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Show H THE KAISER'S ANSWER. iH ' The devil quotes Holy Writ when it suits his purposes. So tnan emperor talks . hmonitarlitam and mter- national fraternity when such talks servo J German ends. The kaiser's reply to the pope's peace proposals diips with lofty sentiment. It declares that the .German gov- Sent is at one with the Holy See in the conviction that "in the future the material power of arms must be superseded by the moral power of right. W th tiul Satanic effrontery the kaiser expresses the belief that LLr the sick body of human society can be healed only by ioi ti- fyfng its moral strength of right." Therefore Germany M is willing to accept disarmament and compulsory arbi-H arbi-H tration in the settlement of international disputes. This talk comes from the head of a state nurtured on H "blood and in. V Prussia is a creation of the sword. So H is the present uerman empire. Prussian policy, since H Fredrick the La-eat, can be summed up in the maximum: H Might makes Right. The German mind has been poisoned H lor years past with teaching like that of Nietzsche, Treit- schke and Bernhardi, which holds that no considerations should be allowed to stand in the way of German world H power and that states cannot and must not be bound in H the attainment of their destiny by the moral and legal H restrictions which are imposed on individual action. The H cynicism of Frederick the Great has been glorified by H Germans as national virtue, and in the conduct of the H present war the rulers of Germany have shown a lack of B honor, a brutality and ruthlessness at which even the ap-H ap-H propriator of Silesia would have been horrified. H Tbo German government prepared for war over a long H stretch of years. Its inventors devised new and terrible H weapons of warfare, banned by existing military codes. H Its soldiers were schooled in methods of terrorism recall- H ing the savagry of the Dark Ages. When the time came H they applied those lessons by making war not only on the H armed forces of the enemy, but on civilians, non-combat- H ante, neutrals, women and children. They slew the help- H less, burned, pillaged, outraged, wrecked and even razed H the surface of the earth on a scale unparalleled since the H world become civilized. New York Tribune. . o |