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If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> - -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: America in the War</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Louis Raemaekers</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: July 21, 2021 [eBook #65889]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Charlene Taylor, Alan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICA IN THE WAR ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - - - -<h1> -AMERICA<br /> -IN THE WAR -</h1> - - -<div class="bbox"> - -<p class="c xxxlarge gesperrta"> -AMERICA<br /> -IN THE WAR</p> - -<p class="c p4"> -BY</p> - -<p class="c xlarge"> -LOUIS RAEMAEKERS</p> - -<p class="c p4"> -EACH CARTOON FACED WITH A PAGE<br /> -OF COMMENT BY A DISTINGUISHED<br /> -AMERICAN, THE TEXT FORMING AN<br /> -ANTHOLOGY OF PATRIOTIC OPINION</p> - - -<div class="figcentera"> -<img src="images/fig1.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<p class="c p6"> -NEW YORK<br /> -<span class="xlarge">THE CENTURY CO.</span><br /> -<span class="little">1918</span> -</p> - -</div> - - -<p class="c p4"> -<span class="more">Copyright, 1918, by</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">The Century Co.</span></p> - -<p class="c half"> -<i>Published, October, 1918</i> -</p> - - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="ph2"><i>List of Cartoons</i></p> -</div> - -<table> - -<tr><td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><span class="half">PAGE</span></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Stars and Stripes in the Service<br /> - of Humanity</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c1">2</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">When I was a Child, It was You Who<br /> - Saved Me</span>”</td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>Hon. Myron T. Herrick</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c2">4</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Hun: “Keep Neutral”</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Robert Underwood Johnson</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c3">6</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Peace Plots Revealed in America and<br /> - France</span></td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>John Jay Chapman</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c4">8</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Belgium, 1918</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Ralph Adams Cram</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c5">10</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">We will not Wear Convicts’ Stripes,<br /> - Wear Them Yourselves</span>”</td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>Poultney Bigelow</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c6">12</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Final Argument</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Charles Hanson Towne</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c7">14</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The End of the Hindenburg Line</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Meredith Nicholson</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c8">16</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">Something’s Wrong. She Doesn’t<br /> - Seem to Inspire Confidence</span>”</td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>Robert Grant</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c9">18</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Angels of the War Zone</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Gertrude Atherton</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c10">20</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">As Thou Sowest, so Shalt Thou Reap</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Hon. A. S. Burleson</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c11">22</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">Don’t Stop, Old Chap, Keep It Up!</span>”</td> - <td class="tdl"><i>John Philip Sousa</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c12">24</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">So We Are Only a Dollar-making<br /> -People, Are We?</span>”</td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>John Kendrick Bangs</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c13">26</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">No, Thanks, I Know These Princes of<br /> - Yours Too Well</span>”</td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>Herbert Adams Gibbons</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c14">28</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Speeding Up</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c15">30</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Toward the Valley of Decision</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Rev. Stephen S. Wise, Ph.D., LL.D.</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c16">32</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Wake Up, America!</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Mary E. Wilkins Freeman</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c17">34</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">There are Plenty of Lamp-posts!</span>”</td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Hudson Maxim</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c18">36</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">We Don’t Seem to Inspire Enough<br /> - Confidence</span>”</td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c19">38</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">German Submarines Fire on Open<br /> Boats</span></td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>Alice Brown</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c20">40</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Not This Time!</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c21">42</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The President to the Workers</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c22">44</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">Well Done, Fellows! Keep the Home<br /> - Fires Burning!</span>” </td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>Hon. Lindley M. Garrison</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c23">46</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">A Bit of the Hindenburg Line</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>David Bispham</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c24">48</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Rats in Our Home Trenches</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>E. S. Martin</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c25">50</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Seeing Stars</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Booth Tarkington</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c26">52</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Two Giants</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Hon. James W. Gerard</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c27">54</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">Will They Last, Father?</span>”</td> - <td class="tdl"><i>George W. Cable</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c28">56</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">The Ugly Talons of the Sinister<br /> - Power</span>”</td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>John Burroughs</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c29">58</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Restitution and Reparation</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Ellis Parker Butler</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c30">60</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Only Possible Position for<br /> Traitors</span></td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>H. C. Chatfield-Taylor</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c31">62</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">Do You Mean to Make a Real War?</span>”</td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c32">64</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Justice!</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c33">66</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Another Peace Proposal</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Henry Dwight Sedgwick</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c34">68</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Fine American Spirit</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>G. E. Woodberry</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c35">70</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Poisoning the Well of Public Opinion</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c36">72</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Enemy Within</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>William Roscoe Thayer</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c37">74</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Count Von Bernstorff: “Noblesse<br /> - Oblige”</span></td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>George Trumbull Ladd</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c38">76</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Peter the Hermit</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Ida M. Tarbell</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c39">78</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Germ-Man</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Albert Bigelow Paine</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c40">80</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">A Tid-Bit for ‘The Sick Man’</span>”</td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Hon. George W. Wickersham</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c41">82</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Plain Language from Truthful James</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c42">84</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Helping Hindenburg Home</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c43">86</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">A Bad Prophet</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c44">88</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">At the Holland Frontier</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Hon. William Jennings Bryan</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c45">90</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">A Rehearsal</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c46">92</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Path of Kultur</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Edwin Markham</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c47">94</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">To the Victor!</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Geraldine Farrar</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c48">96</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Eyes of the Army</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Thomas Mott Osborne</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c49">98</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">Is It Nothing to You, All Ye Who<br /> - Pass By?</span>”</td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>Rachel Crothers</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c50">100</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Rainbow Division Leaves for<br /> - France</span></td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>Hon. Frederic Courtland Penfield</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c51">102</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Russia Reborn</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Edward Alsworth Ross</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c52">104</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Higher Than a Sour Apple Tree</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Samuel Hopkins Adams</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c53">106</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">What a Mean Trick to Turn on That<br /> - Strong Light!</span>”</td> - <td class="tdlb"></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c54">108</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Christmas, 1917</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Henry Mills Alden</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c55">110</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Helping Uncle Sam to Get Up Speed</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c56">112</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Wind of Democracy</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c57">114</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">This One for the Babies!</span>”</td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Rev. Lyman Abbott</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c58">116</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">A Scene on the Somme</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c59">118</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Hollweg as Robespierre</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>J. G. Phelps Stokes</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c60">120</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">President Wilson’s Declaration</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>John Luther Long</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c61">122</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">Don’t Stand in Our Way to Victory!</span>”</td> - <td class="tdl"><i>George Haven Putnam</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c62">124</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">German Soldiers Cut the Throat of<br /> - an American Sentry</span>”</td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>Cleveland Moffett</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c63">126</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Bang!</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c64">128</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">I Must Break in Here Before That<br /> - Comes Down</span>”</td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>Palmer Cox</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c65">130</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Bring Her In!</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Charles Edward Russell</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c66">132</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Germany’s “Peace” With Russia</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Arthur Train</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c67">134</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Better Fighter</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c68">136</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Dungeon of Autocracy</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Hon. Maurice Francis Egan</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c69">138</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">Hurrah for Peace, Lads!</span>”</td> - <td class="tdl"><i>S. Stanwood Menken</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c70">140</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Ecce Homo!</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Robert W. Chambers</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c71">142</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">We Must so Destroy France That She<br /> - Can Never Resist Us</span>”</td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>Rev. Hugh Black</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c72">144</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Japanese Mouse</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c73">146</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">“Ueber Alles” and Underneath</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c74">148</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Expostulation and Reply</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c75">150</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Second Election</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c76">152</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Mad Shepherd</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Alice Hegan Rice</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c77">154</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">Sink Without a Trace</span>”</td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Oliver Herford</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c78">156</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Changing the Guard</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Agnes Repplier</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c79">158</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Penitent Artist</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c80">160</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Peace Angels of Doubtful Purity</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c81">162</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Black Flag</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c82">164</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Annexation of America</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c83">166</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">Welcome, Mate; You’re Just in Time!</span>”</td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c84">168</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Editor</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c85">170</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">German Intrigues in Mexico</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Albert Bushnell Hart</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c86">172</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">German “Militarist” Socialism</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>William English Walling</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c87">174</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Old Hammer and the New</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c88">176</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Spirit of Washington</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c89">178</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Massacre of the Innocents</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>William Dean Howells</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c90">180</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">In the Ring to Stay</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Harvey O’Higgins</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c91">182</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">We Attacked the ‘Fortress of London’</span>”</td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c92">184</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Not a Bad Start!</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Hon. Thomas R. Marshall</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c93">186</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">An Echo of the Luxberg Case</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c94">188</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">German Chivalry to Wounded Officers</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Hamilton Holt</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c95">190</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Socialism in Germany</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>John Spargo</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c96">192</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Spirit of German Science</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>J. Mark Baldwin</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c97">194</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Humanity and Her German Lovers</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c98">196</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Strikers</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Carrie Chapman Catt</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c99">198</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">1776-1917</td> - <td class="tdl"><i>William Allen White</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c100">200</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">“<span class="smcap">Now, Hindenburg, Bring on the Rest<br /> - of My People</span>”</td> - <td class="tdlb"><i>Hon. David Jayne Hill</i></td> - <td class="tdrb"><a href="#c101">202</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">The Master of the Hounds</span></td> - <td class="tdl"></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c102">204</a></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl"><span class="smcap">Processional</span></td> - <td class="tdl"><i>Cale Young Rice</i></td> - <td class="tdr"><a href="#c103">206</a></td></tr> - -</table> - - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - - -<p class="c"> -AMERICA<br /> -IN THE WAR<span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</span> -</p> - - - - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c1"><i>The Stars and Stripes in the<br /> -Service of Humanity</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“WE have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no -dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material -compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are -but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied -when those rights have been as secure as the faith and the freedom -of the nation can make them.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -<i>From President Wilson’s Message to Congress, April</i> 2, 1917. -</p> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig2.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c2">“<i>When I was a Child, It was<br /> -You who Saved Me</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">WHETHER it is that an invigorating climate has given our -Anglo-Saxon blood a piquant Gallic flavor or because Europe -sent us for ancestors only those light-hearted and adventurous -souls with a spirit akin to that we admire in the French people, -true it is that Americans have always had an especial liking for France -and the French. They were our first allies as they are the latest. From -Lafayette and Rochambeau to Joffre and Viviani, a host of Frenchmen -have won the affectionate regard of Americans and are numbered with -our national heroes.</p> - -<p>But our relation to the French has a deeper foundation than admiration -for a courageous and accomplished race which for centuries has made -generous contribution to the sum of the world’s knowledge and achievement. -The French were early settlers on this continent; LaSalle and -Champlain were the forerunners of a host of French explorers and settlers -whose descendants are today taking active and honorable part in the -life of community and nation.</p> - -<p>Before the war one of the foremost French statesmen said to me, with -a certain note of sadness, that in the course of two thousand years of advancing -civilization his countrymen had lost something of their initiative: -that he believed it would not now, for instance, be possible to build up in -France vast industrial organizations like those which are so effectual in -establishing the commercial prestige of the United States.</p> - -<p>If that were true before the war, it can scarcely be credited now. France -has never failed to provide effective military organization for the protection -of western civilization against the repeated attacks of her enemies -from the east. She defeated the forces of Mohammedanism and saved -Christianity. Time and again through the Middle Ages she beat back the -invading Huns and kept them from overrunning Europe. The victory at -the Marne which definitely stopped their latest irruption is only the latest -and greatest of many such victories by which France has laid mankind -under lasting obligation. And the industrial organization which supplies -the armies of France with the products of farm and factory, and even produces -a surplus for her allies, including the United States, is additional -proof that the genius of the French race is neither decadent nor limited, -but as broad as all human activity and as ardent today as when Joan of -Arc inspired kings and peasants alike with her mystic fervor.</p> - -<p>With their French allies Americans can work in most cordial understanding -and sympathy. That subtle spirit of unselfish dedication to country -which has won for the French the admiration of the world consecrates the -alliance of the peoples who are giving their sons in common sacrifice to -save liberty to the world. Out of the heat and turmoil of war bonds are -being forged between the Allied nations which time and circumstance can -never sever. On that alliance the hope of civilization depends; from it -may come, in God’s good time, some great forward step in the march of -progress which began at a manger in Bethlehem.</p> - -<p class="right"> -MYRON T. HERRICK. -</p> - -<p class="l p0"> -<i>Cleveland, Ohio,<br /> -March,</i> 1918. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig3.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c3"><i>The Hun: “Keep Neutral”</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">EVERY great event is an occasion for the moral education of the -world. Froude, in his essay “On the Science of History,” says -that the value of history is that it sounds across the centuries the -eternal note of right and wrong. Along with the unbelievable calamities -that have come in the train of the war that in August, 1914, was shamelessly, -dishonorably and with malice aforethought precipitated by the -Kaiser and his fellow highwaymen, there stands out one colossal good: -it has made the world increasingly ethical. The flaunting by the German -military party of all that we associate with fair play, chivalry, democracy, -humanity, even Christianity itself, has aroused the Allied peoples to the -fact that the foundation principles of happiness are at stake.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">’Tis for the holiness of life</div> -<div class="verse indent0">The Spirit calls us to the Cross.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>The brutality of the Teutons—Austrians and Germans alike—their willingness, -in order to win, to throw away everything we think admirable in -conduct, created a reaction in America by arousing us from our laissez-faire -attitude to the conviction that there can be no neutrality between -right and wrong. The opportunity should not be lost to enforce this lesson -upon the young, who should be taught to hate the devilish spirit by -which the Teutons are obsessed. In due time, when their defeat is accomplished, -a reaction will set in among themselves. The cost is appalling, -but I believe that nations, like men, can</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent1">“rise on stepping-stones</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Of their dead selves to higher things.”</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Meantime, with what pride we realize that—as eventually even German -historians will admit—our own part in the war is on a higher plane of disinterestedness -than we have ever reached before, a level of altruism that -has rarely, if ever, been attained by any other nation!</p> - -<p class="right"> -ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON. -</p> - -<p class="l"><i>February</i> 22, 1918.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig4.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c4"><i>Peace Plots Revealed in America -and France</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">MR. RATHOM, Editor of the “Providence Journal,” whose exposure -of von Bernstorff’s plots seemed to show a gift of necromancy, -states that his information came to him through men and -women (often Bohemians and Slavs) “who not only took grave risks in -the work—for they were braving German vengeance—but gave up their -time and in many cases their own funds, without a dollar of compensation -from the ‘Journal’ or anyone else, in order to give us the facts which -would prove to the American people the manner in which they were being -tricked and fooled.”</p> - -<p>If this cartoon of Mr. Raemaekers shall serve to make the native American -take seriously a situation which is serious in the extreme, it will not -have been made in vain. Whenever an American hears or overhears any -one in any station of life uttering treasonous language, he should report -the matter and give the name of the culprit immediately to the Secret -Service,—not content himself with repeating the words at the club as a -good story.</p> - -<p class="right"> -JOHN JAY CHAPMAN. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig5.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c5"><i>Belgium, 1918</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">YOU, who on the tree of shame show forth again the Sacrifice of -Calvary: you for whom scourge and thongs and the mockery of -dull beasts are the circumstance of martyrdom: you who freely -offered yourself that man might be saved, “yet so as by fire”:—Belgium! -in the depth of your agony and the long torment of a red martyrdom, remember -that the Cross of your own Passion endures only until the Resurrection -that comes after the third day.</p> - -<p>God, in mercy Incarnate, as Man suffered the shameful death of the -Cross that the world might be saved from the penalty of its sins. The -Tree of Scorn is raised up on Calvary, becoming the instrument of shame -and of death, yet “the leaves of that Tree shall be for the healing of the -Nations.”</p> - -<p>Nails and spear, scourge and thongs, crumble and fall away; the obscene -mockers “that watched Him there,” and watch you, O Belgium, -go hence to that place prepared for them by Eternal Justice, but with the -sun of Easter morning, behold a great wonder! The Cross, that was a -dead engine of death, is transformed by Divine miracle. It lives, it -throws out branches and leaves; it is now the Tree of Mercy, “and the -leaves of that Tree shall be for the healing of the Nations.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -RALPH ADAMS CRAM. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig6.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c6">“<i>We will not Wear Convicts’<br /> -Stripes, Wear Them Yourselves</i>”</h2> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>[Mr. Raemaekers refers in this cartoon to the insulting proposal of the German Government, -just before the entrance of the United States into the war, that American ships -at the rate of one a week would be permitted to pass the submarine “blockade” if they -were painted in stripes in a specified manner.]</p> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">WHEN Attila laid Rheims in ashes, cut the throats of his hostages, -tortured his prisoners, and thus earned fame as the -Scourge of God, he found priests and professors to justify his -acts and to predict the speedy Hunnification of the world. Attila is to-day -popular in Prussia—mothers have their babes called Etzel and when -William II sends forth his armies he bids them be worthy of their illustrious -namesake.</p> - -<p>Attila was the first of the great Junkers. His army was largely German -and he held court in the centre of Thuringia. He is the hero of -Germanic song and legend; and his spirit animates the <i>Hymn of Hate</i>, -the murder of Edith Cavell, the sinking of the <i>Lusitania</i> and above all the -hired criminals who have been operating in America in the disguise of -patriotic citizens.</p> - -<p class="right"> -POULTNEY BIGELOW.</p> - -<p class="l"> -<i>Malden-on-Hudson.<br /> -Washington’s Birthday,</i> 1918. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig7.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c7"><i>The Final Argument</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">IN the now happily distant days of August, 1914, the people of the -United States found themselves facing an opaque wall of neutrality. -But we are an emotional people; and the rape of Belgium had hit us -emotionally. Though we were asked not to applaud the pictures of -Allied soldiers that flashed across the screen in every motion-picture theatre -of the country, we did clap our hands; and, what is more, we valiantly -hissed the Kaiser when he strutted before our view. Let the American -people ever rejoice that in those first tragic days they had eyes of -the heart. Oh, those months of shame for us who felt that the cause -of England and France and Belgium was the cause of the United States -of America! They have passed now, thank God; and the man of vision -who first brought home to us what Belgium’s sorrow meant, was Louis -Raemaekers. Each line he drew was a full platoon of soldiers advancing -toward Berlin. His vivid, ironic pencil was a gun thrust at Prussian -autocracy. His art opened the door in that opaque wall I have spoken -of; and it was a garden that we looked upon—though a garden filled only -with red flowers: the poppies of everlasting sleep; crimson blooms that -spoke of the blood so nobly shed in the name of national honor; fiery blossoms -that burst upon our gaze through the smoke of German guns; -dark passion-flowers that breathed pain, but never despair. The sad -garden of Belgium—this it was that one man of genius revealed to us, -in all its pity and sorrow. And America looked, and wept, and sent messengers -into that place of desolation. For never for an instant had we -been neutral, never had we really dreamed of standing by and letting -this agony go on. Had we done so, the years to be would have held only -grief for us. We could not have lifted up our heads in the world of -nations if we had not seized our splendid opportunity.</p> - -<p>Who has ever doubted the integrity of the American people? As one -man we rose when war was at last declared, and as one man we will fight, -in the name of Democracy, in the name of Humanity, until the Prussian -yoke is lifted from the Belgium we love and reverence. A task lies -before us of unbelievable magnitude. But we shall not falter, we shall not -fail; for if we fail, life itself must crumble in ashes on the hearthstone -of the world. With a triumphant Kaiser, existence would be unbearable. -The pacifists lay all the emphasis on mere living. They forget that most -of us do not wish to live on a Prussian-ruled earth. Surely it is not much -to die for a principle that is higher than the stars.</p> - -<p>Louis Raemaekers, you have opened a door on life. You have brought -news to thousands who had not heard and seen. And great is your reward.</p> - -<p class="right"> -CHARLES HANSON TOWNE. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig8.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c8"><i>The End of the Hindenburg<br /> -Line</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE Hindenburg line is a menace to every courthouse in America. -In my recent journeys through the West I have never seen a -courthouse tower printed against the sky without relating it to the -great world conflict. We are fighting for all that is embodied and expressed -and safeguarded in these citadels of democracy. A little while -ago I looked with reverence at a log hut preserved at Decatur, Illinois, -the first courthouse of the county. In that little room Abraham Lincoln -appeared as attorney for pioneer citizens who understood perfectly the -promise of American democracy. The laws invoked to preserve their -rights were a crystallization of the thought and the hope of liberty-loving -peoples, and no settler in wilderness or prairie, no matter how humble, -but felt himself a partner in the benefits of American institutions and the -great tradition of English law. Every American courthouse is founded -upon Magna Charta. If we are indebted for anything in our democracy -to the Teutonic-Turkish combination I am unaware of it. Dull of wit indeed, -the Hohenzollern BEAST, to think his mailed fist could ever splinter -the door of one of these American courthouses! The price our forefathers -paid for their liberty was too great for any yielding to a devil -gone mad and attempting to bestride the world. During the Civil War -Lincoln once remarked to Seward, speaking of Weems’ “Life of Washington” -which he had read before the fireplace in his father’s cabin in -Spencer County, Indiana, “It occurred to me that it must have been -something pretty fine those men were fighting for.” It was; and it is for -that same fine thing that America has again drawn the sword.</p> - -<p class="right"> -MEREDITH NICHOLSON. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig9.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c9">“<i>Something’s Wrong. She<br /> -Doesn’t Seem to Inspire<br /> -Confidence</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">IT is Germany’s “Kultur,” her spiritual code, that is responsible for -America’s entrance into the war; her gruesome sacrifice to Moloch -of all which distinguishes humanity from the brute and the savage. -It is her philosophy which has made us her horrified but resolute foe.</p> - -<p>The fruits of her spirit stand forth alike in her speech and acts. “Kultur -is a spiritual organization of the world, which does not exclude bloody -savagery. It raises the daemoniac to sublimity. It is above morality, reason, -science,” so wrote a Teutonic expounder in the first year of the war. -“We have become a nation of wrath; we think only of the war. We execute -God Almighty’s will, and the edicts of His justice we will fulfil, imbued -with holy rage, in vengeance upon the ungodly. God calls us to -murderous battles, even if worlds should thereby fall to ruins,” so wrote -one of Germany’s poets. “Whoever cannot prevail upon himself to approve -from the bottom of his heart the sinking of the <i>Lusitania</i>, whoever -cannot conquer his sense of the gigantic cruelty to unnumbered perfectly -innocent victims—and give himself up to honest delight at this victorious -exploit of German defensive power—him we judge to be no true -German,” so wrote one of her pastors. And for hideous, ruthless deeds -which violate every sanctity and deify falsehood we need but cite her -slaughter of children and the aged, her poisoning of wells, her shooting -of nurses, her sinking of hospital ships, her brutal deportations and all -the revolting sinuosities of her spy system.</p> - -<p>It is this catalogue of crimes committed in the name of moral superiority -that has incensed the American people. It is to combat “Kultur” -which Germany extols as the quintessence of civilization, this gospel -which constitutes military might the only inviolable law, that we have -pledged our precious sons, our abundant resources, our supreme, indefatigable -energies. If Prussian arrogance be not rebuked, Christian civilization -fails. Hence the growing and embattled sentiment that a world -in ruins yet free for man would be preferable to the sway of Satanic -Teuton efficiency.</p> - -<p class="right"> -ROBERT GRANT. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig10.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c10"><i>Angels of the War Zone</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">I HAVE sometimes wondered if it is really possible to hate a country -for which one has such unbounded contempt and disgust as one has -for Germany. It is quite possible to fear without hate; one would -not hate a rattlesnake or a shark, even at close quarters. On the -other hand it is conceivable that you might hate a fearsome but still noble -beast like the lion, if you were camping on the desert and he sat persistently -in front of your tent, alternately licking his chops and shaking your -soul with his loud anticipatory roars.</p> - -<p>Usually we do fear what we hate. But the Germans have overshot the -mark. They have been so dully and unchangeably brutal, that many of -us have come to feel for them the same mental condition of loathing we -should feel for an obscene, flat-headed giant running amok, while doing -our best to hit him in a vulnerable spot. Even if they reached these -shores and went automatically about disciplining the natives I feel sure -we should continue to despise them and to find them ridiculous.</p> - -<p>It is possible that if they had won the war in three months we should -feel differently. Then we might have hated them for devastating France, -but she it would have been who received our contempt. Her course in -history would have been run; she would have been as degenerate as the -Germans so fondly hoped. We might have hated Germany for subjugating -so vast and potential a country as Russia, but we should have -respected her might, the magnificence of her great army. We should have -hated her roundly, and the hate would have done us all good, for it would -have been a great emotion provoked by a great cause.</p> - -<p>But Germany as a fighting machine is a failure. She has been defeated -where she has been compelled to depend upon force of arms alone. Her -only striking successes have been won by hitting below the belt, cowardly -underhand methods, sneaking propaganda, millions expended upon buying -human tools, and furnishing them with other millions necessary to -work wholesale destruction, and sacrifice the helpless proletariat.</p> - -<p>In the Death House at Sing Sing the robust murderers have no sympathy -for the poisoner, refuse to admit him to that last tragic companionship. -So it is with Germany. She is the poisoner, the Medici, among nations. -From strangling her enemy with gas to bombing unfortified towns, -torpedoing passenger ships and firing on the life boats, or sinking hospital -ships, often carrying her own wounded to ease and plenty, she has -merely shown herself the super-snake, supercharged with venom, not the -lion, who proudly stands in the open spaces and challenges his enemy to -battle. The bewildered expression on the faces of these German clods in -the act of being rescued by British women nurses, while a home torpedo -burrows in the vitals of the ship, is a fair portent of the minds of the -German people after the war when they learn that they have been fooled, -and martyred, and crushed, not by the enemy but by their own unregenerate -rulers in Berlin. If they annihilate that caste and set up a Republic -they may win back the respect of the world. Otherwise not. We -sometimes forgive those we hate, but only a miracle forces a man to respect -where he has both instinctively and thinkingly despised.</p> - -<p class="right"> -GERTRUDE ATHERTON. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig11.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c11"><i>As Thou Sowest, so Shalt Thou<br /> -Reap</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">CREEPING behind a mask—stooping, cringing and cowardly—the -planter of sedition sows his seed in the dark. The masks behind -which he hides are numerous and of great variety. No sooner -is his identity disclosed than he assumes another disguise. Behind “Freedom -of Speech,” “Liberty of the Press,” “Conscientious Objector,” and -“Pacifism” he hides. He makes his masks similitudes of virtue. Whispered -rumors, distortion of truth, appeals to fear, and appeals to prejudice -are mixed with even the grosser seeds he sows. When other disguises -are torn away he may fashion a mask of spurious patriotism. Most dangerous -of all traitors is he who keeps just within the law of trespass while -scattering afar his seed of sedition throughout the Land of Liberty.</p> - -<p class="right"> -A. S. BURLESON,</p> - -<p class="right"><i>Postmaster-General of the United States</i>. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig12.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c12">“<i>Don’t Stop, Old Chap,<br /> -Keep It Up!</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“CHEER up, Willie, the worst is yet to come. Don’t view me with -alarm and suspicion. Don’t avert your eyes from my smile. It -may be sardonic, but I cannot control my facial expression. I -must look as I think. I am not like you, Wilhelm, looking God -and thinking devil. Oh, but you are a cute one, friend of mine! I love -you for a thousand things you have done, but don’t fool yourself, friend -of my heart,—I beg pardon, I forgot, I have no heart. In that and some -other aspects, Willie, we are as alike as two peas in a pod. Willie, we are -so close in our method of working that I am going to give you permission -to call me ‘<i>Du</i>’ hereafter.</p> - -<p>“How in the world could or can you, for all these years, make the German -people believe that the firm name of their Empire is ‘Me and God.’ -You and I know that God withdrew His Name, His Goodness, His -Honor and His Capital from the firm when you signed up as Emperor. -God is a one-price God. God never adulterates His goods; God never -advertises one quality and sells another. Since you have been Kaiser, -Wilhelm, a multitude of firm names could be exhibited on the sign board; -none of them, I imagine would rate high with Bradstreet, but they would -be truthful. ‘Me and Ambition,’ ‘Me and Power,’ ‘Me and Ruin’ are a -few I would suggest. Of course, your people would have shunned you -just as a mother shuns a house with a Board of Health sign on it, had you -given the real name of the firm. You are the most worried looking potentate -I have ever met, Wilhelm. Yes, Wilhelm, there will be Hell -to pay when your people awake to the fact that you have no partnership -with God, but are simply a vassal of mine. I’d be scared out of my -wits if I were in your place. While you are thinking of the horrible mess -you have made of your manifold opportunities be good enough to note a -deadly parallel. Once I was a prince, a prince in a vast and beautiful -Empire where all was tranquillity, peace, holiness and bliss. I was called -Lucifer, Son of the Morning—I had an all-absorbing ambition to rule -or ruin. I revolted and seduced some restless spirits to ally themselves -with me, fellows like your von Tirpitz. I rebelled against the King and -Kingdom of Heaven. The King of Heaven still reigns and the Kingdom -of Heaven still retains all its tranquillity and beauty. After the row -was over I found myself in Chaos. From there I was rushed to Pandemonium, -and it is needless to tell you that I am now in Hell—and it -lives up to its name. Note the deadly parallel, Wilhelm, and while you -are getting it into your noddle, I will whistle the music of our national -Hymn of Hate so you can memorize it. Try it on your piano. The words -are—</p> - -<p>“‘Strafe Hope. Strafe Manhood. Strafe Womanhood. Strafe Everything</p> - -<p class="c"> -But <br /> -ME.’”</p> - -<p class="right"> -JOHN PHILIP SOUSA. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig13.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c13">“<i>So We Are Only a Dollar-making<br /> -People, are We?</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">IT has for many years been a favorite gibe of thousands of foreigners, -living for the most part upon inherited wealth, and taking the -customary snobbish attitude of the consumer toward the producer, -that Americans are “only a dollar-making people,” as Mr. Raemaekers -has it in his forceful cartoon. Barring the word “only” perhaps the indictment -is true—I hope it is. One of the fondest of my many fond -wishes for my fellow-Americans is that they may all become successful -dollar-makers, since he who makes his own dollars is able always to maintain -his independence, to look his creditors large and small squarely in -the eye, and live by grace of his own powers, and not by favor of potentate -or patron.</p> - -<p>There is nothing disgraceful about a dollar, and it may be said on its -behalf that it differs from the Sovereign Incarnate of the Germans in -that it is redeemable always at par, being worth the full one-hundred -cents that it calls for; in that it rings true; in that whether it be of gold, -of silver, or of paper, that which it promises it fulfills, and has never yet -been known to dishonor itself. It may occasionally be seen in bad company, -but it never falls below the level of its evil associations, and is genuine -to the core. Loose thinkers sometimes speak of the “tainted dollar,” -but there is no such thing. If any taint lingers near it is not in the -dollar itself, but in the holder. So excellent, indeed, and so immune to -the effects of evil association is the character of the dollar, intrinsically, -that any one of Uncle Sam’s many billions could pass from the pocket of -a Burglar into that of a Bishop, and be worthy of its latter estate.</p> - -<p>I have yet to meet an American who confounds this true and honest -servant of his well-being with his God, but, alas, I have met countless -Germans who call it our American King, and themselves bow ignobly -down to a Lord and Master whose assumption of a divine relationship -has made of his life a prolonged blasphemy; a King whose deeds of savagery -are a complete negation of his hypocritical pretensions to the possession -of lofty ideals; whose ring is the ring of a brazen counterfeit, -and whose word has been so dishonored by himself that it has become the -synonym for worthlessness throughout the world.</p> - -<p>If Kings or Masters of any sort must be endured who would not rather -abase himself before the American Dollar, true and honest to the core, -than debase himself by bending the knee to a Kaiser who by his infamies -has made an Attila appear to be an Angel of Peace, a Bill Sykes -a Gentleman, and the word of an Ananias a Bond of Faith?</p> - -<p class="right"> -JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig14.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c14">“<i>No, Thanks, I Know These<br /> -Princes of Yours Too Well.</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">ON November 5, 1916, Poland was “restored” by Germany and Austria-Hungary -to her old place as an independent member of the -family of nations. High hopes were aroused in the hearts of -the Poles. They had suffered for over a hundred years, and in -this war of liberation, which was to form the Society of Nations, the Austro-German -proclamation was the first recognition of their aspirations. -The Entente Powers had committed the serious blunder of refusing to -encourage the Poles for fear of offending Czarist Russia. But very -soon the Poles realized that the Central Empires were playing them false. -The “independence” was for to-morrow and not for to-day, and even for -to-morrow it was contingent upon “being good.”</p> - -<p>At the beginning of 1917, which was the year of national rebirth, -hatred of Russia and resentment against the policy of expediency of -France and Great Britain, as well as the necessity to accept the <i>de facto</i> -Austro-German occupation, influenced most of the Poles to trust—in defiance -of history and experience,—the good faith of Germany and Austria-Hungary. -At the beginning of 1918, they had learned the lesson Raemaekers’ -pencil eloquently depicts—not to put their trust in German -princes. At Brest-Litovsk, “independent” Poland was refused a place in -the peace negotiations. Answering President Wilson and Premier Lloyd -George, Chancellor von Hertling impudently asserted that the future -status of Poland concerned only her conquerors.</p> - -<p>The cartoon, drawn to illustrate the scepticism of the Poles, should -drive home a truth to the Americans. We must realize that camouflage -is not confined to military operations. Its use to deceive armies is not so -dangerous as its use to deceive the nations behind armies. From bitter -experience the Poles are learning that behind the prince put forward as -ruler is hidden German militarism and German imperialism.</p> - -<p>This form of political camouflage is as dangerous for the United States -as for Poland. Peace proposals may come to us—they will come to us—in -plausible and appealing form. They will have the appearance of fairness -and justice. What is behind them? What inspires them?</p> - -<p>Our mission in this war is sanctified by its goal. To attain that goal -we have consented to make sacrifices unprecedented in the history of our -nation. From a purely military standpoint, no camouflage can possibly obscure -the path to the goal, and the method of reaching the goal. The -German armies, as yet unconquered, stand in front of us, defending the -loot of German imperialism, won by German militarism. We must dispossess -these armies of their loot, and punish them for having looted. But—alas!—diplomacy -is at work in 1918 to attempt to save by wile what -cannot indefinitely continue to be held by force. Every means of diplomatic -camouflage will be used by our enemies. Our inspiration, our determination -to pursue the struggle to the bitter end, will be kept alive only -if we see, through various forms of camouflage, the spiked helmet hidden -behind them. To make peace with Germany <i>wearing the spiked helmet</i> -would mean to consecrate the success of her imperialistic policy.</p> - -<p class="right"> -HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig15.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c15"><i>Speeding Up</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p><i>Uncle Sam: “I think I had better speed up and -build a ship or two!”</i></p> - -<table> - -<tr><td class="tdr">April</td> - <td class="tdc">8.</td> - <td class="tdl">Keel laid.</td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdr">4th</td> - <td class="tdc">day.</td> - <td class="tdl">Double bottom completed.</td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdr">6th</td> - <td class="tdc"> ”</td> - <td class="tdl">Frames and bulkheads erected and portion of shell plating finished.</td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdr">7th</td> - <td class="tdc"> ”</td> - <td class="tdl">Stern-frame in place.</td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdr">14th</td> - <td class="tdc"> ”</td> - <td class="tdl">Boilers put on board.</td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdr">21st</td> - <td class="tdc"> ”</td> - <td class="tdl">Stern-post bored and stern-tube put in place.</td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdr">22d</td> - <td class="tdc"> ”</td> - <td class="tdl">Masts stepped and engine installation begun.</td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdr">24th</td> - <td class="tdc"> ”</td> - <td class="tdl">Funnel put in place.</td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdr">26th</td> - <td class="tdc"> ”</td> - <td class="tdl">Machinery all in and engines completely installed.</td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdr"></td> - <td class="tdc"></td> - <td class="tdl">Finishing touches.</td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdr">May</td> - <td class="tdc">5</td> - <td class="tdl">(27th day). <span class="pad">Launched.</span></td></tr> - -</table> - - -<p><i>The building of the “Tuckahoe,” April-May, 1918, at Camden.</i></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig16.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c16"><i>Toward the Valley of Decision</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THEY shall go down to the Valley of Decision, multitudes of young -Americans from East and West, from North and South, some slow -to have gone into the war but none ever to go out until a Decision -shall have been reached.</p> - -<p>Into the Valley of Decision,—for a Decision final and irrepealable we -are battling. Not a Decision as to the victor in the war, but a Decision -that shall give us victory over war, its defenders and glorifiers! For -the German Empire which wars made this war shall unmake.</p> - -<p>We go down to the Valley of Death for a Decision whether the world -shall be ruled by Germany or by civilization, be subject to Prussianism -or master of its own fate and freedom.</p> - -<p>And America knows the cost, which it refuses to count,—knows its -sons must be slain if liberty and justice are to live.</p> - -<p>To the God of Justice, America lifts its heart in prayer, beseeching not -security for its beloved sons but vowing that the sun shall perish out of -the heavens ere we and our Allies surrender our liberty, the freedom of -the least of men, to the barbarism of force and the forces of barbarism.</p> - -<p>Out of the Valley of the Shadow of Death shall emerge the Decision,—Never -again. The war against war has brought freedom to nations, -and secured peace to them that seek public right as the law of mankind.</p> - -<p class="right"> -STEPHEN S. WISE, <span class="smcap">Ph.D.</span>, LL.D., <i>Rabbi of the Free<br /> -Synagogue, New York.</i> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig17.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c17"><i>Wake Up, America!</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="little c">This was done to Canadians by the Huns</p> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0"><span class="big">A</span>MERICA wakes! The White Christ has called her;</div> -<div class="verse indent0">She has seen the devils abroad in His world;</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Evil vaunting himself has appalled her;</div> -<div class="verse indent0">To the War-wind of Heaven her flag is unfurled!</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">America wakes—with his murder and lust</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Let the Hun take the path he has carved into hell.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">No longer blaspheming the Cross with his trust.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">America wakes, the sick world shall be well.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">America wakes—God’s last peace-lover,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">God’s fighter to death, when her peace is assailed.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Shout, sing, fling out the flags, War is over;</div> -<div class="verse indent0">When America battles, right has prevailed!</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="right">MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig18.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c18"><i>There are Plenty of Lamp-posts!</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THERE are creatures that to be hated need but to be seen.</p> - -<p>The sight of the serpent awakens all the dead, old body-memories -of ancient ages, when that reptile was man’s ever-present, -mortal enemy.</p> - -<p>The domestic horse, made unafraid by a thousand generations, when -he smells his ancient enemy, the bear, will rear and plunge to break and -run for his life.</p> - -<p>The face features a man’s character, his eyes window his soul. There -are faces that instantly beckon all our better nature and bind us in loving -thrall. There are other faces that repel us as the snake repels. There -are human tongues voiced with the serpent’s hiss. There are persons -about whom hangs an odor of the reptile that wakens all the dead old -memories of primal hate.</p> - -<p>The poet is born the poet. Genius is an inheritance. Human character -is a summation of ancestral traits. So the traitor-spy is an atavic embodiment -of all that is reptilian in a line of ancestry back to the serpent -of Eden.</p> - -<p>Though after-acquaintance may camouflage him to our eyes, still the first -sight, the first impression of the traitor-character has in it the temper of -aversion. One who has in him the heart and taste for atrocious conduct, -one who has in him the grass-lurking viper’s soul, wears a warning in his -face for the safety of others.</p> - -<p>The true caricaturist—and Raemaekers is one—sees and accentuates -what God has placed in the face of the scoundrel, the traitor, the spy, for -our protection.</p> - -<p>Great occasions are great opportunities for great genius. War exacts -the supreme from all men and all women. Only the superlative poet can -give the inevitable expression to master deeds on the stage of war, and -only the supreme artist can picture them with the due and true inevitable -expression, which is more aptly and more truly given in caricature -than in any other form, because in caricature that and only that which -is supremely characteristic is portrayed. Of all the artists of this world -war, none has, better than Raemaekers, given in clean and lucid unit -view, the true character of what he has pictured.</p> - -<p class="right"> -HUDSON MAXIM. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig19.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c19">“<i>We Don’t Seem to Inspire<br /> -Enough Confidence</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE one memorable contribution to art produced by the great war -is to be found in the cartoons of Louis Raemaekers. It is not necessary -here to analyze the qualities of his fine and powerful drawings -as art. They must be apparent to everyone who looks at -them with considerate eyes. But Raemaekers’ cartoons also have a high -literary and historic quality. I do not mean by this that they tell or suggest -stories, which are used generally as an attraction for very commonplace -pictures, but that they have that quality of enduring literature -which awakens the deepest feelings and points to the loftiest ideals which -are as enduring as the history of the race in its striving to reach the -heights of achievement. Hogarth was one of the few men in the history -of art who possessed these qualities, but great as Hogarth was, Raemaekers -has always been upon a higher level. Raemaekers has the poetic imagination -and we can feel in his work the</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent2">“prophetic soul</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.”</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>In his cartoons we find the appeal to all that is best in human nature, to -the finest impulses of man, to his deepest passions and his noblest emotions.</p> - -<p>All Raemaekers’ work is marvellously effective, but I take one single -example, not perhaps the most important—his treatment of the rulers of -Germany and Austria—in order to show his genius. By the power of -his cartoons Raemaekers has fixed in the public mind a truer and deeper -conception of the two emperors and the German crown prince than endless -pages of print could possibly produce. The brutality, the over-weening -arrogance, the hideous religious cant of the Emperor of Germany, -with the touch of lunacy upon him, will live forever in Raemaekers’ portraits. -The feeble senility of the late Emperor of Austria—joined as he -frequently is with the Sultan and the King of Bulgaria, kindred spirits—a -senility marked by the drivelling insensibility of extreme old age—those -unlovely attributes are all there. As for the Crown Prince, he is -known through these cartoons to millions who have never seen him and -never will see him and will have only this image of him graven in their -minds. As depicted by Raemaekers, he has a figure and face of low dissipation -in which degeneracy and ferocity contend for mastery. And -yet all these figures harmonize with the rest of the cartoons in teaching -the one overpowering lesson as to the meaning of German victory. The -barbarism, the belief in might as against right, the faith in brute force, -the absence of human feeling,—these cry out to us through the pencil of -the great artist that a world in which Germany should be dominant would -be a world of slaves in which no free man could wish to live.</p> - -<p class="right"> -HENRY CABOT LODGE. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig20.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c20"><i>German Submarines Fire on<br /> -Open Boats</i></h2> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0"><span class="big1">L</span>ORD GOD made the earth and its wonders,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">The sea and the land.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">The rain of delight and the thunders</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Fall alike from His hand,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">To gladden His children,—and warn them</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Who will not understand.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">And the Lord God cried in His anger:</div> -<div class="verse indent0">“Who has poisoned My sea?</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Who has made it a desert of danger</div> -<div class="verse indent0">For My ships sailing free?</div> -<div class="verse indent0">I am God! and ye who have done it</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Shall account unto Me.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">“I have planted the wasteland of water</div> -<div class="verse indent0">For My folk to find food;</div> -<div class="verse indent0">And ye sow it with whirlwind and slaughter,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Ye Devil’s dark brood.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">So now shall ye reap in full measure</div> -<div class="verse indent0">The harvest of blood.”</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="right"> -ALICE BROWN -</p> - -<p> -<i>Hill, N. H.</i></p> - -<p class="l"> -<i>July</i> 18, 1918. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig21.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c21"><i>Not This Time!</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large"><span class="smcap">Raemaekers the Prophet</span></p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“FOR twenty years I have clearly foreseen Germany’s present attack -on the world. For twenty years I have been drawing and publishing -the same type of cartoons which have attracted so much -notice since the war. Seven years before the war I was already being -called ‘<i>ein feind Deutschland</i>’ by the German press. I cannot possibly express -to you the unhappiness which I felt at being absolutely certain of -the impending doom, and at the same time being incapable of making -people foresee and believe it. My friends used to call me ‘the man who -can see ghosts even in sunshine.’ Yet it was I, not they, who really knew -the beasts as all the world knows them today; I was born in the little town -of Lemberg near Roermond, at a distance of only a few miles from the -German frontier, and have known the beasts all my life, not only in my -own country, but also in theirs, which I have visited many times. I -might almost say that I have visited it every year of my life. In Holland -we have a saying that ‘even the best German has stolen a horse.’ I -do not believe that there is any German who is not a pan-German. All -of them suffer from this national and nation-wide megalomania.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -<i>—From a conversation with Raemaekers reported in Eric<br /> -Fisher Wood’s “Note-Book of an Intelligence Officer.”</i> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig22.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c22"><i>The President to the Workers:</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large">“<i>If you are with me, I am with you.</i>”</p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“IF we are true friends of freedom—our own or anybody else’s—we will -see that the power of this country, the productivity of this country, -is raised to its absolute maximum and that absolutely nobody is allowed -to stand in the way of it. When I say that nobody is allowed to -stand in the way, I don’t mean that they shall be prevented by the power -of the Government, but by the power of the American spirit. If we are -to do this great thing and show America to be what we believe her to be, -the greatest hope and energy of the world—then we must stand together -night and day until the job is finished.”</p> - -<p class="right"><i>From President Wilson’s speech before the American Federation<br /> -of Labor, November</i> 12, 1917.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig23.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c23">“<i>Well Done, Fellows! Keep the<br /> -Home Fires Burning!</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THIS cartoon brings home to us the imperative necessity of putting -our own house in order and keeping it in order. If the world is -to be made safe for democracy, our own conspicuous example of -democracy must be made safe for those who dwell under its protection. -If we cannot conquer and control the enemy within our gates, we will be -but impotent instruments of conquest over him abroad. Both at home -and abroad we must rid ourselves of all hampering and distracting illusions -and stare the facts in the face. The facts are that we are at war,—the -grim and grimy business of killing or being killed.</p> - -<p>The issues involved in this war have been appealed to the sword, and -he who lives by the sword must die by the sword. The time for doubt, -debate, discussion or diplomacy is past. The only thing left to do is to -fight,—fight for all that is in us,—fight as long as we can and as hard -as we can, and until there is no fight left in our enemies. Then and not -until then is it worth while to consider other aims,—so-called war aims. -The only real war aim now is victory. We must not let anything distract -us from that essential aim.</p> - - -<p class="right"> -LINDLEY M. GARRISON. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig24.jpg" alt=""/> -<p class="caption">(Popular song of Tommy in France)<br /> -Well done fellows! “keep the home-fires bur-ning,” -</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c24"><i>A Bit of the Hindenburg Line</i></h2> -</div> - -<div class="move"> - -<p class="drop-cap">THESE <span class="smcap">fellows are hot on<br /> -the trail. Let us follow<br /> -suit.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wherever you find a Hun you<br /> -find an enemy. Get him!</span></p></div> - -<p class="rightless"> -DAVID BISPHAM. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig25.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c25"><i>The Rats in Our Home Trenches</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">REALLY, the great question of the war is: What kind of people -are the Germans?</p> - -<p>Can they be reformed, or are they incurable?</p> - -<p>All Germans are not alike. There are those who distinguish -between North and South Germans, and tell us that the Saxons, in particular, -have in them the making of excellent people. Doubtless all Prussians -are not alike; doubtless all Bavarians are not of the type of the -“Black Bavarians” whose exploits in the war have had unfavorable mention. -But what has come to be the image that “German” calls up in the -mind? It is an image of ruthlessness, of frightfulness, of poison gas and -traceless sinkings; of murder, pillage, spies and lies; of a black and formidable -ambition for mastery on any terms and at any cost; of treachery; -of a tireless industry that gets up early to fetch away by work or wile -whatever in the world is worth taking from any one who has it! The -current image of the German is an image of an enemy—a savage enemy. -Since 1914 German descent has been terribly prejudiced. As to every -man of German blood the observer asks himself: What manner of man -is this?</p> - -<p>The Hohenzollerns did not invent the Germans. They found, acquired, -trained and used them. For centuries—a thousand years at least—the -Germans have had a known and demonstrated rating for brutality and -brutishness. They have been cruel in war and destructive and greedy in -pillage beyond most other nations that were their neighbors. When one -hears it said that the trouble with Germany is Germans, there comes to -mind abundant basis for that suggestion.</p> - -<p>Yet the Germans are far too many and too useful to exterminate, and -even if that were possible, no nation but Germany could seriously entertain -the idea of exterminating a whole people.</p> - -<p>So what do we come to?</p> - -<p>To this: that Germany’s fate rests in the hands of the Germans. Their -qualities will determine their destiny. Along with their abilities go enormous -disabilities. They must do according to what is in them. They -must obey the demon that drives them until, out of the extreme of suffering, -they gain the courage to expel it. They must destroy, and so invite -destruction, until their racial propensity has wrought its own correction. -They must keep on accumulating enemies, exasperating neutrals, alienating -allies, until blind and wicked policies have perfected their work.</p> - -<p>What the German has most to fear is what is inside of him. By current -estimate the worst that can happen to Germans has happened already, -in that they are Germans. The world is not going to adjust itself to their -misfortune in this particular. It is they who will have to adjust themselves -to the world. They will not be able to make the world an overgrown -Germany in which the other peoples will have to live under German -direction. No. They will have to live in a world largely populated -and managed, as now, by folks who are not Germans and don’t want to -be, and whose primary concern for as long as is necessary will be to keep -Germans in their place.</p> - -<p class="right"> -E. S. MARTIN. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig26.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c26"><i>Seeing Stars</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="l large"> -<i>Canadian: “And you’ll soon see the Stars and Stripes.”<br /> -German: “Saw some already, sir.”</i> -</p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THIS is the voice that he hears from Germany:</p> - -<p>“We Germans are God’s chosen people, His special favorites, -and God is German Himself. God rules over us in the person of -our Kaiser, whom He has appointed for that purpose. We are better -than all other peoples of the earth; we are wiser and purer and nobler -and more industrious and more learned and stronger and cleverer and -kinder and braver and more spiritual and more warlike than all others.</p> - -<p>“We are so much greater than they that whatever we do to advance -our own interests, at the cost of theirs, is right and praiseworthy. If we -kill a great many of them, those who survive will in the end be improved, -because they will work for us and learn something by observing us. Any -deceit is proper and morally correct if it benefits us; and when we practise -a policy of terror upon those who oppose us it is really philanthropy -and shows how gentle we are, because the survivors learn through our -cruelty that it is useless to oppose us, therefore they the sooner submit -their wills to ours. We can not do wrong, no matter what we do, so -long as all that we do is for our own benefit. By our bright swords -we will take possession of the earth which ought to belong to us, because -we are Germans. We believe in the heaviest possible breeding of -babies, that they may grow up and be trained to carry liquid fire and -poison against any opposition to us. All the same, we are the only real -peace-lovers in this malign and prejudiced world, which, except for us -and the Austrians and the Bulgarians and the Turks, is composed exclusively -of stupid ruffians who were so jealous and envious of us that -they forced this war upon us, hoping to make some money out of us -by annihilating us. We love peace, and are fighting for our mere existence—that -is, the right to adjust our frontiers so that they will include -the countries which we have conquered by the sword. We must never -<span class="allsmcap">AGAIN</span> be threatened by those rascals of Belgians!”</p> - -<p class="right"> -BOOTH TARKINGTON. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig27.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c27"><i>The Two Giants</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="large"> -<i>Germany: “I destroy!”<br /> -America: “I create!”</i> -</p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">UNCLE SAM has given the Germans three surprises.</p> - -<p>It was believed in Germany:—</p> - -<p>1st—That America would not break diplomatic relations;</p> - -<p>2nd—That America would never fight;</p> - -<p>3rd—That America could not fight.</p> - -<p>Forced to it, in self-defense, we are now giving all our energies to war, -led by a President, whose vision meets the extent of the calamity brought -on the world by the selfish ambitions of material Germany.</p> - -<p>American built ships will end the menace of the slinking U-boat.</p> - -<p>And after the war the flags of the American Merchant Marine once -more will float on every sea.</p> - -<p class="right"> -JAMES W. GERARD. -</p> - -<p><i>New York, July</i> 12, 1918.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig28.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c28">“<i>Will They Last, Father?</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE four greatest events in history; the advent of Christ, the discovery -of America, the Reformation, and the French Revolution, -are all we can compare with the days in which we are living—and -dying.</p> - -<p>In a cyclone of desolations surpassing the terrors of the insane, the -world, so far from recoiling, rolls forward into vast and irrevocable -changes that seemed but yesterday the remotest goals of laborious evolution; -rolling up the precipitous steep of custom in all the fury with -which we should look to see it roll down. And the unique wonder of -this fifth and last of these supreme events is that only it has sprung primarily -from an evil design and can attain its true end only by that design’s -everlasting overthrow.</p> - -<p>So speaks the matchless hand of Raemaekers. The vastest murderer -the race has ever borne and, at his heels, his most remorseless waster -of blood together watch the glass of time, abhorring every upward plunge -of a maddened world and daily hounded by one implacable question, one -four-headed dog of hell: Will their treasury, will their sinking of ships, -will their delusion of their own people, last?</p> - -<p>No. One or another will presently fail, and when one fails all fail -and the world, refined by fire, will be, shall be, saved.</p> - -<p class="right"> -GEORGE W. CABLE. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig29.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c29">“<i>The Ugly Talons of the Sinister<br /> -Power</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE attitude of scorn, of contempt and of defiance with which Raemaekers -in his cartoon, “America’s Choice,” represents Uncle Sam -as he confronts the treacherous Kaiser, bearing the olive branch -in his talons, well expresses the attitude of the United States towards -Germany at the time we entered the war, and this attitude will -probably continue for a generation or two after the war ends.</p> - -<p>“The Intolerable Thing,” which President Wilson so aptly named the -irresponsible German Government, can never disguise itself so that we will -not detect the terrible menacing claws with which Raemaekers portrays the -Kaiser. It will continue to be an Intolerable Thing until the horrors of -this war are forgotten.</p> - -<p>The German philosophers brazenly justify their nation’s course in this -aggressive war with all its attendant horrors, by an appeal to the Darwinian -doctrines of the struggle for existence, and the consequent survival -of the fittest, which play such a prominent part in biological evolution.</p> - -<p>Germany must be taught the lesson that while man is the product of -evolution like all other creatures, yet in his case new factors come into -play—he is a part of the animal kingdom, but is a new kind of animal, -and new factors, not operative in the orders below him, have played leading -rôles in his development. These factors are his reason, which gives -him a sense of the true and the false, and his conscience, which gives him -a sense of right and wrong. These faculties subordinate the rule of -might to the rule of right, and they have resulted in the establishment of -conduct for individuals, for communities, and for organized governments -that do not exist in the lower animal orders, and only in a limited sense in -the lower human orders.</p> - -<p>Amid a national rejoicing, a waving of flags and ringing of bells, such -as are evoked by a great national festival, the Germans celebrated the -<i>Lusitania</i> murders—the entire nation suddenly slumping into a barbarism -worse than that of their ancestral Huns. The Hun was again triumphant, -gloating over his unspeakable crimes, his plunders and piracies, -his orgies of crime and lust—a spectacle to make the Genius of Humanity -veil her face and weep tears of blood.</p> - -<p>It is a comfort to know that the Allies have killed or rendered harmless -several million of these modern barbarians, and that many of their carcases -have gone to enrich the soil of France and Belgium. In this way -a dead Hun may help to undo some of the evil which a living Hun has -wrought. If two or three of their bodies could be planted in every shell -hole which their guns have made in France and Belgium, though the -inoffensive soil might sicken, yet in the course of years the poison of the -Hun would disappear, rendered innocuous by the beneficient alchemy of -Nature.</p> - -<p class="right"> -JOHN BURROUGHS.</p> - -<p class="l"> -<i>Tryon, N. C.</i><br /> -<span class="pad"><i>February</i> 12, 1918.</span> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig30.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c30"><i>Restitution and Reparation</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">IT is with good reason the Prussian covers the thick bone of his head -with a helmet, for into it ideas of right and justice can only be battered -with a club. The tough, club-resisting helmet is the arch-symbol -of Prussianism. From its earliest days Prussia has taught its neighbors -the Prussian theory of right and justice by means of a club. When -the Prussian wishes to educate his neighbors to an appreciation of Prussian -ethics he puts on his helmet, picks up a club and slugs the neighbor -on the head.</p> - -<p>The Prussian theory of right and justice is this: “What is mine is -mine. What is yours is also mine if I want it.”</p> - -<p>This idea is deep buried beneath the thick bone of the Prussian head. -He holds it with stolid stupidity and deep, prehistoric crudity, like a pig -or an idiot. He cannot understand that there are any rights higher than -Prussian greed. “If I want it, it is mine because I want it.” It is the -logic of the primitive human animal, the cave-man.</p> - -<p>Cornered and accused of his thefts he clings to his loot like the pig that -has stolen a carrot. When asked to disgorge he is shocked by the suggestion. -“But they are mine! I wanted them, so they are mine!” he -says. Right and Justice answer, “They are not yours; you stole them.” -“Maybe so!” says the Prussian. “But just the same they are mine—I -stole them a long time ago.”</p> - -<p>The logic of the Prussian fills ten thousand volumes. It is written in -hundred-line paragraphs and six-inch words. It can be condensed into two -short words—piggish greed: piggish because it knows neither right or justice, -greed because it is greed.</p> - -<p class="right"> -ELLIS PARKER BUTLER. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig31.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c31"><i>The Only Possible Position for<br /> -Traitors</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">WHILE the submarine controversy was at its height, a Hun -high in authority in his nefarious land said that it was impossible -for the United States to enter the war, because there -were a half million German reservists in our country. “That is true,” -replied the American to whom this contemptuous remark was addressed; -“but there are also a half million lamp-posts.”</p> - -<p>Since the German reservists have failed to fulfil the expectations of the -Fatherland, the lamp-posts of the United States are as yet unadorned with -their lifeless bodies. But history has shown that while Americans are an -easy-going race, when once their anger is aroused there is no withholding -it; therefore let the traitors in our midst take warning from the cartoon -upon the opposite page.</p> - -<p>One may pardon a murderer who kills in a moment of passion, one -may even revere a military spy who penetrates an enemy’s lines to gather -information needful for victory; but for the skulking traitor who whispers -sedition within the land which harbors him and seeks to hamper the -efforts of its government by a stealthy means, no punishment seems too -severe, since of all crimes his is the most despicable.</p> - -<p>It is not to the half million German reservists alone that Mr. Raemaekers’ -warning is addressed; for, inconceivable though it be, there are -native-born traitors aplenty to shame the land which gave them birth. -For these, the only position which will seem possible to Uncle Sam, when -once his anger, ever slow to rise, bursts forth in righteous indignation, -will be the one which Mr. Raemaekers has depicted. Let these traitors -remember that there is an abundance of lamp-posts in the land as well as -a goodly supply of hempen rope.</p> - -<p class="right"> -H. C. CHATFIELD-TAYLOR. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig32.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c32">“<i>Do You Mean to Make a Real<br /> -War?</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“GERMANY has once more said that force, and force alone, shall -decide whether justice and peace shall reign in the affairs of -men, whether right as America conceives it or dominion as she -conceives it shall determine the destinies of mankind. There is, therefore, -but one response possible for us: Force, force to the utmost, force -without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant force which shall -make right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down -in the dust.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -—<i>From President Wilson’s Message on the First Anniversary</i><br /> -<span class="rightbit"><i>of the Declaration of War, April</i> 6, 1918.</span> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig33.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c33"><i>Justice!</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE woman figure called Justice in Raemaekers’ cartoon has a -Greek name. She is Themis, consort of Zeus, Themis, who sits -by his side on the judgment seat. The scales are the scales of -Ægina, in her day a great money centre, whose talent was the standard -of value then, as the American dollar is to-day. Ægina was the mother -of Æacus, one of the three great judges of the lower world, and be it remembered, -it was Æacus that administered justice. Ægina is called by -one of the greatest Greek poets the place where Themis is worshipped -more than anywhere else on earth, and he tells us further that there was -much weighing in Ægina, the Merchant State. Heavy weights there -were in either scale. Much care was needful in the weighing, no little -balancing doubtless. So there were many in our Ægina who felt the -draw of kindred, of friendship, of fellowship. But this is the Day, the -Day of Decision, the Day of Lord Æacus. After the knife edge of the -balance comes the knife edge of the guillotine.</p> - -<p class="right"> -BASIL LANNEAU GILDERSLEEVE. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig34.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c34"><i>Another Peace Proposal</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE artist has depicted a spectacled Old Gentleman wearing a triple -crown and a pontifical mantle, who is offering a proposal of peace -to a heroic young woman, torn, bleeding, thorn-crowned, but -dauntless, who spurns it with scorn. The spectacled Old Gentleman is -the Pope; the heroic young woman is, I take it, outraged Justice.</p> - -<p>Since Justice is our cause, we must try to be just. The Pope is not -lying on a bed of roses. He is in a position of the utmost difficulty. -He has faithful adherents on both sides, he dislikes war, and finds his -perplexities, great enough in time of peace, now magnified an hundred-fold. -He is not a hero; he is old, he is a lover of ease, and would dearly -like to wear a King’s crown and hear multitudes in St. Peter’s cry out -“Papa-Rè, Papa-Rè.” Let us be just. The first Pope (according to Roman -Catholic reckoning), received the grace of a great opportunity to be -true to his Master, but he denied Him thrice. Why should we be surprised -to find Benedict XV denying his Master? Fate has held out her -hand to him, as she held it out to St. Peter, and offered him his opportunity -to be greatly true. In the old happy days when all the world cried -“hosanna” to Justice, the Pope also had professed himself a disciple of -Justice. But now Justice has been taken by bloody-minded men to be -crucified, and the Pope has stayed afar off. Many witnesses have remarked, -“This man also was a professed disciple of Justice.” And now -the Pope denies it vehemently. He has put forward a series of humiliating -proposals that Justice—heroic, bleeding Justice—should hold out her -hand to the murderers of Belgium and confer, as if there had been <i>equal -error</i> on both sides, upon the crafty schemes of peace by which Germany -hopes to dominate the world.</p> - -<p>Poor Old Gentleman! Timidity, love of ease, fear of Austria, and -fantastic ambition, have induced him to deny his Master. The cock will -crow, and he will weep bitterly. Poor, pitiable Old Gentleman.</p> - -<p class="right"> -HENRY DWIGHT SEDGWICK. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig35.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c35"><i>The Fine American Spirit</i></h2> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0"><span class="big2">W</span>HO are these, watching from ancestral doors</div> -<div class="verse indent0">The instant passing of our youth to France?</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Henceforth, a chapter of the world’s romance</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Their eyes have seen; it fills their native shores</div> -<div class="verse indent0">With an undying moment; now it pours</div> -<div class="verse indent0">On silent breasts, o’erawed, the voice, the glance,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">The last, fond gleam of each loved countenance,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">And the heart trembles, while the spirit soars.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">The generations draw immortal breath</div> -<div class="verse indent0">That breathe a nation’s soul. From sire to son</div> -<div class="verse indent0">The glory of the fathers entereth</div> -<div class="verse indent0">The children’s hearts, and maketh all as one:</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Bright, at time’s touch, breaks out the holy flame,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">And to all lands doth freedom’s blood proclaim.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="rightmore"> -G. E. WOODBERRY. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig36.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c36"><i>Poisoning the Well of Public<br /> -Opinion</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">ALIENS in this country must assist in maintaining the liberty they -enjoy, or we shall know the reason why.</p> - -<p>“Ninety-five per cent. of the people of the United States would -die as willingly for their beliefs as the men of 1776. It is for the other -5 per cent. to show not the slightest manifestation of disloyalty.</p> - -<p>“Our message to them will be delivered through the criminal courts all -over the land. And may God have mercy on them, for they need expect -none from an outraged people and an avenging government.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -—<i>Speech of Attorney-General Gregory in New York,<br /> November</i>, -1917. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig37.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c37"><i>The Enemy Within</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">NOT even the prodigious Cruelty of the Germans in this Atrocious -War has shocked the moral sense of mankind as much as has -their Deceit. We are horror-stricken by the reports of their -premeditated cruelties which link the Germans with the beasts—the wolf, -and tiger, and boa constrictor, and vulture. The beast does these things -because he has never risen to a higher plane than that of the beast. -But Deceit is the attribute of Man; of one who dwells above the standards -of the brute creation, who has had the moral sense developed in -him, who has known the compulsions of conscience, who has acknowledged -the obligations of duty, and has recognized himself as being a striver -after the Ultimate Good. Through some flaw in the German’s nature all -these qualities in him changed, turned bad, and he hailed Evil as his -guide and inspiration. Whatever of good there was in him he uses to promote -his wicked designs. Had he not been human he could never have -understood how to make his perverted nature work successfully to deceive -his fellow-men. The snake and panther do not deceive us, we know their -ways and guard against them. But the moral pervert can deceive, because -he hides his purpose and his method behind the mask of a counterfeited -virtue.</p> - -<p>Lying is the commonest form of Deceit. The German Emperor practised -it for twenty-five years, when he proclaimed to the world his ardent -desire for peace; and it was natural for him to lie when, on making war, -he declared that the sword was forced into his hands. Then the German -nation, fed so long on falsehood, accepted this. Another common form -of German Deceit has been to accuse their enemies of the very enormities -which they themselves invented and carried out. Diplomatic chicane is -a commonplace tool which the Germans employed, only clumsily. But we -cannot measure the full extent of German Deceit unless we follow it in -its varied propaganda among foreign peoples, in its spies, its instigators to -violence, its corrupters of the press. It poisons food and wells; it sets -fires to burn crops or forests; it hires ruffians to burn factories or blow -them up, to hide bombs in ships; it incites sabotage and strikes.</p> - -<p>So universally do Germans take to Deceit, that it has evidently become -their national trait. The soul of Germany is a lost soul, which worships -Satan as its master and welcomes Evil as its Good.</p> - -<p class="right"> -WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig38.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c38"><i>Count von Bernstorff: “Noblesse<br /> -Oblige”</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">BEHOLD this group of sinister and menacing forms surrounding -the nation as typified in the person of its President. For four -years past they have been coming, one by one, out of the darkness. -We can now only too well recognize them and the dangers with -which they threaten us. In front, there is arrogant, boastful, jealous and -unscrupulous Hate, with its policy of “might before right,” and its doctrine -of “frightfulness,” conscienceless and cruel, in its murder of the -innocent, its arson, its robbery, its slavery of the weak, and its outrages -of womanhood. Crouching, while it tramples on our flag, is Treachery, -ready to use pistol and dagger, to burn bridges, to place bombs, to blow -up ships, to hide and sneak and cringe, if only it can deliver its blow more -surely and safely. And back of both, is hypocritical and lying Diplomacy, -with its protestations of innocence and friendliness,—studiedly polite in -manner, but really black at heart.</p> - -<p>Behind, all engaged in tying the nation’s hands, lest it might strike -promptly and forcefully, is Pacifism, cowardly and self-seeking, more anxious -to avoid temporary suffering than to preserve the honor and safety -of the nation; and Divided Allegiance, traitorous to both causes which -it vainly endeavors to harmonize; and Intrigue, working in secrecy to -part friends, and stir up strife between those whose interests are common, -or even identical.</p> - -<p>But out of the darkness comes also the call to the nation: “America! -awake. Open your blinded eyes. Banish partisanship. Abjure political -jealousies. Leave it to the men who know. Make your hearts stout. -Grasp the sword firmly. Listen to no compromises, until the nation is -proved worthy of its birthright, civilization is rescued, and the world -made safe for Democracy.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig39.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c39"><i>Peter the Hermit</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large">“<i>Dieu le Veult!</i>”</p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE Prussian outdoes the world in his single-minded devotion to -physical things. He believes and frankly declares that mercy and -honor weaken human power, that if you consider them you must -eventually fall before the strong who disregard them. Germany’s attempt -to prove the soundness of the Prussian thesis has gradually loosened -the moral consciousness of the world. It has gathered to defend -the things of the spirit in what is as truly a crusade as that which Peter -the Hermit led, a crusade to preserve the sanctity of contract, the few -laws between nations that men have worked out, the right of the weak -to their chance. Germany, disbelieving in the strength that love of mercy -and of honor give men, cannot counter-attack in kind. Every day develops -more clearly that the weak place in the Prussian armor is its indifference -to moral considerations.</p> - -<p class="right"> -IDA M. TARBELL. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig40.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c40"><i>The Germ-Man</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE stout gentleman on the opposite page wears a pleased look, as -if he were enjoying his occupation. That is natural, for he is a -scientist engaged in a very pretty process—the propagation of -lockjaw, typhus and other malignant germ cultures with which he expects -to speed up the annihilation of his enemies. How does he propose -to accomplish this? I will tell you: he is going to introduce those -young and vigorous colonies of germs into those little packages marked -with a cross which you see lying on the table before him. Those are -Red Cross bandages, and they will presently be binding the wounds of our -soldiers, and the lockjaw and typhus hordes in them will awake, and rally -in a silent loathsome attack that will lay torture and death upon thousands -which the noisy, mis-aimed guns have failed to destroy. The -germ-man is assured that his atomic missiles will not be mis-aimed. His -government has efficiently arranged for those packages to go to the hospitals -of Roumania and Belgium and France. That is why he smiles—that -is why he has that roguish look.</p> - -<p>In the germ-man’s smile is incarnated “Deutschland über Alles” and -its correlative, “The end justifies the means.” We in America have produced -exponents—criminal exponents—of a similar psychology, and we -have generally (when we could catch them) hung or electrocuted or imprisoned -for life these moral perverts, in order to make the world a safer -and cleaner place to live in. Only a little while ago the State of New -York electrocuted a man who, having set up his individual “Ueber Alles -and General Justification” court, had proceeded cheerfully to introduce -malignant germs and other deadly things into the foods and medicines of -his wife’s parents, who stood between himself and fortune. Here we have -an exact parallel. Those defenceless old people were doing him no wrong. -They in fact admired and trusted him, just as Rumania and Belgium and -America only a little while ago admired and trusted Germany. They -stood in his way, however, and from the “Ueber Alles” standpoint any -means for their removal was warranted.</p> - -<p>Secret assassination is an ancient art. It has been practised in every -age and in every nation and its votaries have been hunted down and exterminated -by decent people. To-day, for the first time in the history of -the world, we have the spectacle of stealthy death for the defenceless -adopted as a government policy. For the decency and safety of mankind -the allied nations have highly resolved that the government which -promotes such a policy must “perish from the earth.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig41.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c41">“<i>A Tid-Bit for ‘The Sick Man’</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE nearness to America of the European theatre of war so greatly -fills our minds with the contest there raging that we give but little -thought to the progress of events in the far countries tributary -to the Tigris River. For a time, the heroic resistance of General -Townsend to the Turkish forces which surrounded him aided by the -natural obstacles of river and climate, claimed a share of our interest, -and later, the splendid and successful work achieved by the new British -army under General Maude, awakened renewed interest in a campaign -designed to split Islam into two parts: one, acknowledging the domination -of the Turk and his German masters; the other, a new Caliphat of -Bagdad, Arabian, rather than Turkish, looking to the ideals of justice -and freedom, rather than to the rule of the sword; finding its inspiration -in the tradition of the enlightened and humane Haroun-al-Raschid, rather -than the warring, bloody conquerors and Muhammed and Sulìman. Still -later, the northward progress of British arms extended over the greater -part of Palestine, and the capture of Jerusalem brought the sacred places -of Israel and of Christianity within the control of Christendom after five -centuries of Turkish occupation.</p> - -<p>These campaigns are only second in importance to the progress of the -German invasion of France; for if the British successes in Arabia and -Palestine shall be maintained, and the Islamites of Egypt, Arabia and -Mesopotamia shall look in the future to the Caliph of Bagdad, not to the -Sultan of Turkey, as their spiritual head, the great German scheme of -aggression in the Near East will have been defeated.</p> - -<p>The subtle Teuton suggestion to the Turk of a Pan-Turanian league, -was but a scheme for the promotion of a closer Turkish organization under -German control, as Raemaekers’ cartoon, “A Tid-Bit for the Sick -Man,” so cleverly intimates. The Turks should have said to themselves, -“Beware of the Greeks—the Prussians—and the gifts they bring.” A -German gift is like the shirt of Nessus,—it will consume utterly those -who accept it.</p> - -<p>Not alone on the shores of the Mediterranean, but on the Persian Gulf, -on the Baltic, on the English Channel, in the Caribbean, on the Pacific,—there -is no limit to the schemes of expansion of German control to -which that nation in its mad lust of power has given itself. Never since -the dawn of recorded history has an issue been made so plain. Aut -Cæsar aut nullus. The world must choose between Germany, the highly -developed, hyperorganized, scientific state, proceeding on the openly -avowed theory that might alone makes right, and that no principle of -ethics, morality or religion must be allowed to affect or deter a course -which scientific militarism determines to be best calculated to attain a pre-determined -end, and the other nations, who believe in God and in His -justice, who conceive that it doth not profit a nation to gain the whole -world at the cost of its soul.</p> - -<p>Once this issue is manifest to the world, the result cannot be in doubt.</p> - -<p class="right"> -GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig42.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c42"><i>Plain Language from Truthful<br /> -James</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large"><i>The Mexican-Japanese Plot</i></p> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent2">“For ways that are dark</div> -<div class="verse indent0">And tricks that are vain—”</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig43.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c43"><i>Helping Hindenburg Home</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“WE regret being unable on this occasion to follow the counsels -of our masters, the French, but the American flag has been -forced to retire. This is unendurable, and none of our soldiers -would understand their not being asked to do whatever is necessary -to reëstablish a situation which is humiliating to us and unacceptable to -our country’s honor. We are going to counter-attack.”</p> - -<p>This was a message sent by an American general in command of American -forces south of the Marne on Monday afternoon after the Germans -had succeeded in forcing the Americans back towards Conde-en-Brie.</p> - -<p>The French commander had informed the American general that the -early German success could not have any great effect on the fate of the -battle; that it was understood perfectly that after hard fighting the Americans -had slowly retired, and that it was not expected that they immediately -launch a counter-attack. He added that a counter-attack could be -postponed without risk, and it might be better to give the American troops -an hour’s rest.</p> - -<p>Immediately after the American general sent the above message, which -is quoted by the correspondent of the “Matin,” the Americans launched -their counter-attack and the lost ground was soon recovered, with an -additional half mile taken from the Germans for good measure.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<i>The New York Times, July</i> 18, 1918. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig44.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c44"><i>A Bad Prophet</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large"><i>The All-Highest: “Only a sham war with Uncle<br /> -Sam? Oh, Hollweg, you are a bad prophet!”</i></p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">ONE of the delusions the German Government and its General -Staff have been laboring under for many years is that the United -States could not create an army that was worth consideration -as a foe. That Government and its General Staff are tasting the quality -of our troops in the field, and the flavor is bitter on their tongues. One -hundred and twenty-six years ago there was fought a battle in France -(at Valmy, within the zone of war today) on the date that France first -called herself a republic. Kellermann won that battle against the Prussians -and Austrians with levies of new troops from the lower and middle classes -of France, who “found that they could face cannon balls, pull triggers, -and cross bayonets without having been drilled into military machines, and -without being officered by scions of noble houses.” They had, it seems, -the same spirit we like to think animates our army, which the Germans -abroad and some critics at home denied our men: “they awoke to the consciousness -of instinctive soldiership.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -<i>The Army and Navy Journal.</i> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig45.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c45"><i>At the Holland Frontier</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap move">WHETHER <span class="smcap">the war be<br /> -long or short, the<br /> -quickest road to peace<br /> -is the road straight ahead of us,<br /> -with no division among the American<br /> -people.</span></p> - -<p class="move"> -WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig46.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c46"><i>A Rehearsal</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="c large">“<i>When I say, Down with Wilson! you all cheer!</i>”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig47.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c47"><i>The Path of Kultur</i></h2> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0"><span class="big3">H</span>ERE ran a road for lovers once,</div> -<div class="verse indent3">With maples in the moon;</div> -<div class="verse indent0">And under a bridge a water went</div> -<div class="verse indent3">Weaving a dreamy rune.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">And high upon the sycamores,</div> -<div class="verse indent3">The nightingales all night</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Besieged the dark with melody,</div> -<div class="verse indent3">Disturbed the boughs with flight.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">And here in coverts of tall grass</div> -<div class="verse indent3">Looked up a friendly spring,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Glad to behold a face bent down,</div> -<div class="verse indent3">Or feel a fleeting wing.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">But now the lovers come no more;</div> -<div class="verse indent3">The road is rutted and marred</div> -<div class="verse indent0">By wheels and shrieking shells: the trees</div> -<div class="verse indent3">Are shattered, chopt and charred.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">New graves are billowing now: the field</div> -<div class="verse indent3">Like windy water heaves:</div> -<div class="verse indent0">The nightingales are gone: the spring</div> -<div class="verse indent3">Is choked with bloody leaves.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">And here at noon a vulture swoops</div> -<div class="verse indent3">On obscene errands bound:</div> -<div class="verse indent0">And here at night remembering ghosts</div> -<div class="verse indent3">Go by without a sound.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="rightmore"> -EDWIN MARKHAM. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig48.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c48"><i>To the Victor!</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large"><i>France crowns with laurel the dead American<br /> -aviator.</i></p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THO’ the American mother mourns across the seas for her hero -son, who has touched the skies in France, the foster mother lays -her laurel of glory on the bier of Youth, whose brave spirit in -passing welds an eternal bond of sympathy and union to the end.</p> - -<p class="right"> -GERALDINE FARRAR. -</p> - -<p class="l"><i>June</i> 23, 1918.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig49.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c49"><i>The Eyes of the Army</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE great poet of Victoria’s reign, in his wondrous vision of the -future,</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew</div> -<div class="verse indent0">From the nation’s airy navies grappling in the central blue;</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm;</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">Till the war drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled</div> -<div class="verse indent0">In the Parliament of Man, the Federation of the World.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Dealing not with the shadowy future but with the actual present the -great Artist of the Great War sees aerial navigation, not in terms of -commerce nor of battle engines, but as the “Eyes of the Army”; the -sense without which the terrestrial movements of war, both by land and -sea, tend to become mere blind and purposeless blundering. With one -graceful figure in a finely balanced design the artist tells the story.</p> - -<p>Future generations will be grateful to the Prussians for one thing—and -one thing only. From war—that “noble art of murdering,” as Thackeray -called it, they have stripped the last vestiges of romantic glamor. -They have not hesitated to press the premises of militarism to their logical -conclusion,—with results that have staggered humanity.</p> - -<p>In one field only has it been possible for something of the old knightly -chivalry to linger. Romance, driven from earth, has taken wings; and -the world, sated with horrors of trench and shambles, thrills with eager -wonder at the new science of the sky; at the individual skill and daring -of its pilots and their wonderful service to their fighting brethren on -earth.</p> - -<p>But even as we read of these things come tales of Zeppelin raids over -defenseless cities and the deliberate dropping of bombs upon hospitals.</p> - -<p>Civilized warfare! it is a contradiction in terms. It may be necessary,—it -has proved to be necessary, for civilized men to fight the barbarians -in order to uphold and preserve the great principle of individual liberty; -but war must come to an end among civilized peoples; and to that end -there must be a closer and closer union of such as care for law and order, -believe that the weak have rights which must be protected, and are willing -to base their governments on the firm and enduring foundations of -<span class="smcap">Liberty, Equality</span> and <span class="smcap">Fraternity</span>.</p> - -<p class="right"> -THOMAS MOTT OSBORNE. -</p> - -<p class="l"><i>July</i> 19, 1918.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig50.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c50">“<i>Is It Nothing to You, All Ye<br /> -Who Pass By?</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">ALL we need to remember hour by hour is that we are living through -the greatest crisis in the history of the world; that the greatest -number of people are concerned in it ever concerned in one thing -before; and that the most important epoch concerning humanity since -the birth of Christ is now at hand; that humanity is about to fall to a -lower plane of living or rise to a higher one than it has ever reached; that -we can only do our little share toward that rising by stiffening ourselves -to a long endurance. We have proven our mere ability to give valuable -service. What we must prove now is our patience and steadfastness, without -which brilliancy is worthless. We must strike a pace which we can -hold, both mentally and physically and plod on together. We must and -we will be ready, for our own sake, for our country’s sake and for the -sake of what the world was created for.</p> - -<p class="right"> -RACHEL CROTHERS. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig51.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c51"><i>The Rainbow Division Leaves<br /> -for France</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">AS the rainbow is heaven’s token of faith, so have we faith in these -modern knights journeying to beloved France to give battle to invading -barbarians.</p> - -<p>Ponder a moment over these men of the Rainbow Division, lads -with minds clean as their hearts are true, and compare them with the blood-craving -hordes reared in a school having no other aim than to kill their -fellow beings. One is Man in the superlative, and for the other there is -no name sufficiently abhorrent.</p> - -<p>When an American soldier enters Hun territory we know how scrupulously -the laws of humanity will be respected: he will at least be knightly -and merciful.</p> - -<p>And the four years’ record of German savagery is so well known that -it must forever befoul the pages of history.</p> - -<p>Lack of opportunity in the library has prevented a thorough exploration -of the unspeakable atrocities of the early Huns who under Attila -ravaged a great part of Europe. But sufficiently have I read to be convinced -that the Huns and Vandals and Goths of early history, compared -with the Hohenzollern-inspired fiends, were scarcely more than bungling -altruists. We know it to be fact that German soldiers murdered priests -and raped nuns in Belgium, violated practically every young woman in -the Aisne and Champagne, razed defenseless towns and hamlets in these -French Departments, murdered old people and children and mutilated -youths everywhere, delighted in destroying hospital ships and treated Red -Cross signs as targets for their guns, inoculated French prisoners as a -means of furthering the Berlin plan to diminish the French race, and -in cold blood murdered scores of women and children on the <i>Lusitania</i>.</p> - -<p>These are awful indictments, with not one excusable on the ground of -military need or expediency. Given trial at the bar of civilization their -perpetrators must forever be judged as outside the pale of humanity and -hereafter can have no standing in lands where the principles of Christianity -and humanity have a meaning. With my own eyes I have seen -scores of proofs of German “frightfulness”; with me it is not hearsay. -And remember that it was none other than Goethe who wrote that “the -Prussian was born a brute, and civilization will make him ferocious.”</p> - -<p>Positive is it that the United States and her Allies will crush the conscienceless -militarism of Germany, and ever of good omen is the Rainbow, -telling of improving skies and perfect conditions for the morrow.</p> - -<p class="right"> -FREDERIC COURTLAND PENFIELD, <i>American Ambassador<br /> -to Austria-Hungary</i>, 1913-1917. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig52.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c52"><i>Russia Reborn</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">IN a hundred years no people has been so tortured and abused by rulers -of its own blood and faith as the Russians. The free peoples -have nothing in their experience by which they can imagine the greed -and cruelty of which the subjects of the Romanoffs have been the victims. -No adequate picture of the diabolical old régime can be painted till -scholars have had time to explore its archives and expose the dark forces -that operated it.</p> - -<p>Let no one look for Freed Russia to be shining and beautiful. From -the gloomy caverns in which they have mouldered the Russian people -stagger out upon the sunlit heights of freedom weak, bent, half blind. -Few of the older will ever conquer the dense ignorance in which they -were kept by autocracy. Few of the characters twisted and deformed by -oppression will ever become quite straight. In the behavior of this people -there will be exhibited folly, fanaticism and brutality that will make -the peoples born free uneasy as to the new sister.</p> - -<p>Whatever happens, doubt not that the Russians are gifted and great-hearted. -Their excesses have proclaimed how much they were held back -and brutalized by the Tsars. It will take long for them to rid themselves -of the traces of their servitude and misery. Even the children born in -the new era will catch from their parents some of the evil heritage. Only -the grandchildren of the common people of today will come into the full -birthright of the free and prove the worth that is in the Russian race.</p> - -<p class="right"> -EDWARD ALSWORTH ROSS. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig53.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c53"><i>Higher Than a Sour Apple Tree</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">OTHER wars end with those who made them. It is the will of the -German Emperor that <i>his</i> war should pass on like a blight from -generation to generation upon those whose fathers dared to -stand against the ravager. To this end he has not only slaughtered and -enslaved the defenders; he has sought to destroy the very fruitfulness of -the land whereby their descendants must live.</p> - -<p>To me the deliberate, coldly reckoned murder of the invaded countries’ -trees and vines so that the children of the slain and enslaved and their -children’s children may draw no sustenance from the kindly earth—that -seems the most perverse, the most detestable, the most typical of all the -crimes of Kaiserism.</p> - -<p>The sterilization of Mother Earth! It took the mind of a Wilhelm -to conceive it. And for that offence against generations unborn he shall -hang, higher than was ever ruler before him, gibbeted in the righteous -hatred of an outraged posterity.</p> - -<p class="right"> -SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig54.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c54">“<i>What a Mean Trick to Turn<br /> -on That Strong Light!</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“PEACE must be framed on so equitable a basis that the nations -would not wish to disturb it. It must be guaranteed by destruction -of Prussian military power, so that the confidence of the German -people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might -of their armies.... Europe is again drenched with the blood of its bravest -and its best, but do not forget the great succession of hallowed causes. -They are the stations of the cross on the road to the emancipation of -mankind. I again appeal to the people of this country and beyond that -they should continue to fight for the great goal of international rights -and international justice, so that never again shall brute force sit on the -throne of justice nor barbaric strength wield the sceptre over liberty.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -<i>From the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd-George’s Glasgow speech<br /> -on war aims, June</i> 29, 1917. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig55.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c55"><i>Christmas, 1917</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">ON the day of the Nativity, the Infant Brother of Humanity was -born and was laid in a manger, there being no room for his -human mother at the inn. But wherever he lay—there, -through the mystery of his kinship, was the shining Gateway of Heaven. -That translucent Light, from the moment of its appearance, intensified, -as by opposite polarity, the baleful lights from all unholy fires in human -breasts. Herod was first aroused to the Slaughter of the Innocents, and -he has had his successors in every age during the growth of Christendom.</p> - -<p>As the Light of the World has expanded these nineteen centuries, shining -in the hearts of men, ever awakening new ideas of Truth, Justice, and -Mercy, against every fresh gleam, promising wider horizons of human -Love and Sympathy, have been arrayed the brutish hosts, with Hatred -and Murder in their hardened hearts. For the present generation has -been reserved the vision of the very Armageddon of this Conflict, in -which the world is divided against itself. The Powers precipitating it inaugurated -it and have in its whole course attended it with every conceivable -form of atrocity and outrage against noncombatants—innocent men, -women, and children. But that Heavenly Light which shone in the stable -at Bethlehem can never be put out!</p> - -<p class="right"> -HENRY MILLS ALDEN. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig56.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c56"><i>Helping Uncle Sam to Get Up<br /> -Speed</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“THE military masters of Germany denied us the right to be neutral. -They filled our unsuspecting communities with vicious spies and -conspirators and sought to corrupt the opinion of our people in -their own behalf. When they found that they could not do that, then -agents diligently spread sedition among us and sought to draw our own -citizens from their allegiance....</p> - -<p>“They have learned discretion. They keep within the law. It is opinion -they utter now, not sedition. They proclaim the liberal purposes of -their masters; declare this a foreign war which can touch America with -no danger to either her lands or her institutions ... and seek to undermine -the Government with false professions of loyalty to its principles.</p> - -<p>“But they will make no headway. The false betray themselves always -in every accent.... The facts are patent to all the world, and nowhere -are they more plainly seen than in the United States, where we are accustomed -to deal with facts and not with sophistries; and the great fact that -stands out above all the rest is that this is a people’s war, a war for freedom -and justice and self-government among all the nations of the world.”</p> - -<p class="right"><i>From President Wilson’s Flag Day Address, June</i> 14, 1917.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig57.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c57"><i>The Wind of Democracy</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“WITHOUT doubt, the majority of the German nation is still -monarchist. The different peoples of Germany still hold to -their princes, more or less, according to the individual character -of the sovereigns. But that confidence in the supreme chief of the -Empire is still entirely intact is an affirmation which, after three years -of war, cannot be maintained.... Confidence in the direction of the Empire -has begun to disappear among the German people.... They begin -to ask themselves how it happens that nearly all the world is in arms -against us, and who is responsible for it.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -<i>Reply of Prince von Hohenlohe to the clerical deputy, Spahn,<br /> -in the Reichstag.</i> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig58.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c58">“<i>This One for the Babies</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">GERMANY, in her war against Civilization, has disregarded not -only International Law and the ordinary laws of humanity, but -has ruthlessly set aside the four great laws of the social order -which all civilized nations recognize as having a divine sanction. “Thou -shalt not bear false witness.” She has broken her treaties and lied openly, -frequently, brazenly. “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” She has permitted, -if she has not given official sanction to rape committed upon a scale -never before known in the history of the civilized world. “Thou shalt -not steal.” She robbed her neighbor’s hills of their coal and iron, her -neighbor’s fields of their standing crops, her neighbor’s banks of their -money, her neighbor’s houses of their pictures, statuary and books, and -what she could not carry away she has in mere wantonness destroyed. -“Thou shalt not kill.” She has murdered thousands of defenceless men, -women, children, and little babes, and has done this not in a sudden and -feverish rage, but as part of a deliberately conceived and carefully executed -policy. One must multiply Raemaekers’ picture by the thousand in -order to get its full significance.</p> - -<p class="right"> -LYMAN ABBOTT. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig59.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c59"><i>A Scene on the Somme</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“INFINITELY interesting is our contact with the American troops. -They have occupied the sector immediately beside ours. We have -seen them at work, and could form an idea, and it should be told -and retold that they are marvelous. The Americans are soldiers by nature, -and their officers have the desire to learn with an enthusiasm and -an idealistic ardor very remarkable. There is the same spirit among the -privates. They ask questions with a touching good-will, setting aside all -conceit or prejudice. Naturally they have the faults of all new troops. -They show themselves too much and expose themselves imprudently, letting -themselves be carried away by their ardor, not knowing when to spare -themselves or to seek shelter or when to risk everything for an end. -This experience will be quickly learned.</p> - -<p>“As for bravery, activity, and discipline, they are marvelous. They -absolutely astonished us on a morning of attack. The cannonading, suddenly -becoming furious, had just thrown me out of my bunk. No doubt -about it, it was a Verdun attack. Taking time to seize my revolver, put -on my helmet, and gather up several documents, I descended to the streets. -When I arrived there they were already filing by with rapid, easy, decided -steps, marching in perfect order in silence with admirable resolution, -and above all with striking discipline, to their fighting positions. -It was fine. You can have no idea how cheering it was to my Poilus.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -—<i>From a letter of a French officer published in the Paris<br /> -“Temps.”</i> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig60.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c60"><i>Hollweg as Robespierre</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large"><i>The Kaiser: “He has managed to fool the German<br /> -Socialists. Why should he not fool the Russian<br /> -Socialists?”</i></p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">FEW things have been more disheartening in the course of the War -than the way in which the Teutonic foes of liberty have used so -many friends of liberty in Russia as unwitting instruments to undermine -and destroy the resistance of the Russian people to the German -armies.</p> - -<p>Vast territories, amounting to nearly half a million square miles in -area, have thus been abandoned to German domination, practically without -a struggle; and over fifty million people in the abandoned regions -have seen their prospects of freedom vanish.</p> - -<p>The German armies thus released from the eastern front and poured -into northern France, have enormously increased the difficulties of the -Armies of Liberty, battling in France and Belgium to save the world for -Democracy.</p> - -<p class="right"> -J. G. PHELPS STOKES. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig61.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c61"><i>President Wilson’s Declaration</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">RAEMAEKERS is, here, having the President say:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“When Germany is defeated, and peace can be discussed, we shall pay the -full price of peace,—namely, justice for all the nations.”</p> -</div> - -<p>We know what justice will be for the nations spoiled. But what will -be justice for the spoiler? We know what this latter would be to an individual; -and a nation is only a greater individual, capable of greater mischief, -subject to greater punishment.</p> - -<p>An individual, who, with progressive malice, had broken all the laws of -his country, society and God, from simple lying, through perjury, robbery, -piracy, up to wholesale murder, would be destroyed—for the good -of his fellowmen and as a warning to others. If he should escape the -noose the quieter but no less inevitable force of public morality would -destroy him. Neither man nor nation has ever long lived by force, flaunting -his crimes in the face of the world, committing, threatening yet others. -Nor will Germany. She is now, I believe, in the way of destruction, -either by the public executioner, or, more likely, by the slower, but not -less certain, process of isolation and decay.</p> - -<p>She has unmasked herself and we now see the hideous, distorted face -of her. How can so monstrous a Thing have friends after this? Who -will trade with her? Who will ever again accept a promise of hers? -Who but must be ashamed of her name and her language? Anathema -she will be to all peoples—the outcast of nations—living for and upon herself, -where her life-doctrine of force must inevitably turn to her own -destruction. This has been the fate of every world-conqueror and his -nation. And, surely, none of them all has so richly deserved it as this -intolerable Germany. Ask History! And, yet, to the individual, there -is always left repentance and restoration—even though he, himself, must -be destroyed.</p> - -<p>So, if this besotted Germany had but the courage and virtue to lay -down her arms and retire behind her own borders, she could have the -peace she pretends to wish for in twenty-four hours—for so little and simple -and right a thing as that!</p> - -<p>I think, indeed, that the nations she has so wantonly spoiled would -permit her to go without further punishment at their hands, leaving that -to the very God she has so vilely exploited as her partner in her monstrous -crimes. I think they would accept back the goods which she has -stolen, damaged as they are, beyond redemption, glad to be rid of her and -her debasing contact. But she is mad. Germany is quite mad. She -would laugh, like a blood-smeared, amuck-running lunatic at any such -proposition. Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. The -madness is accomplished. I believe that it will be for the peace of the -world that the rest shall be.</p> - -<p class="right"> -JOHN LUTHER LONG. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig62.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c62">“<i>Don’t Stand in Our Way to Victory</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">ALL wars bring their full measure of miseries and misfortunes, -and this world war, initiated by Germany for the purpose of -imposing a military domination upon Europe and America, and -conducted with methods which combine the barbaric standards of -the Huns and Mongols with the skilled mechanism of the twentieth century, -has brought upon the world miseries that can hardly be estimated -or described. There are some offsets, however, even in a contest like the -present, which is a fight for the preservation of civilization against the -onslaughts of scientific barbarism. No nation can take up arms for the -defense of its rights and liberties and for the fulfilment of its obligations -without bringing into the souls of the people some development of national -and patriotic spirit.</p> - -<p>The soldiers in the trenches and the citizens working at home are -fighting and working for a common cause.</p> - -<p>They come in this manner to have realization of what they owe to -each other, to their country and to their consciences.</p> - -<p>We may feel assured that through the sacrifices that are being made -today in our country, of lives, of labor and of wealth, there will be developed -from a people which had in its prosperity been growing rich -and lazy-minded and forgetful of national morality, the soul of America.</p> - -<p>Louis Raemaekers has done more than any one man to bring into expression -the spirit of fierce indignation and horror that has come not only -upon the people of Belgium and of northeastern France, who have been -directly exposed to the brutal despotism of the Prussians, but upon all of -those who are fighting to rescue the people of these imprisoned devastated -provinces, and upon the whole civilized world.</p> - -<p>Raemaekers has been able with the powerful genius of his pencil to give -expression in cartoons that belong to the history of art and of the world, -to this protest of civilization.</p> - -<p>He is a poet as well as an artist.</p> - -<p>His weird and sombre conceptions gave evidence of a powerful imagination. -His work has been compared to that of Gilray, but the caricatures -which in 1805 amused English men and frightened English children -were merely clever pieces of drawing.</p> - -<p>The wonderful designs of Raemaekers set forth the devilishness of the -policies and the actions of the Prussians as incisively and as conclusively -as if he had been sitting as judge in the court of final appeal.</p> - -<p>These grim pictures constitute indictments of great criminals. It is -impossible to tell how far they may as yet have penetrated Germany, -but sooner or later these irrefutable judgments of criminal acts will be -brought home to the consciousness not only of Prussia, and of the leaders -who are directly responsible for the murders and the other horrors, but -of the whole people of Germany who, poisoned by the fumes of prussic -acid from Berlin, have been willing to give their strength and their force -to the attempt to impose Prussian tyranny upon the peoples of the world.</p> - -<p class="right"> -GEO. HAVEN PUTNAM. -</p> - -<p class="l"><i>February</i> 1, 1918.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig63.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c63">“<i>German Soldiers Cut the Throat<br /> -of an American Sentry</i>”</h2> -</div> - -<p class="c">A LAYMAN’S PRAYER FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS</p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">OUR Father which art in Heaven, bless and inspire our armies in -the field, our ships upon the sea. Watch over the sons of America -fighting for Liberty. Strengthen and hearten them in the -hour of pain and peril. Grant them victory, we beseech Thee, and lead -them safely home. Make us who love them do our part loyally. Keep -us united in our will to bring upon earth a reign of right and freedom. -<i>Amen.</i></p> - -<p class="right"> -CLEVELAND MOFFETT. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig64.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c64"><i>Bang!</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large">“<i>Dog-gone it, Hindenburg, don’t make your<br /> -strategic moves when I am standing directly behind<br /> -you!</i>”</p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">ON one occasion, when Hindenburg reported having “carried out -his retreat according to plan,” the Kaiser, encamped at the rear, -received a very discomfiting bump. Evidently, the “plan” was no -less an inspiration of the moment than many others the Germans have announced, -in order to put a good face upon their reverses.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig65.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c65">“<i>I Must Break in Here Before<br /> -That Comes Down</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE small speck that at first seemed a dull mist hanging over the -Western Hemisphere caused little else than sarcastic flings at -our own Republic, and had it been possible to awaken pity in the -breast of the Arch Demon, striving to spread his wings over the whole -world, some sympathy might have fallen to us, for the weak mind we -showed in presuming we could do anything to check the Imperial army in -its brutal course. But happily great oaks from little acorns grow, from -stationary mists dark clouds may rise, from low uncertain rumblings the -ear-splitting thunder clap may spring, and make man and beast seek cover. -So, by the Grace of God, things have developed, and the mist that was a -banquet joke, is transformed, and spread into a veritable storm, and its -direction is across the wide ocean; it is an on-rusher that awakens a -craven fear; and it well may. It is no autumn cloud, whose fleecy skirts -the sun has painted with gold; but something equalling the harbinger of -death, that the soothsayers saw driving over Rome when Cæsar’s end was -nigh; on which could be seen “Fierce fiery warriors in ranks, and squadrons -and in right form of war”; and from which blood is drizzling, not -only to fall over France, or Flanders, but perhaps to darken the sky, and -crimson the soil, even at that nest of iniquity, Potsdam.</p> - -<p class="right"> -PALMER COX. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig66.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c66"><i>Bring Her In!</i></h2> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0"><span class="big4">Y</span>EA, bring her in—the scarlet sign of shame!</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Of shuddering horror to all times and lands!</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Bring her, though late, to justice. Those, her hands,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">With children’s blood thick-crusted, are the same</div> -<div class="verse indent0">That stealing through night’s peaceful curtains came</div> -<div class="verse indent0">To throttle blameless Belgium; from the brands</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Of sacked and burning churches those dark bands</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Befoul her garments, noisome as her name.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">“Guilty of more than murder!” Not alone</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Of broken hearts, drained eyes and myriad graves</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Shall men make up the sum of her dread score,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">But of faiths blasted, world hopes overthrown.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Then judgment write in tears of her bowed slaves,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">“Earth sickens of her—Let her be no more!”</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="rightmore"> -CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig67.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c67"><i>Germany’s “Peace” with Russia</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">COUNT HERTLING asks resentfully: “Who dares to suggest -that I am not on the side of justice?” Count Hertling is undoubtedly -sincere. Until this war began the world had almost -forgotten the record for duplicity and inhumanity of the military -tyrants of Prussia,—the treachery and barbarity of the race of which -he and they are the offspring. They are running true to type, but for the -time we had forgotten what the type was; yet it was known well enough -to Julius Cæsar and to the others who ruled the Roman world. For him -the Germans were “that treacherous race which is bred up from the cradle -to war and rapine,” who “practise the base deception which first asks -for peace and then openly begins war,” who are “outside the pale of negotiations”—yet -Cæsar had not heard of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk! -History is repeating itself after two thousand years, yet two thousand -years ago it was then only repeating itself. The Prussian has always -been the same. His instincts are today as they were when he roamed -the swamp lands, naked and with a stone club in his fist, pig-eyed and -bull-necked, like the mastodon of his native forests. Raemaekers has -done well to symbolize him in his treatment of helpless Russia, as a -hairy prehistoric beast crushing out the life of a bleeding nation beneath -his ponderous feet. Count Hertling says he is on the side of justice. He -is—of German justice, the justice of which the butchered civilians and -outraged girls of Belgium, the crucified Canadians, the murdered Edith -Cavell, and the martyred babies and their mothers of the <i>Lusitania</i>, are -examples. It is the justice of the mammoth and the cave-man, the sabre-toothed -tiger and the woolly rhinoceros,—all of whom would agree that -Count Hertling in his dealings with Russia was actuated by the only recognized -Prussian ideal—the right of the strongest brute to ravish and destroy.</p> - -<p class="right"> -ARTHUR TRAIN. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig68.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c68"><i>The Better Fighter</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c">CANADA’S PART IN THE WAR</p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“BOUND by no constitution, bound by no law, equity or obligation, -Canada has decided as a nation to make war. We have levied an -army; we have sent the greatest army to England that has ever -crossed the Atlantic, to take part in the battles of England. We have -placed ourselves in opposition to great world powers. We are now training -and equipping an army greater than the combined forces of Wellington -and Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -<i>Speech of Sir Clifford Sifton at Montreal.</i> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig69.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c69"><i>The Dungeon of Autocracy</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THERE is a part of Germany that longs for freedom; but that is -not the Prussian part. The soul of Germany is not entirely killed -by her mortal sins of money and land-lust; and Raemaekers here -paints the remorseful soul, crowned with the blurred cross. Germany -turns her back to the sky; she prefers to look at the dark ground of -her dungeon rather than to face that light. She is chained by her own -will, and yet her inmost soul revolts.</p> - -<p>Let us not imagine that there are two Germanys. Before the war -the Social Democrat was the official hater of the despotism of the Hohenzollerns. -The war came, he ceased to be a Social Democrat when he became -a Prussian. Before the war, the Centrum defended the rights of -conscience against the Hegelian dogma of the absolute supremacy of the -State. The Kaiser rushed from Norway, war was declared, and the recalcitrant -Centrum,—the creature of the indomitable Windhorst, whom -even Bismarck could not terrify,—becomes subservient! The Emperor -does not say, “The State is I.” He says,—“Germany over all, and the -German God must rule.”</p> - -<p>Germany has chained herself. For more than ten years, I have lived -geographically in Germany,—for Denmark, though one of the freest nations -of the world, is a few miles from Berlin,—and I have seen the Old -Germany growing into the New, materialized Germany. Bismarck helped -this process with blood and iron. The New Germany has a soul, but she -has chained it to avarice and pride and power.</p> - -<p class="rightbit"> -MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN,</p> - -<p class="right"> -<i>American Minister to Denmark</i>. -</p> - -<p class="l"><i>May</i> 28, 1918.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig70.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c70">“<i>Hurrah for Peace, Lads!</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">EARLY in the war the great writers and poets of the Allied nations -joined in combating, with all the inspiration of the cause of liberty, -the campaigns launched in varied guise by seditionists here -and abroad. In this effort literature has made a worthy contribution to -the battle for civilization. It remained, however, for the art and genius -of Raemaekers to rout the propagandists of the enemy by delineating the -great basic truths of war as waged by the Huns. It has been his work, -more than that of any other person, to delineate the righteousness of the -Allied cause.</p> - -<p>His portraiture is a protest, an indictment, and an inspiration. He destroys -the foe’s misrepresentation and exposes his mendacity while constructively -informing the mind and awakening the imagination. He enables -us to grasp all the details of sorrow, of devotion, together with all -the splendor of modern battle behind his story. He horrifies us with the -brutality of uncivilized warfare, and at the same time arouses within us -the determination to right the wrongs of an outraged world. His very -shock is a stimulus, for in telling us of the horror of war, Raemaekers -makes us understand that to stop it forever by victory is the only thing -worthy of thinking and feeling human beings. By speaking the universal -language which art alone possesses, he has made the war clear to those -who cannot read. Because of this genius for arousing our emotions, he -is the premier recruiting agent of the armies of civilization for and behind -the battle-line. He is truly a mainspring of our armed forces.</p> - -<p class="rightbit"> -S. STANWOOD MENKEN,</p> - -<p class="right"> -<i>President of the National Security League</i>. -</p> - -<p class="l"><i>January</i>, 1918.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig71.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c71"><i>Ecce Homo!</i></h2> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0"><span class="big5">A</span>N’ Thou art God, and be not one</div> -<div class="verse indent0">With the god of the hun—Behold Thy Son!</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Only belov’d begotten Son</div> -<div class="verse indent0">And see with Thine eyes what the hun hath done.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">See how His tender temples bleed!</div> -<div class="verse indent0">How they have mocked Him in their scorn—</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Thrust in his hands a withered reed</div> -<div class="verse indent0">To hail Him King—Thine only born—</div> -<div class="verse indent0">And crowned His shrinking brow with thorn!</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">Where must He pass—Lord Christ—Thy Son?</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Calvary looms in the West again:—</div> -<div class="verse indent0">We thought the sad world lost and won</div> -<div class="verse indent0">When He died on the Cross for the sins of men.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Must He die again? And where? And when?</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">Where, in their hell, the heathen rage,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">The hun’s imperial priest appears</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Smeared with the blood of youth and age</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Dragging his god that nods and leers</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Dripping with murdered children’s tears.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">God of the bright, swift sword, how long?</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Moloch rides with the swinish hun:—</div> -<div class="verse indent0">The boche is boasting with shout and song</div> -<div class="verse indent0">That Thou and his bestial god are one,—</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Thou and Moloch and Christ, Thy Son!</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="rightmore"> -ROBERT W. CHAMBERS.</p> - -<p class="l2"> -<i>New York, April</i> 30, 1918. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig72.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c72">“<i>We Must so Destroy France<br /> -That She can Never Again<br /> -Resist Us</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">HEINE, when he warned the world that the real God of Germany -was Thor and that when the Christian veneer wore off the old -pagan god would with his hammer break in pieces the Gothic Cathedrals, -especially warned France, whom above all the Beast hated. The -warning has been justified by history. Before the war I have heard Germans -speak gloatingly of what they did to France in 1870, and of what -they meant to do next time. The phrase “bleed France white” had become -a commonplace of German speech.</p> - -<p>This hatred is rather mysterious. England fought France many times -during five hundred years, but whenever peace was declared Paris would -be full of Englishmen to celebrate, to shake hands and be friends. There -never was this ferocious hate, and France has always been generous and -chivalrous and human. Germany hates Great Britain and America with -her head, but she hates France with her soul.</p> - -<p>It must be that the modern Hun feels that there is something in his -hated enemy which he does not possess and never can possess. And because -the rest of the world loves France, he hates her all the more, with -a cold and cruel and scientific hatred, as our artist depicts it in his terrible -cartoon.</p> - -<p>Perhaps some light is thrown on the problem by a typical piece of Gallic -wit. A French writer commenting on the wanton destruction of the Cathedral -of Rheims declared it to be the greatest single calamity to art -that was conceivable, and then added that there could be another greater -calamity—to allow the Germans to restore it! It adds fuel to the flame -to know that the only great period of German literature—the period of -Heine himself—was when it was under the complete influence and inspiration -of France.</p> - -<p>In a true sense the whole civilized world is fighting for France, to decide -whether it is to lose all that France stands for, or whether the future -is to be dominated by the ugly bestial force, without conscience and -without heart, which Germany represents. The world knows that if it -is a case of alternatives, civilization can do without Germany, but would -be eternally poor without <i>la belle France.</i></p> - -<p class="right"> -HUGH BLACK. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig73.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c73"><i>The Japanese Mouse</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large">“<i>Can the Japanese mouse free the Russian bear<br /> -from the German netting?</i>”</p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“JAPAN must act on the broad principle that she is the guardian of -peace in the Far East, and I am sure that to fulfil her duty she will -utilize every resource at her disposal. Her part, instead of attempting -the impossible, will be to stand on safe and reasonable ground. -Through her control of the Southern Manchuria Railroad she is in a position -to cut off communication between Harbin and Vladivostok now afforded -by the trans-Siberian line. Harbin is the military, economic, and -political base of Russia in the Far East. That means that the Russian -possessions in East Siberia would be protected by Japan from German -domination or aggression. Let me say, however, that any suggestion -that Japan intends to seize these Russian possessions is monstrous. Japan -would offer protection and assistance, but that is all.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -—<i>Dr. T. Iyenaga, in the New York “Tribune.”</i> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig74.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</span></p> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c74"><i>“Ueber Alles” and Underneath</i></h2> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig75.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c75"><i>Expostulation and Reply</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“WE cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a -guarantee of anything that is to endure, unless explicitly supported -by such conclusive evidence of the will and purpose -of the German people themselves as the other peoples of the world would -be justified in accepting.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -—<i>From President Wilson’s Reply to the Pope, August</i> 27,<br /> -1917. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig76.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c76"><i>The Second Election</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="move large"><i>Bernstorff: “We have defeated Wilson!”</i><br /> - -<i>Wilson: “Wait a moment!”</i></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig77.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c77"><i>The Mad Shepherd</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c">THE GERMAN SUBSTITUTE FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM</p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE Kaiser’s our shepherd, we shall not rest.</p> - -<p>He maketh us to desecrate green pastures; he forceth us to kill -in still waters.</p> - -<p>He claimeth our soul, he leadeth us in the paths of frightfulness for his -name’s sake.</p> - -<p>Yea, though he plunge us into the valley of death, we must call him -not evil, for he is our master, his rod and his staff they drive us.</p> - -<p>Surely horror and evil shall follow us all the days of our life till we -flee from his rule forever.</p> - -<p class="right"> -ALICE HEGAN RICE. -</p> - -<p class="l"><i>March</i> 16, 1918.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig78.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_156">[Pg 156]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c78">“<i>Sink Without a Trace</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0"><span class="big1">T</span>O his dark minions undersea</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Flashed the Imperial decree:</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Sink Everything!</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Spare naught! Sink everything that floats:</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Merchantmen, liners, fishing boats;</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Sink ships on Mercy’s errand sped,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Dye Christ’s red cross a deeper red:</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Sink Everything!</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">Sink honor, faith, forbearance, ruth;</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Sink virtue, chivalry, and truth,</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Sink Everything!</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Sink everything that men hold dear,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">That devils hate, that cowards fear,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">All that lifts Man above the ape,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">That marks him cast in God’s own shape:</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Sink Everything!</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="rightmore"> -OLIVER HERFORD. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig79.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c79"><i>Changing the Guard</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">WITH the entrance of the United States into the Great War, -we Americans laid aside forever our spiritual isolation. We -accepted our share of responsibility for the assaulted civilization -of the world, and our share of danger at the hands of -its great assailant. A free people, we willingly chose the path of uttermost -pain, and we chose it for the sake of our nation’s honor, our nation’s -ultimate safety, and the salvation of our nation’s soul.</p> - -<p>When Germany denied us the waterways of the world, she struck hard -at our commerce, at our just rights, and at our decent pride. What were -the Hohenzollerns to us that we should have taken our orders from the -Kaiser, tied up our ships in harbor at his behest, and, cowering by our own -firesides, have waited for his permission to carry our flag across the sea? -Was it for this that our forefathers had bought our freedom with their -lives? Had we revolted when we were colonists, weak, poor, and without -resources, from the tyranny of Great Britain (a stupid but never a brutal -tyranny), only to bow the strength of our manhood before Germany’s -shameful threats? Had we preached the sacredness of human rights for -over a hundred years, only to acquiesce in Germany’s campaign of murder; -and, by consenting to her crimes, become a partner of her guilt? -We had suffered cruel injury at her hands. Were we also to lose our -souls through ignoble submission to wrong-doing?</p> - -<p>Our answer was given when President Wilson asked Congress to declare -a state of war. We had then, and we have now, no choice but to -fight for our liberty, or to lose it. Our ships had been sunk, our seamen -drowned. Treacherous officials had plotted to embroil us with friendly -nations. Treacherous hands had fired our factories and murdered our -citizens. The careless lie or the insolent taunt which were Germany’s alternate -answers to our remonstrances, and which she seemed to think -would keep us quiet until she had leisure to turn her arms upon us, are -silenced now. We are upholding the safety and decency of the world, -which has been as deeply degraded by vandalism as when Attila swept his -hordes across the ravaged face of Europe. Our young soldiers are changing -guard with the war-worn veterans of France and Great Britain. -Valiant and gay, they face the oppressor. “He that loveth his life -shall lose it”; and these men stand ready to lay down their lives for all -they hold sacred and dear. Faithful to their country, faithful to their -allies, faithful to the freedom in which they were reared, they strike their -blow in the great name of America, and for the peace of God.</p> - -<p class="right"> -AGNES REPPLIER. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig80.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c80"><i>The Penitent Artist</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large">“<i>I will never make drawings against the Yellow<br /> -Peril again!</i>”</p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE Kaiser has a good many things in his past to live down, but he -certainly never foresaw that some day his inept activities as an -artist would stand across his path. Raemaekers, who was not -likely to forget anything that Wilhelm had done in this particular line, -shows him on his knees to Japan (and incidentally to Mexico), as the infamous -Zimmermann note to the German minister at Mexico City revealed -him, full of remorse for those drawings he once made against the -Yellow Peril. And what is Japan’s reply? The expression which Raemaekers -has caught certainly agrees very well with the following statement -of Count Terauchi, Japanese Prime Minister: “Nothing is more -repugnant to our sense of honor and to the lasting welfare of this country -than to betray our friends and allies in time of trial and to become -a party to a combination directed against the United States, to whom we -are bound not only by the sentiments of true friendship but also by material -interests of vast and far-reaching importance.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig81.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c81"><i>Peace Angels of Doubtful Purity</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large"><i>William: “Go, my doves; your charms may<br /> -prove more fatal than my armies.”</i></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig82.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c82"><i>The Black Flag</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large"><i>Germany Sinks British Hospital Ships</i></p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE British Admiralty issued a statement on April 23 [1917], announcing -the sinking of the two hospital steamships <i>Donegal</i> and -<i>Lanfranc</i> without warning by submarines; nineteen British and -fifteen wounded German officers were drowned. In their statement the -British authorities denied the German charge that hospital ships were -employed to transport troops and military supplies.... Germany was notified -that, if her course was persisted in, reprisals would follow, yet the -British hospital ship <i>Asturias</i> was torpedoed without warning on the night -of March 20. The ship was steaming with all navigation lights burning -and the proper Red Cross signs brilliantly illuminated.... On the night -of March 30-31 the hospital ship <i>Gloucester Castle</i> met with a similar -fate. On this occasion the Berlin official wireless message again published -a notification that she was torpedoed by a U-boat, thus removing -any possible doubt in the matter.</p> - -<p class="right"> -—<i>The New York Times Current History.</i> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig83.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c83"><i>The Annexation of America</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large">“<i>I think, All Highest, we had better not insist<br /> -upon the annexation of America.</i>”</p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">IN the inscription “Ten Million Men Between 21 and 30” on the Statue -of Liberty, Raemaekers has as usual gone to the heart of things. Ten -million trained citizen soldiers!!! What an insurance of peace and -security against attack or insult. Universal Citizen Military Education -and Training.</p> - -<p>From the beginning the first article in our International Creed has been -the Monroe Doctrine—America for Americans. If the result of the -present war shall be to add two additional items to that creed, namely, -Universal Military Education and Training, and the United States, the -First Air Power in the world, it will be worth all that it costs, and this -great nation can go on in peace and security to work out the mighty destiny -awaiting it.</p> - -<p>Raemaekers’ placing “All Highest” and his aide upon the conning tower -of a submarine, suggests another most vital matter at this present time.</p> - -<p>The submarine has held the world’s spotlight for the last two years. -Its deadly efficiency is universally conceded. That deadly efficiency is the -direct result of Admiral von Tirpitz’s unyielding insistence on a centralized, -independent, untrammeled Department for the submarine.</p> - -<p><i>We must adopt the same methods if we expect to attain equally deadly -efficiency in the air.</i></p> - -<p>But the possibilities of the aeroplane are greater than those of the submarine. -The aeroplane is capable of offensive in the air against aeroplanes -or dirigibles, on the surface of the sea against ships, and under the -sea against submarines. The offensive capabilities of the submarine can -and soon will be restricted to under-surface activities.</p> - -<p>Again, the submarine is limited to the oceans. The aeroplane is limited -by nothing. It can go wherever there is air, and that means everywhere. -In other words, the aeroplane is the master of the submarine.</p> - -<p>If we today had a thousand swift, heavily armed seaplanes continuously -patrolling the water within a radius of three hundred miles of Sandy Hook -(from Portland, Maine, to Norfolk, Virginia), we should have our five -Atlantic sea gateways well guarded, and could feel secure against any -further serious damage from these pests.</p> - -<p>Thus equipped, submarine raids upon our coast would be an impossibility; -and even the imagination of a Raemaekers would not dare to conceive -of a hostile submarine within sight of the Statue of Liberty.</p> - -<p class="right"> -PEARY. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig84.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c84">“<i>Welcome, Mate; You’re Just<br /> -in Time!</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“I AM in the happy position of being, I think, the first British Minister -of the Crown who, speaking on behalf of the people of this -country, can salute the American Nation as comrades in arms. I -am glad; I am proud. I am glad not merely because of the stupendous -resources which this great nation will bring to the succor of the alliance, -but I rejoice as a democrat that the advent of the United States into this -war gives the final stamp and seal to the character of the conflict as a -struggle against military autocracy throughout the world.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -—<i>From the Speech of the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd-George at<br /> -the American Club in London, April</i> 12, 1917. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig85.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c85"><i>The Editor:</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large">“<i>Use always the American flag and commit as<br /> -much high treason as you like.</i>”</p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“WOE to the German-American, so-called, who, in this sacred war -for a cause as high as any for which ever people took up -arms, does not feel a solemn urge, does not show an eager -determination to be in the very fore-front of the struggle; does not prove -a patriotic jealousy, in thought, in action and in speech to rival and to -outdo his native-born fellow citizen in devotion and in willing sacrifice for -the country of his choice and adoption and sworn allegiance, and of their -common affection and pride. As Washington led Americans of British -blood to fight against Great Britain, as Lincoln called upon Americans of -the North to fight their very brothers of the South, so Americans of German -descent are now summoned to join in our country’s righteous struggle -against a people of their own blood, which, under the evil spell of a -dreadful obsession, and, Heaven knows! through no fault of ours, has -made itself the enemy of peace and right and freedom throughout the -world.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -—<i>From Otto H. Kahn’s “Right Above Race.”</i> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig86.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c86"><i>German Intrigues in Mexico</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">MANY things in the present war have aroused and enraged the people -of the United States against Germany. The defilement of -Belgium, the ravage of Serbia, the assassination of Armenia, -all crimes against human nature in which we Americans share. Besides -that, some revelations apply especially to us,—grievances, injuries -and outrages, things that seem so far removed from the secret -thoughts of decent and self-respecting nations that we hesitated to believe -them. We must believe them now for we know at last that Germany -has for not less than twenty years been working against the influence and -good name of the United States. It was not for nothing that one of our -best-known public men, when he visited Germany as far back as 1911, -said that it was a country where he felt that “every man, woman and -child looked upon him with hatred,” because he was conspicuous in this -country which had become rich and powerful and prosperous by the road -of democracy instead of by the German path of militarism.</p> - -<p>Every day reveals some new evidence that the German mole was working -in South America, in Central America, in almost every American -state and city, to prepare the minds of those who were to take part in -the infamous conspiracy. Before the war broke out in Europe, Germans -were trying to organize an active cohort within our boundary. -The effort to arouse Mexico against us while we were still neutral, is no -worse than other German diplomacy such as the “spurlos versenkt” radiograms -of the scoundrel Luxburg, directed against the Argentine; but the -appeal to Mexico to “reconquer” Texas and the Southwest was worse -than a crime, it was a blunder, especially resented by the people of that -part of the country. Nothing but an absolute breach with Germany has -made possible the revelation of the cynical violation of diplomatic privileges -by German and Austrian officials in this country from titled Ambassadors -down through consuls-general and consuls-particular and military -aides and secretaries and clerks and hangers-on and spies and jackals, -all uniting to stab the land which gave them hospitality. Whatever -else may happen, a hundred years will not efface from the minds of the -people of the United States the belief that “Germany cannot be a Gentleman.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -ALBERT BUSHNELL HART. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig87.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c87"><i>German “Militarist” Socialism</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">DOES not the cartoonist Raemaekers fail in this cartoon? The -artist Raemaekers is inspired—here as always. But does the -cartoonist succeed this time in burning the right idea, his idea, -into the reader’s brain?</p> - -<p>Here is the real Kaiser and here are real German workingmen. It is -they who are carrying the burden of Kaiserism. All this is convincing. -But do not other workingmen in other countries carry burdens?</p> - -<p>The failure is only at first glance. Raemaekers is not concerned to reproduce -the conventional cartoon of workingmen carrying a burden of -other classes on their shoulders. The point lies not in the burden, but in -the nature of the burden, the contrast, so perfectly portrayed, between the -character of the Kaiser and the characters of his proud and willing slaves. -The Kaiser, crafty and contemptuous, but neither so ignorant nor so stupid -as to be wholly unconscious of the foolish and contemptible position he occupies! -The workingmen evidently once strong, intelligent and enthusiastic, -though now blinded and crippled, are utterly unconscious of what -they are doing. Carrying the heavy burden of Kaiserism seems no more -to them than their day’s work.</p> - -<p>You see Raemaekers <i>knows</i> both Kaiser and workingmen, and so will -have nothing to do with the conventional portraits of either. The Kaiser -is neither a beast nor a fool—however foolish his position may be. The -workingmen are neither labor heroes ready to revolt, nor conscious and -beaten serfs.</p> - -<p>So much for the picture—at second glance. It leads to an endless chain -of reflections. But the first and most obvious is on the sort of burden -these men are carrying. Here is an accepted ruler who is allowed to -monopolize the <i>force</i> of the nation, as the cartoon clearly indicates. This -of itself gives him an absolute and unlimited power over his workers. -The only possible alternative use of that force is to make slaves of the -workers of other nations. The German workingmen, it is suggested, -lend themselves blindly to this work of enslavement also—naturally, for -it is no different for their Kaiser to rule by force and lies over non-Germans -than to rule by force and lies over Germans. The face of the -Kaiser shows a subconscious realization of these lies. The workers show -utter unconsciousness. The rule of autocracy over themselves and the -extension of that autocracy over others by means of their blood is to them -as much a part of nature as the motions of sun and moon or the rise and -fall of the tides!</p> - -<p>Indeed, the workingmen are clearly proud of their burden and his successes -and undoubtedly feel that any people is blest to be brought under -his benign rule. And here is the moral of the tale. It is the Kaiser’s -successes that have so utterly blinded his serfs. Then there is one remedy -and only one. We need hardly say what that remedy is.</p> - -<p class="right"> -WILLIAM ENGLISH WALLING. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_175">[Pg 175]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig88.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_176">[Pg 176]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c88"><i>The Old Hammer and the New</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large"><i>President Wilson elected for a second term.</i></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_177">[Pg 177]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig89.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_178">[Pg 178]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c89"><i>The Spirit of Washington</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large"><i>President Wilson’s answer to Hertling.</i></p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">“WOODROW WILSON is in no sense a herald. The revolution -of betrayed idealism has been in progress for more than a -century, and in the last decade particularly there has been -steady assault upon evil and outworn institutions. These passionate gropings -of the spirit in the direction of ideals professed and not practised -have merely lacked great leadership and authoritative expression. This -is what Woodrow Wilson gives. He comes as a leader, as a nucleating -force, as a clear, rallying cry to the almost mystic passions that are peculiarly -the dominant note of the day. He fits the need of the bloodless -revolution as skin fits the hand, bringing purpose and courage to the -struggle for nobler fulfilment of the hopes and aspirations that thrilled -those who first sought refuge in the New World from the oppressions -of the Old—the struggle for real democracy.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -—<i>From George Creel’s “Wilson and the Issues.”</i> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_179">[Pg 179]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig90.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_180">[Pg 180]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c90"><i>The Massacre of the Innocents</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="little">[The following lines are dated July, 1916. “As it stands,” writes Mr. Howells, “the -poem ignores the glorious retrieval of our former sufferance. It might better now be -called A Shame Lived Down.”—<span class="smcap">Ed.</span>]</p> - - -<p class="c"><span class="smcap">The American People</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">What was it kept you so long, brave German submersible?</div> -<div class="verse indent0">We have been very anxious lest matters had not gone well</div> -<div class="verse indent0">With you and the precious cargo of your country’s drugs and dyes.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">But here you are at last, and the sight is good for our eyes,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Glad to welcome you up and out of the caves of the sea,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">And ready for sale or barter, whatever your will may be.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="c"><span class="smcap">The Captain of the Submersible</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">Oh, do not be impatient, good friends of this neutral land,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">That we have been so tardy in reaching your eager strand.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">We were stopped by a curious chance just off the Irish coast,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Where the mightiest wreck ever was lay crowded with a host</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Of the dead that went down with her; and some prayed us to bring them here</div> -<div class="verse indent0">That they might be at home with their brothers and sisters dear.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">We Germans have tender hearts, and it grieved us sore to say</div> -<div class="verse indent0">We were not a passenger ship, and to most we must answer nay,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">But if from among their hundreds they could somehow a half-score choose</div> -<div class="verse indent0">We thought we could manage to bring them, and we would not refuse.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">They chose, and the women and children that are greeting you here are those</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Ghosts of the women and children that the rest of the hundred chose.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="c"><span class="smcap">The American People</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">What guff are you giving us, Captain? We are able to tell, we hope,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">A dozen ghosts, when we see them, apart from a periscope.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Come, come, get down to business! For time is money, you know.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">And you must make up in both to us for having been so slow.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Better tell this story of yours to the submarines, for we</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Know there was no such wreck, and none of your spookery.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="c"><span class="smcap">The Ghosts of the</span> <i>Lusitania</i> <span class="smcap">Women and Children</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">Oh, kind kin of our murderers, take us back when you sail away;</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Our own kin have forgotten us. O, Captain, do not stay!</div> -<div class="verse indent0">But hasten, Captain, hasten! The wreck that lies under the sea</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Shall be ever the home for us this land can never be.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="rightmore"> -WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS.</p> - -<p class="l"> -<i>July</i>, 1916. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_181">[Pg 181]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig91.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_182">[Pg 182]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c91"><i>In the Ring to Stay</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">IT is Ambassador Gerard’s opinion that when the German government -issued its final insult to the United States, all the Kaiser’s advisers -were convinced that no provocation would make the American people -fight. President Wilson, they argued, had just been re-elected on a -peace platform. They counted, it was evident, upon the influence of the -millions of German-Americans to frustrate hostilities, and Herr Zimmermann -of the Foreign Office openly threatened the revolt of 500,000 -German reservists in America if the United States dared “to do anything -against Germany.” The Western States were reported to be indifferent to -the technicalities of the submarine dispute. The East was described as interested -in the submarine sinkings only because they interfered with the -traffic in munitions and the profits therefrom. The whole country was -supposedly averse to war, unwilling to enter into European entanglements, -and devoted solely to peaceful industry and money-grubbing.</p> - -<p>Yet within a year afterwards, America had accepted conscription and -raised an armed force of two million men. It had contributed billions of -dollars to the war through government loans that were more popularly -subscribed than even the German or the English loans. Government control -had been accepted without question in every sort of private activity. -Food regulations, fuel regulations, the regulation of industry, shipping, -labor and transportation, voluntary censorship of the press, military censorship -of the cables and the telegraph and the mails, prohibition of distilling, -the enforcement of price-fixing, the curtailment of profits and the -levying of confiscatory taxes had all been submitted to without a murmur. -It had come to be a byword in Washington that “the people could not be -asked to do enough”; that the fund of patriotism was so great it was difficult -to find channels for it; that no war in the history of the nation had -ever been supported so unanimously.</p> - -<p>What explanation is there for the miracle of that change? Washington -believes that it is chiefly due to one man. It believes that President -Wilson, by his patient efforts to maintain peace, convinced the whole nation -of the impossibility of avoiding war before he gave voice to that conviction. -It realizes that, even then, a great mass of the people were loyal -but unenthusiastic, until he outlined the country’s war aims in his famous -messages, and at once lifted the conflict to a higher level of purpose and -gathered to his fervent support every sentiment and hope of democracy in -the land.</p> - -<p>Washington is now convinced that the war can have but one issue. -There is no question of the outcome. The leaders of the nation are aware -that the United States is “in the ring to stay.” As the Secretary of War -has said: “The American people were slow to rouse to this war. They -will be as slow to cool. They wished peace. They still wish it. But -they have learned that there is but one way to obtain peace, and they propose -to obtain it that way. They know what they are fighting for, and -they will fight till they achieve it.”</p> - -<p class="right"> -HARVEY O’HIGGINS. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig92.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_184">[Pg 184]</span></p> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_185">[Pg 185]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c92">“<i>We Attacked the ‘Fortress of<br /> -London’</i>”</h2> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig93.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_186">[Pg 186]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c93"><i>Not a Bad Start!</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">CAN a Republic fight a successful war? Can a people with a century -and a quarter of free thought, free speech and free press -change suddenly from words to deeds? Can custom and tradition -yield gracefully to necessity? Is the heart and brain of the -Republic so impressed with the magnitude and importance of this war as -to induce it to forget the things which are past and to press forward to -the things which are needful?</p> - -<p>The Imperial German Staff thought not. It imagined that a people, -whose daily sport was carping criticism of their public officials, whose -army was hardly as large as a policeman’s squad, whose sentiments were -all for peace and arbitration, whose ordnance was archaic and whose only -gas-bombs were perfervid oratory could never right-about-face and set -themselves to engage in the horrific warfare desolating the fields of Europe.</p> - -<p>The mistake in this German opinion sprang from a misconception of -what liberty really means and of the things for which freedom really -stands. Its assumption was that there could be no courage with kindliness -nor strength with flexibility. To the slow-going mind of the methodical -German his mistaken view is beginning to appear. His first jolt came -when the traditions of a century and a quarter with reference to military -service were, without riot, tumult or disorder, set aside and 10,000,000 -young men of America, without murmur, submitted themselves to conscription. -He was further prodded when he learned that, as each successive -liberty loan was presented to the people of America it was -promptly taken, and what is more important, taken by larger and larger -numbers of citizens.</p> - -<p>No wonder Uncle Sam and the world think it no bad start that we have -made. Like all reforms, it has been accompanied by lapses, by weaknesses, -by mistakes of judgment, but through it all there has run the golden thread -of a cohesive, coherent and indomitable American public opinion that this -country, having set itself to the task of assisting the Allies in forever freeing -the world from the menace of German military power, will never turn -back in the breaking of a single furrow until the blood-guiltiness of the -German race shall be put underneath the sod and the world shall be planted -with the asphodels of a permanent peace.</p> - -<p>Uncle Sam still smiles confidently, knowing full well that every day is -rectifying mistakes and that every day is adding to the bull-dog tenacity -of a people, who are willing to defend to the uttermost the principles for -which they stand against invasion from without and sedition from within.</p> - -<p class="c"> -THOS. R. MARSHALL,</p> - -<p class="rightmore"> -<i>Vice-President of the United States</i>. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig94.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_188">[Pg 188]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c94"><i>An Echo of the Luxberg Case</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p>The Junkers: “These Lansing disclosures are bad. We don’t know -how to counteract them because we don’t know how much more evidence -he has got.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig95.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c95"><i>German Chivalry to Wounded<br /> -Officers</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THEY do these things differently in France. While in France in -May and June, I saw many squads of German prisoners working -at the railroad stations, on the roads and in the factories. Of the -several thousands I saw, not one looked underfed, ill clothed or abused. -While their barracks did not have steam heat, electricity and all the comforts -of home, the board and lodging they received compared favorably -with that of the average French soldiers, and the franc a day thrown in -as wages could all go for extras if desired. I was told that they all preferred -to be prisoners in France rather than to return to the “freedom” of -Germany while the war lasts.</p> - -<p>Once I obtained permission to question a gang of Prussians working -in France on an American road under a British guard. This is what -they said to me: “We believe America intends to conquer France. Certainly -you will never leave this country after having spent so much money -on docks and wharves and warehouses and railroads.”</p> - -<p>Evidently the common German mind cannot conceive of a people going -to another’s territory and spending money there unless with some sinister, -ulterior, selfish, political motive behind it.</p> - -<p>As Irving Cobb says, we must extract the mania from Germania.</p> - -<p class="right"> -HAMILTON HOLT. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_191">[Pg 191]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig96.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_192">[Pg 192]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c96"><i>Socialism in Germany</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">IT is one of the tragedies of history that the great Social Democracy -of Germany, in which liberal thinkers of all lands reposed so much -faith, proved, when the testing time came, to be utterly devoid of intellectual -and moral integrity, a base betrayer of international Socialist -ideals and a subservient tool of Prussian autocracy.</p> - -<p>The great majority of the German Socialists, led by such men as -Scheidemann, Sudekum, David and Legien, upheld the Imperial German -Government and thus became the accomplices of the assassins of Potsdam. -These so-called “Socialists” even stooped so low as to attempt to bribe -the Socialists of other countries in the interests of the Kaiser and his -cowardly crew. In Italy and in Russia in particular, and in other countries -less effectively, they used their Socialist connections to assist the -military schemes of Germany, notwithstanding the fact that these were -designed to destroy every essential Socialist principle.</p> - -<p>Herr David, perhaps the ablest of the leaders of the Majority Socialists, -declared in the Reichstag that “The German armies must continue to -fight vigorously <i>whilst the German Socialists encourage and stimulate pacifism -among Germany’s enemies</i>.” The whole policy of the Majority Socialists -has been based upon that sinister principle.</p> - -<p>The small and uninfluential but heroic minority, led by Karl Liebknecht, -Rosa Luxemburg and George Ledebour alone have exemplified -the ideals of Socialism. They deserve our lasting honor as fully as the -others deserve our lasting contempt.</p> - -<p>Socialism is not dead in Germany: only the great political party of -Socialism is shattered. In the hearts of the brave men and women of -the Minority Socialists the sacred flame still burns. In that lies the only -hope for German Socialism.</p> - -<p>History will record this bitter judgment of the German Social Democracy: -It was an active partner in the crimes of the Hohenzollern -dynasty against civilization; it infamously betrayed the Russian Revolution -and prostituted itself to the most malefic despotism of a thousand -years.</p> - -<p class="right"> -JOHN SPARGO. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig97.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c97"><i>The Spirit of German Science</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">THE moral revulsion of the world against the Germans is justified -by their use of science.</p> - -<p>It is not a question of the excellence, amount, or character of -science—all subjects of legitimate debate—but of the use the Germans -make of science. While science has been used in war at all times -and has been a formidable arm in the hands of those who have known how -to use it, still the limits of its use have been fixed with more or less rigor. -Even before the conventions of The Hague were formulated, there was -the general recognition of the natural distinction between civilized and -barbarous warfare. The savage’s poisoned arrow has been the symbol -of what, though scientific, was barbarous. The murder of the wounded -soldier or of the disarmed prisoner has always been condemned as the -crime of the <i>apache</i>, not the method of the gentleman. Pity for the innocent—women, -children, even the animals—and merciful treatment of the -helpless—the drowning, the famished—seem to mark man, even in the profession -of intentional killing of his fellow-man, as moved by a certain sentiment, -a certain sense of human superiority to the brute which takes blood -simply from the love of it.</p> - -<p>Even against the legitimate foe there are certain means of offense so -base—the use of poison in wells, the diffusion of microbes of disease—or -so treacherous—the dynamite-loaded cigar—that the chivalrous man -redresses himself at the thought of them with a shudder of mingled moral -contempt and physical nausea.</p> - -<p>This has been the use made of science by the Germans. They have -abolished the distinction between the knight and the brute, between the -man and the snake, between pure science and foul practice. This damns -the German race.</p> - -<p>Our grandchildren will say to their grandchildren: “You murdered -people in open boats, you bombarded audiences kneeling in churches, you -torpedoed hospital ships in plain ocean, you sent young girls into immoral -slavery, you tortured prisoners, you poisoned the wells used by civilian -populations, you did a hundred treacherous things that our fathers and -mothers shuddered to recall. <i>You Germans did it.</i>”</p> - -<p>To future generations this will damn the German race. No theory of -the super-man, of the chosen state, of the alliance with God will ever gloss -it over.</p> - -<p>Their science may have honored the Germans, but the Germans have -dishonored science.</p> - -<p>German science has always had the credit of making happy application -and practical use of abstract laws and formulas, chemical, physical, biological. -In applying science in war, however, it has disallowed the moral -laws which underlie all sound science and healthy life. Here German -“applied science” will remain, let us hope, for all time unrivalled.</p> - -<p class="right"> -J. MARK BALDWIN. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig98.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c98"><i>Humanity and Her German<br /> -Lovers</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">IT is not possible to judge Louis Raemaekers as an artist. He is a -voice, a sword, a flame. His cartoons are the tears of women, the -battle-shout of indomitable defenders, the indignation of humanity, -the sob of civilization. They will go down into history. They are history. -To take them, to turn page after page, is to <i>know</i> the European -War, to see it face to face, as a child sees, and not through a glass -darkly.</p> - -<p>It is one of the great works of the world which he has done. Perhaps -genius was only dormant, waiting for the cry of general catastrophe to -bring it forth into vivid, terrific life. And yet—for who shall say that all -things in heaven and earth are understood?—it may be that those same -voices that called through the orchard of Domremy called to the cartoonist -in the office of the Amsterdam “Telegraaf,” that into his simple -soul, recommended to God by its love of flowers, there fell a tear from -on high.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<i>George Creel in “The Century Magazine,” June</i>, 1917. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig99.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c99"><i>The Strikers</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large"><i>Striker to Agitator: “You speak very well, but -when I see these fellows I’m ashamed I ever listened -to you.”</i></p> - - -<p class="drop-cap">RAEMAEKERS’ cartoons will prove an immortal comment on the -great world war. He makes the world see that war does not -create atrocities but that war itself is the supremest of all atrocities. -When the names of battles have been forgotten the name of Raemaekers -will be spoken with gratitude and reverence by coming generations.</p> - -<p class="right"> -CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig100.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c100"><i>1776-1917</i></h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">MEN, nations, and movements are symbolized by their moments of -crisis. The long, tedious, humdrum years of life never get into -picture, never fire human imagination; even though those years -are the necessary foundations upon which great events rise. So America -for nearly a century and a half has been symbolized—at least in European -eyes—by that great moment when she rose in the world and asserted her -independent status “among the nations of the earth.” The men of ’76 -have stood for American valor, American military skill, American statesmanship. -Now has come a time when “a decent respect for the nations of -mankind requires” that Americans shall again stand for their portrait in -history. This time we are standing among the civilized nations not for -independence, but for interdependence! Where once we stood for a nation -consecrated to freedom, now we stand for a community of nations -consecrated to justice. Perhaps when the new portraits are painted in -this great hour of crisis all the nations of the world will appear in history -with new faces. The soldier of the revolution of ’76; the red-capped liberty -girl of France, the conventional John Bull, the German war lord—all -will “suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.” And the old -portraits that glimpsed the old truth about the old world shall in the new -world have but an archaic interest!</p> - -<p class="right"> -WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig102.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c101">“<i>Now, Hindenburg, Bring on the<br /> -Rest of My People</i>”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="drop-cap">ALL of us who love the Old Germany we knew, who have dear -friends there, and who have rejoiced in the happiness honest industrialism -and widespread commerce were bringing to a great -people before this terrible slaughter began feel a deep pang of sorrow as -we look upon Raemaekers’ terrible picture of what the war has brought to -Germania.</p> - -<p>The dreadful pity of it is that Germania should have brought this upon -herself by appealing to the Sword when the Temple of Peace stood open -and all her present enemies were pleading that there should be no shedding -of blood.</p> - -<p class="right"> -DAVID JAYNE HILL. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig101.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c102"><i>The Master of the Hounds</i></h2> -</div> - -<p class="c large">“<i>Remember, Michaelis, every dog has his day!</i>”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig103.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="full x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="c103"><i>Processional</i></h2> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0"><span class="big4">N</span>OT for a flaunted flag, O God,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Not for affronted power,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Not for a scurrile hope of gain,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Not for the pride of an hour,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Not for vengeance, hot in the heart,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Now have we swung to war!</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Not for a weak mistrust lest peace</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Is a shame strong men abhor.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Not for glory—for oh, to kill</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Should be a sacred wrath:</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Not for these! but to war on war</div> -<div class="verse indent0">And sweep it from earth’s path!</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent0">Patient has been our creed, till now,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Patient, too, our hope,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Patient for long our loathful deed,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">For the just in doubt must grope.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">But with a foe at last arrayed</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Against the whole world’s right,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">You, O soul of the universe,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Your very self must fight.</div> -<div class="verse indent0">You yourself; so but one prayer</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Need we to lift—but one,</div> -<div class="verse indent0">That by our battle shall all war</div> -<div class="verse indent0">Be utterly undone.</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="rightmore"> -CALE YOUNG RICE. -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/fig104.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<div class="transnote"> - -<p class="c">Transcriber’s Notes:</p> - -<p>Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.<br /> -An exception is ‘Raemaekers’ for ‘Raemakers’ on page 174.</p> - -<p>Punctuation has been retained as published.</p> - -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICA IN THE WAR ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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