterly cold, entirely selfish, wantonly cruel; a young man without -conscience or compassion, or any softening virtues whatever. That he -has great abilities they all admit, but they stop there. Heart he has -none, upon their reckoning....</p> - -<p>"It seems very probable that some future Taine a century hence, -perhaps, will write to show that William II of Prussia was <b>a -mysterious belated survival of the ante-mediaeval Goths and -Vandals,—an Attila born a thousand and more years after his time</b>."</p> - -<p>How many Americans are willing to trust themselves in the power of such -a man?</p> - - -<p>1. THE GREAT BLUNDER OF GERMANY AND HER KAISER IN STARTING THE WAR.</p> - -<p>By the light of the official documents of Austria, Servia, Germany, -Russia, France and England, now open before us, it is an easy task to -write the history of the beginning of the war in one paragraph. The -most conclusive evidence of Germany's guilt is the official "German -white book," dated "Foreign Office, August, 1914." It has convinced -many a reader.</p> - -<p>On July 25, 1914, Servia humbled herself to the dust at the feet of -Austria, to appease her for the murder of her crown prince by a crazy -and criminal fool; and little Servia conceded everything that giant -Austria demanded, save a practical surrender of her national honor. -Austria had fully made up her mind to destroy Servia, anyhow; and in -that connection Germany and her Kaiser decided the event would serve -well for starting the great war of conquest for which the Germans had -long and lovingly been preparing. The Czar begged the Kaiser not to -consent to the slaughter of little Servia by the Austrian big bully. -The Kaiser replied that Austria should have a free hand. The Czar -appealed to England and to France, to help him avert a war; and both -those nations did their level best to avert hostilities. No plea that -could postpone the clash of armies, or promote a peaceful settlement -was omitted. The last telegram of Czar Nicholas to Kaiser Wilhelm -(August 1) was a pathetic appeal for delay, and a chance "to negotiate -for the welfare of our two countries and the universal peace which -is so dear to our hearts. With the aid of God," said the Czar, "it -must be possible to our long-tried friendship to prevent the shedding -of blood." To this the Kaiser icily replied: "Although I asked for -a reply by to-day noon [to his telegraphed ultimatum], no telegram -from my Ambassador has reached me," and "I therefore have been forced -to mobilize my army." Germany's many statements that France began -hostilities with her are one and all totally false.</p> - -<p>Now, here is a significant fact:</p> - -<p>On July 14, 1917, in a speech before the Austrian Reichsrath former -Minister Praschek (a Czech) cried out:</p> - -<p>"<b>Must we continue to sacrifice our interests for the expansion of -Germany? Must we continue to submit to the German militarism that has -drawn us into this war?</b>"</p> - -<p>Alas! At last the truth is out, officially and openly! We thought as -much! Many men have believed that Germany shoved Austria into the war, -because Germany was all ready for her great offense, and the murder at -Sarajevo served as a convenient excuse. If Germany had not backed up -Austria, and Russia had forbidden Austria to attack Servia, <b>there -would have been no war</b>! But Germany hailed that murder as her -heaven-sent opportunity to begin. It was to her "Der Tag"!</p> - -<p>All the world knows that if the Kaiser had sent a nine-word telegram -to Austria, at a cost of one mark, saying: "Do not begin war on Servia -until further notice," Austria would not have dared go on! But no! -William and his Germans refused to admonish Austria, or to delay -hostilities by Germany. "We can not interfere with the plans of our -Ally;" said William, "and we have mobilized."</p> - -<p><b>And thus did the German people and their Kaiser begin the war to -which they had so long and so eagerly looked forward.</b></p> - - -<p>2. GERMANY'S RUTHLESS DEVOTION TO SELF INTEREST.</p> - -<p>When Rapacity moves into the next house, it is time to lock your cellar -door. Yoke up insatiable Appetite with colossal Egotism, and the -inevitable runaway is only a question of time.</p> - -<p>While enjoying the benefits of an industrial prosperity and a -world-wide commerce that had won the admiration of the world, the -Germans complained about being denied their "place in the sun"; and -they reached out after world supremacy. England and the United States -were like twin thorns in the side of the Kaiser and the German people -at large. The pan-Germanists busily plotted against both those nations.</p> - -<p>Concerning England, a distinguished German-born citizen of New York, -Mr. Otto H. Kahn, wrote to a relative in Germany (June 28, 1915) as -follows:</p> - -<p>"England has not abused her power at sea, ... any more than previous to -the present war you have abused your power on land. Not only has she -not stood in the way of your development, but <b>on the contrary she -has given you fair and free access to her markets, with unparalleled -liberality</b>."</p> - -<p>In fact, it was so "unparalleled" that by August, 1914, German -commercial houses had crowded out of Singapore every British house save -two! Wherever the British flag went, prior to the war, along with it -went the German trader.</p> - -<p>But, like the horseleech, Germany's cry was for "More"; and to get it -"<b>British sea power must be crushed!</b>"</p> - -<p>Unmitigated rapacity, in men or in nations, ever has been and always -will be a colossal blunder.</p> - - -<p>3. THE BLUNDER OF WORLD-WIDE TREACHERY.</p> - -<p>While America was sound asleep in the lap of Peace, and England -slumbered with only her sea eye open, Germany armed herself to the -teeth, and planted throughout England, France, America, Belgium, -Holland, Russia and India the most colossal spy-and-traitor system ever -developed. She secretly armed her African colonies so that on receipt -of the famous "Willie-is-ill" telegram, each one of her colonies -instantly was ready to fight.</p> - -<p>In 1911, while crossing Lake Tanganyika, Central Africa, on a steamer, -an American lady said to a German officer who sat beside her at -the dinner table, "Have you and your comrade been shooting?" "Not -<b>yet</b>!" said the officer, significantly; whereat his brother -officer laughed heartily, as if at a good joke. Later it became known -that the business of those two officers was the supplying of machine -guns to German East Africa. And still later it was learned that those -guns were shipped to Dar-es-Salaam in piano-boxes, marked "Pianos." No -wonder Dar-es-Salaam was so ready to begin fighting on August 2, 1914!</p> - -<p>There are times when the blunderings of German "statesmen" are so -crude and raw that, when they harm no one, they are comical. Even -amid the horrors of war all America is laughing over the wholesale -discomfiture and final undoing of Dr. Dumba, Papen, Boy-Ed (an -anything-but-precocious Boy), and Bernstorff, by a restless American -newspaper man with a taste for amateur detective work after amateur -crooks.</p> - -<p>One would naturally suppose that men officially designated by their -wise and honorable government to play dirty tricks on the people of a -friendly nation would at least have as much intelligence as ordinary -horses and dogs. But, no; not so with that Austro-German galaxy of -shining stars.</p> - -<p>One lonesome and harmless American newspaper man, John R. Rathom, -of the Providence <i>Journal</i>, had the gall to plant an employee in a -secretarial position at Excellency von Bernstorff's elbow. Also, he put -a bright American girl stenographer (<b>with</b> a red pencil) in the -office of the Austrian Consul-General in New York. And not content with -those outrages, he generously planted an office on each side of the -German fake-passport factory in New York, instead of on one side only.</p> - -<p>And it was a Providence <i>Journal</i> man who with most criminal -carelessness changed portfolios with the astute Dr. Albert of Austria, -and staged a fight in a street car,—without extra charge,—while that -horrible mistake was being made. And the saddest part of it all is that -nearly forty-eight long hours elapsed ere the lynx-eyed Doctor noticed -the substitution, and made a fuss about it.</p> - -<p>Mr. Rathom's most delightful story is of his girl stenographer sitting -demurely on a big box of incriminating papers, just prior to its -shipment to Germany, sharing her frugal lunch with the shrewd Papen, -and dreamily drawing two large red hearts on the box-cover, to which -the sentimental Von thoughtfully and tenderly added a red transfixing -arrow. This spooning led to the cheap and easy identification of the -box in Merrie England. It reads like a foolishly impossible romance; -but the joke of it is, it is quite true.</p> - -<p>"Oh, mon! but it was peetiful!"</p> - -<p>With all their training in treachery, and education in plotting and -lying and concealment, Dumba, Bernstorff, Papen, Boy-Ed and Albert -were one and all the most stupid donkeys that ever came down the pike. -Not one of them knew the first principles of the self-protection -system that (temporarily) keeps expert liars and thieves and forgers -from being caught. Just fancy keeping check-stubs, and receipts, and -copies of letters, <b>in lawless proceedings</b>! Great is "German -thoroughness"—in being caught with the goods by an amateur sleuth, -acting on his own brass hook.</p> - -<p>Mr. Rathom, who has enough to laugh over at the expense of -Deutschland-über-alles for the rest of his life, has not shown to the -world more than one-twentieth of his mirth-provoking materials. But how -we do wish that by hook or by crook William the Witless might be told -just how stupid his diplomatic representatives really were, and how -much their stupidity helped the Allies.</p> - -<p>It has been said that liars need long memories; and it can safely be -added that they also need as much intelligence as pet monkeys. A rogue -who pays his fellow rogues <b>by checks on his bank account</b> is -utterly hopeless. The only proper place for him is the cooling room of -an asylum for idiots.</p> - -<p>The playgrounds of the great American schoolboy have produced many a -nugget of worldly wisdom. One of them is the unanswerable admonition -that "Cheating never thrives."</p> - -<p>All mankind hates treachery under the cloak of friendship. After -Boy-Ed, Papen, Bernstorff, Dumba and Albert, what will we think of the -Germans and Austrians who are sent to us after the war, to represent -their governments? How can Americans regard them as anything else -than spies and traitors of the same brands as their predecessors, -who will lie to us, and knife us in the back as often and as deeply -as the interests of their governments may seem to require? All such -"diplomats" deserve to be hanged by the governments to which they are -sent. Fancy the next "His Excellency, the German Ambassador" being -presented to the President of the United States a few months from now, -shaking hands, and proffering "friendship"!</p> - - -<p>4. THE BLUNDER IN GERMANY'S CONTEMPT OF ENGLAND.</p> - -<p>Among fighters, only the fool will underrate his adversary. Per contra, -it is only the fool who overestimates his own strength. The Germans of -Germany made both those blunders.</p> - -<p>The German navy is a strange mixture, of brave men and cowards, of -gallant gentlemen and murderous curs; and all of them are directed by -asses. No sooner is a gallant feat of seamanship recorded and acclaimed -than it is completely beclouded and besmirched by some act of dirty -cruelty which turns admiration into loathing. The history of German -naval doings in this war is like a checkerboard of black and white -squares; but the few remaining white squares are rapidly turning black.</p> - -<p>In commerce-raiding the Germans are great; and the U-boat is a wonder. -The more humble the prey, the better for the boat. But the U-boat is -mighty careful not to tackle a destroyer, and take a sporting chance; -and when he finds that his tramp-freighter prey is armed, he feels -that he is indeed in hard luck. His favorite warfare is fighting, with -torpedoes and guns galore, unarmed fishing smacks and rusty tramp -steamers. His favorite order is: "Fire when you see them spit on the -bait!"</p> - -<p>And now he has taken on the habit of shelling life-boats loaded to -the gunwales with helpless crews, and sending them all to the bottom. -Sometimes the gallant U-boat captain comes close up, and he and his -crew come out and jeer at drowning men and women as they struggle in -icy waters.</p> - -<p>The German High Seas Fleet is grand—at running for cover whenever the -British get a chance at it. The manner in which the <i>Bluecher</i> was left -to its fate while all the other gallant battleships of the German fleet -madly scuttled for the Kiel Canal, had its comical side; but it was -truly typical of the Kaiser's navy. It is said that after that event -Tirpitz provided his naval code with a new signal, reading, "Every man -for himself, and England take the hindmost."</p> - -<p>Germany's bid for the supremacy of the seas was far too low; and it has -cost her heavily.</p> - - -<p>5. BLUNDERING ESTIMATES OF NATIONAL IDEALS.</p> - -<p>It is natural for a wolf to take a wolf's point of view; but often it -is expensive to the wolf.</p> - -<p>Germany's big men who have been masquerading as "statesmen" have been -proven by the logic of events to be the most colossal blunderers the -world has ever seen; and of them Kaiser Wilhelm is the chief.</p> - -<p>They had it figured out (1) that Italy would necessarily cast in her -lot with the nation who had robbed her of her Adriatic provinces, and -with the other nation who by crafty methods had grasped her commerce, -railroads and banks by the throat with a German grip not pleasant to -feel.</p> - -<p>(2).—They believed that Belgium would, for the sake of "peace," submit -to being overrun and converted into a German camp, with the ultimately -certain seizure and retention of the port of Antwerp.</p> - -<p>(3).—They believed that because of having no army worth mentioning, -and for Irish and Indian reasons, England could be bribed into a state -of degrading passivity while Germany completely destroyed her ally, -France. And Chancellor Hollweg nearly wept when he could not convince -Sir Edward Goschen that a pledge of neutrality was a thing to be -ignored at will, and that a solemn international treaty was only "a -scrap of paper." In failing to understand that England possesses a -sense of national honor to which Germany was a total stranger, which -bore no taint of either commercialism or cowardice, and which Britons -throughout the world will maintain with all their lives, regardless of -cost, the Chancellor and Jagow made a strictly German blunder, which no -child with a taste for history ever should have made. On this point the -stupidity of the Kaiser and his cabinet looms up like the Pyramid of -Cheops. They judged the English by themselves.</p> - - -<p>6. BLUNDERING WITH AMERICA.</p> - -<p>Germany's chief blunder regarding America was due to her contempt for -this sleepy, easy-going, unarmed, peace-loving nation of Quixotic -chivalry toward small nations, or big ones that are weak, and her -utterly grotesque worship of riches and luxury. On no other hypothesis -is it possible to account for the endless series of insults, injuries -and treacheries that were handed out to the United States from the -early sinking of the <i>Robert Dollar</i> down to the final declaration of -ruthless submarine war on American commerce and American lives.</p> - -<p>Never in all the history of nations did any strong nation ever endure -without war one one-hundredth part of the causes for war that were -heaped upon us by Germany between August 1, 1914, and the final -severance of relations. For the sake of "peace" with a mad-dog military -despotism, we endured insults, injuries and murders until the whole -world looked at us in stupefied amazement. Why, in the first year of -our Civil War, we came to the very verge of war with England because -we halted at sea the British steamer <i>Trent</i>, and took from it, as -ordinary prisoners of war, the two Confederate commissioners, Mason -and Slidell. But Germany sank scores of American ships, and drowned -hundreds of Americans,—and still we went on seeking to avoid the clash -of arms.</p> - -<p>But, always "Beware the fury of a patient man!"</p> - -<p>Now that we have put our hand to the plough, the furrow will be turned -to the uttermost finish, whether it takes one year or ten years. We -will not leave a living Pfafner,—a great, stinking German military -dragon,—as a heritage for our children.</p> - - -<p>7. THE BLUNDER OF "FRIGHTFULNESS."</p> - -<p>There are some blunders that dogs and horses, and even sensible wild -animals, do not commit. Of all the stupidities of the German people, -the crowning glory of their blundering is their idea that German -savagery and "frightfulness" could so appal their enemies that they -would be paralyzed by the shock of atrocities, and purchase peace at -any price. It is difficult to believe that such fantastic theories -as these originated anywhere outside of a madhouse. No words at our -command can so well describe this situation as do the words of a -once-German, of New York and of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, Mr. Otto H. Kahn. -They were written on June 28, 1915, to a relative in Germany, and -published in the N.Y. <i>Times</i> of July 4, 1917.</p> - -<p>"The theory of 'frightfulness' in the conduct of warfare which Germany -now preaches and practices is no new discovery. On the contrary, it -is a very ancient one,—so old, in fact, that long ago it came to be -discarded and superseded in European warfare, and passed into the limbo -of forgotten things. There, until resurrected by your countrymen, it -lay for generations, along with much else that the human race had -overcome and left behind in the progress of culture and humanity,—a -progress achieved by strenuous toil, sacrifices and suffering in the -course of many centuries.</p> - -<p>"<b>And what have you gained from your 'frightfulness'?</b> Your -victories have been due to quite other qualities. <b>By your -'frightfulness' you have steeled your enemies to the utmost limit of -sacrifice; you have embittered neutral opinion; you have disappointed -and grieved your friends, and sown dragon's teeth, the offspring of -which will arise against you many years, even after the conclusion of -peace.</b>"</p> - -<p>These are indeed words of wisdom and truth. Even after the conclusion -of peace, the exponents of "frightfulness" and the knights of the -"skull-cracker" will be accorded a hell of their own.</p> - - -<p>8. THE BLUNDER AS TO AMERICANS OF GERMAN DESCENT.</p> - -<p>One of Germany's colossal blunders was her estimate of the sentiments -and principles of German-born people who have made their homes in -America, and the American sons and daughters of German-born parents. -German statesmen whose criminal wishes shaped their thoughts sincerely -believed that the admiration and love of the Kaiser's despotism, -including even the military iron heel, was so great that the influence -of American liberty, open-hearted hospitality and vast opportunity -would count for naught when the Kaiser cracked his whip.</p> - -<p>The Simple Simons of Wilhelmstrasse actually believed that in any -struggle with America, all Americans of German ancestry necessarily -would be traitors to their own hearthstones, and would rise en masse, -fully-armed, cobra-like, to strike the government of the United States. -Being themselves ruthlessly devoted to the idea of might and conquest, -and the merciless subjugation of small and weak nations, they judged -their kindred in America by their own rotten standards. They foolishly -assumed that a German forty years in America would willingly become a -black-hearted traitor to the land that for years had sheltered him, -and made much of him,—simply because the ruthless builders of modern -Germany had endeavored to keep a grip on him, and had willed that he -should obey their orders.</p> - -<p>But the people of America made no mistakes of that kind. They -recognized that so long as the United States was not at war with -Germany, the sympathy of all Americans of German descent would be -against the Allies. That was as natural as it is for water to run -down hill. But when war with Germany was declared, after a multitude -of insults and injuries and too many efforts at avoidance, the -native American felt no serious misgiving regarding the great body -of Americans of German ancestry. All that they did fear was the -crazy possibilities of individual hot-heads; and it was pointed out -to German-Americans that the insane and treasonable acts of such -irresponsibles might easily involve great masses of perfectly innocent -people. The Americans of German descent sternly forbade all such folly -by their people, and it will be a pleasure for the historians of these -times to record the fact that the German-born Americans have, as a -mass, elected to be Americans first, and the others have wisely feared -to be openly hostile to the United States.</p> - -<p>Except the Anarchists, Socialists and I.W.W's., American ideals have -made lasting impressions upon many of our people whose veins contain -foreign blood, though not upon all. Young Ernest and Heinrich are in -the National Guard, and lads August and Herman are in the Boy Scouts, -busy saluting the flag; and all are quite ready to fight for the only -home country that they know. They are not in the ranks of the alien -malcontents who are organized to fight all American efforts at national -defense. But we will deal with that element.</p> - -<p>The brutal German government, and the odious Junkers, now frantically -lying to the people of Germany and ruthlessly concealing the truth from -them, have few allies in the United States save the spies and traitors -planted here for spy purposes. There will be no "uprising of Germans" -here. The extinguishment by the Providence <i>Journal</i> of the reptilian -Bernstorff, the chuckleheaded Boy-Ed, the blundering Papen, and Dumba -the easy mark, effectually ended the treasonable plots that aided very -materially in opening the chasm between the United States and Germany, -and driving the United States whole-heartedly into the war. Dumba -has been decorated for his part in all this, and we hope his fellow -plotters will be equally appreciated.</p> - -<p>But there are some capital blunders that Germany never makes. Her -people are an absolute unit, in body, spirit and resources, in backing -up the leaders of the nation in the hour of strife and danger. She does -not make the mistake of tolerating traitors and assassins at home. If -her soldiers mutinied on the firing line, and refused to fight the -enemy, as some rotten-hearted Russian soldiers recently have done most -disastrously, Germany would not make the mistake of letting one of them -live to tell it. In solidarity, unity of purpose and devotion to the -nation's policy, the German people are a shining example to America. -They are more devoted to a bad cause than our slackers and traitors are -to a good one. It is high time for us to teach our traitors some severe -lessons; and I warn them, one and all: <b>Beware!</b></p> - -<p>And now what about Germany's crimes? In the next chapter, let us see.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p class="ph2">II. The Crimes of Germany.</p> - - -<p>In the affairs of the individual and the state, we hear a lot about -"crime" and "criminals"; but it is an idiotic fact that the greatest -of all crimes, those committed by nations on a vast scale, rarely are -spoken of as crimes, and easily are condoned after the fighting stops. -The world calls them either "wars" or "atrocities"; and the men who -instigate them never are spoken of as criminals, and never are punished -as such. Is it not curious?</p> - -<p>Still less is the author of an inexcusable war, or a series of brutal -atrocities, hanged, or shot, or even permanently imprisoned for his -crimes. What fools these mortals be!</p> - -<p>In our civilization, a wife who ends long years of torture by killing -a brutal husband, always is tried, sentenced, and either imprisoned -for life, or executed. This asinine world is most virtuous in the -punishment of weak individuals; but we notice that it rarely tackles -the job of meting out real justice to the greatest of all criminals. -After this war is over, will any criminal, either at Berlin or -Constantinople, be hanged or shot for the deliberate slaughter of -1,500,000 helpless Armenians, or for any of the hideous crimes -committed in this war? Not on your life. Mushy-hearted individuals will -advise that they be treated "magnanimously," and will urge that we -"become friends."</p> - -<p>The world has grown hardened to the habit of lumping the crimes and -atrocities of organized conflicts together under a short and easy -word. "War" is made to cover and gloss over millions of the bloody and -malicious crimes of millions of men who ought to be punished according -to their deserts. I am thinking of the Kaiser, Stenger, Tirpitz and -Hindenberg, and the Young Turks en masse.</p> - -<p>The Hague conventions did their utmost to reform the world's war -practices, establish an international code of war ethics, and thereby -reduce the horrors of armed conflict. But with what results?</p> - -<p>Closely following those well-meant and humane efforts, two nations, -Germany and Turkey, have given the world a continuous performance of -wholesale murder, rape, burnings, drownings and starvation such as the -world never before saw, even in the bloodiest days of barbarism. The -Turkish crimes in Armenia must be computed in millions, and the wanton -murder of a million Armenians is directly chargeable to the rulers of -Germany, who deliberately permitted it to be done.</p> - -<p>And even now, many good people who refuse to concern themselves with -the woes of men and women who are far away, will decry all attempts -to punish the Germans and Turks for their crimes. They will talk -about "magnanimity in peace terms," and a quick return to ante-bellum -friendships. Think of a treaty of friendship with ravishers, and with -the murderers of women and children and prisoners!</p> - -<p>All sensible men know that the proper punishment of criminals is -necessary for the protection of society from wolves and dragons, and -for the general welfare of mankind. Unpunished crime always encourages -and produces more crime. The world must not mistake softness of head -for soundness of heart.</p> - -<p>It is indeed high time that criminal nations should be punished for -their crimes. Are any nations before the bar of the Court of Nations -charged with deliberate and premeditated crimes against helpless -humanity?</p> - -<p>Yes; two. Germany and Turkey are so accused; and <b>no power on earth -can stop the trial</b>! Austria comes next.</p> - -<p>Let us call first the case of Germany.</p> - -<p>In opening the worst of these two cases, we distinctly leave out of our -specifications all those acts which may be put down as chargeable to -the ordinary and inevitable horrors of war. At the same time we must -remember that even the most brutal prize ring has its rules and its -ethics, which are rigidly enforced. Even a fighter whose face is being -beaten to a pulp may not bite, kick, gouge, or strike below the belt; -no, not even when defeat and ruin stare him in the face. The fighting -must be "fair," or the decision is at once given to the recipient of -the "foul" act.</p> - -<p>Until Germany invaded Belgium, and Turkey went to work to exterminate -the Armenians, the world supposed that the Christian nations -had reformed, that all civilized nations recognized the latest -international code of ethics in war, and would live up to it. It was -then against the rules of civilized warfare to shoot, stab, burn or -beat to death the civilian populations of captured territory, to starve -prisoners, to kill prisoners and wounded men, to use expanding bullets, -to rape women, to force women to become soldier's prostitutes, to -poison wells, to use poison in any form, to destroy maliciously works -of art, science and literature; to sink merchant ships at sea without -assuring the safety of passengers and crew, and to bombard cities from -the air for the slaughter of their helpless civilian inhabitants.</p> - -<p>According to a great mass of official records, all of those barbarous, -cruel, inhumane and wild-animal acts have been done by Germany, on -well-nigh countless occasions. The evidence is thoroughly conclusive. -The German soldiers and sailors, both officers and men, are the most -cruel and brutal criminals of all the world. In Servia the Austrian -record is almost as rotten.</p> - -<p>In 1898, Count Goetzen said, regarding the treacherous designs of -Germany on France, England and America: "If you do speak of this, <b>no -one will believe you</b>, and everyone will laugh at you!"</p> - -<p>To-day, the American people as a mass do not know more than one -one-hundredth part of the crimes of Germany during the past three -years. The reason is that it is impossible to place before them the -great mass of publications and documents, such as that which now lies -before me, that is necessary to convey full knowledge of this ghastly -subject. Without this evidence, or at least a lengthy digest of it, -the utter depravity of the German Germans is, to a clean and humane -American, absolutely incomprehensible. It takes strong nerves to go -through these thousands of pages of printed documents, and scores of -ghastly pictures, without becoming thoroughly shaken.</p> - -<p>It is not a pleasing task to set forth the details of revolting crimes, -but it now has become very necessary that all Americans, of South -America as well as North, should be shown the true character of the -soldiers and civilians of Germany, and the men in high places who have -<b>ordered</b> and <b>fostered</b> the high crimes of the past three -years. This is no time to side-step the truth regarding the deadliest -foes of human liberty and the rights of man.</p> - -<p>By way of illustration. Consider the character of the German crown -prince,—the hero(?) of Verdun. When in Zabern the highborn German -Captain Forstner beat a lame Alsatian shoemaker with his sword, for -being "short" in love for his German masters. When a great outcry was -raised outside of Germany, the precious crown-princeling telegraphed -the brave and gallant Forstner, "<b>Fester d'rauf!</b>" which means -"<b>Hit him again!</b>" Forstner was promoted, for gallantry on the -field, of course. (New York <i>Times</i>, July 15.)</p> - -<p>In making up this all too brief exposition, I shall set down neither -facts nor conclusions save those that are supported by an abundance of -evidence such as might well be offered in any court of law. The most -damaging evidences of German crimes and atrocities are <b>those that -have been collected from German sources</b>!</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The "peace resolutions" introduced in the German Reichstag say:</p> - -<p>"Germany took up arms in defense of its liberty and independence, and -for the integrity of its territories."</p> - -<p>All the world now knows that both those statements are brazen lies, and -that the people of Germany started the war as a war of conquest, and -nothing else. But the lying leaders of Germany, including the 70 men -of science who signed and sent out their now famous manifesto late in -1914, have for three long years been injecting that falsehood into the -ignorant masses of Germany, to make them feel like fighting and going -hungry.</p> - -<p>No. Germany's whining plea that she is "fighting for her very -existence" is no excuse whatever for her diabolical crimes. No one is, -or has been, seeking to "destroy" Germany, or anything German, save -only her domineering, dangerous and thoroughly accursed military power. -Even in the prize ring all such excuses as that are ruled out; and the -fear of being beaten in a fight is no excuse for crime, nor even for -brutality in method.</p> - -<p>One curious psychological fact is to be noted at the very outset. It is -this:</p> - -<p>The moment the average German dons a military uniform, and becomes a -soldier, with deadly weapons in his hands, he is at once transformed -as if by magic into a cruel monster. Frequently he becomes a savage -and bloodthirsty dragon; and it would be a gross libel on the lower -animals to call him a beast. He becomes a stranger to the feelings -of the home-loving husband, father, son or churchman. In the name of -"Germany," and "war," he is ready to commit any atrocity and write -it down, exultingly, in his diary. Ah! those soldier diaries! There -is where German efficiency unwittingly provided instruments for the -punishment of German crimes.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>But the German in uniform is not the only agent of hate and brutality. -"The people of Germany" are only one short step behind him. Let every -person who doubts this send five cents to the <i>Saturday Evening Post</i>, -Philadelphia, for its issue of July 14, 1917, and on page 16 read -"Englander Schwein" ("English Swine") the diary of Corporal Edwards, of -Canada's top regiment, the Princess Patricia's C.L.I., who was captured -by the Germans. Read it, if you have in your heart even one soft spot -for "the people of Germany."</p> - -<p>It is a story of revolting filth inflicted upon refined gentlemen, of -three days utterly needless hunger torture inflicted on half-starved -men taken out of their cars three times a day, lined up and compelled -to watch German soldiers stuffed with food by German women, with -"Nein!" "Nein!" to them when they begged for food. It is a story of -horribly neglected wounds, arms rotting off, slow starvation in the -prison camp on food consisting of 200 gallons of water to one small bag -of potatoes, and so forth.</p> - -<p>Of the murders and mutilations in the trenches there is not time to -speak. But read this account of the treatment the Canadians received -along the railway from the women of Germany,—even "gentlewomen":</p> - -<p>"The mob surged around us, heaping on us insults and blows; -<b>particularly the women</b>. They spat on us, with hate in their -eyes. We had to take that, or the bayonet. These were the acts not -only of the rabble, <b>but also of the people of good appearance and -address</b>. One very well-dressed woman came rushing up. Under other -circumstances I would have judged her to be a gentlewoman. She was -screaming invectives at us as she forced her way through the crowd. -'Schwein!' she screamed, and struck at the man next me. <b>Then, -drawing deep from the very bottom of her lungs, she spat the mass full -in his face.</b>"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>In essaying to give in one article even an outline sketch of the crimes -of Germany, one is perplexed by the many different kinds of atrocities, -and the great mass of instances and proofs bearing upon them. Out of -it all there thrusts up the ugly fact, like a spear from a pile of -corpses, that many of these crimes were committed intentionally, with -malice aforethought, and often were deliberately <b>ordered by German -officers, both high and low</b>. For example:</p> - -<p>General Stenger issued a printed order to kill all the wounded;</p> - -<p>Bissing was the refined torturer of all Belgium, in many orders;</p> - -<p>Manteuffel was the chief murderer at Louvain;</p> - -<p>Bulow and Schonmann were the wild beasts of Ardenne;</p> - -<p>And it was Bayer at Dinant, Bohn at Sommerfeld and Termonde; Nieher -at Wavre; Wittenstein at Clermont-en-Argonne, and so on until you are -tired.</p> - - -<p>1. THE MURDER OF CIVILIANS.</p> - -<p>This flourishing German industry began at Louvain, at the very outbreak -of the war, and has continued right down to the present. It is -astounding to see how quickly murders began, with the most revolting -brutality, immediately after the Germans entered Belgium! Sometimes -the excuse was made that "Mann hat geschossen",—that "civilians have -fired";—and then the indiscriminate slaughter began.</p> - -<p>The thick volume of "Evidence" taken by the Bryce Commission on the -German Atrocities is crowded full of testimony; and so are many -subsequent publications of the British and French governments. The -stories written down in their diaries by German soldiers are both -terrible and amazing. In an uncountable number of villages old men, -old women, boys, girls, women and children were shot by dozens and by -hundreds; and hundreds were stabbed to death by bayonets.</p> - -<p>There are sickening accounts, from eye-witness testimony, of German -soldiers <b>bayoneting children</b> and girls, but the most spectacular -crime of that kind was committed at Malaines (d4, Bryce Evidence), when -a German soldier walking down the main street, singing, "drove his -bayonet with both hands through a living child's stomach, lifting the -child into the air on his bayonet, and carrying it away on his bayonet, -he and his comrades still singing." (Page 82.)</p> - -<p>In the village of Sempst, an Uhlan cut off the breast of a woman with -his sword; and a little boy was burned to death in an attic. (K. 33.) -At Aerschot a girl of 18 or 20 was found "absolutely naked, with her -abdomen cut open", and "her body covered with bruises, showing that she -had made a struggle." Jack the Ripper in a spiked helmet!</p> - -<p>And again at Aerschot (C. 38) did the German Jack get in his work on -another girl of 18. She was found (dead) with "her arms nailed to the -door in extended fashion, ... her left breast cut away, and numerous -bayonet wounds in the chest, some piercing through to the back." (Told -by a Belgian soldier, who helped to recapture the place.)</p> - -<p>A British subject saw on September 15, 1914, in the Wetteren Hospital, -a girl of 11 from Alost with 17 bayonet thrusts in her back, -"practically flayed, and at the point of death." (F. 13.) "Out of the -1300 inhabitants of Noumeny, at least 150 were killed (murdered) by the -Germans." (French Police Report, Aug. 24, 1914.)</p> - -<p>This list could be extended by hundreds of other cases; and a -long chapter could be filled with such instances as the above. -Geographically they reach all the way from Louvain to the beginning of -the great German defeat before Paris.</p> - -<p>In order to form estimates of what the quiet little country villages of -New England might expect if the armed wolves and mad dogs of Germany -ever gained a foothold here, let us consider a few figures compiled -from official reports and published by the <i>Illustrated London News</i>. -They relate solely to the murder of unarmed, inoffensive civilians—old -men, women, girls, boys and children.</p> - -<table summary="murders" width="80%"> -<tr> -<td>In Brabant -</td> -<td align="right">897 -</td> -<td>persons shot or bayoneted. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>In Luxembourg Province, over -</td> -<td align="right">1000 -</td> -<td> " " " " -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>At Arlon -</td> -<td align="right">119 -</td> -<td> " " " " -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Dinant Arrondissement (Fr.) -</td> -<td align="right">606 -</td> -<td>killed, from 3 weeks to 77 years old. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Neufchatel -</td> -<td align="right">18 -</td> -<td>shot. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Etalle -</td> -<td align="right">30 -</td> -<td> " -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Hondemont -</td> -<td align="right">11 -</td> -<td> " -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Tintiguy -</td> -<td align="right">157 -</td> -<td> " -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Izele -</td> -<td align="right">10 -</td> -<td> " -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Rossignol -</td> -<td align="right">106 -</td> -<td> " -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Bertrix -</td> -<td align="right">21 -</td> -<td> " -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Ethe <span style="margin-left: 73%;">about</span> -</td> -<td align="right">300 -</td> -<td>shot; "530 in all missing." -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Latour <span style="margin-left: 71%;">only</span> -</td> -<td align="right">17 -</td> -<td>men left. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Maissin -</td> -<td align="right">12 -</td> -<td> shot, 1 a young girl. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Aloy -</td> -<td align="right">52 -</td> -<td>men and women shot. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Claireuse -</td> -<td align="right">2 -</td> -<td>men hanged. -</td> -</tr> -</table> - - -<p>—and so on, indefinitely. On the most trivial pretexts, or none at -all, the Germans slaughtered unresisting non-combatants who were in -their power. Out of a lot of 40 German soldier diaries, only 6 express -disapproval or disgust, and at least 30 diaries treat murders either -exultingly or as being merely a part of the day's work.</p> - -<p>The slaughtered innocents of Belgium, France, Servia and Poland would, -in each of those countries, undoubtedly run far up into thousands if it -were possible to count them.</p> - -<p>Thanks to the diligence of the British and French governments in -collecting evidence now while evidence is procurable, there is already -enough printed testimony to damn Germany in the eyes of the world for -at least two centuries.</p> - - -<p>2. KILLING OF PRISONERS AND WOUNDED MEN BY GERMANS.</p> - -<p>The crimes of Germany under this head have been literally innumerable. -Judging by German, French, Belgian and English evidence, it seems as if -German soldiers have slaughtered probably 100,000 defenseless prisoners -and wounded men. Prof. J.H. Morgan states that von der Goltz, the evil -genius of Turkey, "predicted some years ago that the next war would be -one of inconceivable violence"; and he declares that "the Germans have -no sense of honor in the field." He was hideously correct.</p> - -<p>German prisoner murder began before Antwerp on October 6, 1914, when -the Captain of the 85th Regt. IXth Corps, 4th Company, said to his men: -"<b>I do not want to see any Englishmen prisoners in the hands of this -company!</b>" To which the company cried, "<b>Bravo!</b>" And Richard -Gerhold, 71st Regiment Reserve, 4th Army Corps (killed in September, -1914), wrote in his precious diary thus: "Great atrocities are <b>of -course</b> committed upon Englishmen and Belgians. <b>Every one of them -is now knocked on the head without mercy.</b>"</p> - -<p>The famous Stenger order of August 26, 1914, brings us to a capital -case. A German Brigadier-General, Stenger by name, issued this written -order to his brigade:</p> - -<p>"<b>To date from this day, no prisoners will be made any longer. -All the prisoners will be executed. The wounded, whether armed or -defenseless, will be executed. Prisoners, even in large and compact -formations, will be executed. Not a man will be left alive behind -us.</b>"</p> - -<p>The instances of the murder of helpless prisoners by Germans are far -too numerous to be cited in detail. Beyond reasonable doubt, a hundred -thousand soldiers were murdered on the Stenger basis.</p> - -<p>And after the war is over, if we resume friendly "relations" with -Germany, we may see Stenger in Washington as Military Attaché to his -Excellency the German Ambassador, shaking hands with the President of -the United States.</p> - - -<p>3. THE BOMBING OF CIVILIANS IN LONDON AND ELSEWHERE.</p> - -<p>The Kaiser and Zeppelin, and the German people, have spent many -millions of dollars in deliberate attempts to slaughter the unarmed -inhabitants of London, and strafe England. All the German talk about -attacking "the fortress of London" is beneath contempt. Rarely indeed -has a soldier been injured in London, or any other English city, -by a Zeppelin or an airplane bomb. It has been the helpless women, -school-children and other non-combatants who have been blown to pieces.</p> - -<p>These murders of civilian men, women and children have served only -to send furious Englishmen rushing to the trenches in droves, for -vengeance! Had the square-heads deliberately attempted to stimulate -British enlistments, the dropping of bombs on London would have been -the ideal plan. At last the British public demand reprisals, on the -basis of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; which would be -absolutely right.</p> - -<p>But thus far the statesmen of England firmly say:</p> - -<p>"No! We will not descend to the low level of the Huns of Germany."</p> - -<p>Nevertheless, Zeppelin died of a broken heart. From a military point of -view his campaign has proven a complete fiasco,—just as Americans long -ago predicted that it would, and his "frightfulness" gas bags are now -on the scrap-heap.</p> - - -<p>4. TIRPITZ AND THE SUBMARINE MURDERS.</p> - -<p>For a submarine to sink a war vessel with all on board is merely war, -no more and no less. No one whines about atrocities of that sort. All -the world does object, however, and very strongly, too, to the sinking -of unarmed passenger steamers, hospital ships, and Belgian relief -ships. All such acts of murder as these are the acts of monsters, not -of men. Of course we know that Germany sees her doom, and her people -are wild over the certainty of defeat. But even a 90 per cent. defeated -prize-fighter must not deliver a foul blow.</p> - -<p>The submarine murders are so well known to Americans as to require -no comment; but a few murder statistics will be worth while, lest we -forget.</p> -<table summary="ships" width="50%"> -<tr> -<td>March 28, 1915. -</td> -<td>Steamer -</td> -<td><i>Falaba</i> -</td> -<td align="right">111 -</td> -<td>lost -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>May 7, " -</td> -<td> " -</td> -<td><i>Lusitania</i> -</td> -<td align="right">1198 -</td> -<td> " -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>June 28, " -</td> -<td> " -</td> -<td><i>Armenian</i> -</td> -<td align="right">30 -</td> -<td> " -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Aug. 19, " -</td> -<td> " -</td> -<td><i>Arabic</i> -</td> -<td align="right">30 -</td> -<td> " -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Nov. 7, " -</td> -<td> " -</td> -<td><i>Ancona</i> -</td> -<td align="right">208 -</td> -<td> " -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Dec. 30, " -</td> -<td> " -</td> -<td><i>Persia</i> -</td> -<td align="right">385 -</td> -<td> " -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>March 24, 1916. -</td> -<td> " -</td> -<td><i>Sussex</i> (Channel boat) -</td> -<td align="right">52 -</td> -<td> " -</td> -</tr> -</table> - - - - -<p><span class="smcap">Hospital Ships Maliciously Destroyed by the German "Navy."</span></p> - - -<table summary="hospital" width="70%"> -<tr> -<td><i>Portugal.</i> -</td> -<td>March 17, 1916 -</td> -<td align="right">45 -</td> -<td>Red Cross nurses lost. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -</td> -<td> -</td> -<td align="right">40 -</td> -<td>of the crew. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><i>Britannic.</i> -</td> -<td>Nov., 1915 <span style="margin-left: 40%;">about</span> -</td> -<td align="right">50 -</td > -<td>lost. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><i>Asturias.</i> -</td> -<td>March 20, 1915 -</td> -<td align="right">43 -</td> -<td>lost. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><i>Gloucester Castle.</i> -</td> -<td>March 30, 1915 -</td> -<td align="right"> -</td> -<td>all wounded saved. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><i>Donegal.</i> -</td> -<td> -</td> -<td align="right">41 -</td> -<td>lost. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><i>Lanfranc.</i> -</td> -<td>(152 wounded Germans -</td> -<td align="right">19 -</td> -<td>British wounded lost. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -</td> -<td>saved by the British Navy!) -</td> -<td align="right">15 -</td> -<td>German wounded lost. -</td> -</tr> -</table> - - - -<p>On a very few occasions, a few German submarine captains have acted -humanely, and some even gallantly; but all these acts have been -besmirched by the acts of cowardly and brutal men who have deliberately -fired upon hospital ships and open life-boats loaded with men -attempting to save themselves from drowning. In one celebrated instance -a U-boat captain and his crew came out upon their deck, and at close -range jeered at drowning men and women who were struggling in icy water.</p> - -<p>And here is the latest feat of the brave and gallant German "navy":</p> - -<p>On July 31, 1917, 200 miles from land a German submarine engaged in -combat and sank the unarmed British freighter, <i>Belgian Prince</i>. They -assembled the entire crew of 40 men on the submarine's deck, stripped -from them their life-belts, and smashed all their life-boats, with -axes. Then the brave Germans went below, closed their hatches, ran on -the surface for two miles, then suddenly submerged. Thirty-eight were -drowned, but two lived to be picked up and tell the story.</p> - -<p>A new trick. Look for frequent repetitions.</p> - - -<p>5. POISON GAS, LIQUID FIRE AND POISONED WELLS.</p> - -<p>Early in the war the much-vaunted German "men of science" invented -poisonous gases (chiefly of chlorine), liquid fire apparatus, and other -forms of deviltry forbidden in civilized warfare. The "flammenwerfer" -is now a favorite German institution; but occasionally it gets into -trouble by being exploded by shell fire, in the hands of the men using -it. One result of poison gas and liquid fire is the everlasting odium -that it has fastened upon the German army. The British soldiers say -that "the Germans are dirty fighters"; and the name will stick forever.</p> - -<p>In German South-West Africa, when the Boer General, Louis Botha, -captured Swakopmund he found that all six of the wells had been -poisoned with arsenical cattle-dip. Bags of the poison hung in the -wells; and the crime was acknowledged and defended in writing by -Lieut.-Col. Franke, commander of the German forces. Previous to that -time, the new German governor had murdered in cold blood 208 of the -leading natives of the capital town, to teach the surviving Hereros the -advantages of life under the black vulture of Germany.</p> - - -<p>6. BACTERIA OF GLANDERS AND ANTHRAX SENT INTO RUMANIA.</p> - -<p>"The world owes much to German science." This remark is not original. -We have heard it about 147,500 times; but the world has not heard quite -so often how the worthy "scientists" of Germany sent large collections -of living and active bacilli of glanders for horses, and anthrax for -cattle, into Rumania, <b>under the German diplomatic seal</b>, just -before war was declared by Rumania! The precious cultures were found -buried in the garden of the German consulate; and in their usual -blundering way, the dunderheads did not know enough to destroy the -evidence of their newest species of crime. All this has been set forth -by the Rumanian government in a neat little pamphlet, very useful to -students of criminology and degeneracy.</p> - - -<p>7. THE MURDER OF EDITH CAVELL.</p> - -<p>Not in two hundred years will the world forget or forgive this -dastardly crime. If Bissing is not now in hell for it, then there -is no such place. The cities of civilized countries should erect -Cavell monuments, and name streets Cavell, lest we forget. Only -Germans or Turks could have done a deed so unnecessary, so brutal and -unchivalrous. But it seems that the German Germans stick at no atrocity.</p> - - -<p>8. THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN FRYATT.</p> - -<p>This crime was committed in cold blood, unchecked by the criminal -Kaiser, because on March 28, 1915, Captain Fryatt escaped from a German -submarine by attempting to ram it. On June 23, 1916, he was captured, -taken to Zeebrugge, and by a naval court martial sentenced to death. -Great "sports" were those German naval officers! They have in their -veins about as much sporting blood as so many hyenas, but no more.</p> - -<p>On several occasions the British have actually honored the fine -seamanship and daring and skill of German sea raiders, even after -great destruction while at sea. But the British navy men are good -sports, while the men of the German navy do not seem to recognize a -bold and capable seaman when they see one; and they have no sense of -sportsmanship. When did the German navy ever rescue a British or French -sailor from drowning? But British sailors have saved many Germans.</p> - -<p>The murder of Captain Fryatt brands the whole German navy with a mark -that it will wear forever.</p> - - -<p>9. THE GERMAN OUTRAGES UPON WOMEN.</p> - -<p>It is here that the pen falters, and the heart turns sick with horror -and loathing. Thus far the newspapers of the United States have shrunk -from printing the awful details that have been available on this -subject.</p> - -<p>For fifty years we have been reading of the wars of nations,—white, -black, red, brown and yellow,—but never in modern times have we seen -such ghastly, such loathsome, such shocking and sickening brutalities -of lust as German officers and soldiers inflicted, wholesale, upon the -women of Belgium and northern France. At present we will say little of -Poland, for the subject is too vast.</p> - -<p>I shall not give instances, even though there are hundreds at hand, -well authenticated, and undoubtedly true. But let all Americans -remember this: Never within the last four hundreds years or more -have any women ever been so brutally abused, so extensively raped by -violence, often accompanied by murder in Jack the Ripper fashion, or so -disgustingly maltreated before the eyes of fathers, mothers, sisters, -brothers and groups of men as were the wretched women of Belgium and -northern France.</p> - -<p>The rage of the German brutes whose great conquest of France was balked -seemed to be visited with particular fury and cruelty upon the women of -the captured territory between fourteen and forty years of age. I have -before me one instance so awful and so revolting that the woman upon -whom it was inflicted immediately went mad. The details are published -only in French, in order that only a few English-speaking persons may -read them.</p> - -<p>No wonder that when the armies of General Joffre and General Foch were -chasing the German ravishers back to the banks of the Marne, that the -French women of the recaptured towns and villages dragged themselves to -their windows, leaned out, and begged the French soldiers to "<b>Take -no prisoners! Kill them,—all!</b>"</p> - -<p>The total number of women who have been cruelly abused by German -officers and private soldiers never will be known; but it must run -up into hundreds of thousands. Only the devil himself knows how many -miserables have been "given to the soldiers," just as was the Polish -maid of an American lady, Madame Turczynowics, now in New York, who -tells about it in her book, "When the Prussians Came to Poland" (page -138). This is the passage:</p> - -<blockquote> -<p>... we pushed our way into the room where Manya was, ... <b>what had -been</b> Manya.... An officer came in to ask our business with the girl.</p> - -<p>"She is my maid—stolen! This is her father. I have come to take her -home."</p> - -<p>"I am very sorry, but you are not allowed to take her. <b>She belongs -to the soldiers.</b>"</p> - -<p>"Don't you see, Herr Offizier, the girl is <b>dying</b>?"</p> - -<p>"Ill she is, and shall have the best of care. We have a doctor to -attend to just such cases."—And <b>I had to leave her</b>!</p> -</blockquote> - -<p>10. GERMANY'S COLOSSAL CRIME IN ARMENIA.</p> - -<p>A little pamphlet of 24 pages, obtainable from the G.H. Doran Company, -New York, for five cents, is quite enough to damn Germany, past all -forgiveness, from now to the end of Time. It is entitled "The Horrors -of Aleppo. Seen by a German Eyewitness," and it is "A Word to Germany's -Accredited Representatives, by Dr. Martin Niepage, Higher Grade Teacher -in the German Technical School at Aleppo."</p> - -<p>The enormous extent, and the extreme savagery, of the slaughter of -Armenian Christians by the Turkish allies of Germany literally stagger -the imagination and sicken the heart. The mind can scarcely grasp the -idea of men, women and children being massacred <b>en masse, in 1916, -literally by the thousand</b>! But let me quote a few lines of strictly -German testimony:</p> - -<p>Page 14. "It is utterly erroneous to think that the Turkish government -will refrain of its own accord even from the destruction of the -women and children unless the strongest pressure is exerted by the -German government. Only just before I left Aleppo last May (1916) -<b>the crowds of exiles encamped at Ras-el-Ain on the Bagdad Railway, -estimated at 20,000 women and children, were slaughtered to the last -one</b>."</p> - -<p>Page 11. "Many more appalling things were reported by the engineer -of the Bagdad Railway ... or by German travelers who met the convoys -of exiles on their journeys. Many of these gentlemen had seen such -appalling sights they could eat nothing for days. One of them, Herr -Grief, of Aleppo, reported corpses of violated women lying about -naked in heaps on the railway embankment at Tel-Abiad and Ras-el-Ain. -Another, Herr Spiecker, of Aleppo, had seen Turks tie Armenian men -together, fire several volleys of small shot with fowling pieces into -the human mass, and go off laughing while their victims slowly perished -in frightful convulsions.</p> - -<p>"The German Consul from Mosul related, in my presence, at the German -Club at Aleppo, that in many places on the road from Mosul to Aleppo -he had seen children's hands hacked off in such numbers that one could -have paved the road with them.... The Arabs of the village declared -that they had killed the Armenians by the Government's (Young Turks) -orders."</p> - -<p>—And so forth, and so on, until you are sick!</p> - -<p>Thus do the "Young Turks" of Turkey (on whom may all the curses of -Allah alight) who are determined to Turkify all Asia Minor. Thus -have 1,500,000 <b>Christians</b> perished, at the hands of Germany's -ally,—<b>an ally absolutely under German control</b>, and without one -protest or prohibition from the arch-criminals of Potsdam and Berlin. -And this under "our dear, good, kind Emperor" William!</p> - -<p>The crimes of Germany were not committed by the officers of the Army -or the Navy, or of the State, alone. They were perpetrated partly by -the common people of Germany, as represented by the fathers, sons and -husbands making up the army and the navy. The officers are not alone -to blame. Therefore, the curses of mankind, and the punishment of the -ages, should fall and will fall upon all the Germans of Germany, and -their children unto the tenth generation. To them the Germans of to-day -will bequeath a vast legacy of world scorn and world aversion.</p> - -<p>Americans should be the last people on earth to talk to outraged -England, France, Russia and Servia of "magnanimous" terms to Germany, -and peace "without annexations or indemnities." <b>Germany must Pay for -her war and her crimes.</b></p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<p class="ph2">III. The Punishment of Germany.</p> - - -<p>Without stopping to give any serious thought to the matter, some people -assert, "You cannot punish a nation." If not, why not? Ask a student -of history, and he will tell you, without hesitation, "Decidedly, yes. -Ever since the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, countless tribes, cities, -states and nations have been soundly punished for their crimes."</p> - -<p>To-morrow, or soon after, Germany, the arch-criminal of nations, will -be up before the bar of Christian Civilization for sentence. In courts -of justice it is customary to review the criminal record of the accused -before judgment is pronounced. It is now a case of Germany to the bar, -to face her police record.</p> - -<p>Guilty nations are no more immune from punishment for their crimes than -are individuals guilty of high crimes. By their acts the German people -now are heaping up dire punishment for themselves. The world is losing, -with tremendous rapidity, its original and totally erroneous impression -that "the German people" are innocent of the crimes that have been -committed under the German uniform and the black-vulture flag.</p> - -<p>The mental attitude of President Wilson as it was expressed in his -message to Congress as late as April 2, 1917, is not the mental -attitude to-day of the American people at large. He said: "We have no -quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but -of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their -government acted in entering upon this war."</p> - -<p>All the world outside of Germany now knows full well that Kaiser -Wilhelm, representing the whole German people, is the man who started -the war, who keeps it going, and who brought the war's consequences -upon Germany. He pressed the button, with the united and enthusiastic -approval of "the German people." It is an undeniable fact that from the -very beginning until now the people of Germany have gloried and exulted -in the war, and steadily have acclaimed the ruthless leaders who have -directed it,—Wilhelm, Bissing, Hindenberg, Tirpitz and Zeppelin. In -spite of all their losses and miseries, even to-day the "German people" -are absolutely devoted to the Kaiser, and cheerfully swallow all the -lies that his cabinet and the Reichstag hand out to them. Why should -even one American deceive himself about the millions of Germans who -are at heart as mean and as cruel as Tirpitz and Zeppelin? Remember -that German women hawk and spit in the faces of heroes who happen to be -their prisoners!</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>There is much idle talk in newspaper correspondence about "unrest in -Germany," and a "demand for a change." All that empty talk is only -an effort to throw dust into the eyes of the world, and deceive the -enemies of Germany. There has been no change of heart at Berlin, and -there never will be.</p> - -<p>Beyond a doubt, Arthur S. Draper is absolutely right when he assures -us that the German people are devoted to the Kaiser and kaiserism, -and that under no circumstances will Wilhelm and the Hohenzollerns be -kicked off the throne. Mr. Draper says that even if a change is made, -it will be to a "constitutional monarchy" <b>under the Kaiser</b>; -which we know would be no change whatsoever! We know what Germany will -be like under the Chinless Hero (?) of Verdun.</p> - -<p>Americans must now be very careful not to fool themselves in measuring -out sympathy for "the German people"; for every particle of it will be -wickedly misplaced. At least let us not make ourselves a laughing-stock -for Hans and Gretchen.</p> - -<p>With all due regard for our war President, we respectfully claim that -in the minds of many millions of Americans both his premises and his -conclusions are wrong. Once,—three full years ago,—many Americans -(like ourselves) felt sympathy for "the German people"; but by outrage -upon outrage the fact has been driven home to Americans that all such -sympathy is utterly misplaced. The official publications of the war -have opened our eyes. The great mass of the German people are guilty -of an unprovoked war, and of wholesale and retail murder, rape, -destruction and tortures unparalleled even among the lowest savages of -modern times.</p> - -<p>For forty years the swell-headed pan-germanists and the odious Junkers -deliberately have educated the German people into this fearful war of -attempted conquest. The millions of Germany smilingly kow-towed to the -war lords and approved colossal annual expenditures in preparing for -<b>this very war</b>! The man who says that the conquest of France -and England was not ardently desired and deliberately planned by "the -German people" is very ignorant of current history. Excepting a few -Socialists, all Germany was ready "to the last gaiter button" on August -1, 1914, and feverishly eager for the war to begin! Was the great Kiel -Canal built for commercial purposes? Not on your life! Every German -knows that it was built as a means for the vanquishment of England on -the sea; and one German friend who claims much inside knowledge has -solemnly assured me that Germany had long intended to strike France and -England just as soon as the Canal was finished.</p> - -<p>Never in the history of the world was any war ever planned and -developed through so long a period, or with such loving pains and -thoroughness, as Germany's present war. Its construction covered thirty -years, and throughout that period German newspapers, lectures, books -and speeches were full of it. It was taught to the children of Germany, -for at least twenty years. For at least ten years the officers of the -German navy had been drinking to "Der Tag,"—"The Day" when they would -attack the British navy and crush it.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Bismarck was a very shrewd statesman, as well as a ruthless -conquestador and a changer of telegrams. But he left Germany in peace -and friendship with England and Russia, while William the Egotist, -hungry to be the boss of all Europe, promptly estranged both. William -alone created the Triple Entente!</p> - -<p>Outside the British Army and Navy, there were practically no British -statesmen who realized the real trend of Germany's ambitions. That is -why the outbreak found England without a powerful army.</p> - -<p>Let no American think for a moment that the press and the people -of Germany were ignorant of what was coming, or opposed to it. The -whole nation, Socialists and all, had become afflicted with acute -megalomania, and a real elephantiasis of egotism. They thought that by -being sufficiently prepared, and sufficiently treacherous and cruel, -they could bring all Europe under the German heel, to toil forever in -the German yoke. To-day even the German Socialists support Kaiserism; -and while they vociferously are shouting for "peace," remember that -<b>they wish only a German-made peace that will leave Germany in the -saddle</b>! Let all other Socialists make due note of this.</p> - -<p>The first incident that shocked the American people into a realization -of the true character of "the German people" was the sinking of the -<i>Lusitania</i>, and the drowning of its great company of women, children -and other non-combatants. And then, while England and America were -laying their streaming dead in long rows on the dock at Queenstown, -"the people" of Germany were literally dancing with joy! The German -people called it a glorious "victory"! "Were some women and children -lost? Well, they should not have sailed on the <i>Lusitania</i>. They were -warned,—<b>by the German Ambassador himself</b>!"</p> - -<p>And the beautiful city of Frankfort-on-the-Main gave all its school -children A HOLIDAY, in which to indulge in unrestrained rejoicing over -the sinking of the <i>Lusitania</i>! In Frankfort, if you were to throw a -banana peel on the street, or in the Palm Garden, you would fiercely be -arrested, and savagely fined 5 marks for the atrocity.</p> - -<p>And some of "the people" of Germany struck a joy medal in celebration -of the <i>Lusitania</i> victory. A reproduction shows that it was a charming -and soulful work of German art.</p> - -<p>And the submarine reptile who sank the <i>Lusitania</i> <b>was decorated -(with the "Order Pour la Merite"), and promoted</b>, by the man whom -young Hagenbeck of Hamburg characterized as "our dear, good, kind -Emperor."</p> - -<p>Faugh!</p> - -<p style="margin-left: 20%;"> -"Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary,<br /> -To sweeten mine imagination!" -</p> - -<p>Last week it was reported by wounded British prisoners, exchanged -and sent from Germany via Switzerland, that "as we lay in the train, -crowded and helpless, many German women came up to the cars and spit -upon us." I have already cited the story of a Canadian prisoner.</p> - -<p>During the past three years I have read every scrap of eye-witness -information that has come before me in print recording observations -in Germany, by war correspondents and others. My reading covers many -newspapers, magazines, books and official publications of various -kinds. Through all this mass I have looked in vain for expressions from -the common people of Germany of some disapproval of German cruelties -and atrocities on land or sea, or of sympathy for the victims of German -cruelty. Find just one, if you can. I can not. Not once have I seen -an expression or sentiment of that kind reported from Germany. The -callousness of the women of Germany toward the ravishment, wounding, -torture and ghastly mutilation of their sisters in Belgium, France, -England, Servia, Poland and Armenia is astounding, beyond belief. But -we are learning a lot these days.</p> - -<p>Germany deliberately permitted the atrocious Turks to murder about -1,500,000 helpless Armenians; and so far as we know, not one person -in Germany, high or low, has uttered one little protest against that -colossal crime. Can you beat it! As the world knows very well, Germany -absolutely controls Turkey, and drove her into the war; and Germany is -guilty of complicity in the death of every non-combatant Armenian of -that whole two millions of helpless persons who were slaughtered, or -drowned, or starved on the deserts.</p> - -<p>The ghastly murder of Edith Cavell, the nurse, and the Apache-like -slaughter of Captain Fryatt "go" in Germany. The forcible abduction and -enslavement of 5,000 young women, boys and men of Lille, Roubaix and -Tourcoing, and all the younger women of Noyon, France, just before the -latter was recaptured by the British, is all right in Germany. In the -New York <i>Evening World</i> of July 27 you will find in an interview with -Louis Raemakers, the Dutch cartoonist nemesis of Germany, a fearful -account of what the German officers do with the girls of France, -Belgium and Servia. There are photographs by the score of dead children -in Servia "upon whom the most frightful crimes had been committed -before they were slashed to death across the body," and "woman after -woman whose breasts had been cut off."</p> - -<p>I believe that if the German soldiers were to kill and eat their -prisoners, in the name of "Germany," the German people would accept it -as justified by the "attack" on Germany, and the utterly false formula -that "Germany is fighting for her life."</p> - -<p>The military ring has by hard and continuous lying made the German -masses believe that "The Allies wish to destroy Germany"; whereas the -Allies wish to do nothing of the kind. All they wish to do is to secure -the safety of the world against the barbarians of Berlin.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>After the war is over, will the men and women of America and England -and France enjoy traveling in Germany, eating in German hotels, -promenading in the Thiergarten of Berlin, and fraternizing with German -army officers fresh from the war? Can they tell the ravishers of -helpless women, and the murderers of children and old men, from the -other men of Germany? No; they can not. The trail of the serpent will -be over them all.</p> - -<p>After this war how will Americans relish the sound of the German -language, and the teaching of it in their schools? Will they patronize -German operas as of yore? Of what will the strains of the "Blue Danube" -waltz remind them?</p> - -<p>How will American men of science now regard the nation whose scientists -invented poison gas, and sent bacteria of glanders and anthrax for -horses and cattle, into friendly Rumania, <b>under the privileged seal -of "diplomacy"</b>? We can give all the details of that episode, from -official sources.</p> - -<p>Except by rare flashes of side light, the people of America have -had few opportunities to learn what the Allies really think now -of the German Germans. The catalogue of a dealer in second hand -books ordinarily is the very last place in which one would look for -expressions of opinion of nations and people. But in war, always look -for the unexpected. Book Catalogue No. 767, of Henry Sotheran & Co., -London, contains this, soberly set forth on page 21:</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Beneden</span> (Pierre Joseph van: Univ. <span class="smcap">Louvain, -Belgium</span>) <span class="smcap">Animal Parasites and Messmates.</span> 18 woodcuts, -post 8vo, 2s. (pub. 5s.).</p> - -<p>Belgium came to know viler human parasites from German universities -than the filthiest bloodsuckers of the insect world.</p></blockquote> - -<p>And on page 28 this item appears:</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hartman</span> (Robert: Univ. <span class="smcap">Berlin</span>) <span class="smcap">Anthropoid -Apes</span>, with 63 woodcuts, post 8vo, cl. 2s. (pub. 5s.).</p> - -<p>These would suggest the University-bred German officers who defiled -with their own filth the French houses in which they were billeted.</p></blockquote> - -<p>We will add that they also suggest the ethics of the wolverine, whose -favorite habit it is systematically to defile all the food in a miner's -cabin which he can neither eat nor carry away.</p> - -<p>All the world now knows that the Allies, of whom, thank God, America -at last is one, never will cease fighting the mad-dogs, the wolves -and wolverines of Germany until they are thoroughly whipped. Be the -time long or short, the Allies will outlast the Teuton and the Turk, -and will dictate the terms that both shall accept. America is ready to -throw into the scale one-half of all that she possesses, if need be, to -secure that end.</p> - -<p>And then what?</p> - -<p>When Germany is thoroughly beaten, as assuredly she will be, what shall -be her punishment for her crimes?</p> - -<p>The only sensible and correct policy to pursue toward a dirty-fighting -enemy is to <b>get him down and keep him down</b>! No greater mistake -could be made than for the Allies to become "magnanimous" to brutal -Germany when the time comes to hand her what is coming to her in final -settlement. We want no sissies nor weak sisters representing us at the -peace conference, pleading for easy terms for Germany. Any man who -cannot guess how much Germany would be "magnanimous" to the Entente -allies <b>if she should win</b>, is a colossal idiot. Think of the size -of the cash indemnities that Germany would exact of America, England -and France if she could win!</p> - -<p>It would seem that no matter how rapacious or egotistic are Germany's -intentions, always and everywhere there is a garrulous German ready to -blab them out in public. If Germany had the chance, she would utterly -ruin all of the Allies. There is no conceivable insult or injury that -she would not visit upon them, just as she has upon the conquered -districts of Belgium and France. <b>The United States would be called -upon to pay an indemnity of just about $20,000,000,000; and quickly, -too!</b> Make no mistake about that!</p> - -<p>We have been reading German anticipations of the taking of British East -Africa and the Congo Free State, to join them to the (late lamented) -"German colonies" for the making of a vast African empire under the -"dear, good, kind Kaiser" of Belgian fame. This is well known to the -English; and the answer is that <b>Germany's lost African colonies are -already lost to Germany forever and a day!</b> To give back to Germany -any one of those African colonies would be criminal folly, and of a -certainty it would breed no end of future trouble in Africa. Knowing -this, the Boers of South Africa will see Germany in hades before any -influence on earth can persuade, or force them, to hand back one foot -of "German" East Africa,—a colony that was armed to the teeth long -prior to 1914, and that started fighting immediately that war was -declared in August, 1914!</p> - -<p>Even if overweening magnanimity should beg that "German" Southwest -Africa be given back, the dictates of humanity would sternly forbid it. -After the brutal murder by Germany of 208 of the leading natives of the -German capital at Walfish Bay for no reason whatever save the innate -German brutality of the new governor, and the poisoning of the wells of -Swakopmund, it would be a high crime against the native population ever -again to place them within the power of any German governor.</p> - -<p>No; decidedly not. Germany will not be given back a single foot of any -one of her former African colonies. The close of this war will be no -time for mushy sentiment toward the dirtiest fighters on earth.</p> - -<p>The war should not and will not end until Germany has surrendered -every foot of invaded territory now occupied by the Teutonic allies, -and agreed to pay to Belgium an indemnity of about $5,000,000,000 with -another $5,000,000,000 to France, or the equivalent thereof, and the -return of Alsace and Lorraine. The delivery to England of her cowardly -navy as a pledge of future good behavior is really immaterial. The -German navy is chiefly a scuttling navy, great only against unarmed -ships and fishing boats, but never willing to meet any foe on equal -terms.</p> - -<p>When the peace terms are written, England should take back Heligoland, -as a German bond to keep the peace. The giving away to her only enemy -of that immensely valuable island was one of the greatest blunders in -statecraft that England ever committed. Now, there is only one way to -redeem it,—make Germany surrender Heligoland before any German ship is -permitted to sail the seas.</p> - -<p>All the world now knows that the preservation of a Slavic Balkan -barrier now is absolutely necessary to the peace of Asia.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>And what will be the attitude of Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, -Italians and Russians after the war, toward the mad-dogs and wolves of -Germany? For the sake of "business" and "trade" and "cheap goods" will -we fraternize once more with the red-handed murderers of ten thousand -Belgian and French civilians, the ravishers and enslavers of 100,000 -Belgian and French women, the sinkers of the <i>Lusitania</i>, and the -murderers of Captain Fryatt and Nurse Cavell? Will we buy goods made -by blood-stained German hands, that have dragged Belgian and French -girls from their screaming mothers? Will we buy and use goods made -on stolen Belgian machines, of materials stolen from France? Will we -patronize the German "science" that produced chlorine gas for British -soldiers, or the German artillery artists who have gleefully pounded -the Cathedral of Rheims into ruins?</p> - -<p>Will we not hear with the swan song of <i>Lohengrin</i> the dying shrieks of -the <i>Lusitania</i> women and children as they struggle in the icy waters?</p> - -<p>In view of the records of the past three years, what two words are more -loathsome and detestable than "German kultur"?</p> - -<p>The only logical conclusion of Germany's career of crime and dirty -fighting is, at the close of the war, the contempt, the aversion and -the loathing of the civilized world, and <b>a universal policy of -non-intercourse</b>. Let Germany go and live with Austria, and the -loathsome Turk, in a hell of their own. Can any American not of German -birth ever again desire to visit and travel in the land of the criminal -Kaiser who started the war, the land of the murderers, ravishers and -traitors whom the war brought to the surface? We cannot conceive it -possible.</p> - -<p>And after the war is over, the less we hear in America of the German -language and of German literature, music, art and science, the better -for all concerned. The German idols one and all lie in the mud, in -fragments,—cast down and smashed by the mad-dogs of Germany, <b>and no -one else</b>! Americans of German descent may build monuments to their -memory, but never again can they be set up for Americans to worship.</p> - -<p>Through her crimes and her dirty fighting, Germany has earned the -contempt and aversion of the world, and it will be paid to her as long -as civilization endures. Whole libraries will be written about the -brutalities of the German Germans, the cowardice of their navy, the -blunders of their alleged statesmen, and the carnival of lies of the -Kaiser and his advisors.</p> - -<p>Men who fight honorably take their punishment like men, get over it, -and often become friends again. But not so when one party is "a dirty -fighter," a gouger, and a hitter below the belt. Even the youngest -American schoolboy despises the unfair fighter, and loathes the sight -of him.</p> - -<p>After this war is over, no man outside the Teutonic-Turco mad-dog -influence will be so poor or so mean as to look upon a German German -with real respect, much less with admiration. The world will cheerfully -go naked and hungry ere it accepts food and clothes made in Germany. -Americans with self respect will refuse to buy German goods, or to -trade in stores that offer them for sale,—not indeed to "punish" -Germany, but because the source is so loathsome and offensive. Germany, -Austria and Turkey already have the contempt, the scorn and the hatred -of the whole world, and after the war they should be ostracised and -shunned for a thousand years.</p> - -<p>It will be only the most sordid and mean-spirited people of America, -England and France who will again buy of Germany because her goods -are cheap. It is now time publicly to declare in America the existing -aversion to Germany, in order that all importers may be made to know -and understand the intentions of the public, and thereby avoid loading -their shelves with goods that they can not sell to Americans. Let signs -go up now reading: "No German goods sold here."</p> - -<p>It is now time to drop the German language from every school in -America, finally and forever. It is ludicrous folly to permit the -language of America's only real enemy to be taught in our schools. -Never again will Americans need it. We can well do without the language -of brutality and tyranny.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>One of the few good services rendered by this German-made war concerns -South America. It has shown Brazil, Argentina and even Mexico exactly -where they stand with respect to the Monroe doctrine. If Germany should -win this war, then should all the nations of South and Central America -pray to God for deliverance; for with Germany in the saddle, their -peace and prosperity would be gone forever. With perfect clearness of -vision, Brazil now sees this, and has the indomitable courage to act -the part of a great and self-respecting nation, bent upon preserving -the rights of her people.</p> - -<p>Argentina sees the light, but hesitates to take up her share of the -white man's burden; and Chili says: "Let George do it!"</p> - -<p>If there is now even one Central or South American state which can not -see that the United States,—with the moral support of the British -navy,—has for years stood like a rock between them and the most -rapacious and cruel people on earth, then that state is hopelessly -blind. And for this service the United States has not asked anything -but common friendship,—and sometimes has failed to receive even that!</p> - -<p>The Central and South American republics should now set their houses in -order in regard to their future dealings with the German "influence," -and German commercial aggression. They should take warning from the -condition of Italy before the war, when German capital and German -greed held the banks, railroads, and sea commerce of Italy literally -by the throat. Do Argentina, Chili, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia wish -that condition to obtain with them? After the war, Germany will make a -tremendous push to secure commercial supremacy in South America; and -let South America beware! The time to build dykes is before the floods -come, not after.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Saith the Psalmist with inspiration from the same God whom the German -Kaiser piously and persistently claims as his silent partner,</p> - -<p>"<b>The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that -forget God.</b>"</p> - -<p>And to pan-Germany, Turkey and Austria we transmit that solemn promise -of Holy Writ of what is in store for them, in punishment for their high -crimes against humanity.</p> - -<p>After the war, nothing can save them from existence in a hell of -national poverty, and world-wide scorn and aversion, all of their own -making.</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A searchlight on Germany: Germany's -Blunders, Crimes and Punishment, by Dr. William T. 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