The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 24, 1917, Image 5
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