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Show 1 If 1 77ie Home- Grown Kaisers that Flourish in Our Midstl I I By Winona Wilcox. I ! nrWe hat0 tbe kaiser for his cruelties. 1 i i: we hato him for the tortured babes 1 ( of Serbia and Armenia, for the lost i Sirls of conquered Belgium and north- ern France, for the murder of old men I - & ,aad women, for tho crippling and blind-I blind-I j b )ng of bravo young men, for tho Lusl- ,lania, for those who have died In No B 1 & Man's Land, for all of the atrocities he 1 Jj& let loose in the world with his war. U RS Nero, as a monster, was only an I i l& amateur, while the kaiser in the same i i hP Profession has but one rival and wom-j wom-j ; W: 'Cn never name him. I " j,' , Wo talk as If the kaiser had worn 3 lout cruelty, but we have only to look a jaround us to discover a large assort- m . ' anent he has left over for ordinary mor- jj h' tals to indulge In. ("Indulge" is the 1 I - iright verb, Jor cruelty Is a passion I which finds its gratiflcatlon in the 1 iHk paIn of others.) I ! Crueltv 13 tflo infliction of needless I i Buffering. Babies endure it every day I I K a" tne hands f impatient, careless and I I I lazy mothers. Grown-up children suf-l I J ft fer in silent pride when a father has I a "Quick temper," and wives, In the I m ms same sad silence, when husbands get I m Br drunk. Cruelty to animals is so much fl; Mr a human institution that societies ex- m K for its ProvonUon. a K Mark Twain made cruelty the theme K ,of "The Mysterious Stranger," pub- 1ft llshed posthumously. Twain, tho hu- m mm: 'morist, becomes a pessimist in its M mW pages ho doubts that tho human race M B will over improve much. M K The kaiser inherited his lust for -fl K war and his indifference to human . K misery from a line of ruthless ancos- TL H Mothers who slap little children, fa- thers who beat sons, hand on the slapping slap-ping and the beating habits to the next generation. Thus the domestic system sys-tem of inflicting physical pain as a punishment pun-ishment persists in the world, and it Is not a bit more to the credit of the human raco than is Prussian mllitar-' mllitar-' ism. It robs children of their right to grow up as painlessly as flowers come to blossoming, it turns youths into criminals, it changes sensitive girls into in-to moody and hysterical women Against tho kaiser's brand of cruelty, cruel-ty, all the young men of the allied nations na-tions have gone forth to war, but they havo left at home a big job of the i samo kind for non-combatants of both sexes. If human cruelty is to pass from the earth with the passing of war, preparing pre-paring "the larger heart and the kindlier kind-lier hand" will have to begin at once. "They that have power to hurt and will do none, they rightly do inherit heaven's graces." Moreover, they transmit trans-mit kindness, for the child imitates the conduct of its parents. And whoever hates the kaiser Is by that very hatred bound to make tenderness tender-ness replace cruelty as a human attribute, attri-bute, is bound to see that It begins, like charity, at home and with the baby in its cradle. |