Show r. r r a aBy r rBy By Their Fruits T IN N THIS critical hour hour-a a few feW o of or orus us a are e given Ioven to a 2 charitable sympathy for the tle German people WL We i f have hae sot up tip lines linc of of distinction h t tho time Prussian PI t rulers and their subjects Unfortunately the tile distinctions i dons v vague go as they are arc have crept into diplomatic correspondence We Va cannot make fish o of the time one nn and fowl of th the other other both both foul and be he are aie fre aro are to measured measured meas incas by b tim tho same yardstick Gor Germany did id n not t precipitate the world war overnight over over- I night night sho sho did not her l people cople into trite the time conflict I against their will i The struggle came as n. n n result of a ai i n national lional philosophy which was inculcated in the tile people r I for age ages For years rears G Germany h has every effort to instill the doctrine of or mi might ht in the time mind o of her bel peo- peo I pie The last four years ears are aro in indicative of her success The German military machine was not h b hithe by bythe ithe the Prussian masters alone Time Tho program antedates ante ante- ate ate- dates the p present generation ton tva was wa abl ably supported b by a aj j people pleasingly led The Tho support given tIle the Prussian military mitry program in this war b by the time people was as not nol not tho the result of an nn act but the end of a a process For or the thelast last forty foty years ears German Germany has been preparing for this war and this docs does not mean the leaders lenders alone but the bus business nes interests and amid the time people as ns well weB The They are aro just discovering that their strength is no not equal to the task but hut that is not necessarily indicative of reform Failure does docs not not always reform and more often ofen than not it i only increases determination So i it is that the German people at t this hour may be deeply desirous of peace but the they have not chan changed e their spots Their thought Jia has been directed in tho the channels chant chan ehan nels of might too to long to be bo suddenly diverted to righteous lines hines The reform of the tho German people mus must come from n change of thought and nul this this is lis is not to b be accomplished in in n a da day It I took a lont long time to mould and direct German thought to nn undivided hided support of It Jt AVI trill wi intake take as long long to brin bring it back to the tile proper channels I v The reform mU must t be accomplished hed b by a process and th tIme the 7 of time the war will trill wil not brin bring this reform this thia change chang e in thought thought If tho war should end today the Gerwan would return to their tasks feeling that tho the ch world worle Im hind had done cone them a a great gent wrong wrong It I is in l lin line lne c with their and und ih thinking they cannot change their pow pow- I s of thought overnight The imagined wrong wrong- woul linger for years ealS and anul if left un undirected it j wrong would lead leac irto Ito a n greater genter c effort folt r 1 The German people lc must learn I to hate hale war as S th the jr world hates it i not merely because t they ey wei were tle defeated but ut b because cuso it is is' i contrary to I must make the German i But before wo we can do that we I nut o in iii righteousness and start their thought in il n new channels l must leave lea e some ome c reminder to spur spur the time future futuro generations of Germany to o hate halo hatour War tar because so it is war and not because it i opens the thea lie way a ato to national defeats I- I 5 |