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Rev. Newell Dwight mills' Picture ol Ger? many's War Plans and Her Atrocities \ in Belgium and France. it (Published by the Sumter County Council of Defense.) (Dr. Newell Dwight lllllis, one of America's foremost ministers, pastor of Plymouth Church in llrooklyn, spent July ami August in a |h rsonal in ?i nilgai Ion of ?Im- Im tt leite Ids or Iraner und Height in from which the (icr mm?. hu<! been expelled, Iii ortler to learn fur himself IlM exact condi? tion* prevalllnK ?nd to timl out win I her all of che reports of (icrinan KLroclticH would Im* contirmctl by this personal study. shire his return Im* bus been delivering a mim Im >r of MMOM ami nd drvMMcs on ihr subject. s|faking nearly every Sunday in his < \vn church in regard to ibr world wur, and thus setting an example for all other A mer? ke? n ministers that they may lead their incinltcrs Into a clearer real! mi lion of tvluit cid- wur mean-i ugulnst civilization ami against Christianity as well us agn in-1 democracy. Dr. lllllis recently delivered this uddrcss In one of the lending churches of HallImorc. The croud was so great that the doors bad to tm Im kid ac 7 '<?, though ho was not to s|H*ak until after eight o'clock. We have heretofore publlshc^l some extracts from his speech, but thfrrc is such u general demand for the full address that wo art* publish big It In full. The Importance of this address is Indicated in the fact that John Skelton Williams. Comptroller of the Currency, who moored 7 ? nitkHi from the lllue Kidge MouiitaliiM to hear Dr. lllllis, in a letter to the Manufacturers' Recofd wrlit s: "I greatly ggtfOfOd Dr. Milb-' mugnliiccnt address in llaltlmorc Sun day night, end I do wish \cr> muclitluit arrangeinentM could be made to hove htm deliver this address hi Washington, Itlehmoiul und other cities in tlrir South. IN? you *tip|m?Hc that b s address has Im*oii published tu pamphlet form or olhcrw 1m*.' I should like \cr> niiieli to get hold of it. ' Tin* Manufacturer* licet nil recently urged Dr. lllllis lo make a lour through tin* south, ami this Im* now c\|m*rts to do ami he will dcliwr thJrf ?tbh. hs. as tcivt-ii hi ?uir editorial columns, at a number of leading cities. In uiiMwer to such letters as that of Mr. Williams we art* giving his ??Idrcss In full. If our reader- would understand ticriminCs a\owed do teriiihiiubui for hair n eentury to <<<ni|ucr the world, ami Its frightful iums to all coonlrhn overrun by Its armies, let them Html} carefully the tu* Im given by Dr. lllllis.?lull tor Manufucturers lb-con I. (By Newell Pwlght HUllw.) Ti'rrorlum 1? a principle ma necessary by military consideration.*.' ?<Jener* 1 von Haitmann. "?trlke him dead. The Day t.\ Judgment will ask you no questions." ?Inscription on the aluminum lok< n carried by the German soldier. ?very AmutIchu who haa pass? I through France ami the edge of Pe glum his year has- returne?l home a permanently saddened man. Fieri man cruelty and French agony havu cut a bloody gash In the heart, anil there la no Dakln volution that can heal the wound. Here upon this pul? pit rests a reproduction of an iron 'dven as a token to each <:er man soldier. At the top in u German portrait of Diety. ami underm iti? are tbecie word?: "The good ol<: ??? rman Gad.' To encourage the German soldier to cruelty and atrocity against fteltftan* and French the Dicty hold* a> weapon In his right band, und to dull hia conscience and ItSSl h?> heart to murder the token holds thes, word*: "Hinlte your enemy dead. The 'lay of Judgment wilt not ask you for reason*." To this native character lstio ? h?etho waH referring when he SBld: The Prussian is natural!.. eru.-i, civilisation will Intensify thii eTUclty and make him a sas age "" %%* thrill an artocitios of the lasi thi ? years simply Illustrate OostheI words, for we must confess that German efficiency reached Its highest pelnt in the discovery of new nvl horrible devices for torturing ol 1 men. helpless women and little <hil 4ren. For three years German-Americans Have protected that the stories' ??f GOf Ipin utroclties wore to be dfclboUeV ?41 as Kngllah inventions. Ihintan Ins and F'finh h>|MM risirs, but tint das toas gene by f?? ? ? v ? r When the r< p preaentativeM of the nations assemble for the Unat settlement. Uwft Will Is lai'l btfore the representatives of <lerm?ny athdavlts. photographs. ItfUh other legal i>roofs that make Mie German atrocities to i.r far bet W astabllshed than the sculping* of the Hloux Indians on the Western flpontle.s. the murders in tin l; l< ?le of Calcutta or th| crimes of tin Spanish Inquisition i n a battle line 100 m'le* in lenKth. in whatsoovei village the retreating ?'.ermann pass skI. th?? following morning accredited .jnen hurried to the scene to make |he record nennst tin- d.iv of Judg fcient. The ylmtogra i?ns ol m ol ml mutilated girls, children and old men tell no lies. Jurlsta rank high two forma of teetimonv -the testlmor y of what .nature men h. \<- seen ami heard irul the testimony of children too Innocent to ln\ent their stat? - ments. but ol?l enough to tell w it it ' they saw. For the first time In history th" German has redV)OSd savagery |Sj ? science, therefore, this gre.it WIM lot peace must go on until the UffKM .cancer Is cut clean nut of tin i.ody. The cold catalogue of lierman atm cities now doctimcntetl and in the government urchleven cf the different nations makes up the most sickening page in history. Days spent upon tin * records preserved in Houthern llel |* glum. Northern Kraute or in ami (?about Paris. da>s spent in the ruin?.I Hlluges of AtSSjOS and I oi ralne. le 11. one n ms. i?. I. nhvMb illv ,,rid m. nl J. Iv. It Is one long. Mack series of legalls il umeritfd atrocities. Rvor] sole???H ^etlg* Hi it I ennany signed .i year and a-half before il Mm llakut 1 Convention gl lo safeguarding the Ree! CrooOj heepltala, cathedrals, li? braries, women ami ehJMren end un nmod oltlMM oft eeoffed at ni n - i ip ol paper." Theoe ntrocltles also were committed not in a mood of dl iinkciiiicss n?>r an hour of anger, but gron ofgniilml by ? so-called Herman ctlUieney and perpetrated on a deliberate, cold, precise, scientifu policy of Herman frlghtfulnoss. It I:: not Mltnply that they looted factories, carried away machinery, robbed houses, bombed every farm house am! giunuiy, bit no plough nor reaper, clumped dOWH every pear tree and plum tree with every grapevine and poisoned ad wells! The C.crmuns slaughtered old men and matrons, mutilated captives in ways that can only be spoKen of by men in whis? pers; violated little girls unt.'i they wehe deait; finding'a e.TlfskIn* nailed upon a Parr door to be drieo. they nailed a bub ? beside it and wrote be Donth the word "JUrei"; they thrust women and children betWOOO them selves and soldiers- coining up to de? fend their native land; bombed and looted hospitals, Rod I'loss bui dings; Violated the while II ag whil i Urn worst atroeit es cannot iven be named in this mix* d andiene.? UM KfltaOf liriiiulcil His IVoplc as "lllllis.'* NO one u iderstands the Herman peopTW as well as the Kaiser. Our president, in a spirit of magnanimity, patience and good-will, distinguish? ed between the Kaiser and the I'rus sian government, and over against them put the Herman people. Hut Germany's Chambers of Commerce, Hamburg's I o ird of Trade and cer , lain popular assemblies would have none of this, and in the fury of their anger passed resolutions, saying: "What our government is we are Their acts are our acts. Their deed and military plans are our plans.' Knowing his people through and through, the Kaiser culled his sol tilon before him and grove thoan Ihlp charge: "Make yourselves more frightful than the Huns under Attila. See that for a thousand years no ene? my mentions the very name of (ier mn n >' without shuddering." Why do the Herman people sa\ they lei I so terribly booauot the authon of tin world ?all them* 'Huns" and "bar .mV* NN bo named them "Huns." I'heir Kaiser. NN'bo christehed them hurhuriuiis: Their Kaiser. Who likened the dot won soldier? to blooilhoumis held upon tin- leasp by the Kaiser's thong as they strained upon tin- le.isb with blood) IftW . longing <?? leojr their French ond Bel Lim i?i. w'nii blood) fingen ih? Kaiser mid: "I bapti/.e thee Hun' ggd *bg i luirian.' " Let the Kaiser' words stand "l'or u IhoUOand year, ro mm shall sp.-ak th? word 'Hun v< itboiit shu bb ring." All Wise im n H o e .b eds. wi< Red Of good, back to the philosophic think? ing ??f the doer, just as they trace bit? ter water back to a poisoned spring. What the individual or the nation Hunks in bis heart, that he does in life. Judas thinks in terms of avarice ? ml greed, and his philisopby results I In treason and murder. The Ka iser. \ietzs< he, Von Itethnian ?HotWOI I Von Hissing and I'lnuss think' and ? loach the theory of Iron force, th< right of big Cermany to loot little ' bctglfpM Ur North t'i nice and drill ' ihem in the belief that Oormnny'i i m hi ?s the right '?, ',"* U?n over Ihr ? iamb md that no queftrftons will be asked by ft just God on the Day of Judgment. This war began in a conference In the Potsdam Palace in ls'jj. The pamphlet distributed by the Kaiser begins with these words: "The Pan German Umpire: From Hamburg on the North Sea to the Persian Cult*. Our Immediate goal: 860,000,000 of people. <>ur ultimate goal: the Qermanl^utlon of ail the world." The i explanation of the Kaiser contains theso wands: "From childhood 1 have been under the Influence Of live men ?Alexander, Julius Caesar, TJieodor ic 11, Frederick the Great. Napoleon. Each of these men dreamed a dream of world empire?they failed. I am dreaming'a dream of the German World Empire?ami my mailed list shall succeed." He printed one map headed "The* Kornau Empire," with all the great States captured and their capitals?Athens. Pphcsus, Jeru? salem, Alexandria, Carthage?-reduc? ed to county-seat towns, paying trib? ute to Rome, Put tli ? Kaiser prints side l?y side with the map another world map, with Berlin the capital: ami by 1915 St. Petersburg. Paris and London were to be couaty-seat towns, subdued provinces of Germany? and Washington and Ottowa were to follow, with the word "Germania" stamped on the I'nited States and Canada. That is why the Kaiser told Mr. Gerard: "After this war i snail not stand any nonsense from the United States." The president heard, but he did not tremble. The originator of this world war was the Kaiser; Treitsehke was its historian' Mietsache Its philosophers Von Bussing and Vim liindenburg Its executives. The murder of Edith t'avell, hundreds of women and chil? dren on the Ijusitania, the rape of Belgium, the assassination of North? ern Prance, wore the outer exhibi? tion in deedf <?f tin- inner pMllosophy Of force. Their great master, whom they celebrate and never tire of prais? ing, Nietxaoite, Judges Germany aright. < Mi page ;:s, in till ECCO Homo, Nlstasche says: "Wherever Ger? many extends her sway slie ruins culture." OH page 124 of the same volume he says: "j feel it my duty to tell the Germani that every crime against culture lies on their con? science. ?? By "culture" Nletxsche means painting. sculpture, cathe-i dials, international laws, the Athen? ian sweetness, reasonableness and light. "Germany's goal should he a super-Hercules or Goliath, with the club. Germany has no gift for cul? ture Of lift! intellect. As hi that there is no otin r culture beside France." . j ^on^jder the reflet influence of Germany's philosophy of militarism upon her sftitesmen and diplomats, in one of his greatest sj.ein s Edmund Burke speaks of "the peculiar sanctity attaching^?<> the word of a foreign minister." ' From i'hoi ion to John Hay prftitf ministers have boon jeal? ous of their pledges, Lincoln speaks of the failure of a government to make goofl its word :.s "a crime against civilisation." Business men scoff at the trickster, who does- not count his written pledge more precious than life Itself. With the standards of civilized states In mind, recall the Intellectual moral atrocities of the Kaiser and Bethmann-Hollweg. In 1911 the German Foreign Office reaffirmed the Treaty with England and France to Observe the neutrality of Bolgttora in the event of war with France. On July 81, 191 1, the Kaiser's Prime Minister telegraphed Lord Grey that Germany would of course keep hoi treaty obligations as to Belgium. The French and English governments now have tun knowledge of the confer-] ence between the Austrian Emperor and the Kaiser at the 1'otsdftm Palace Ofl July r>. with the agreement to launch the war August 1. When the war proclamation was delayed until August ?'!, the Kaiser's representative uaed this sentence In bis spech in ihe Reichstag: "We must not post? pone the agreement entered Into with Austria at the conference of July >*." For more than three weeks, therefore, before war was declared Germany and Austria were preparing cannon, ?Uns, equipment, and as soon as the last buckle was on the harness and the last rifle in the hands of the ?'d dlers, on August ::, war was declared, 'Iben Bethmann-Hollweg sent out this statement to the world as to why the Kaiser and himself counted an international treaty ft "scrap of pa? per." He'said: "As to Belgium WO are now In ;i stale oi necessity, and ne? cessity knows no law. The wrong 1 speak openly that we are com? mitting we will endeavor to make good as soon as- our military goal lias pet n rei ched, Wo have now only one thought how to hack the wav through." So the International bur? glar's excuse is thai he must hack his way through th ? neighbor's house and kill his I'aiyily because that house stands between himself and the Frenchman's vault whose gold he wants tO slenl! That is wh\ our president, answer? ing Hie Pop*', said that no treaty ?tignod by ihe Kaiser and hi ? govern mcut means an) thing And h n li Qernslorff, German ambassador in I Washington, who forgets that canni | ball and savages, even, consider that I eating salt in another Indian's tent Of white man's house is a pledge ol truth; while this Judas Ambasador dines at the White House at night and goes on plotting seditions in Mex j ico, blowing up of our munition fac j lories and the killing of our people. ! Hornstorf!' smiled and smiled as he kept one hand above the table and the: other hand under the table whet? ted a. dagger on his boots with which lo stab his host in the back. Witness the discovery of treachery to Norway two months ago. Aftei several Norwegian steamers had been mysteriously sunk at sea the German Consul was found traveling back and fbrth from the Foreign odice in Ber? lin, tilling his trunk with bombs and glass tubes containing the cultures ol glanders to spread one of the most deadly diseases, to annihilate men, horses ami cattle, ami protecting thege instruments of death by th< seals of the Berlin Foreign Office. The substance of Germany's answer to Norway's protest was the sneer ling answer: "What are you going to Id? about it V" While Germany's Am? bassador to the Argentine Republic, advising the sinking of Argentine ships so as to leave no trace behind is, a part of the same donning, devil ish. Herman diplomacy that exhibits these Herman Ambassadors as a com? posite Judas, Maechiavelli and Me? phisto pholcs, united and carried up to the nth power of diabolism. No wonder the Kaiser baptized them "Huns" and barbarians!" Herman Philosophy Degrades Herman Ofltoori ami Soldiers. The Herman philosophy has dehu? manized Germany's officers and men. Later on I shall give a detailed ac? count of the devastated regions of Northern Franco, but here and now let us confine the observations to tin ruined villages and towns of Eastern France. Pulling his iron token out of his pocket , that exhibited Deity as a destroying soldier the German officer and private reads the words beneath: "Smite your enemy dead. The Hay of Judgment will not ask you for your reasons." Having there? fore, full liberty to ben, these Her? mans became the wild beasts. The plan had been "Brussels in one Week, Paris In two weeks, London In two months.*' and then two pockets filled with rings, bracelets and watches from Paris or Nancy for the sweet? hearts at home. , When the German army In Lor to .? .1 .... AlinOmWas . defeated , by onc-diuJf its lyjmlK'i;, it fell northward, passing torougll Freiieh towns and villages where there were no Frenchmen, no gums, and where no shots v. ere tired, puring July and August WeWjwent ?' it sloWly fr\nn one ruined town tp an other, talking with the wometi frmj the children, comparing the photographs and the full Official reCOrdl made at tin- time With the statements of the poor, wretched survivors; who lived in cellars where once there had been beautiful houses, orchards, vineyard ?but now was only desolation. in GerbevUlier,' standing beside their graves, j studied the photo? graph of the bodies of i."? old men wh?m the Germans Unfed up and shot because there were no young soldiers to kill; heard the detailed story of a woman Whose son was Ii ist hung to a pear tree In the. gar den, and when the officer and sol? dier had left him and vero busy set? ting lire to the next bouse, she etil the rope, revived the strangled yeutl only to find the soldiers had returned, and while the officer held her hnads bebimi her back, his assistant poured petrol on the son's head and clothes set tire to him and, while be stag? gered about, a Raming, torch, they shrieked with laughter. Win u the) had burned all the housea and re treated, the next moi i in . the pre? fect of Lorraine reached that Gothes mane and photographed the bodies of 30 aged men lying as they fell, the bodies of women stripped and al last slain. I in the m xt village stood the ruined square belfry Into which the Ger cmans hud lifted ma bine guns, then forced every woman and child 27Ti in number?Into the little church, and notified the French soldiers thai If they fired upon the machine guns, they would kill their own women and children. After several days1 hunger and thirst, at midnight these brave women slipped a little hoy through the church window and bade their husbands tire upon the Germans' in the belfry, saying they preferred death to the Indignities they were suffering. And to these Frenchmen turned their guns, and in blowing that machine gun out. ot the belfry killed 2U Of their own Wives and ebil [dren, it; a hundred years of history, where shall you find a record of any other race, who call themselves civil? ized, who are such sneaking cowards that the) could not light like men ol piny the game fairly,' but In their chattering terror put women and III lie children bet?re tin in as a shield. Proof overwhelming, Here nrt\ In MSrtef;' the ?Verord-.'? Of' moie lb in It thousand individual atrocities that k< with the (original photographs, uMi davits and dociiineiKS la sting- in the archievcs of France against the day of reckoning. What is more import? ant still, here are the letters taken from the bodies of dead German sol? diers with their diaries. Out of tin large number, note these: Photo? graphs- of the dead bodies of aged priests, some of whom were dead be cause they had been Staked down an I used as a lavatory until they per- j ished. Dead girls, with breasts CUt Off?and for this reason: every Ger? man soldier is examined for syphilis by the surgeon of the regiment, and only healthy ones receive the card giving access to the camp women. Ii the syphilitic German contami? nates the camp woman* bis disease li handed on to his brother soldier, and that means he will be shot. This syphilitic soldier, therefore, finds hit only chance with the captured French girls, but, having contaminated a girl, he fears that she in turn will contam? inate the next German soldier, and, therefore, he mutilates her body t<. warn away Germans. The girls' life weighs nothing against a German Boldiers' lust or the possibility of the brute's handing his contamination to the m xt soldier. Here is German efficiency for you ?and organized by the devil himself. Take these pages found in the dioriei of German soldiers August 222 note book of Private Max Thomas: "dm soldiers are SO excited we are like wild beasts. Today destroyed eight houses, with their Inmates* Bayonet ted two men with their Wives and a girl of is. Tim little one almost, un? nerved me BO Innocent was her ex? pression." Diary of Eitel Anders "In Vendre all the inhabitants, with? out exception, were brought out an 1 shot. This shooting was heartbreak? ing as they all knelt down and pray? ed, it is real sport, yet it was really terrible* to watch." "At Haecht i saw the dead body of a young- girl nailed to the outside door of a eotlage hy her hands She was about II Or 16 years Old." Page 21. Affidavits 11 -?: 7. In returning from Malines eight drunken soldiers were marching through the street. A little child Oi two years came out and a soldier skewered the child on his bayonet and carried it away, while his com? rades sang. 1). 10- I r?. Withdrawing from Hol'stade, in ad? dition to other atrocities, the German? cut oil both hands of a boy of 16. At the Inquest affidavits were take i from 2~) witnesses, who saw the boy befoca he died or just afterwards. Prt^iitT ?Ir-oi, Ji Haeeht. in addition to the young women w hom- they vio? lated and killed, affidavits were tak? en and the photographs of a child three years old nailed to a door by its hands and foot. Affidavits i>. 100*8, That all these atrocities ware care? fully planned in advance for terror? ising the people is proven by the fax that on the morning of August 28 the officers who had received great kind ness from .Madame Koomans. a no tary'S Wife, warned her to make her escape immediately, as the looting and killing of all the citizens, men. women ami children, was about to begin. These records could be multiplied by thousands. Upon the retreat from one city alone, Inquests were held upon the bodies of ov< r (00 victims, including- very aged men and women and babes tinhorn, removed py the bayonet from t iclr mothers^ it is the logical result of the charge o| the Kaiser to his army: "Dive no quarter and take no prisoners. Pet all who fall into your hatds be at your mercy." The general .staff of the German army published a manual several years bet?re they begun this war. They explicitly charged tluir soldiers to break the will 01 the ene? my by cruelty. Witness this page from the War Manual on page 52: "A war is conducted with energy merely against the combatant! ()f the enemy states and the positions they occupy, but it will and must in like manner seek to destroy the total In? tellectual and material resources of the latter." And witness this injunction to atrocity, page :!?"?: "Py steeping him? self in military history, an officer will be able to guard himself against ex? cessive humanitarianism. it will teach him that certain severities are indispensable to war. Humanitarian claims, such as the protection of men and their goods, can only h< taken into consideration in so. far as tin* nature and object of the war permit." Therefore, the War Gen? eral gave each German soldier his token, large as a silver dollar, bid? ding the soldier 'Strike him dead, The Day of Judgment will ask you no questions." Jesus said: "Take heed that ye offend not one of Mj little ones." The Kaiser says: "'l have done away with Jens' teach? ings" The Muster who loved the lit? tle children said: "I was an hungei ed and ye gave me no meat, i wu ttthirst ami yet g.i\e me no drink. Therefore, depart from me Into everlasting lire, prepared for the devil and his fellows." The war stafl an swers: "Don't lie afraid. Look at your token. The Kaiser will take < ;ue of you in the Day of Judgment.1 Kill old nu n and little children, loot merchants' houses, violate women; the Kaiser will see that the God of Justice asks- you no questions." The result was logical and inevitable. TheM horrible atrocities! On August 27 General von Lieber gave out this I proclamation: "The town of Waerro will be set on lire and destroyed Without distinction of persons. The Innocent will suffer with the guilty." After litis town was destroyed and all the inhabitants killed, from the body Of a soldier slain on the retreat wo lind this page in his diary: "We lived gorgeously; two or three bottles of Champagne at each meal; all the gtflij ,ve want. It is fine sport." Are we surprised that many of the letters and journals taken from- bodies of Germans quot* Gen. von Hartman'* sent< nee: "Terrorism is a principle made necessary by military consider ; ions." German-American objection * that towns were destroyed because the Inhabitants had Rred upon the in? vading army from the windows of t leir houssp Is conclusively met and answered by another letter, written by a German otlicer to his wife: "On approaching; a village a soldier is s ?nt on in advance to insert-a ? Bel? gian rille in the cellar Window or s able, and. of course, when this weapon is found we take it to the Burgomaster, and then, the sport be? gin^." ? ' - ' 1 On a little board In one ruined village 1 road these words: "Marie; ated 10; dead August M, 191a. Ven? geance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." The hundreds of atroci? ties personally investigated only serve to interpret Ambassador Morgen thau's statement as to Armenia? thai, the Turkish sollieis and Ger m.m officers maasacred in Armenia half a million people, that they might move into their farm houses and lit- ? tb shopg and stores. German Philosophy of Militarism lias Debauched Germany's liu ircrsltj Professor-. The glory of every great city and country is its ech .us, with their love of truth and their slainless lives. V have had our < ivilzation at the hands of men win love the truth supremely, pursued the truth eternally and cherished the truth above their fear of hell or hope of heaven. The wot d has its liberty, its science and its law at the hands Of th > heroes w ho preferred the truth above life. Conceit ng the patriots, th ? reformers and t ie statesmen, we can only say they were stoned, they .vc re sawn asunder. h<.y were cruci ? lie I in Jerusalem, poisoned in Ath? ens, tortured in Kpr.esus, exiled in PI irence, burned at the stake in oxford, assassinated in "Washington, crucified in Jerusalem. But the iron autocracy and militarism of Germany debauched her university men. Here in my hand is an address to the civil ! ixe I world, signed by ? ; German pro? fessors. They all receive their salaries from state endowments. Any hour the Kaiser or Bothnia m-Hollweg can cut off their income. When the In dig lajUon of the , IvUlaod world flamed out against Germany in the winter of lilS, the German govern? ment asked these prefessors to sign a d icuinent, und these men had been so degraded by Hie German phtt i phy of militarism ami autocraoy ths.1 they obeyed?losmg their souls to.save their salary. Ami consider what they signed: ], the previous August Bothmann-Holtweg issued, .a statement to the worl I, saying th^t as the violation of . Ilelgtom'o neu? trality, "the wrong?1 speak opehly ?that we are committing," etc. ?These 93 professors igned a sta4o meiK. saving: "It <is not true thfit I we wronged Belgium.** In the k las? er's address that he himself has ptr)i | lfshed, he says: "Give no ?luurter. take no prisoners. Lei all who fall into your hands be at your nieroy. .Mai: ? yourself fui terrible as the Huns." Now, this ad h ess was cir? culated in postal cards all over Ger? many. Reellsing the mistake, these profi ssors sign a statement, saying: "It is not true that our soldiers ever injured the life of a si gle Belgian,." Socrates or Dante, or even Galileo. Save larola, or Milton, or Victor Hu? go, or Lincoln, would have died a taOUfcUnd deaths bv fa;: OtO, or upon the rack, rather than have signed their names to such a tatement?to lies. The Kaiser ami Bethqsahn Hollwg must have i < on deopeeatc ami bewildened when tiny had to Ott? ?leav? r to counteract He r ow n docu? ments at tlie beglnnlni of the war by asking their professors to contra? dict these documents during the mid? dle ni the war. it makes every uni verslt professor almost ashapiod-??f I his calling. Think <u* llamaek .and j Kuck? n, w ith then? moral cowardice [ami their Intellectual impotasscy! 'Plainly that is what Nietzsche meant when be said (page 134 Hcce llomo): "Kverv crime against .ulturc .that 'has I e??n commit i< I f?? ? i?'0 years tests upon Germany.*1 I he I ienehniaM - l? \ ?I I ramv. j All men l?>VC their mo e land, but tbe i'icuchmar's l??vc has a unique