| Show what german victory would mean A gerrain victory or an incon clui vive peace would mean the ultimate realization of the german idea that germany for the good of the dolid must rule the world this has been taught in her uever cities as philosophy and in her pulpits as religion the german nation unquestionably accepts it and intends fo force the rest of the world to accept it this they call kul tur which they claim is above morality reason and science kultar teaches that there is only one sort of right that of the stronger it argues with specious pro that in the relations of na 1 with one another there can be no such thing truth and honor frederick the great taught that the germans must make it their study to deceive others in order to get the better of them frederick william IV seventy ago said that all written constitutions were only scraps of paper and bethmann hollweck in 1914 referred to the hague convention in the same identical words the scrap of paper idea is an old one in german diplomacy the germans believe themselves to be natian of su and the kaier the war partney not of the god humanity but the guter alte gott of the pagan north the war godsho revels in the shrieks of women and the torture of children in bloodshed and cruelty 1 I am bis sword hia agent I 1 declares william let all the enemies of the german people benshi god demands their des who by mouth bids you do his hilll to accomplish this divine will the germans believe that any means are justifiable the mowing down crowds of helpless civilians with machine runs the cutting off of the breasts of women the battering in of the skulls of the wounded with rifle butts be aa terrible as atticas At huns ordered the kaiser it is better to let a hundred women be longing to the enemy die of hunger than to let a single german soldier suffer all prisoners are to be put to death ordered general stenger in belgium A bavarian private writes during the battle of Budon willer I 1 did away with four and seven young girls in five minutes the captain had told me to shoot thee french bows sows but I 1 preferred to run my bayonet through them this la the concrete result of what the germans call the religion of valor and the gospel of hate bays one of the spokesmen must kultar build its cathedrals on hills of corpses seas of tears and the death rattle of the vanquished yes it brust if germany wins the war the united states will either be paying tribute to the kaiser or german so diers will be american girls and women in jersey city rather than take the trouble to abbot them if germany win all our ideals of truth austice and humanity which we call christian mill be trodden down into bloody raire under the iron heel of the keisers kaisers Kai sers armies and the coming generation will be taught that there ie no god but the merciless god of battle who through germanas germanys Germ anys treich crauf tongue and by her bruntil sword Arthur Tram in commerce and finance |
