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Show iHE GERMAN MILITARY CODE. The Emperor of Germany should revise his my regulations. A rule that orders a petty licer to kill a private if he fails to properly sate sa-te the officer, is not civilization. It means the sginning of a return to barbarism. Of the same nd is the other rule which compels an officer challenge another officer, if when in his cups, 3 utters insulting words to his brother officer. rhen a German officer killed a waiter in a res-urant res-urant not long ago because the waiter gave ie officer an impertinent reply, the Emperor ap-oved ap-oved the murder, for that was what it was, id by the act disgraced his office. That course irsued for a few years will bring more trouble 1 the Emperor than he dreams of now. The loyalty of the Germans to their Emperor very great, but when the thought finally fixes self on the German mind that their sovereign ires nothing for German lives, except as they e absolutely subject to him and to his great my machine, there will be sprung a i evolution-hich evolution-hich will be dangerous to him. Some traits the mperor of Germany and the President of the nited States have in common, but they are ab-ilutely ab-ilutely different in estimating the manhood of ten. On San Juan Hill Colonel Roosevelt came pon a soldier that had been wounded. The lood was streaming down his tace, but he was :ill pressing on. The Colonel shouted to him ) go to the rear, whereupon the soldier without topping shouted back, "You go to h 1," at which ie Colonel burst into loud laughter, and never Dr a moment felt insulted. The German array is a great army, but it rould be better to have the privates thinking mchines than to have them mere machines to bey orders. Visitors to Germany describe the filcers of the German army as overbearing and often insolent. Nothing will make a people impatient im-patient of a great standing army as quickly as such manifestations on the part of officers. This has, been growing ever since the FranccPrussian war and it will have to bo stopped sometime either through overwhelming defeat by some outside out-side power or through an uprising of the German people thems'elves. No nation has a keener sense of justice than the Germans, and when long enough imposed upon, no nation is more stubborn stub-born in demanding justice. The Emperor should revise the Military Code which he has compiled for the treatment of privates and citizens by his officers. |