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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: America in the War - -Author: Louis Raemaekers - -Release Date: July 21, 2021 [eBook #65889] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Charlene Taylor, Alan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was - produced from images generously made available by The - Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICA IN THE WAR *** - - - - - - AMERICA - IN THE WAR - - - - - AMERICA - IN THE WAR - - BY - LOUIS RAEMAEKERS - - - EACH CARTOON FACED WITH A PAGE - OF COMMENT BY A DISTINGUISHED - AMERICAN, THE TEXT FORMING AN - ANTHOLOGY OF PATRIOTIC OPINION - - - [Illustration] - - - NEW YORK - THE CENTURY CO. - 1918 - - - - - Copyright, 1918, by - THE CENTURY CO. - - _Published, October, 1918_ - - - - -_List of Cartoons_ - - - PAGE - - THE STARS AND STRIPES IN THE SERVICE - OF HUMANITY 2 - - “WHEN I WAS A CHILD, IT WAS YOU WHO - SAVED ME” _Hon. Myron T. Herrick_ 4 - - THE HUN: “KEEP NEUTRAL” _Robert Underwood Johnson_ 6 - - PEACE PLOTS REVEALED IN AMERICA AND - FRANCE _John Jay Chapman_ 8 - - BELGIUM, 1918 _Ralph Adams Cram_ 10 - - “WE WILL NOT WEAR CONVICTS’ STRIPES, - WEAR THEM YOURSELVES” _Poultney Bigelow_ 12 - - THE FINAL ARGUMENT _Charles Hanson Towne_ 14 - - THE END OF THE HINDENBURG LINE _Meredith Nicholson_ 16 - - “SOMETHING’S WRONG. SHE DOESN’T - SEEM TO INSPIRE CONFIDENCE” _Robert Grant_ 18 - - ANGELS OF THE WAR ZONE _Gertrude Atherton_ 20 - - AS THOU SOWEST, SO SHALT THOU REAP _Hon. A. S. Burleson_ 22 - - “DON’T STOP, OLD CHAP, KEEP IT UP!” _John Philip Sousa_ 24 - - “SO WE ARE ONLY A DOLLAR-MAKING - PEOPLE, ARE WE?” _John Kendrick Bangs_ 26 - - “NO, THANKS, I KNOW THESE PRINCES OF - YOURS TOO WELL” _Herbert Adams Gibbons_ 28 - - SPEEDING UP 30 - - TOWARD THE VALLEY OF DECISION _Rev. Stephen S. Wise, - Ph.D., LL.D._ 32 - - WAKE UP, AMERICA! _Mary E. Wilkins Freeman_ 34 - - “THERE ARE PLENTY OF LAMP-POSTS!” _Hudson Maxim_ 36 - - “WE DON’T SEEM TO INSPIRE ENOUGH - CONFIDENCE” _Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge_ 38 - - GERMAN SUBMARINES FIRE ON OPEN BOATS _Alice Brown_ 40 - - NOT THIS TIME! 42 - - THE PRESIDENT TO THE WORKERS 44 - - “WELL DONE, FELLOWS! KEEP THE HOME - FIRES BURNING!” _Hon. Lindley M. Garrison_ 46 - - A BIT OF THE HINDENBURG LINE _David Bispham_ 48 - - THE RATS IN OUR HOME TRENCHES _E. S. Martin_ 50 - - SEEING STARS _Booth Tarkington_ 52 - - THE TWO GIANTS _Hon. James W. Gerard_ 54 - - “WILL THEY LAST, FATHER?” _George W. Cable_ 56 - - “THE UGLY TALONS OF THE SINISTER - POWER” _John Burroughs_ 58 - - RESTITUTION AND REPARATION _Ellis Parker Butler_ 60 - - THE ONLY POSSIBLE POSITION FOR - TRAITORS _H. C. Chatfield-Taylor_ 62 - - “DO YOU MEAN TO MAKE A REAL WAR?” 64 - - JUSTICE! _Basil Lanneau - Gildersleeve_ 66 - - ANOTHER PEACE PROPOSAL _Henry Dwight Sedgwick_ 68 - - THE FINE AMERICAN SPIRIT _G. E. Woodberry_ 70 - - POISONING THE WELL OF PUBLIC OPINION 72 - - THE ENEMY WITHIN _William Roscoe Thayer_ 74 - - COUNT VON BERNSTORFF: “NOBLESSE - OBLIGE” _George Trumbull Ladd_ 76 - - PETER THE HERMIT _Ida M. Tarbell_ 78 - - THE GERM-MAN _Albert Bigelow Paine_ 80 - - “A TID-BIT FOR ‘THE SICK MAN’” _Hon. George W. Wickersham_ 82 - - PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES 84 - - HELPING HINDENBURG HOME 86 - - A BAD PROPHET 88 - - AT THE HOLLAND FRONTIER _Hon. William Jennings - Bryan_ 90 - - A REHEARSAL 92 - - THE PATH OF KULTUR _Edwin Markham_ 94 - - TO THE VICTOR! _Geraldine Farrar_ 96 - - THE EYES OF THE ARMY _Thomas Mott Osborne_ 98 - - “IS IT NOTHING TO YOU, ALL YE WHO - PASS BY?” _Rachel Crothers_ 100 - - THE RAINBOW DIVISION LEAVES FOR - FRANCE _Hon. Frederic Courtland - Penfield_ 102 - - RUSSIA REBORN _Edward Alsworth Ross_ 104 - - HIGHER THAN A SOUR APPLE TREE _Samuel Hopkins Adams_ 106 - - “WHAT A MEAN TRICK TO TURN ON THAT - STRONG LIGHT!” 108 - - CHRISTMAS, 1917 _Henry Mills Alden_ 110 - - HELPING UNCLE SAM TO GET UP SPEED 112 - - THE WIND OF DEMOCRACY 114 - - “THIS ONE FOR THE BABIES!” _Rev. Lyman Abbott_ 116 - - A SCENE ON THE SOMME 118 - - HOLLWEG AS ROBESPIERRE _J. G. Phelps Stokes_ 120 - - PRESIDENT WILSON’S DECLARATION _John Luther Long_ 122 - - “DON’T STAND IN OUR WAY TO VICTORY!” _George Haven Putnam_ 124 - - “GERMAN SOLDIERS CUT THE THROAT OF - AN AMERICAN SENTRY” _Cleveland Moffett_ 126 - - BANG! 128 - - “I MUST BREAK IN HERE BEFORE THAT - COMES DOWN” _Palmer Cox_ 130 - - BRING HER IN! _Charles Edward Russell_ 132 - - GERMANY’S “PEACE” WITH RUSSIA _Arthur Train_ 134 - - THE BETTER FIGHTER 136 - - THE DUNGEON OF AUTOCRACY _Hon. Maurice Francis - Egan_ 138 - - “HURRAH FOR PEACE, LADS!” _S. Stanwood Menken_ 140 - - ECCE HOMO! _Robert W. Chambers_ 142 - - “WE MUST SO DESTROY FRANCE THAT SHE - CAN NEVER RESIST US” _Rev. Hugh Black_ 144 - - THE JAPANESE MOUSE 146 - - “UEBER ALLES” AND UNDERNEATH 148 - - EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY 150 - - THE SECOND ELECTION 152 - - THE MAD SHEPHERD _Alice Hegan Rice_ 154 - - “SINK WITHOUT A TRACE” _Oliver Herford_ 156 - - CHANGING THE GUARD _Agnes Repplier_ 158 - - THE PENITENT ARTIST 160 - - PEACE ANGELS OF DOUBTFUL PURITY 162 - - THE BLACK FLAG 164 - - THE ANNEXATION OF AMERICA _Rear Admiral Robert E. - Peary_ 166 - - “WELCOME, MATE; YOU’RE JUST IN TIME!” 168 - - THE EDITOR 170 - - GERMAN INTRIGUES IN MEXICO _Albert Bushnell Hart_ 172 - - GERMAN “MILITARIST” SOCIALISM _William English Walling_ 174 - - THE OLD HAMMER AND THE NEW 176 - - THE SPIRIT OF WASHINGTON 178 - - THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS _William Dean Howells_ 180 - - IN THE RING TO STAY _Harvey O’Higgins_ 182 - - “WE ATTACKED THE ‘FORTRESS OF LONDON’” 184 - - NOT A BAD START! _Hon. Thomas R. Marshall_ 186 - - AN ECHO OF THE LUXBERG CASE 188 - - GERMAN CHIVALRY TO WOUNDED OFFICERS _Hamilton Holt_ 190 - - SOCIALISM IN GERMANY _John Spargo_ 192 - - THE SPIRIT OF GERMAN SCIENCE _J. Mark Baldwin_ 194 - - HUMANITY AND HER GERMAN LOVERS 196 - - THE STRIKERS _Carrie Chapman Catt_ 198 - - 1776-1917 _William Allen White_ 200 - - “NOW, HINDENBURG, BRING ON THE REST - OF MY PEOPLE” _Hon. David Jayne Hill_ 202 - - THE MASTER OF THE HOUNDS 204 - - PROCESSIONAL _Cale Young Rice_ 206 - - - - - AMERICA - IN THE WAR - - - - -_The Stars and Stripes in the Service of Humanity_ - - -“We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. -We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the -sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the -rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been as -secure as the faith and the freedom of the nation can make them.” - - _From President Wilson’s Message to Congress, April 2, 1917._ - -[Illustration] - - - -“_When I was a Child, It was You who Saved Me_” - - -Whether it is that an invigorating climate has given our Anglo-Saxon -blood a piquant Gallic flavor or because Europe sent us for ancestors -only those light-hearted and adventurous souls with a spirit akin to -that we admire in the French people, true it is that Americans have -always had an especial liking for France and the French. They were our -first allies as they are the latest. From Lafayette and Rochambeau -to Joffre and Viviani, a host of Frenchmen have won the affectionate -regard of Americans and are numbered with our national heroes. - -But our relation to the French has a deeper foundation than admiration -for a courageous and accomplished race which for centuries has -made generous contribution to the sum of the world’s knowledge and -achievement. The French were early settlers on this continent; LaSalle -and Champlain were the forerunners of a host of French explorers and -settlers whose descendants are today taking active and honorable part -in the life of community and nation. - -Before the war one of the foremost French statesmen said to me, with -a certain note of sadness, that in the course of two thousand years -of advancing civilization his countrymen had lost something of their -initiative: that he believed it would not now, for instance, be -possible to build up in France vast industrial organizations like those -which are so effectual in establishing the commercial prestige of the -United States. - -If that were true before the war, it can scarcely be credited now. -France has never failed to provide effective military organization for -the protection of western civilization against the repeated attacks of -her enemies from the east. She defeated the forces of Mohammedanism -and saved Christianity. Time and again through the Middle Ages she -beat back the invading Huns and kept them from overrunning Europe. The -victory at the Marne which definitely stopped their latest irruption is -only the latest and greatest of many such victories by which France has -laid mankind under lasting obligation. And the industrial organization -which supplies the armies of France with the products of farm and -factory, and even produces a surplus for her allies, including the -United States, is additional proof that the genius of the French race -is neither decadent nor limited, but as broad as all human activity and -as ardent today as when Joan of Arc inspired kings and peasants alike -with her mystic fervor. - -With their French allies Americans can work in most cordial -understanding and sympathy. That subtle spirit of unselfish dedication -to country which has won for the French the admiration of the world -consecrates the alliance of the peoples who are giving their sons -in common sacrifice to save liberty to the world. Out of the heat -and turmoil of war bonds are being forged between the Allied nations -which time and circumstance can never sever. On that alliance the hope -of civilization depends; from it may come, in God’s good time, some -great forward step in the march of progress which began at a manger in -Bethlehem. - - MYRON T. HERRICK. - - _Cleveland, Ohio, - March, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - -_The Hun: “Keep Neutral”_ - - -Every great event is an occasion for the moral education of the world. -Froude, in his essay “On the Science of History,” says that the value -of history is that it sounds across the centuries the eternal note -of right and wrong. Along with the unbelievable calamities that have -come in the train of the war that in August, 1914, was shamelessly, -dishonorably and with malice aforethought precipitated by the Kaiser -and his fellow highwaymen, there stands out one colossal good: it -has made the world increasingly ethical. The flaunting by the German -military party of all that we associate with fair play, chivalry, -democracy, humanity, even Christianity itself, has aroused the Allied -peoples to the fact that the foundation principles of happiness are at -stake. - - ’Tis for the holiness of life - The Spirit calls us to the Cross. - -The brutality of the Teutons--Austrians and Germans alike--their -willingness, in order to win, to throw away everything we think -admirable in conduct, created a reaction in America by arousing us -from our laissez-faire attitude to the conviction that there can be no -neutrality between right and wrong. The opportunity should not be lost -to enforce this lesson upon the young, who should be taught to hate the -devilish spirit by which the Teutons are obsessed. In due time, when -their defeat is accomplished, a reaction will set in among themselves. -The cost is appalling, but I believe that nations, like men, can - - “rise on stepping-stones - Of their dead selves to higher things.” - -Meantime, with what pride we realize that--as eventually even German -historians will admit--our own part in the war is on a higher plane of -disinterestedness than we have ever reached before, a level of altruism -that has rarely, if ever, been attained by any other nation! - - ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON. - -_February 22, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Peace Plots Revealed in America and France_ - - -Mr. Rathom, Editor of the “Providence Journal,” whose exposure of von -Bernstorff’s plots seemed to show a gift of necromancy, states that -his information came to him through men and women (often Bohemians -and Slavs) “who not only took grave risks in the work--for they were -braving German vengeance--but gave up their time and in many cases -their own funds, without a dollar of compensation from the ‘Journal’ -or anyone else, in order to give us the facts which would prove to the -American people the manner in which they were being tricked and fooled.” - -If this cartoon of Mr. Raemaekers shall serve to make the native -American take seriously a situation which is serious in the extreme, -it will not have been made in vain. Whenever an American hears -or overhears any one in any station of life uttering treasonous -language, he should report the matter and give the name of the culprit -immediately to the Secret Service,--not content himself with repeating -the words at the club as a good story. - - JOHN JAY CHAPMAN. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Belgium, 1918_ - - -You, who on the tree of shame show forth again the Sacrifice of -Calvary: you for whom scourge and thongs and the mockery of dull beasts -are the circumstance of martyrdom: you who freely offered yourself that -man might be saved, “yet so as by fire”:--Belgium! in the depth of your -agony and the long torment of a red martyrdom, remember that the Cross -of your own Passion endures only until the Resurrection that comes -after the third day. - -God, in mercy Incarnate, as Man suffered the shameful death of the -Cross that the world might be saved from the penalty of its sins. The -Tree of Scorn is raised up on Calvary, becoming the instrument of shame -and of death, yet “the leaves of that Tree shall be for the healing of -the Nations.” - -Nails and spear, scourge and thongs, crumble and fall away; the obscene -mockers “that watched Him there,” and watch you, O Belgium, go hence -to that place prepared for them by Eternal Justice, but with the sun -of Easter morning, behold a great wonder! The Cross, that was a dead -engine of death, is transformed by Divine miracle. It lives, it throws -out branches and leaves; it is now the Tree of Mercy, “and the leaves -of that Tree shall be for the healing of the Nations.” - - RALPH ADAMS CRAM. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_We will not Wear Convicts’ Stripes, Wear Them Yourselves_” - - [Mr. Raemaekers refers in this cartoon to the insulting proposal of - the German Government, just before the entrance of the United States - into the war, that American ships at the rate of one a week would be - permitted to pass the submarine “blockade” if they were painted in - stripes in a specified manner.] - - -When Attila laid Rheims in ashes, cut the throats of his hostages, -tortured his prisoners, and thus earned fame as the Scourge of God, -he found priests and professors to justify his acts and to predict -the speedy Hunnification of the world. Attila is to-day popular in -Prussia--mothers have their babes called Etzel and when William II -sends forth his armies he bids them be worthy of their illustrious -namesake. - -Attila was the first of the great Junkers. His army was largely German -and he held court in the centre of Thuringia. He is the hero of -Germanic song and legend; and his spirit animates the _Hymn of Hate_, -the murder of Edith Cavell, the sinking of the _Lusitania_ and above -all the hired criminals who have been operating in America in the -disguise of patriotic citizens. - - POULTNEY BIGELOW. - - _Malden-on-Hudson. - Washington’s Birthday, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Final Argument_ - - -In the now happily distant days of August, 1914, the people of the -United States found themselves facing an opaque wall of neutrality. -But we are an emotional people; and the rape of Belgium had hit us -emotionally. Though we were asked not to applaud the pictures of Allied -soldiers that flashed across the screen in every motion-picture theatre -of the country, we did clap our hands; and, what is more, we valiantly -hissed the Kaiser when he strutted before our view. Let the American -people ever rejoice that in those first tragic days they had eyes of -the heart. Oh, those months of shame for us who felt that the cause -of England and France and Belgium was the cause of the United States -of America! They have passed now, thank God; and the man of vision -who first brought home to us what Belgium’s sorrow meant, was Louis -Raemaekers. Each line he drew was a full platoon of soldiers advancing -toward Berlin. His vivid, ironic pencil was a gun thrust at Prussian -autocracy. His art opened the door in that opaque wall I have spoken -of; and it was a garden that we looked upon--though a garden filled -only with red flowers: the poppies of everlasting sleep; crimson blooms -that spoke of the blood so nobly shed in the name of national honor; -fiery blossoms that burst upon our gaze through the smoke of German -guns; dark passion-flowers that breathed pain, but never despair. The -sad garden of Belgium--this it was that one man of genius revealed to -us, in all its pity and sorrow. And America looked, and wept, and sent -messengers into that place of desolation. For never for an instant had -we been neutral, never had we really dreamed of standing by and letting -this agony go on. Had we done so, the years to be would have held only -grief for us. We could not have lifted up our heads in the world of -nations if we had not seized our splendid opportunity. - -Who has ever doubted the integrity of the American people? As one man -we rose when war was at last declared, and as one man we will fight, in -the name of Democracy, in the name of Humanity, until the Prussian yoke -is lifted from the Belgium we love and reverence. A task lies before us -of unbelievable magnitude. But we shall not falter, we shall not fail; -for if we fail, life itself must crumble in ashes on the hearthstone of -the world. With a triumphant Kaiser, existence would be unbearable. The -pacifists lay all the emphasis on mere living. They forget that most of -us do not wish to live on a Prussian-ruled earth. Surely it is not much -to die for a principle that is higher than the stars. - -Louis Raemaekers, you have opened a door on life. You have brought news -to thousands who had not heard and seen. And great is your reward. - - CHARLES HANSON TOWNE. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The End of the Hindenburg Line_ - - -The Hindenburg line is a menace to every courthouse in America. In -my recent journeys through the West I have never seen a courthouse -tower printed against the sky without relating it to the great world -conflict. We are fighting for all that is embodied and expressed and -safeguarded in these citadels of democracy. A little while ago I looked -with reverence at a log hut preserved at Decatur, Illinois, the first -courthouse of the county. In that little room Abraham Lincoln appeared -as attorney for pioneer citizens who understood perfectly the promise -of American democracy. The laws invoked to preserve their rights were a -crystallization of the thought and the hope of liberty-loving peoples, -and no settler in wilderness or prairie, no matter how humble, but felt -himself a partner in the benefits of American institutions and the -great tradition of English law. Every American courthouse is founded -upon Magna Charta. If we are indebted for anything in our democracy -to the Teutonic-Turkish combination I am unaware of it. Dull of wit -indeed, the Hohenzollern BEAST, to think his mailed fist could ever -splinter the door of one of these American courthouses! The price our -forefathers paid for their liberty was too great for any yielding to -a devil gone mad and attempting to bestride the world. During the -Civil War Lincoln once remarked to Seward, speaking of Weems’ “Life -of Washington” which he had read before the fireplace in his father’s -cabin in Spencer County, Indiana, “It occurred to me that it must have -been something pretty fine those men were fighting for.” It was; and it -is for that same fine thing that America has again drawn the sword. - - MEREDITH NICHOLSON. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_Something’s Wrong. She Doesn’t Seem to Inspire Confidence_” - - -It is Germany’s “Kultur,” her spiritual code, that is responsible for -America’s entrance into the war; her gruesome sacrifice to Moloch of -all which distinguishes humanity from the brute and the savage. It is -her philosophy which has made us her horrified but resolute foe. - -The fruits of her spirit stand forth alike in her speech and acts. -“Kultur is a spiritual organization of the world, which does not -exclude bloody savagery. It raises the daemoniac to sublimity. It is -above morality, reason, science,” so wrote a Teutonic expounder in the -first year of the war. “We have become a nation of wrath; we think -only of the war. We execute God Almighty’s will, and the edicts of -His justice we will fulfil, imbued with holy rage, in vengeance upon -the ungodly. God calls us to murderous battles, even if worlds should -thereby fall to ruins,” so wrote one of Germany’s poets. “Whoever -cannot prevail upon himself to approve from the bottom of his heart -the sinking of the _Lusitania_, whoever cannot conquer his sense of -the gigantic cruelty to unnumbered perfectly innocent victims--and -give himself up to honest delight at this victorious exploit of -German defensive power--him we judge to be no true German,” so wrote -one of her pastors. And for hideous, ruthless deeds which violate -every sanctity and deify falsehood we need but cite her slaughter of -children and the aged, her poisoning of wells, her shooting of nurses, -her sinking of hospital ships, her brutal deportations and all the -revolting sinuosities of her spy system. - -It is this catalogue of crimes committed in the name of moral -superiority that has incensed the American people. It is to combat -“Kultur” which Germany extols as the quintessence of civilization, this -gospel which constitutes military might the only inviolable law, that -we have pledged our precious sons, our abundant resources, our supreme, -indefatigable energies. If Prussian arrogance be not rebuked, Christian -civilization fails. Hence the growing and embattled sentiment that a -world in ruins yet free for man would be preferable to the sway of -Satanic Teuton efficiency. - - ROBERT GRANT. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Angels of the War Zone_ - - -I have sometimes wondered if it is really possible to hate a country -for which one has such unbounded contempt and disgust as one has for -Germany. It is quite possible to fear without hate; one would not -hate a rattlesnake or a shark, even at close quarters. On the other -hand it is conceivable that you might hate a fearsome but still noble -beast like the lion, if you were camping on the desert and he sat -persistently in front of your tent, alternately licking his chops and -shaking your soul with his loud anticipatory roars. - -Usually we do fear what we hate. But the Germans have overshot the -mark. They have been so dully and unchangeably brutal, that many of us -have come to feel for them the same mental condition of loathing we -should feel for an obscene, flat-headed giant running amok, while doing -our best to hit him in a vulnerable spot. Even if they reached these -shores and went automatically about disciplining the natives I feel -sure we should continue to despise them and to find them ridiculous. - -It is possible that if they had won the war in three months we should -feel differently. Then we might have hated them for devastating France, -but she it would have been who received our contempt. Her course in -history would have been run; she would have been as degenerate as the -Germans so fondly hoped. We might have hated Germany for subjugating so -vast and potential a country as Russia, but we should have respected -her might, the magnificence of her great army. We should have hated her -roundly, and the hate would have done us all good, for it would have -been a great emotion provoked by a great cause. - -But Germany as a fighting machine is a failure. She has been defeated -where she has been compelled to depend upon force of arms alone. Her -only striking successes have been won by hitting below the belt, -cowardly underhand methods, sneaking propaganda, millions expended upon -buying human tools, and furnishing them with other millions necessary -to work wholesale destruction, and sacrifice the helpless proletariat. - -In the Death House at Sing Sing the robust murderers have no -sympathy for the poisoner, refuse to admit him to that last tragic -companionship. So it is with Germany. She is the poisoner, the -Medici, among nations. From strangling her enemy with gas to bombing -unfortified towns, torpedoing passenger ships and firing on the life -boats, or sinking hospital ships, often carrying her own wounded -to ease and plenty, she has merely shown herself the super-snake, -supercharged with venom, not the lion, who proudly stands in the open -spaces and challenges his enemy to battle. The bewildered expression on -the faces of these German clods in the act of being rescued by British -women nurses, while a home torpedo burrows in the vitals of the ship, -is a fair portent of the minds of the German people after the war when -they learn that they have been fooled, and martyred, and crushed, -not by the enemy but by their own unregenerate rulers in Berlin. If -they annihilate that caste and set up a Republic they may win back -the respect of the world. Otherwise not. We sometimes forgive those -we hate, but only a miracle forces a man to respect where he has both -instinctively and thinkingly despised. - - GERTRUDE ATHERTON. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_As Thou Sowest, so Shalt Thou Reap_ - - -Creeping behind a mask--stooping, cringing and cowardly--the planter -of sedition sows his seed in the dark. The masks behind which he hides -are numerous and of great variety. No sooner is his identity disclosed -than he assumes another disguise. Behind “Freedom of Speech,” “Liberty -of the Press,” “Conscientious Objector,” and “Pacifism” he hides. He -makes his masks similitudes of virtue. Whispered rumors, distortion of -truth, appeals to fear, and appeals to prejudice are mixed with even -the grosser seeds he sows. When other disguises are torn away he may -fashion a mask of spurious patriotism. Most dangerous of all traitors -is he who keeps just within the law of trespass while scattering afar -his seed of sedition throughout the Land of Liberty. - - A. S. BURLESON, - _Postmaster-General of the United States_. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_Don’t Stop, Old Chap, Keep It Up!_” - - -“Cheer up, Willie, the worst is yet to come. Don’t view me with alarm -and suspicion. Don’t avert your eyes from my smile. It may be sardonic, -but I cannot control my facial expression. I must look as I think. I am -not like you, Wilhelm, looking God and thinking devil. Oh, but you are -a cute one, friend of mine! I love you for a thousand things you have -done, but don’t fool yourself, friend of my heart,--I beg pardon, I -forgot, I have no heart. In that and some other aspects, Willie, we are -as alike as two peas in a pod. Willie, we are so close in our method -of working that I am going to give you permission to call me ‘_Du_’ -hereafter. - -“How in the world could or can you, for all these years, make the -German people believe that the firm name of their Empire is ‘Me and -God.’ You and I know that God withdrew His Name, His Goodness, His -Honor and His Capital from the firm when you signed up as Emperor. -God is a one-price God. God never adulterates His goods; God never -advertises one quality and sells another. Since you have been Kaiser, -Wilhelm, a multitude of firm names could be exhibited on the sign -board; none of them, I imagine would rate high with Bradstreet, but -they would be truthful. ‘Me and Ambition,’ ‘Me and Power,’ ‘Me and -Ruin’ are a few I would suggest. Of course, your people would have -shunned you just as a mother shuns a house with a Board of Health -sign on it, had you given the real name of the firm. You are the most -worried looking potentate I have ever met, Wilhelm. Yes, Wilhelm, -there will be Hell to pay when your people awake to the fact that you -have no partnership with God, but are simply a vassal of mine. I’d be -scared out of my wits if I were in your place. While you are thinking -of the horrible mess you have made of your manifold opportunities be -good enough to note a deadly parallel. Once I was a prince, a prince -in a vast and beautiful Empire where all was tranquillity, peace, -holiness and bliss. I was called Lucifer, Son of the Morning--I had an -all-absorbing ambition to rule or ruin. I revolted and seduced some -restless spirits to ally themselves with me, fellows like your von -Tirpitz. I rebelled against the King and Kingdom of Heaven. The King -of Heaven still reigns and the Kingdom of Heaven still retains all -its tranquillity and beauty. After the row was over I found myself -in Chaos. From there I was rushed to Pandemonium, and it is needless -to tell you that I am now in Hell--and it lives up to its name. Note -the deadly parallel, Wilhelm, and while you are getting it into your -noddle, I will whistle the music of our national Hymn of Hate so you -can memorize it. Try it on your piano. The words are-- - -“‘Strafe Hope. Strafe Manhood. Strafe Womanhood. Strafe Everything - - But - ME.’” - - JOHN PHILIP SOUSA. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_So We Are Only a Dollar-making People, are We?_” - - -It has for many years been a favorite gibe of thousands of foreigners, -living for the most part upon inherited wealth, and taking the -customary snobbish attitude of the consumer toward the producer, that -Americans are “only a dollar-making people,” as Mr. Raemaekers has it -in his forceful cartoon. Barring the word “only” perhaps the indictment -is true--I hope it is. One of the fondest of my many fond wishes for my -fellow-Americans is that they may all become successful dollar-makers, -since he who makes his own dollars is able always to maintain his -independence, to look his creditors large and small squarely in the -eye, and live by grace of his own powers, and not by favor of potentate -or patron. - -There is nothing disgraceful about a dollar, and it may be said on its -behalf that it differs from the Sovereign Incarnate of the Germans in -that it is redeemable always at par, being worth the full one-hundred -cents that it calls for; in that it rings true; in that whether it be -of gold, of silver, or of paper, that which it promises it fulfills, -and has never yet been known to dishonor itself. It may occasionally -be seen in bad company, but it never falls below the level of its evil -associations, and is genuine to the core. Loose thinkers sometimes -speak of the “tainted dollar,” but there is no such thing. If any taint -lingers near it is not in the dollar itself, but in the holder. So -excellent, indeed, and so immune to the effects of evil association is -the character of the dollar, intrinsically, that any one of Uncle Sam’s -many billions could pass from the pocket of a Burglar into that of a -Bishop, and be worthy of its latter estate. - -I have yet to meet an American who confounds this true and honest -servant of his well-being with his God, but, alas, I have met countless -Germans who call it our American King, and themselves bow ignobly down -to a Lord and Master whose assumption of a divine relationship has made -of his life a prolonged blasphemy; a King whose deeds of savagery are a -complete negation of his hypocritical pretensions to the possession of -lofty ideals; whose ring is the ring of a brazen counterfeit, and whose -word has been so dishonored by himself that it has become the synonym -for worthlessness throughout the world. - -If Kings or Masters of any sort must be endured who would not rather -abase himself before the American Dollar, true and honest to the core, -than debase himself by bending the knee to a Kaiser who by his infamies -has made an Attila appear to be an Angel of Peace, a Bill Sykes a -Gentleman, and the word of an Ananias a Bond of Faith? - - JOHN KENDRICK BANGS. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_No, Thanks, I Know These Princes of Yours Too Well._” - - -On November 5, 1916, Poland was “restored” by Germany and -Austria-Hungary to her old place as an independent member of the -family of nations. High hopes were aroused in the hearts of the -Poles. They had suffered for over a hundred years, and in this war of -liberation, which was to form the Society of Nations, the Austro-German -proclamation was the first recognition of their aspirations. The -Entente Powers had committed the serious blunder of refusing to -encourage the Poles for fear of offending Czarist Russia. But very soon -the Poles realized that the Central Empires were playing them false. -The “independence” was for to-morrow and not for to-day, and even for -to-morrow it was contingent upon “being good.” - -At the beginning of 1917, which was the year of national rebirth, -hatred of Russia and resentment against the policy of expediency of -France and Great Britain, as well as the necessity to accept the -_de facto_ Austro-German occupation, influenced most of the Poles -to trust--in defiance of history and experience,--the good faith of -Germany and Austria-Hungary. At the beginning of 1918, they had learned -the lesson Raemaekers’ pencil eloquently depicts--not to put their -trust in German princes. At Brest-Litovsk, “independent” Poland was -refused a place in the peace negotiations. Answering President Wilson -and Premier Lloyd George, Chancellor von Hertling impudently asserted -that the future status of Poland concerned only her conquerors. - -The cartoon, drawn to illustrate the scepticism of the Poles, should -drive home a truth to the Americans. We must realize that camouflage -is not confined to military operations. Its use to deceive armies is -not so dangerous as its use to deceive the nations behind armies. From -bitter experience the Poles are learning that behind the prince put -forward as ruler is hidden German militarism and German imperialism. - -This form of political camouflage is as dangerous for the United States -as for Poland. Peace proposals may come to us--they will come to us--in -plausible and appealing form. They will have the appearance of fairness -and justice. What is behind them? What inspires them? - -Our mission in this war is sanctified by its goal. To attain that goal -we have consented to make sacrifices unprecedented in the history -of our nation. From a purely military standpoint, no camouflage can -possibly obscure the path to the goal, and the method of reaching the -goal. The German armies, as yet unconquered, stand in front of us, -defending the loot of German imperialism, won by German militarism. We -must dispossess these armies of their loot, and punish them for having -looted. But--alas!--diplomacy is at work in 1918 to attempt to save by -wile what cannot indefinitely continue to be held by force. Every means -of diplomatic camouflage will be used by our enemies. Our inspiration, -our determination to pursue the struggle to the bitter end, will be -kept alive only if we see, through various forms of camouflage, the -spiked helmet hidden behind them. To make peace with Germany _wearing -the spiked helmet_ would mean to consecrate the success of her -imperialistic policy. - - HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Speeding Up_ - - -_Uncle Sam: “I think I had better speed up and build a ship or two!”_ - - April 8. Keel laid. - 4th day. Double bottom completed. - 6th ” Frames and bulkheads erected and portion of shell plating - finished. - 7th ” Stern-frame in place. - 14th ” Boilers put on board. - 21st ” Stern-post bored and stern-tube put in place. - 22d ” Masts stepped and engine installation begun. - 24th ” Funnel put in place. - 26th ” Machinery all in and engines completely installed. - Finishing touches. - May 5 (27th day). Launched. - -_The building of the “Tuckahoe,” April-May, 1918, at Camden._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Toward the Valley of Decision_ - - -They shall go down to the Valley of Decision, multitudes of young -Americans from East and West, from North and South, some slow to have -gone into the war but none ever to go out until a Decision shall have -been reached. - -Into the Valley of Decision,--for a Decision final and irrepealable -we are battling. Not a Decision as to the victor in the war, but -a Decision that shall give us victory over war, its defenders and -glorifiers! For the German Empire which wars made this war shall unmake. - -We go down to the Valley of Death for a Decision whether the world -shall be ruled by Germany or by civilization, be subject to Prussianism -or master of its own fate and freedom. - -And America knows the cost, which it refuses to count,--knows its sons -must be slain if liberty and justice are to live. - -To the God of Justice, America lifts its heart in prayer, beseeching -not security for its beloved sons but vowing that the sun shall perish -out of the heavens ere we and our Allies surrender our liberty, the -freedom of the least of men, to the barbarism of force and the forces -of barbarism. - -Out of the Valley of the Shadow of Death shall emerge the -Decision,--Never again. The war against war has brought freedom to -nations, and secured peace to them that seek public right as the law of -mankind. - - STEPHEN S. WISE, PH.D., LL.D., _Rabbi of the Free - Synagogue, New York._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Wake Up, America!_ - -This was done to Canadians by the Huns - - - America wakes! The White Christ has called her; - She has seen the devils abroad in His world; - Evil vaunting himself has appalled her; - To the War-wind of Heaven her flag is unfurled! - - America wakes--with his murder and lust - Let the Hun take the path he has carved into hell. - No longer blaspheming the Cross with his trust. - America wakes, the sick world shall be well. - - America wakes--God’s last peace-lover, - God’s fighter to death, when her peace is assailed. - Shout, sing, fling out the flags, War is over; - When America battles, right has prevailed! - - MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_There are Plenty of Lamp-posts!_ - - -There are creatures that to be hated need but to be seen. - -The sight of the serpent awakens all the dead, old body-memories of -ancient ages, when that reptile was man’s ever-present, mortal enemy. - -The domestic horse, made unafraid by a thousand generations, when he -smells his ancient enemy, the bear, will rear and plunge to break and -run for his life. - -The face features a man’s character, his eyes window his soul. There -are faces that instantly beckon all our better nature and bind us in -loving thrall. There are other faces that repel us as the snake repels. -There are human tongues voiced with the serpent’s hiss. There are -persons about whom hangs an odor of the reptile that wakens all the -dead old memories of primal hate. - -The poet is born the poet. Genius is an inheritance. Human character -is a summation of ancestral traits. So the traitor-spy is an atavic -embodiment of all that is reptilian in a line of ancestry back to the -serpent of Eden. - -Though after-acquaintance may camouflage him to our eyes, still the -first sight, the first impression of the traitor-character has in it -the temper of aversion. One who has in him the heart and taste for -atrocious conduct, one who has in him the grass-lurking viper’s soul, -wears a warning in his face for the safety of others. - -The true caricaturist--and Raemaekers is one--sees and accentuates what -God has placed in the face of the scoundrel, the traitor, the spy, for -our protection. - -Great occasions are great opportunities for great genius. War exacts -the supreme from all men and all women. Only the superlative poet can -give the inevitable expression to master deeds on the stage of war, -and only the supreme artist can picture them with the due and true -inevitable expression, which is more aptly and more truly given in -caricature than in any other form, because in caricature that and only -that which is supremely characteristic is portrayed. Of all the artists -of this world war, none has, better than Raemaekers, given in clean and -lucid unit view, the true character of what he has pictured. - - HUDSON MAXIM. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_We Don’t Seem to Inspire Enough Confidence_” - - -The one memorable contribution to art produced by the great war is to -be found in the cartoons of Louis Raemaekers. It is not necessary here -to analyze the qualities of his fine and powerful drawings as art. -They must be apparent to everyone who looks at them with considerate -eyes. But Raemaekers’ cartoons also have a high literary and historic -quality. I do not mean by this that they tell or suggest stories, which -are used generally as an attraction for very commonplace pictures, -but that they have that quality of enduring literature which awakens -the deepest feelings and points to the loftiest ideals which are as -enduring as the history of the race in its striving to reach the -heights of achievement. Hogarth was one of the few men in the history -of art who possessed these qualities, but great as Hogarth was, -Raemaekers has always been upon a higher level. Raemaekers has the -poetic imagination and we can feel in his work the - - “prophetic soul - Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.” - -In his cartoons we find the appeal to all that is best in human nature, -to the finest impulses of man, to his deepest passions and his noblest -emotions. - -All Raemaekers’ work is marvellously effective, but I take one single -example, not perhaps the most important--his treatment of the rulers -of Germany and Austria--in order to show his genius. By the power of -his cartoons Raemaekers has fixed in the public mind a truer and deeper -conception of the two emperors and the German crown prince than endless -pages of print could possibly produce. The brutality, the over-weening -arrogance, the hideous religious cant of the Emperor of Germany, -with the touch of lunacy upon him, will live forever in Raemaekers’ -portraits. The feeble senility of the late Emperor of Austria--joined -as he frequently is with the Sultan and the King of Bulgaria, kindred -spirits--a senility marked by the drivelling insensibility of extreme -old age--those unlovely attributes are all there. As for the Crown -Prince, he is known through these cartoons to millions who have never -seen him and never will see him and will have only this image of him -graven in their minds. As depicted by Raemaekers, he has a figure and -face of low dissipation in which degeneracy and ferocity contend for -mastery. And yet all these figures harmonize with the rest of the -cartoons in teaching the one overpowering lesson as to the meaning of -German victory. The barbarism, the belief in might as against right, -the faith in brute force, the absence of human feeling,--these cry out -to us through the pencil of the great artist that a world in which -Germany should be dominant would be a world of slaves in which no free -man could wish to live. - - HENRY CABOT LODGE. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_German Submarines Fire on Open Boats_ - - - Lord God made the earth and its wonders, - The sea and the land. - The rain of delight and the thunders - Fall alike from His hand, - To gladden His children,--and warn them - Who will not understand. - - And the Lord God cried in His anger: - “Who has poisoned My sea? - Who has made it a desert of danger - For My ships sailing free? - I am God! and ye who have done it - Shall account unto Me. - - “I have planted the wasteland of water - For My folk to find food; - And ye sow it with whirlwind and slaughter, - Ye Devil’s dark brood. - So now shall ye reap in full measure - The harvest of blood.” - - ALICE BROWN - - _Hill, N. H. - July 18, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Not This Time!_ - -RAEMAEKERS THE PROPHET - - -“For twenty years I have clearly foreseen Germany’s present attack on -the world. For twenty years I have been drawing and publishing the -same type of cartoons which have attracted so much notice since the -war. Seven years before the war I was already being called ‘_ein feind -Deutschland_’ by the German press. I cannot possibly express to you the -unhappiness which I felt at being absolutely certain of the impending -doom, and at the same time being incapable of making people foresee and -believe it. My friends used to call me ‘the man who can see ghosts even -in sunshine.’ Yet it was I, not they, who really knew the beasts as all -the world knows them today; I was born in the little town of Lemberg -near Roermond, at a distance of only a few miles from the German -frontier, and have known the beasts all my life, not only in my own -country, but also in theirs, which I have visited many times. I might -almost say that I have visited it every year of my life. In Holland we -have a saying that ‘even the best German has stolen a horse.’ I do not -believe that there is any German who is not a pan-German. All of them -suffer from this national and nation-wide megalomania.” - - _--From a conversation with Raemaekers reported in Eric - Fisher Wood’s “Note-Book of an Intelligence Officer.”_ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The President to the Workers:_ - -“_If you are with me, I am with you._” - - -“If we are true friends of freedom--our own or anybody else’s--we will -see that the power of this country, the productivity of this country, -is raised to its absolute maximum and that absolutely nobody is allowed -to stand in the way of it. When I say that nobody is allowed to stand -in the way, I don’t mean that they shall be prevented by the power of -the Government, but by the power of the American spirit. If we are to -do this great thing and show America to be what we believe her to be, -the greatest hope and energy of the world--then we must stand together -night and day until the job is finished.” - - _From President Wilson’s speech before the American Federation of - Labor, November 12, 1917._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_Well Done, Fellows! Keep the Home Fires Burning!_” - - -This cartoon brings home to us the imperative necessity of putting -our own house in order and keeping it in order. If the world is to be -made safe for democracy, our own conspicuous example of democracy must -be made safe for those who dwell under its protection. If we cannot -conquer and control the enemy within our gates, we will be but impotent -instruments of conquest over him abroad. Both at home and abroad we -must rid ourselves of all hampering and distracting illusions and stare -the facts in the face. The facts are that we are at war,--the grim and -grimy business of killing or being killed. - -The issues involved in this war have been appealed to the sword, and -he who lives by the sword must die by the sword. The time for doubt, -debate, discussion or diplomacy is past. The only thing left to do is -to fight,--fight for all that is in us,--fight as long as we can and as -hard as we can, and until there is no fight left in our enemies. Then -and not until then is it worth while to consider other aims,--so-called -war aims. The only real war aim now is victory. We must not let -anything distract us from that essential aim. - - LINDLEY M. GARRISON. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_A Bit of the Hindenburg Line_ - - -THESE FELLOWS ARE HOT ON THE TRAIL. LET US FOLLOW SUIT. - -WHEREVER YOU FIND A HUN YOU FIND AN ENEMY. GET HIM! - - DAVID BISPHAM. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Rats in Our Home Trenches_ - - -Really, the great question of the war is: What kind of people are the -Germans? - -Can they be reformed, or are they incurable? - -All Germans are not alike. There are those who distinguish between -North and South Germans, and tell us that the Saxons, in particular, -have in them the making of excellent people. Doubtless all Prussians -are not alike; doubtless all Bavarians are not of the type of the -“Black Bavarians” whose exploits in the war have had unfavorable -mention. But what has come to be the image that “German” calls up in -the mind? It is an image of ruthlessness, of frightfulness, of poison -gas and traceless sinkings; of murder, pillage, spies and lies; of a -black and formidable ambition for mastery on any terms and at any cost; -of treachery; of a tireless industry that gets up early to fetch away -by work or wile whatever in the world is worth taking from any one who -has it! The current image of the German is an image of an enemy--a -savage enemy. Since 1914 German descent has been terribly prejudiced. -As to every man of German blood the observer asks himself: What manner -of man is this? - -The Hohenzollerns did not invent the Germans. They found, acquired, -trained and used them. For centuries--a thousand years at least--the -Germans have had a known and demonstrated rating for brutality and -brutishness. They have been cruel in war and destructive and greedy in -pillage beyond most other nations that were their neighbors. When one -hears it said that the trouble with Germany is Germans, there comes to -mind abundant basis for that suggestion. - -Yet the Germans are far too many and too useful to exterminate, and -even if that were possible, no nation but Germany could seriously -entertain the idea of exterminating a whole people. - -So what do we come to? - -To this: that Germany’s fate rests in the hands of the Germans. Their -qualities will determine their destiny. Along with their abilities -go enormous disabilities. They must do according to what is in them. -They must obey the demon that drives them until, out of the extreme of -suffering, they gain the courage to expel it. They must destroy, and -so invite destruction, until their racial propensity has wrought its -own correction. They must keep on accumulating enemies, exasperating -neutrals, alienating allies, until blind and wicked policies have -perfected their work. - -What the German has most to fear is what is inside of him. By current -estimate the worst that can happen to Germans has happened already, -in that they are Germans. The world is not going to adjust itself -to their misfortune in this particular. It is they who will have to -adjust themselves to the world. They will not be able to make the world -an overgrown Germany in which the other peoples will have to live -under German direction. No. They will have to live in a world largely -populated and managed, as now, by folks who are not Germans and don’t -want to be, and whose primary concern for as long as is necessary will -be to keep Germans in their place. - - E. S. MARTIN. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Seeing Stars_ - - _Canadian: “And you’ll soon see the Stars and Stripes.” - German: “Saw some already, sir.”_ - - -This is the voice that he hears from Germany: - -“We Germans are God’s chosen people, His special favorites, and God is -German Himself. God rules over us in the person of our Kaiser, whom He -has appointed for that purpose. We are better than all other peoples of -the earth; we are wiser and purer and nobler and more industrious and -more learned and stronger and cleverer and kinder and braver and more -spiritual and more warlike than all others. - -“We are so much greater than they that whatever we do to advance our -own interests, at the cost of theirs, is right and praiseworthy. -If we kill a great many of them, those who survive will in the end -be improved, because they will work for us and learn something by -observing us. Any deceit is proper and morally correct if it benefits -us; and when we practise a policy of terror upon those who oppose us -it is really philanthropy and shows how gentle we are, because the -survivors learn through our cruelty that it is useless to oppose us, -therefore they the sooner submit their wills to ours. We can not do -wrong, no matter what we do, so long as all that we do is for our own -benefit. By our bright swords we will take possession of the earth -which ought to belong to us, because we are Germans. We believe in -the heaviest possible breeding of babies, that they may grow up and -be trained to carry liquid fire and poison against any opposition to -us. All the same, we are the only real peace-lovers in this malign -and prejudiced world, which, except for us and the Austrians and the -Bulgarians and the Turks, is composed exclusively of stupid ruffians -who were so jealous and envious of us that they forced this war upon -us, hoping to make some money out of us by annihilating us. We love -peace, and are fighting for our mere existence--that is, the right to -adjust our frontiers so that they will include the countries which we -have conquered by the sword. We must never AGAIN be threatened by those -rascals of Belgians!” - - BOOTH TARKINGTON. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Two Giants_ - - _Germany: “I destroy!” - America: “I create!”_ - - -Uncle Sam has given the Germans three surprises. - -It was believed in Germany:-- - -1st--That America would not break diplomatic relations; - -2nd--That America would never fight; - -3rd--That America could not fight. - -Forced to it, in self-defense, we are now giving all our energies to -war, led by a President, whose vision meets the extent of the calamity -brought on the world by the selfish ambitions of material Germany. - -American built ships will end the menace of the slinking U-boat. - -And after the war the flags of the American Merchant Marine once more -will float on every sea. - - JAMES W. GERARD. - -_New York, July 12, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_Will They Last, Father?_” - - -The four greatest events in history; the advent of Christ, the -discovery of America, the Reformation, and the French Revolution, are -all we can compare with the days in which we are living--and dying. - -In a cyclone of desolations surpassing the terrors of the insane, the -world, so far from recoiling, rolls forward into vast and irrevocable -changes that seemed but yesterday the remotest goals of laborious -evolution; rolling up the precipitous steep of custom in all the fury -with which we should look to see it roll down. And the unique wonder of -this fifth and last of these supreme events is that only it has sprung -primarily from an evil design and can attain its true end only by that -design’s everlasting overthrow. - -So speaks the matchless hand of Raemaekers. The vastest murderer the -race has ever borne and, at his heels, his most remorseless waster of -blood together watch the glass of time, abhorring every upward plunge -of a maddened world and daily hounded by one implacable question, one -four-headed dog of hell: Will their treasury, will their sinking of -ships, will their delusion of their own people, last? - -No. One or another will presently fail, and when one fails all fail and -the world, refined by fire, will be, shall be, saved. - - GEORGE W. CABLE. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_The Ugly Talons of the Sinister Power_” - - -The attitude of scorn, of contempt and of defiance with which -Raemaekers in his cartoon, “America’s Choice,” represents Uncle Sam -as he confronts the treacherous Kaiser, bearing the olive branch in -his talons, well expresses the attitude of the United States towards -Germany at the time we entered the war, and this attitude will probably -continue for a generation or two after the war ends. - -“The Intolerable Thing,” which President Wilson so aptly named the -irresponsible German Government, can never disguise itself so that -we will not detect the terrible menacing claws with which Raemaekers -portrays the Kaiser. It will continue to be an Intolerable Thing until -the horrors of this war are forgotten. - -The German philosophers brazenly justify their nation’s course in this -aggressive war with all its attendant horrors, by an appeal to the -Darwinian doctrines of the struggle for existence, and the consequent -survival of the fittest, which play such a prominent part in biological -evolution. - -Germany must be taught the lesson that while man is the product of -evolution like all other creatures, yet in his case new factors come -into play--he is a part of the animal kingdom, but is a new kind of -animal, and new factors, not operative in the orders below him, have -played leading rôles in his development. These factors are his reason, -which gives him a sense of the true and the false, and his conscience, -which gives him a sense of right and wrong. These faculties subordinate -the rule of might to the rule of right, and they have resulted in the -establishment of conduct for individuals, for communities, and for -organized governments that do not exist in the lower animal orders, and -only in a limited sense in the lower human orders. - -Amid a national rejoicing, a waving of flags and ringing of bells, such -as are evoked by a great national festival, the Germans celebrated -the _Lusitania_ murders--the entire nation suddenly slumping into a -barbarism worse than that of their ancestral Huns. The Hun was again -triumphant, gloating over his unspeakable crimes, his plunders and -piracies, his orgies of crime and lust--a spectacle to make the Genius -of Humanity veil her face and weep tears of blood. - -It is a comfort to know that the Allies have killed or rendered -harmless several million of these modern barbarians, and that many of -their carcases have gone to enrich the soil of France and Belgium. In -this way a dead Hun may help to undo some of the evil which a living -Hun has wrought. If two or three of their bodies could be planted in -every shell hole which their guns have made in France and Belgium, -though the inoffensive soil might sicken, yet in the course of years -the poison of the Hun would disappear, rendered innocuous by the -beneficient alchemy of Nature. - - JOHN BURROUGHS. - _Tryon, N. C. - February 12, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Restitution and Reparation_ - - -It is with good reason the Prussian covers the thick bone of his -head with a helmet, for into it ideas of right and justice can only -be battered with a club. The tough, club-resisting helmet is the -arch-symbol of Prussianism. From its earliest days Prussia has taught -its neighbors the Prussian theory of right and justice by means of -a club. When the Prussian wishes to educate his neighbors to an -appreciation of Prussian ethics he puts on his helmet, picks up a club -and slugs the neighbor on the head. - -The Prussian theory of right and justice is this: “What is mine is -mine. What is yours is also mine if I want it.” - -This idea is deep buried beneath the thick bone of the Prussian head. -He holds it with stolid stupidity and deep, prehistoric crudity, like a -pig or an idiot. He cannot understand that there are any rights higher -than Prussian greed. “If I want it, it is mine because I want it.” It -is the logic of the primitive human animal, the cave-man. - -Cornered and accused of his thefts he clings to his loot like the pig -that has stolen a carrot. When asked to disgorge he is shocked by the -suggestion. “But they are mine! I wanted them, so they are mine!” he -says. Right and Justice answer, “They are not yours; you stole them.” -“Maybe so!” says the Prussian. “But just the same they are mine--I -stole them a long time ago.” - -The logic of the Prussian fills ten thousand volumes. It is written in -hundred-line paragraphs and six-inch words. It can be condensed into -two short words--piggish greed: piggish because it knows neither right -or justice, greed because it is greed. - - ELLIS PARKER BUTLER. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Only Possible Position for Traitors_ - - -While the submarine controversy was at its height, a Hun high in -authority in his nefarious land said that it was impossible for the -United States to enter the war, because there were a half million -German reservists in our country. “That is true,” replied the American -to whom this contemptuous remark was addressed; “but there are also a -half million lamp-posts.” - -Since the German reservists have failed to fulfil the expectations -of the Fatherland, the lamp-posts of the United States are as yet -unadorned with their lifeless bodies. But history has shown that while -Americans are an easy-going race, when once their anger is aroused -there is no withholding it; therefore let the traitors in our midst -take warning from the cartoon upon the opposite page. - -One may pardon a murderer who kills in a moment of passion, one may -even revere a military spy who penetrates an enemy’s lines to gather -information needful for victory; but for the skulking traitor who -whispers sedition within the land which harbors him and seeks to hamper -the efforts of its government by a stealthy means, no punishment seems -too severe, since of all crimes his is the most despicable. - -It is not to the half million German reservists alone that Mr. -Raemaekers’ warning is addressed; for, inconceivable though it be, -there are native-born traitors aplenty to shame the land which gave -them birth. For these, the only position which will seem possible -to Uncle Sam, when once his anger, ever slow to rise, bursts forth -in righteous indignation, will be the one which Mr. Raemaekers has -depicted. Let these traitors remember that there is an abundance of -lamp-posts in the land as well as a goodly supply of hempen rope. - - H. C. CHATFIELD-TAYLOR. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_Do You Mean to Make a Real War?_” - - -“Germany has once more said that force, and force alone, shall decide -whether justice and peace shall reign in the affairs of men, whether -right as America conceives it or dominion as she conceives it shall -determine the destinies of mankind. There is, therefore, but one -response possible for us: Force, force to the utmost, force without -stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant force which shall make -right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down in the -dust.” - - --_From President Wilson’s Message on the First Anniversary - of the Declaration of War, April 6, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Justice!_ - - -The woman figure called Justice in Raemaekers’ cartoon has a Greek -name. She is Themis, consort of Zeus, Themis, who sits by his side on -the judgment seat. The scales are the scales of Ægina, in her day a -great money centre, whose talent was the standard of value then, as the -American dollar is to-day. Ægina was the mother of Æacus, one of the -three great judges of the lower world, and be it remembered, it was -Æacus that administered justice. Ægina is called by one of the greatest -Greek poets the place where Themis is worshipped more than anywhere -else on earth, and he tells us further that there was much weighing in -Ægina, the Merchant State. Heavy weights there were in either scale. -Much care was needful in the weighing, no little balancing doubtless. -So there were many in our Ægina who felt the draw of kindred, of -friendship, of fellowship. But this is the Day, the Day of Decision, -the Day of Lord Æacus. After the knife edge of the balance comes the -knife edge of the guillotine. - - BASIL LANNEAU GILDERSLEEVE. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Another Peace Proposal_ - - -The artist has depicted a spectacled Old Gentleman wearing a triple -crown and a pontifical mantle, who is offering a proposal of peace to a -heroic young woman, torn, bleeding, thorn-crowned, but dauntless, who -spurns it with scorn. The spectacled Old Gentleman is the Pope; the -heroic young woman is, I take it, outraged Justice. - -Since Justice is our cause, we must try to be just. The Pope is not -lying on a bed of roses. He is in a position of the utmost difficulty. -He has faithful adherents on both sides, he dislikes war, and finds -his perplexities, great enough in time of peace, now magnified an -hundred-fold. He is not a hero; he is old, he is a lover of ease, -and would dearly like to wear a King’s crown and hear multitudes in -St. Peter’s cry out “Papa-Rè, Papa-Rè.” Let us be just. The first -Pope (according to Roman Catholic reckoning), received the grace of a -great opportunity to be true to his Master, but he denied Him thrice. -Why should we be surprised to find Benedict XV denying his Master? -Fate has held out her hand to him, as she held it out to St. Peter, -and offered him his opportunity to be greatly true. In the old happy -days when all the world cried “hosanna” to Justice, the Pope also had -professed himself a disciple of Justice. But now Justice has been -taken by bloody-minded men to be crucified, and the Pope has stayed -afar off. Many witnesses have remarked, “This man also was a professed -disciple of Justice.” And now the Pope denies it vehemently. He has -put forward a series of humiliating proposals that Justice--heroic, -bleeding Justice--should hold out her hand to the murderers of Belgium -and confer, as if there had been _equal error_ on both sides, upon the -crafty schemes of peace by which Germany hopes to dominate the world. - -Poor Old Gentleman! Timidity, love of ease, fear of Austria, and -fantastic ambition, have induced him to deny his Master. The cock will -crow, and he will weep bitterly. Poor, pitiable Old Gentleman. - - HENRY DWIGHT SEDGWICK. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Fine American Spirit_ - - - Who are these, watching from ancestral doors - The instant passing of our youth to France? - Henceforth, a chapter of the world’s romance - Their eyes have seen; it fills their native shores - With an undying moment; now it pours - On silent breasts, o’erawed, the voice, the glance, - The last, fond gleam of each loved countenance, - And the heart trembles, while the spirit soars. - - The generations draw immortal breath - That breathe a nation’s soul. From sire to son - The glory of the fathers entereth - The children’s hearts, and maketh all as one: - Bright, at time’s touch, breaks out the holy flame, - And to all lands doth freedom’s blood proclaim. - - G. E. WOODBERRY. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Poisoning the Well of Public Opinion_ - - -Aliens in this country must assist in maintaining the liberty they -enjoy, or we shall know the reason why. - -“Ninety-five per cent. of the people of the United States would die as -willingly for their beliefs as the men of 1776. It is for the other 5 -per cent. to show not the slightest manifestation of disloyalty. - -“Our message to them will be delivered through the criminal courts all -over the land. And may God have mercy on them, for they need expect -none from an outraged people and an avenging government.” - - --_Speech of Attorney-General Gregory in New York, November, 1917._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Enemy Within_ - - -Not even the prodigious Cruelty of the Germans in this Atrocious War -has shocked the moral sense of mankind as much as has their Deceit. -We are horror-stricken by the reports of their premeditated cruelties -which link the Germans with the beasts--the wolf, and tiger, and boa -constrictor, and vulture. The beast does these things because he has -never risen to a higher plane than that of the beast. But Deceit is the -attribute of Man; of one who dwells above the standards of the brute -creation, who has had the moral sense developed in him, who has known -the compulsions of conscience, who has acknowledged the obligations of -duty, and has recognized himself as being a striver after the Ultimate -Good. Through some flaw in the German’s nature all these qualities -in him changed, turned bad, and he hailed Evil as his guide and -inspiration. Whatever of good there was in him he uses to promote his -wicked designs. Had he not been human he could never have understood -how to make his perverted nature work successfully to deceive his -fellow-men. The snake and panther do not deceive us, we know their ways -and guard against them. But the moral pervert can deceive, because he -hides his purpose and his method behind the mask of a counterfeited -virtue. - -Lying is the commonest form of Deceit. The German Emperor practised -it for twenty-five years, when he proclaimed to the world his ardent -desire for peace; and it was natural for him to lie when, on making -war, he declared that the sword was forced into his hands. Then the -German nation, fed so long on falsehood, accepted this. Another -common form of German Deceit has been to accuse their enemies of -the very enormities which they themselves invented and carried out. -Diplomatic chicane is a commonplace tool which the Germans employed, -only clumsily. But we cannot measure the full extent of German Deceit -unless we follow it in its varied propaganda among foreign peoples, in -its spies, its instigators to violence, its corrupters of the press. -It poisons food and wells; it sets fires to burn crops or forests; it -hires ruffians to burn factories or blow them up, to hide bombs in -ships; it incites sabotage and strikes. - -So universally do Germans take to Deceit, that it has evidently become -their national trait. The soul of Germany is a lost soul, which -worships Satan as its master and welcomes Evil as its Good. - - WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Count von Bernstorff: “Noblesse Oblige”_ - - -Behold this group of sinister and menacing forms surrounding the -nation as typified in the person of its President. For four years past -they have been coming, one by one, out of the darkness. We can now -only too well recognize them and the dangers with which they threaten -us. In front, there is arrogant, boastful, jealous and unscrupulous -Hate, with its policy of “might before right,” and its doctrine of -“frightfulness,” conscienceless and cruel, in its murder of the -innocent, its arson, its robbery, its slavery of the weak, and its -outrages of womanhood. Crouching, while it tramples on our flag, is -Treachery, ready to use pistol and dagger, to burn bridges, to place -bombs, to blow up ships, to hide and sneak and cringe, if only it -can deliver its blow more surely and safely. And back of both, is -hypocritical and lying Diplomacy, with its protestations of innocence -and friendliness,--studiedly polite in manner, but really black at -heart. - -Behind, all engaged in tying the nation’s hands, lest it might strike -promptly and forcefully, is Pacifism, cowardly and self-seeking, -more anxious to avoid temporary suffering than to preserve the honor -and safety of the nation; and Divided Allegiance, traitorous to both -causes which it vainly endeavors to harmonize; and Intrigue, working -in secrecy to part friends, and stir up strife between those whose -interests are common, or even identical. - -But out of the darkness comes also the call to the nation: “America! -awake. Open your blinded eyes. Banish partisanship. Abjure political -jealousies. Leave it to the men who know. Make your hearts stout. Grasp -the sword firmly. Listen to no compromises, until the nation is proved -worthy of its birthright, civilization is rescued, and the world made -safe for Democracy.” - - GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Peter the Hermit_ - -“_Dieu le Veult!_” - - -The Prussian outdoes the world in his single-minded devotion to -physical things. He believes and frankly declares that mercy and honor -weaken human power, that if you consider them you must eventually -fall before the strong who disregard them. Germany’s attempt to prove -the soundness of the Prussian thesis has gradually loosened the moral -consciousness of the world. It has gathered to defend the things of -the spirit in what is as truly a crusade as that which Peter the -Hermit led, a crusade to preserve the sanctity of contract, the few -laws between nations that men have worked out, the right of the weak -to their chance. Germany, disbelieving in the strength that love of -mercy and of honor give men, cannot counter-attack in kind. Every day -develops more clearly that the weak place in the Prussian armor is its -indifference to moral considerations. - - IDA M. TARBELL. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Germ-Man_ - - -The stout gentleman on the opposite page wears a pleased look, as if he -were enjoying his occupation. That is natural, for he is a scientist -engaged in a very pretty process--the propagation of lockjaw, typhus -and other malignant germ cultures with which he expects to speed up the -annihilation of his enemies. How does he propose to accomplish this? -I will tell you: he is going to introduce those young and vigorous -colonies of germs into those little packages marked with a cross which -you see lying on the table before him. Those are Red Cross bandages, -and they will presently be binding the wounds of our soldiers, and the -lockjaw and typhus hordes in them will awake, and rally in a silent -loathsome attack that will lay torture and death upon thousands which -the noisy, mis-aimed guns have failed to destroy. The germ-man is -assured that his atomic missiles will not be mis-aimed. His government -has efficiently arranged for those packages to go to the hospitals of -Roumania and Belgium and France. That is why he smiles--that is why he -has that roguish look. - -In the germ-man’s smile is incarnated “Deutschland über Alles” and -its correlative, “The end justifies the means.” We in America have -produced exponents--criminal exponents--of a similar psychology, and -we have generally (when we could catch them) hung or electrocuted or -imprisoned for life these moral perverts, in order to make the world a -safer and cleaner place to live in. Only a little while ago the State -of New York electrocuted a man who, having set up his individual “Ueber -Alles and General Justification” court, had proceeded cheerfully to -introduce malignant germs and other deadly things into the foods and -medicines of his wife’s parents, who stood between himself and fortune. -Here we have an exact parallel. Those defenceless old people were doing -him no wrong. They in fact admired and trusted him, just as Rumania -and Belgium and America only a little while ago admired and trusted -Germany. They stood in his way, however, and from the “Ueber Alles” -standpoint any means for their removal was warranted. - -Secret assassination is an ancient art. It has been practised in -every age and in every nation and its votaries have been hunted down -and exterminated by decent people. To-day, for the first time in the -history of the world, we have the spectacle of stealthy death for the -defenceless adopted as a government policy. For the decency and safety -of mankind the allied nations have highly resolved that the government -which promotes such a policy must “perish from the earth.” - - ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_A Tid-Bit for ‘The Sick Man’_” - - -The nearness to America of the European theatre of war so greatly fills -our minds with the contest there raging that we give but little thought -to the progress of events in the far countries tributary to the Tigris -River. For a time, the heroic resistance of General Townsend to the -Turkish forces which surrounded him aided by the natural obstacles of -river and climate, claimed a share of our interest, and later, the -splendid and successful work achieved by the new British army under -General Maude, awakened renewed interest in a campaign designed to -split Islam into two parts: one, acknowledging the domination of the -Turk and his German masters; the other, a new Caliphat of Bagdad, -Arabian, rather than Turkish, looking to the ideals of justice and -freedom, rather than to the rule of the sword; finding its inspiration -in the tradition of the enlightened and humane Haroun-al-Raschid, -rather than the warring, bloody conquerors and Muhammed and Sulìman. -Still later, the northward progress of British arms extended over the -greater part of Palestine, and the capture of Jerusalem brought the -sacred places of Israel and of Christianity within the control of -Christendom after five centuries of Turkish occupation. - -These campaigns are only second in importance to the progress of the -German invasion of France; for if the British successes in Arabia and -Palestine shall be maintained, and the Islamites of Egypt, Arabia and -Mesopotamia shall look in the future to the Caliph of Bagdad, not to -the Sultan of Turkey, as their spiritual head, the great German scheme -of aggression in the Near East will have been defeated. - -The subtle Teuton suggestion to the Turk of a Pan-Turanian league, -was but a scheme for the promotion of a closer Turkish organization -under German control, as Raemaekers’ cartoon, “A Tid-Bit for the Sick -Man,” so cleverly intimates. The Turks should have said to themselves, -“Beware of the Greeks--the Prussians--and the gifts they bring.” A -German gift is like the shirt of Nessus,--it will consume utterly those -who accept it. - -Not alone on the shores of the Mediterranean, but on the Persian -Gulf, on the Baltic, on the English Channel, in the Caribbean, on the -Pacific,--there is no limit to the schemes of expansion of German -control to which that nation in its mad lust of power has given itself. -Never since the dawn of recorded history has an issue been made so -plain. Aut Cæsar aut nullus. The world must choose between Germany, -the highly developed, hyperorganized, scientific state, proceeding on -the openly avowed theory that might alone makes right, and that no -principle of ethics, morality or religion must be allowed to affect -or deter a course which scientific militarism determines to be best -calculated to attain a pre-determined end, and the other nations, who -believe in God and in His justice, who conceive that it doth not profit -a nation to gain the whole world at the cost of its soul. - -Once this issue is manifest to the world, the result cannot be in doubt. - - GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Plain Language from Truthful James_ - -_The Mexican-Japanese Plot_ - - - “For ways that are dark - And tricks that are vain--” - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Helping Hindenburg Home_ - - -“We regret being unable on this occasion to follow the counsels of our -masters, the French, but the American flag has been forced to retire. -This is unendurable, and none of our soldiers would understand their -not being asked to do whatever is necessary to reëstablish a situation -which is humiliating to us and unacceptable to our country’s honor. We -are going to counter-attack.” - -This was a message sent by an American general in command of American -forces south of the Marne on Monday afternoon after the Germans had -succeeded in forcing the Americans back towards Conde-en-Brie. - -The French commander had informed the American general that the early -German success could not have any great effect on the fate of the -battle; that it was understood perfectly that after hard fighting the -Americans had slowly retired, and that it was not expected that they -immediately launch a counter-attack. He added that a counter-attack -could be postponed without risk, and it might be better to give the -American troops an hour’s rest. - -Immediately after the American general sent the above message, which -is quoted by the correspondent of the “Matin,” the Americans launched -their counter-attack and the lost ground was soon recovered, with an -additional half mile taken from the Germans for good measure. - - _The New York Times, July 18, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_A Bad Prophet_ - -_The All-Highest: “Only a sham war with Uncle Sam? Oh, Hollweg, you are -a bad prophet!”_ - - -One of the delusions the German Government and its General Staff have -been laboring under for many years is that the United States could not -create an army that was worth consideration as a foe. That Government -and its General Staff are tasting the quality of our troops in the -field, and the flavor is bitter on their tongues. One hundred and -twenty-six years ago there was fought a battle in France (at Valmy, -within the zone of war today) on the date that France first called -herself a republic. Kellermann won that battle against the Prussians -and Austrians with levies of new troops from the lower and middle -classes of France, who “found that they could face cannon balls, pull -triggers, and cross bayonets without having been drilled into military -machines, and without being officered by scions of noble houses.” They -had, it seems, the same spirit we like to think animates our army, -which the Germans abroad and some critics at home denied our men: “they -awoke to the consciousness of instinctive soldiership.” - - _The Army and Navy Journal._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_At the Holland Frontier_ - - -WHETHER THE WAR BE LONG OR SHORT, THE QUICKEST ROAD TO PEACE IS THE -ROAD STRAIGHT AHEAD OF US, WITH NO DIVISION AMONG THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. - - WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_A Rehearsal_ - - -“_When I say, Down with Wilson! you all cheer!_” - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Path of Kultur_ - - - Here ran a road for lovers once, - With maples in the moon; - And under a bridge a water went - Weaving a dreamy rune. - - And high upon the sycamores, - The nightingales all night - Besieged the dark with melody, - Disturbed the boughs with flight. - - And here in coverts of tall grass - Looked up a friendly spring, - Glad to behold a face bent down, - Or feel a fleeting wing. - - But now the lovers come no more; - The road is rutted and marred - By wheels and shrieking shells: the trees - Are shattered, chopt and charred. - - New graves are billowing now: the field - Like windy water heaves: - The nightingales are gone: the spring - Is choked with bloody leaves. - - And here at noon a vulture swoops - On obscene errands bound: - And here at night remembering ghosts - Go by without a sound. - - EDWIN MARKHAM. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_To the Victor!_ - -_France crowns with laurel the dead American aviator._ - - -Tho’ the American mother mourns across the seas for her hero son, who -has touched the skies in France, the foster mother lays her laurel of -glory on the bier of Youth, whose brave spirit in passing welds an -eternal bond of sympathy and union to the end. - - GERALDINE FARRAR. - -_June 23, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Eyes of the Army_ - - -The great poet of Victoria’s reign, in his wondrous vision of the -future, - - Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, - Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; - - Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew - From the nation’s airy navies grappling in the central blue; - - Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, - With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; - - Till the war drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled - In the Parliament of Man, the Federation of the World. - -Dealing not with the shadowy future but with the actual present the -great Artist of the Great War sees aerial navigation, not in terms of -commerce nor of battle engines, but as the “Eyes of the Army”; the -sense without which the terrestrial movements of war, both by land and -sea, tend to become mere blind and purposeless blundering. With one -graceful figure in a finely balanced design the artist tells the story. - -Future generations will be grateful to the Prussians for one thing--and -one thing only. From war--that “noble art of murdering,” as Thackeray -called it, they have stripped the last vestiges of romantic glamor. -They have not hesitated to press the premises of militarism to their -logical conclusion,--with results that have staggered humanity. - -In one field only has it been possible for something of the old -knightly chivalry to linger. Romance, driven from earth, has taken -wings; and the world, sated with horrors of trench and shambles, -thrills with eager wonder at the new science of the sky; at the -individual skill and daring of its pilots and their wonderful service -to their fighting brethren on earth. - -But even as we read of these things come tales of Zeppelin raids over -defenseless cities and the deliberate dropping of bombs upon hospitals. - -Civilized warfare! it is a contradiction in terms. It may be -necessary,--it has proved to be necessary, for civilized men to fight -the barbarians in order to uphold and preserve the great principle -of individual liberty; but war must come to an end among civilized -peoples; and to that end there must be a closer and closer union of -such as care for law and order, believe that the weak have rights which -must be protected, and are willing to base their governments on the -firm and enduring foundations of LIBERTY, EQUALITY and FRATERNITY. - - THOMAS MOTT OSBORNE. - -_July 19, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_Is It Nothing to You, All Ye Who Pass By?_” - - -All we need to remember hour by hour is that we are living through the -greatest crisis in the history of the world; that the greatest number -of people are concerned in it ever concerned in one thing before; and -that the most important epoch concerning humanity since the birth of -Christ is now at hand; that humanity is about to fall to a lower plane -of living or rise to a higher one than it has ever reached; that we can -only do our little share toward that rising by stiffening ourselves -to a long endurance. We have proven our mere ability to give valuable -service. What we must prove now is our patience and steadfastness, -without which brilliancy is worthless. We must strike a pace which we -can hold, both mentally and physically and plod on together. We must -and we will be ready, for our own sake, for our country’s sake and for -the sake of what the world was created for. - - RACHEL CROTHERS. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Rainbow Division Leaves for France_ - - -As the rainbow is heaven’s token of faith, so have we faith in these -modern knights journeying to beloved France to give battle to invading -barbarians. - -Ponder a moment over these men of the Rainbow Division, lads with minds -clean as their hearts are true, and compare them with the blood-craving -hordes reared in a school having no other aim than to kill their fellow -beings. One is Man in the superlative, and for the other there is no -name sufficiently abhorrent. - -When an American soldier enters Hun territory we know how scrupulously -the laws of humanity will be respected: he will at least be knightly -and merciful. - -And the four years’ record of German savagery is so well known that it -must forever befoul the pages of history. - -Lack of opportunity in the library has prevented a thorough exploration -of the unspeakable atrocities of the early Huns who under Attila -ravaged a great part of Europe. But sufficiently have I read to be -convinced that the Huns and Vandals and Goths of early history, -compared with the Hohenzollern-inspired fiends, were scarcely more than -bungling altruists. We know it to be fact that German soldiers murdered -priests and raped nuns in Belgium, violated practically every young -woman in the Aisne and Champagne, razed defenseless towns and hamlets -in these French Departments, murdered old people and children and -mutilated youths everywhere, delighted in destroying hospital ships and -treated Red Cross signs as targets for their guns, inoculated French -prisoners as a means of furthering the Berlin plan to diminish the -French race, and in cold blood murdered scores of women and children on -the _Lusitania_. - -These are awful indictments, with not one excusable on the ground of -military need or expediency. Given trial at the bar of civilization -their perpetrators must forever be judged as outside the pale of -humanity and hereafter can have no standing in lands where the -principles of Christianity and humanity have a meaning. With my own -eyes I have seen scores of proofs of German “frightfulness”; with me -it is not hearsay. And remember that it was none other than Goethe who -wrote that “the Prussian was born a brute, and civilization will make -him ferocious.” - -Positive is it that the United States and her Allies will crush the -conscienceless militarism of Germany, and ever of good omen is the -Rainbow, telling of improving skies and perfect conditions for the -morrow. - - FREDERIC COURTLAND PENFIELD, _American Ambassador - to Austria-Hungary_, 1913-1917. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Russia Reborn_ - - -In a hundred years no people has been so tortured and abused by rulers -of its own blood and faith as the Russians. The free peoples have -nothing in their experience by which they can imagine the greed and -cruelty of which the subjects of the Romanoffs have been the victims. -No adequate picture of the diabolical old régime can be painted till -scholars have had time to explore its archives and expose the dark -forces that operated it. - -Let no one look for Freed Russia to be shining and beautiful. From the -gloomy caverns in which they have mouldered the Russian people stagger -out upon the sunlit heights of freedom weak, bent, half blind. Few of -the older will ever conquer the dense ignorance in which they were kept -by autocracy. Few of the characters twisted and deformed by oppression -will ever become quite straight. In the behavior of this people there -will be exhibited folly, fanaticism and brutality that will make the -peoples born free uneasy as to the new sister. - -Whatever happens, doubt not that the Russians are gifted and -great-hearted. Their excesses have proclaimed how much they were -held back and brutalized by the Tsars. It will take long for them to -rid themselves of the traces of their servitude and misery. Even the -children born in the new era will catch from their parents some of the -evil heritage. Only the grandchildren of the common people of today -will come into the full birthright of the free and prove the worth that -is in the Russian race. - - EDWARD ALSWORTH ROSS. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Higher Than a Sour Apple Tree_ - - -Other wars end with those who made them. It is the will of the German -Emperor that _his_ war should pass on like a blight from generation to -generation upon those whose fathers dared to stand against the ravager. -To this end he has not only slaughtered and enslaved the defenders; he -has sought to destroy the very fruitfulness of the land whereby their -descendants must live. - -To me the deliberate, coldly reckoned murder of the invaded countries’ -trees and vines so that the children of the slain and enslaved and -their children’s children may draw no sustenance from the kindly -earth--that seems the most perverse, the most detestable, the most -typical of all the crimes of Kaiserism. - -The sterilization of Mother Earth! It took the mind of a Wilhelm to -conceive it. And for that offence against generations unborn he shall -hang, higher than was ever ruler before him, gibbeted in the righteous -hatred of an outraged posterity. - - SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_What a Mean Trick to Turn on That Strong Light!_” - - -“Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis that the nations would -not wish to disturb it. It must be guaranteed by destruction of -Prussian military power, so that the confidence of the German people -shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their -armies.... Europe is again drenched with the blood of its bravest and -its best, but do not forget the great succession of hallowed causes. -They are the stations of the cross on the road to the emancipation -of mankind. I again appeal to the people of this country and beyond -that they should continue to fight for the great goal of international -rights and international justice, so that never again shall brute force -sit on the throne of justice nor barbaric strength wield the sceptre -over liberty.” - - _From the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd-George’s Glasgow speech - on war aims, June 29, 1917._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Christmas, 1917_ - - -On the day of the Nativity, the Infant Brother of Humanity was born and -was laid in a manger, there being no room for his human mother at the -inn. But wherever he lay--there, through the mystery of his kinship, -was the shining Gateway of Heaven. That translucent Light, from the -moment of its appearance, intensified, as by opposite polarity, the -baleful lights from all unholy fires in human breasts. Herod was -first aroused to the Slaughter of the Innocents, and he has had his -successors in every age during the growth of Christendom. - -As the Light of the World has expanded these nineteen centuries, -shining in the hearts of men, ever awakening new ideas of Truth, -Justice, and Mercy, against every fresh gleam, promising wider horizons -of human Love and Sympathy, have been arrayed the brutish hosts, -with Hatred and Murder in their hardened hearts. For the present -generation has been reserved the vision of the very Armageddon of -this Conflict, in which the world is divided against itself. The -Powers precipitating it inaugurated it and have in its whole course -attended it with every conceivable form of atrocity and outrage against -noncombatants--innocent men, women, and children. But that Heavenly -Light which shone in the stable at Bethlehem can never be put out! - - HENRY MILLS ALDEN. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Helping Uncle Sam to Get Up Speed_ - - -“The military masters of Germany denied us the right to be neutral. -They filled our unsuspecting communities with vicious spies and -conspirators and sought to corrupt the opinion of our people in their -own behalf. When they found that they could not do that, then agents -diligently spread sedition among us and sought to draw our own citizens -from their allegiance.... - -“They have learned discretion. They keep within the law. It is opinion -they utter now, not sedition. They proclaim the liberal purposes of -their masters; declare this a foreign war which can touch America -with no danger to either her lands or her institutions ... and seek -to undermine the Government with false professions of loyalty to its -principles. - -“But they will make no headway. The false betray themselves always in -every accent.... The facts are patent to all the world, and nowhere -are they more plainly seen than in the United States, where we are -accustomed to deal with facts and not with sophistries; and the great -fact that stands out above all the rest is that this is a people’s war, -a war for freedom and justice and self-government among all the nations -of the world.” - -_From President Wilson’s Flag Day Address, June 14, 1917._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Wind of Democracy_ - - -“Without doubt, the majority of the German nation is still monarchist. -The different peoples of Germany still hold to their princes, more or -less, according to the individual character of the sovereigns. But -that confidence in the supreme chief of the Empire is still entirely -intact is an affirmation which, after three years of war, cannot be -maintained.... Confidence in the direction of the Empire has begun to -disappear among the German people.... They begin to ask themselves how -it happens that nearly all the world is in arms against us, and who is -responsible for it.” - - _Reply of Prince von Hohenlohe to the clerical deputy, Spahn, - in the Reichstag._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_This One for the Babies_” - - -Germany, in her war against Civilization, has disregarded not -only International Law and the ordinary laws of humanity, but has -ruthlessly set aside the four great laws of the social order which -all civilized nations recognize as having a divine sanction. “Thou -shalt not bear false witness.” She has broken her treaties and lied -openly, frequently, brazenly. “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” She has -permitted, if she has not given official sanction to rape committed -upon a scale never before known in the history of the civilized world. -“Thou shalt not steal.” She robbed her neighbor’s hills of their coal -and iron, her neighbor’s fields of their standing crops, her neighbor’s -banks of their money, her neighbor’s houses of their pictures, -statuary and books, and what she could not carry away she has in mere -wantonness destroyed. “Thou shalt not kill.” She has murdered thousands -of defenceless men, women, children, and little babes, and has done -this not in a sudden and feverish rage, but as part of a deliberately -conceived and carefully executed policy. One must multiply Raemaekers’ -picture by the thousand in order to get its full significance. - - LYMAN ABBOTT. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_A Scene on the Somme_ - - -“Infinitely interesting is our contact with the American troops. They -have occupied the sector immediately beside ours. We have seen them at -work, and could form an idea, and it should be told and retold that -they are marvelous. The Americans are soldiers by nature, and their -officers have the desire to learn with an enthusiasm and an idealistic -ardor very remarkable. There is the same spirit among the privates. -They ask questions with a touching good-will, setting aside all conceit -or prejudice. Naturally they have the faults of all new troops. They -show themselves too much and expose themselves imprudently, letting -themselves be carried away by their ardor, not knowing when to spare -themselves or to seek shelter or when to risk everything for an end. -This experience will be quickly learned. - -“As for bravery, activity, and discipline, they are marvelous. They -absolutely astonished us on a morning of attack. The cannonading, -suddenly becoming furious, had just thrown me out of my bunk. No doubt -about it, it was a Verdun attack. Taking time to seize my revolver, -put on my helmet, and gather up several documents, I descended to -the streets. When I arrived there they were already filing by with -rapid, easy, decided steps, marching in perfect order in silence with -admirable resolution, and above all with striking discipline, to their -fighting positions. It was fine. You can have no idea how cheering it -was to my Poilus.” - - --_From a letter of a French officer published in the Paris “Temps.”_ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Hollweg as Robespierre_ - -_The Kaiser: “He has managed to fool the German Socialists. Why should -he not fool the Russian Socialists?”_ - - -Few things have been more disheartening in the course of the War than -the way in which the Teutonic foes of liberty have used so many friends -of liberty in Russia as unwitting instruments to undermine and destroy -the resistance of the Russian people to the German armies. - -Vast territories, amounting to nearly half a million square miles -in area, have thus been abandoned to German domination, practically -without a struggle; and over fifty million people in the abandoned -regions have seen their prospects of freedom vanish. - -The German armies thus released from the eastern front and poured into -northern France, have enormously increased the difficulties of the -Armies of Liberty, battling in France and Belgium to save the world for -Democracy. - - J. G. PHELPS STOKES. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_President Wilson’s Declaration_ - - -Raemaekers is, here, having the President say: - - “When Germany is defeated, and peace can be discussed, we shall pay - the full price of peace,--namely, justice for all the nations.” - -We know what justice will be for the nations spoiled. But what will -be justice for the spoiler? We know what this latter would be to an -individual; and a nation is only a greater individual, capable of -greater mischief, subject to greater punishment. - -An individual, who, with progressive malice, had broken all the laws -of his country, society and God, from simple lying, through perjury, -robbery, piracy, up to wholesale murder, would be destroyed--for the -good of his fellowmen and as a warning to others. If he should escape -the noose the quieter but no less inevitable force of public morality -would destroy him. Neither man nor nation has ever long lived by force, -flaunting his crimes in the face of the world, committing, threatening -yet others. Nor will Germany. She is now, I believe, in the way of -destruction, either by the public executioner, or, more likely, by the -slower, but not less certain, process of isolation and decay. - -She has unmasked herself and we now see the hideous, distorted face of -her. How can so monstrous a Thing have friends after this? Who will -trade with her? Who will ever again accept a promise of hers? Who but -must be ashamed of her name and her language? Anathema she will be to -all peoples--the outcast of nations--living for and upon herself, where -her life-doctrine of force must inevitably turn to her own destruction. -This has been the fate of every world-conqueror and his nation. And, -surely, none of them all has so richly deserved it as this intolerable -Germany. Ask History! And, yet, to the individual, there is always left -repentance and restoration--even though he, himself, must be destroyed. - -So, if this besotted Germany had but the courage and virtue to lay down -her arms and retire behind her own borders, she could have the peace -she pretends to wish for in twenty-four hours--for so little and simple -and right a thing as that! - -I think, indeed, that the nations she has so wantonly spoiled would -permit her to go without further punishment at their hands, leaving -that to the very God she has so vilely exploited as her partner in her -monstrous crimes. I think they would accept back the goods which she -has stolen, damaged as they are, beyond redemption, glad to be rid of -her and her debasing contact. But she is mad. Germany is quite mad. She -would laugh, like a blood-smeared, amuck-running lunatic at any such -proposition. Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. The -madness is accomplished. I believe that it will be for the peace of the -world that the rest shall be. - - JOHN LUTHER LONG. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_Don’t Stand in Our Way to Victory_” - - -All wars bring their full measure of miseries and misfortunes, and this -world war, initiated by Germany for the purpose of imposing a military -domination upon Europe and America, and conducted with methods which -combine the barbaric standards of the Huns and Mongols with the skilled -mechanism of the twentieth century, has brought upon the world miseries -that can hardly be estimated or described. There are some offsets, -however, even in a contest like the present, which is a fight for the -preservation of civilization against the onslaughts of scientific -barbarism. No nation can take up arms for the defense of its rights and -liberties and for the fulfilment of its obligations without bringing -into the souls of the people some development of national and patriotic -spirit. - -The soldiers in the trenches and the citizens working at home are -fighting and working for a common cause. - -They come in this manner to have realization of what they owe to each -other, to their country and to their consciences. - -We may feel assured that through the sacrifices that are being made -today in our country, of lives, of labor and of wealth, there will be -developed from a people which had in its prosperity been growing rich -and lazy-minded and forgetful of national morality, the soul of America. - -Louis Raemaekers has done more than any one man to bring into -expression the spirit of fierce indignation and horror that has come -not only upon the people of Belgium and of northeastern France, who -have been directly exposed to the brutal despotism of the Prussians, -but upon all of those who are fighting to rescue the people of these -imprisoned devastated provinces, and upon the whole civilized world. - -Raemaekers has been able with the powerful genius of his pencil to give -expression in cartoons that belong to the history of art and of the -world, to this protest of civilization. - -He is a poet as well as an artist. - -His weird and sombre conceptions gave evidence of a powerful -imagination. His work has been compared to that of Gilray, but the -caricatures which in 1805 amused English men and frightened English -children were merely clever pieces of drawing. - -The wonderful designs of Raemaekers set forth the devilishness of -the policies and the actions of the Prussians as incisively and as -conclusively as if he had been sitting as judge in the court of final -appeal. - -These grim pictures constitute indictments of great criminals. It is -impossible to tell how far they may as yet have penetrated Germany, -but sooner or later these irrefutable judgments of criminal acts will -be brought home to the consciousness not only of Prussia, and of the -leaders who are directly responsible for the murders and the other -horrors, but of the whole people of Germany who, poisoned by the fumes -of prussic acid from Berlin, have been willing to give their strength -and their force to the attempt to impose Prussian tyranny upon the -peoples of the world. - - GEO. HAVEN PUTNAM. - -_February 1, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_German Soldiers Cut the Throat of an American Sentry_” - -A LAYMAN’S PRAYER FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS - - -Our Father which art in Heaven, bless and inspire our armies in the -field, our ships upon the sea. Watch over the sons of America fighting -for Liberty. Strengthen and hearten them in the hour of pain and peril. -Grant them victory, we beseech Thee, and lead them safely home. Make us -who love them do our part loyally. Keep us united in our will to bring -upon earth a reign of right and freedom. _Amen._ - - CLEVELAND MOFFETT. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Bang!_ - -“_Dog-gone it, Hindenburg, don’t make your strategic moves when I am -standing directly behind you!_” - - -On one occasion, when Hindenburg reported having “carried out his -retreat according to plan,” the Kaiser, encamped at the rear, received -a very discomfiting bump. Evidently, the “plan” was no less an -inspiration of the moment than many others the Germans have announced, -in order to put a good face upon their reverses. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_I Must Break in Here Before That Comes Down_” - - -The small speck that at first seemed a dull mist hanging over the -Western Hemisphere caused little else than sarcastic flings at our -own Republic, and had it been possible to awaken pity in the breast -of the Arch Demon, striving to spread his wings over the whole world, -some sympathy might have fallen to us, for the weak mind we showed -in presuming we could do anything to check the Imperial army in its -brutal course. But happily great oaks from little acorns grow, from -stationary mists dark clouds may rise, from low uncertain rumblings -the ear-splitting thunder clap may spring, and make man and beast seek -cover. So, by the Grace of God, things have developed, and the mist -that was a banquet joke, is transformed, and spread into a veritable -storm, and its direction is across the wide ocean; it is an on-rusher -that awakens a craven fear; and it well may. It is no autumn cloud, -whose fleecy skirts the sun has painted with gold; but something -equalling the harbinger of death, that the soothsayers saw driving over -Rome when Cæsar’s end was nigh; on which could be seen “Fierce fiery -warriors in ranks, and squadrons and in right form of war”; and from -which blood is drizzling, not only to fall over France, or Flanders, -but perhaps to darken the sky, and crimson the soil, even at that nest -of iniquity, Potsdam. - - PALMER COX. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Bring Her In!_ - - - Yea, bring her in--the scarlet sign of shame! - Of shuddering horror to all times and lands! - Bring her, though late, to justice. Those, her hands, - With children’s blood thick-crusted, are the same - That stealing through night’s peaceful curtains came - To throttle blameless Belgium; from the brands - Of sacked and burning churches those dark bands - Befoul her garments, noisome as her name. - - “Guilty of more than murder!” Not alone - Of broken hearts, drained eyes and myriad graves - Shall men make up the sum of her dread score, - But of faiths blasted, world hopes overthrown. - Then judgment write in tears of her bowed slaves, - “Earth sickens of her--Let her be no more!” - - CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Germany’s “Peace” with Russia_ - - -Count Hertling asks resentfully: “Who dares to suggest that I am not -on the side of justice?” Count Hertling is undoubtedly sincere. Until -this war began the world had almost forgotten the record for duplicity -and inhumanity of the military tyrants of Prussia,--the treachery and -barbarity of the race of which he and they are the offspring. They are -running true to type, but for the time we had forgotten what the type -was; yet it was known well enough to Julius Cæsar and to the others -who ruled the Roman world. For him the Germans were “that treacherous -race which is bred up from the cradle to war and rapine,” who “practise -the base deception which first asks for peace and then openly begins -war,” who are “outside the pale of negotiations”--yet Cæsar had not -heard of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk! History is repeating itself -after two thousand years, yet two thousand years ago it was then only -repeating itself. The Prussian has always been the same. His instincts -are today as they were when he roamed the swamp lands, naked and with -a stone club in his fist, pig-eyed and bull-necked, like the mastodon -of his native forests. Raemaekers has done well to symbolize him in his -treatment of helpless Russia, as a hairy prehistoric beast crushing -out the life of a bleeding nation beneath his ponderous feet. Count -Hertling says he is on the side of justice. He is--of German justice, -the justice of which the butchered civilians and outraged girls of -Belgium, the crucified Canadians, the murdered Edith Cavell, and the -martyred babies and their mothers of the _Lusitania_, are examples. It -is the justice of the mammoth and the cave-man, the sabre-toothed tiger -and the woolly rhinoceros,--all of whom would agree that Count Hertling -in his dealings with Russia was actuated by the only recognized -Prussian ideal--the right of the strongest brute to ravish and destroy. - - ARTHUR TRAIN. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Better Fighter_ - -CANADA’S PART IN THE WAR - - -“Bound by no constitution, bound by no law, equity or obligation, -Canada has decided as a nation to make war. We have levied an army; -we have sent the greatest army to England that has ever crossed the -Atlantic, to take part in the battles of England. We have placed -ourselves in opposition to great world powers. We are now training and -equipping an army greater than the combined forces of Wellington and -Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo.” - - _Speech of Sir Clifford Sifton at Montreal._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Dungeon of Autocracy_ - - -There is a part of Germany that longs for freedom; but that is not the -Prussian part. The soul of Germany is not entirely killed by her mortal -sins of money and land-lust; and Raemaekers here paints the remorseful -soul, crowned with the blurred cross. Germany turns her back to the -sky; she prefers to look at the dark ground of her dungeon rather than -to face that light. She is chained by her own will, and yet her inmost -soul revolts. - -Let us not imagine that there are two Germanys. Before the war the -Social Democrat was the official hater of the despotism of the -Hohenzollerns. The war came, he ceased to be a Social Democrat when -he became a Prussian. Before the war, the Centrum defended the rights -of conscience against the Hegelian dogma of the absolute supremacy of -the State. The Kaiser rushed from Norway, war was declared, and the -recalcitrant Centrum,--the creature of the indomitable Windhorst, whom -even Bismarck could not terrify,--becomes subservient! The Emperor does -not say, “The State is I.” He says,--“Germany over all, and the German -God must rule.” - -Germany has chained herself. For more than ten years, I have lived -geographically in Germany,--for Denmark, though one of the freest -nations of the world, is a few miles from Berlin,--and I have seen the -Old Germany growing into the New, materialized Germany. Bismarck helped -this process with blood and iron. The New Germany has a soul, but she -has chained it to avarice and pride and power. - - MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, - _American Minister to Denmark_. - -_May 28, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_Hurrah for Peace, Lads!_” - - -Early in the war the great writers and poets of the Allied nations -joined in combating, with all the inspiration of the cause of liberty, -the campaigns launched in varied guise by seditionists here and abroad. -In this effort literature has made a worthy contribution to the battle -for civilization. It remained, however, for the art and genius of -Raemaekers to rout the propagandists of the enemy by delineating the -great basic truths of war as waged by the Huns. It has been his work, -more than that of any other person, to delineate the righteousness of -the Allied cause. - -His portraiture is a protest, an indictment, and an inspiration. He -destroys the foe’s misrepresentation and exposes his mendacity while -constructively informing the mind and awakening the imagination. He -enables us to grasp all the details of sorrow, of devotion, together -with all the splendor of modern battle behind his story. He horrifies -us with the brutality of uncivilized warfare, and at the same time -arouses within us the determination to right the wrongs of an outraged -world. His very shock is a stimulus, for in telling us of the horror -of war, Raemaekers makes us understand that to stop it forever by -victory is the only thing worthy of thinking and feeling human beings. -By speaking the universal language which art alone possesses, he has -made the war clear to those who cannot read. Because of this genius -for arousing our emotions, he is the premier recruiting agent of the -armies of civilization for and behind the battle-line. He is truly a -mainspring of our armed forces. - - S. STANWOOD MENKEN, - _President of the National Security League_. - -_January, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Ecce Homo!_ - - - An’ Thou art God, and be not one - With the god of the hun--Behold Thy Son! - Only belov’d begotten Son - And see with Thine eyes what the hun hath done. - - See how His tender temples bleed! - How they have mocked Him in their scorn-- - Thrust in his hands a withered reed - To hail Him King--Thine only born-- - And crowned His shrinking brow with thorn! - - Where must He pass--Lord Christ--Thy Son? - Calvary looms in the West again:-- - We thought the sad world lost and won - When He died on the Cross for the sins of men. - Must He die again? And where? And when? - - Where, in their hell, the heathen rage, - The hun’s imperial priest appears - Smeared with the blood of youth and age - Dragging his god that nods and leers - Dripping with murdered children’s tears. - - God of the bright, swift sword, how long? - Moloch rides with the swinish hun:-- - The boche is boasting with shout and song - That Thou and his bestial god are one,-- - Thou and Moloch and Christ, Thy Son! - - ROBERT W. CHAMBERS. - _New York, April 30, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_We Must so Destroy France That She can Never Again Resist Us_” - - -Heine, when he warned the world that the real God of Germany was Thor -and that when the Christian veneer wore off the old pagan god would -with his hammer break in pieces the Gothic Cathedrals, especially -warned France, whom above all the Beast hated. The warning has been -justified by history. Before the war I have heard Germans speak -gloatingly of what they did to France in 1870, and of what they -meant to do next time. The phrase “bleed France white” had become a -commonplace of German speech. - -This hatred is rather mysterious. England fought France many times -during five hundred years, but whenever peace was declared Paris would -be full of Englishmen to celebrate, to shake hands and be friends. -There never was this ferocious hate, and France has always been -generous and chivalrous and human. Germany hates Great Britain and -America with her head, but she hates France with her soul. - -It must be that the modern Hun feels that there is something in his -hated enemy which he does not possess and never can possess. And -because the rest of the world loves France, he hates her all the more, -with a cold and cruel and scientific hatred, as our artist depicts it -in his terrible cartoon. - -Perhaps some light is thrown on the problem by a typical piece of -Gallic wit. A French writer commenting on the wanton destruction of the -Cathedral of Rheims declared it to be the greatest single calamity to -art that was conceivable, and then added that there could be another -greater calamity--to allow the Germans to restore it! It adds fuel to -the flame to know that the only great period of German literature--the -period of Heine himself--was when it was under the complete influence -and inspiration of France. - -In a true sense the whole civilized world is fighting for France, to -decide whether it is to lose all that France stands for, or whether the -future is to be dominated by the ugly bestial force, without conscience -and without heart, which Germany represents. The world knows that if -it is a case of alternatives, civilization can do without Germany, but -would be eternally poor without _la belle France._ - - HUGH BLACK. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Japanese Mouse_ - -“_Can the Japanese mouse free the Russian bear from the German -netting?_” - - -“Japan must act on the broad principle that she is the guardian of -peace in the Far East, and I am sure that to fulfil her duty she will -utilize every resource at her disposal. Her part, instead of attempting -the impossible, will be to stand on safe and reasonable ground. Through -her control of the Southern Manchuria Railroad she is in a position -to cut off communication between Harbin and Vladivostok now afforded -by the trans-Siberian line. Harbin is the military, economic, and -political base of Russia in the Far East. That means that the Russian -possessions in East Siberia would be protected by Japan from German -domination or aggression. Let me say, however, that any suggestion that -Japan intends to seize these Russian possessions is monstrous. Japan -would offer protection and assistance, but that is all.” - - --_Dr. T. Iyenaga, in the New York “Tribune.”_ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_“Ueber Alles” and Underneath_ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Expostulation and Reply_ - - -“We cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a -guarantee of anything that is to endure, unless explicitly supported by -such conclusive evidence of the will and purpose of the German people -themselves as the other peoples of the world would be justified in -accepting.” - - --_From President Wilson’s Reply to the Pope, August 27, 1917._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Second Election_ - - -_Bernstorff: “We have defeated Wilson!”_ - -_Wilson: “Wait a moment!”_ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Mad Shepherd_ - -THE GERMAN SUBSTITUTE FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM - - -The Kaiser’s our shepherd, we shall not rest. - -He maketh us to desecrate green pastures; he forceth us to kill in -still waters. - -He claimeth our soul, he leadeth us in the paths of frightfulness for -his name’s sake. - -Yea, though he plunge us into the valley of death, we must call him not -evil, for he is our master, his rod and his staff they drive us. - -Surely horror and evil shall follow us all the days of our life till we -flee from his rule forever. - - ALICE HEGAN RICE. - -_March 16, 1918._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_Sink Without a Trace_” - - - To his dark minions undersea - Flashed the Imperial decree: - Sink Everything! - Spare naught! Sink everything that floats: - Merchantmen, liners, fishing boats; - Sink ships on Mercy’s errand sped, - Dye Christ’s red cross a deeper red: - Sink Everything! - - Sink honor, faith, forbearance, ruth; - Sink virtue, chivalry, and truth, - Sink Everything! - Sink everything that men hold dear, - That devils hate, that cowards fear, - All that lifts Man above the ape, - That marks him cast in God’s own shape: - Sink Everything! - - OLIVER HERFORD. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Changing the Guard_ - - -With the entrance of the United States into the Great War, we Americans -laid aside forever our spiritual isolation. We accepted our share of -responsibility for the assaulted civilization of the world, and our -share of danger at the hands of its great assailant. A free people, -we willingly chose the path of uttermost pain, and we chose it for -the sake of our nation’s honor, our nation’s ultimate safety, and the -salvation of our nation’s soul. - -When Germany denied us the waterways of the world, she struck hard at -our commerce, at our just rights, and at our decent pride. What were -the Hohenzollerns to us that we should have taken our orders from the -Kaiser, tied up our ships in harbor at his behest, and, cowering by our -own firesides, have waited for his permission to carry our flag across -the sea? Was it for this that our forefathers had bought our freedom -with their lives? Had we revolted when we were colonists, weak, poor, -and without resources, from the tyranny of Great Britain (a stupid -but never a brutal tyranny), only to bow the strength of our manhood -before Germany’s shameful threats? Had we preached the sacredness of -human rights for over a hundred years, only to acquiesce in Germany’s -campaign of murder; and, by consenting to her crimes, become a partner -of her guilt? We had suffered cruel injury at her hands. Were we also -to lose our souls through ignoble submission to wrong-doing? - -Our answer was given when President Wilson asked Congress to declare -a state of war. We had then, and we have now, no choice but to fight -for our liberty, or to lose it. Our ships had been sunk, our seamen -drowned. Treacherous officials had plotted to embroil us with friendly -nations. Treacherous hands had fired our factories and murdered our -citizens. The careless lie or the insolent taunt which were Germany’s -alternate answers to our remonstrances, and which she seemed to think -would keep us quiet until she had leisure to turn her arms upon us, are -silenced now. We are upholding the safety and decency of the world, -which has been as deeply degraded by vandalism as when Attila swept -his hordes across the ravaged face of Europe. Our young soldiers are -changing guard with the war-worn veterans of France and Great Britain. -Valiant and gay, they face the oppressor. “He that loveth his life -shall lose it”; and these men stand ready to lay down their lives for -all they hold sacred and dear. Faithful to their country, faithful to -their allies, faithful to the freedom in which they were reared, they -strike their blow in the great name of America, and for the peace of -God. - - AGNES REPPLIER. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Penitent Artist_ - -“_I will never make drawings against the Yellow Peril again!_” - - -The Kaiser has a good many things in his past to live down, but he -certainly never foresaw that some day his inept activities as an artist -would stand across his path. Raemaekers, who was not likely to forget -anything that Wilhelm had done in this particular line, shows him -on his knees to Japan (and incidentally to Mexico), as the infamous -Zimmermann note to the German minister at Mexico City revealed him, -full of remorse for those drawings he once made against the Yellow -Peril. And what is Japan’s reply? The expression which Raemaekers has -caught certainly agrees very well with the following statement of -Count Terauchi, Japanese Prime Minister: “Nothing is more repugnant to -our sense of honor and to the lasting welfare of this country than to -betray our friends and allies in time of trial and to become a party to -a combination directed against the United States, to whom we are bound -not only by the sentiments of true friendship but also by material -interests of vast and far-reaching importance.” - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Peace Angels of Doubtful Purity_ - -_William: “Go, my doves; your charms may prove more fatal than my -armies.”_ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Black Flag_ - -_Germany Sinks British Hospital Ships_ - - -The British Admiralty issued a statement on April 23 [1917], -announcing the sinking of the two hospital steamships _Donegal_ and -_Lanfranc_ without warning by submarines; nineteen British and fifteen -wounded German officers were drowned. In their statement the British -authorities denied the German charge that hospital ships were employed -to transport troops and military supplies.... Germany was notified -that, if her course was persisted in, reprisals would follow, yet the -British hospital ship _Asturias_ was torpedoed without warning on the -night of March 20. The ship was steaming with all navigation lights -burning and the proper Red Cross signs brilliantly illuminated.... On -the night of March 30-31 the hospital ship _Gloucester Castle_ met with -a similar fate. On this occasion the Berlin official wireless message -again published a notification that she was torpedoed by a U-boat, thus -removing any possible doubt in the matter. - - --_The New York Times Current History._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Annexation of America_ - -“_I think, All Highest, we had better not insist upon the annexation of -America._” - - -In the inscription “Ten Million Men Between 21 and 30” on the Statue -of Liberty, Raemaekers has as usual gone to the heart of things. Ten -million trained citizen soldiers!!! What an insurance of peace and -security against attack or insult. Universal Citizen Military Education -and Training. - -From the beginning the first article in our International Creed has -been the Monroe Doctrine--America for Americans. If the result of the -present war shall be to add two additional items to that creed, namely, -Universal Military Education and Training, and the United States, the -First Air Power in the world, it will be worth all that it costs, and -this great nation can go on in peace and security to work out the -mighty destiny awaiting it. - -Raemaekers’ placing “All Highest” and his aide upon the conning tower -of a submarine, suggests another most vital matter at this present time. - -The submarine has held the world’s spotlight for the last two years. -Its deadly efficiency is universally conceded. That deadly efficiency -is the direct result of Admiral von Tirpitz’s unyielding insistence on -a centralized, independent, untrammeled Department for the submarine. - -_We must adopt the same methods if we expect to attain equally deadly -efficiency in the air._ - -But the possibilities of the aeroplane are greater than those of the -submarine. The aeroplane is capable of offensive in the air against -aeroplanes or dirigibles, on the surface of the sea against ships, and -under the sea against submarines. The offensive capabilities of the -submarine can and soon will be restricted to under-surface activities. - -Again, the submarine is limited to the oceans. The aeroplane is limited -by nothing. It can go wherever there is air, and that means everywhere. -In other words, the aeroplane is the master of the submarine. - -If we today had a thousand swift, heavily armed seaplanes continuously -patrolling the water within a radius of three hundred miles of Sandy -Hook (from Portland, Maine, to Norfolk, Virginia), we should have our -five Atlantic sea gateways well guarded, and could feel secure against -any further serious damage from these pests. - -Thus equipped, submarine raids upon our coast would be an -impossibility; and even the imagination of a Raemaekers would not -dare to conceive of a hostile submarine within sight of the Statue of -Liberty. - - PEARY. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_Welcome, Mate; You’re Just in Time!_” - - -“I am in the happy position of being, I think, the first British -Minister of the Crown who, speaking on behalf of the people of this -country, can salute the American Nation as comrades in arms. I am glad; -I am proud. I am glad not merely because of the stupendous resources -which this great nation will bring to the succor of the alliance, but -I rejoice as a democrat that the advent of the United States into this -war gives the final stamp and seal to the character of the conflict as -a struggle against military autocracy throughout the world.” - - --_From the Speech of the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd-George at - the American Club in London, April 12, 1917._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Editor:_ - -“_Use always the American flag and commit as much high treason as you -like._” - - -“Woe to the German-American, so-called, who, in this sacred war for a -cause as high as any for which ever people took up arms, does not feel -a solemn urge, does not show an eager determination to be in the very -fore-front of the struggle; does not prove a patriotic jealousy, in -thought, in action and in speech to rival and to outdo his native-born -fellow citizen in devotion and in willing sacrifice for the country -of his choice and adoption and sworn allegiance, and of their common -affection and pride. As Washington led Americans of British blood to -fight against Great Britain, as Lincoln called upon Americans of the -North to fight their very brothers of the South, so Americans of German -descent are now summoned to join in our country’s righteous struggle -against a people of their own blood, which, under the evil spell of a -dreadful obsession, and, Heaven knows! through no fault of ours, has -made itself the enemy of peace and right and freedom throughout the -world.” - - --_From Otto H. Kahn’s “Right Above Race.”_ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_German Intrigues in Mexico_ - - -Many things in the present war have aroused and enraged the people -of the United States against Germany. The defilement of Belgium, -the ravage of Serbia, the assassination of Armenia, all crimes -against human nature in which we Americans share. Besides that, some -revelations apply especially to us,--grievances, injuries and outrages, -things that seem so far removed from the secret thoughts of decent and -self-respecting nations that we hesitated to believe them. We must -believe them now for we know at last that Germany has for not less -than twenty years been working against the influence and good name of -the United States. It was not for nothing that one of our best-known -public men, when he visited Germany as far back as 1911, said that it -was a country where he felt that “every man, woman and child looked -upon him with hatred,” because he was conspicuous in this country which -had become rich and powerful and prosperous by the road of democracy -instead of by the German path of militarism. - -Every day reveals some new evidence that the German mole was working -in South America, in Central America, in almost every American state -and city, to prepare the minds of those who were to take part in the -infamous conspiracy. Before the war broke out in Europe, Germans were -trying to organize an active cohort within our boundary. The effort to -arouse Mexico against us while we were still neutral, is no worse than -other German diplomacy such as the “spurlos versenkt” radiograms of the -scoundrel Luxburg, directed against the Argentine; but the appeal to -Mexico to “reconquer” Texas and the Southwest was worse than a crime, -it was a blunder, especially resented by the people of that part of the -country. Nothing but an absolute breach with Germany has made possible -the revelation of the cynical violation of diplomatic privileges by -German and Austrian officials in this country from titled Ambassadors -down through consuls-general and consuls-particular and military aides -and secretaries and clerks and hangers-on and spies and jackals, all -uniting to stab the land which gave them hospitality. Whatever else may -happen, a hundred years will not efface from the minds of the people of -the United States the belief that “Germany cannot be a Gentleman.” - - ALBERT BUSHNELL HART. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_German “Militarist” Socialism_ - - -Does not the cartoonist Raemaekers fail in this cartoon? The artist -Raemaekers is inspired--here as always. But does the cartoonist succeed -this time in burning the right idea, his idea, into the reader’s brain? - -Here is the real Kaiser and here are real German workingmen. It is they -who are carrying the burden of Kaiserism. All this is convincing. But -do not other workingmen in other countries carry burdens? - -The failure is only at first glance. Raemaekers is not concerned to -reproduce the conventional cartoon of workingmen carrying a burden of -other classes on their shoulders. The point lies not in the burden, -but in the nature of the burden, the contrast, so perfectly portrayed, -between the character of the Kaiser and the characters of his proud -and willing slaves. The Kaiser, crafty and contemptuous, but neither -so ignorant nor so stupid as to be wholly unconscious of the foolish -and contemptible position he occupies! The workingmen evidently once -strong, intelligent and enthusiastic, though now blinded and crippled, -are utterly unconscious of what they are doing. Carrying the heavy -burden of Kaiserism seems no more to them than their day’s work. - -You see Raemaekers _knows_ both Kaiser and workingmen, and so will have -nothing to do with the conventional portraits of either. The Kaiser is -neither a beast nor a fool--however foolish his position may be. The -workingmen are neither labor heroes ready to revolt, nor conscious and -beaten serfs. - -So much for the picture--at second glance. It leads to an endless -chain of reflections. But the first and most obvious is on the sort -of burden these men are carrying. Here is an accepted ruler who is -allowed to monopolize the _force_ of the nation, as the cartoon clearly -indicates. This of itself gives him an absolute and unlimited power -over his workers. The only possible alternative use of that force is -to make slaves of the workers of other nations. The German workingmen, -it is suggested, lend themselves blindly to this work of enslavement -also--naturally, for it is no different for their Kaiser to rule by -force and lies over non-Germans than to rule by force and lies over -Germans. The face of the Kaiser shows a subconscious realization -of these lies. The workers show utter unconsciousness. The rule of -autocracy over themselves and the extension of that autocracy over -others by means of their blood is to them as much a part of nature as -the motions of sun and moon or the rise and fall of the tides! - -Indeed, the workingmen are clearly proud of their burden and his -successes and undoubtedly feel that any people is blest to be brought -under his benign rule. And here is the moral of the tale. It is the -Kaiser’s successes that have so utterly blinded his serfs. Then there -is one remedy and only one. We need hardly say what that remedy is. - - WILLIAM ENGLISH WALLING. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Old Hammer and the New_ - -_President Wilson elected for a second term._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Spirit of Washington_ - -_President Wilson’s answer to Hertling._ - - -“Woodrow Wilson is in no sense a herald. The revolution of betrayed -idealism has been in progress for more than a century, and in the -last decade particularly there has been steady assault upon evil and -outworn institutions. These passionate gropings of the spirit in the -direction of ideals professed and not practised have merely lacked -great leadership and authoritative expression. This is what Woodrow -Wilson gives. He comes as a leader, as a nucleating force, as a clear, -rallying cry to the almost mystic passions that are peculiarly the -dominant note of the day. He fits the need of the bloodless revolution -as skin fits the hand, bringing purpose and courage to the struggle -for nobler fulfilment of the hopes and aspirations that thrilled those -who first sought refuge in the New World from the oppressions of the -Old--the struggle for real democracy.” - - --_From George Creel’s “Wilson and the Issues.”_ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Massacre of the Innocents_ - -[The following lines are dated July, 1916. “As it stands,” writes -Mr. Howells, “the poem ignores the glorious retrieval of our former -sufferance. It might better now be called A Shame Lived Down.”--ED.] - - -THE AMERICAN PEOPLE - - What was it kept you so long, brave German submersible? - We have been very anxious lest matters had not gone well - With you and the precious cargo of your country’s drugs and dyes. - But here you are at last, and the sight is good for our eyes, - Glad to welcome you up and out of the caves of the sea, - And ready for sale or barter, whatever your will may be. - -THE CAPTAIN OF THE SUBMERSIBLE - - Oh, do not be impatient, good friends of this neutral land, - That we have been so tardy in reaching your eager strand. - We were stopped by a curious chance just off the Irish coast, - Where the mightiest wreck ever was lay crowded with a host - Of the dead that went down with her; and some prayed us to bring them - here - That they might be at home with their brothers and sisters dear. - We Germans have tender hearts, and it grieved us sore to say - We were not a passenger ship, and to most we must answer nay, - But if from among their hundreds they could somehow a half-score - choose - We thought we could manage to bring them, and we would not refuse. - They chose, and the women and children that are greeting you here are - those - Ghosts of the women and children that the rest of the hundred chose. - -THE AMERICAN PEOPLE - - What guff are you giving us, Captain? We are able to tell, we hope, - A dozen ghosts, when we see them, apart from a periscope. - Come, come, get down to business! For time is money, you know. - And you must make up in both to us for having been so slow. - Better tell this story of yours to the submarines, for we - Know there was no such wreck, and none of your spookery. - -THE GHOSTS OF THE _Lusitania_ WOMEN AND CHILDREN - - Oh, kind kin of our murderers, take us back when you sail away; - Our own kin have forgotten us. O, Captain, do not stay! - But hasten, Captain, hasten! The wreck that lies under the sea - Shall be ever the home for us this land can never be. - - WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS. - _July, 1916._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_In the Ring to Stay_ - - -It is Ambassador Gerard’s opinion that when the German government -issued its final insult to the United States, all the Kaiser’s advisers -were convinced that no provocation would make the American people -fight. President Wilson, they argued, had just been re-elected on a -peace platform. They counted, it was evident, upon the influence of -the millions of German-Americans to frustrate hostilities, and Herr -Zimmermann of the Foreign Office openly threatened the revolt of -500,000 German reservists in America if the United States dared “to -do anything against Germany.” The Western States were reported to be -indifferent to the technicalities of the submarine dispute. The East -was described as interested in the submarine sinkings only because they -interfered with the traffic in munitions and the profits therefrom. The -whole country was supposedly averse to war, unwilling to enter into -European entanglements, and devoted solely to peaceful industry and -money-grubbing. - -Yet within a year afterwards, America had accepted conscription -and raised an armed force of two million men. It had contributed -billions of dollars to the war through government loans that were -more popularly subscribed than even the German or the English loans. -Government control had been accepted without question in every sort of -private activity. Food regulations, fuel regulations, the regulation -of industry, shipping, labor and transportation, voluntary censorship -of the press, military censorship of the cables and the telegraph and -the mails, prohibition of distilling, the enforcement of price-fixing, -the curtailment of profits and the levying of confiscatory taxes had -all been submitted to without a murmur. It had come to be a byword in -Washington that “the people could not be asked to do enough”; that the -fund of patriotism was so great it was difficult to find channels for -it; that no war in the history of the nation had ever been supported so -unanimously. - -What explanation is there for the miracle of that change? Washington -believes that it is chiefly due to one man. It believes that President -Wilson, by his patient efforts to maintain peace, convinced the whole -nation of the impossibility of avoiding war before he gave voice to -that conviction. It realizes that, even then, a great mass of the -people were loyal but unenthusiastic, until he outlined the country’s -war aims in his famous messages, and at once lifted the conflict to -a higher level of purpose and gathered to his fervent support every -sentiment and hope of democracy in the land. - -Washington is now convinced that the war can have but one issue. There -is no question of the outcome. The leaders of the nation are aware that -the United States is “in the ring to stay.” As the Secretary of War has -said: “The American people were slow to rouse to this war. They will be -as slow to cool. They wished peace. They still wish it. But they have -learned that there is but one way to obtain peace, and they propose to -obtain it that way. They know what they are fighting for, and they will -fight till they achieve it.” - - HARVEY O’HIGGINS. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_We Attacked the ‘Fortress of London’_” - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Not a Bad Start!_ - - -Can a Republic fight a successful war? Can a people with a century and -a quarter of free thought, free speech and free press change suddenly -from words to deeds? Can custom and tradition yield gracefully to -necessity? Is the heart and brain of the Republic so impressed with -the magnitude and importance of this war as to induce it to forget the -things which are past and to press forward to the things which are -needful? - -The Imperial German Staff thought not. It imagined that a people, whose -daily sport was carping criticism of their public officials, whose army -was hardly as large as a policeman’s squad, whose sentiments were all -for peace and arbitration, whose ordnance was archaic and whose only -gas-bombs were perfervid oratory could never right-about-face and set -themselves to engage in the horrific warfare desolating the fields of -Europe. - -The mistake in this German opinion sprang from a misconception of what -liberty really means and of the things for which freedom really stands. -Its assumption was that there could be no courage with kindliness nor -strength with flexibility. To the slow-going mind of the methodical -German his mistaken view is beginning to appear. His first jolt came -when the traditions of a century and a quarter with reference to -military service were, without riot, tumult or disorder, set aside and -10,000,000 young men of America, without murmur, submitted themselves -to conscription. He was further prodded when he learned that, as each -successive liberty loan was presented to the people of America it was -promptly taken, and what is more important, taken by larger and larger -numbers of citizens. - -No wonder Uncle Sam and the world think it no bad start that we -have made. Like all reforms, it has been accompanied by lapses, by -weaknesses, by mistakes of judgment, but through it all there has run -the golden thread of a cohesive, coherent and indomitable American -public opinion that this country, having set itself to the task of -assisting the Allies in forever freeing the world from the menace of -German military power, will never turn back in the breaking of a single -furrow until the blood-guiltiness of the German race shall be put -underneath the sod and the world shall be planted with the asphodels of -a permanent peace. - -Uncle Sam still smiles confidently, knowing full well that every day -is rectifying mistakes and that every day is adding to the bull-dog -tenacity of a people, who are willing to defend to the uttermost the -principles for which they stand against invasion from without and -sedition from within. - - THOS. R. MARSHALL, - _Vice-President of the United States_. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_An Echo of the Luxberg Case_ - - -The Junkers: “These Lansing disclosures are bad. We don’t know how to -counteract them because we don’t know how much more evidence he has -got.” - -[Illustration] - - - - -_German Chivalry to Wounded Officers_ - - -They do these things differently in France. While in France in May and -June, I saw many squads of German prisoners working at the railroad -stations, on the roads and in the factories. Of the several thousands -I saw, not one looked underfed, ill clothed or abused. While their -barracks did not have steam heat, electricity and all the comforts of -home, the board and lodging they received compared favorably with that -of the average French soldiers, and the franc a day thrown in as wages -could all go for extras if desired. I was told that they all preferred -to be prisoners in France rather than to return to the “freedom” of -Germany while the war lasts. - -Once I obtained permission to question a gang of Prussians working in -France on an American road under a British guard. This is what they -said to me: “We believe America intends to conquer France. Certainly -you will never leave this country after having spent so much money on -docks and wharves and warehouses and railroads.” - -Evidently the common German mind cannot conceive of a people going to -another’s territory and spending money there unless with some sinister, -ulterior, selfish, political motive behind it. - -As Irving Cobb says, we must extract the mania from Germania. - - HAMILTON HOLT. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Socialism in Germany_ - - -It is one of the tragedies of history that the great Social Democracy -of Germany, in which liberal thinkers of all lands reposed so much -faith, proved, when the testing time came, to be utterly devoid of -intellectual and moral integrity, a base betrayer of international -Socialist ideals and a subservient tool of Prussian autocracy. - -The great majority of the German Socialists, led by such men as -Scheidemann, Sudekum, David and Legien, upheld the Imperial German -Government and thus became the accomplices of the assassins of Potsdam. -These so-called “Socialists” even stooped so low as to attempt to bribe -the Socialists of other countries in the interests of the Kaiser and -his cowardly crew. In Italy and in Russia in particular, and in other -countries less effectively, they used their Socialist connections to -assist the military schemes of Germany, notwithstanding the fact that -these were designed to destroy every essential Socialist principle. - -Herr David, perhaps the ablest of the leaders of the Majority -Socialists, declared in the Reichstag that “The German armies must -continue to fight vigorously _whilst the German Socialists encourage -and stimulate pacifism among Germany’s enemies_.” The whole policy of -the Majority Socialists has been based upon that sinister principle. - -The small and uninfluential but heroic minority, led by Karl -Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg and George Ledebour alone have exemplified -the ideals of Socialism. They deserve our lasting honor as fully as the -others deserve our lasting contempt. - -Socialism is not dead in Germany: only the great political party of -Socialism is shattered. In the hearts of the brave men and women of the -Minority Socialists the sacred flame still burns. In that lies the only -hope for German Socialism. - -History will record this bitter judgment of the German Social -Democracy: It was an active partner in the crimes of the Hohenzollern -dynasty against civilization; it infamously betrayed the Russian -Revolution and prostituted itself to the most malefic despotism of a -thousand years. - - JOHN SPARGO. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Spirit of German Science_ - - -The moral revulsion of the world against the Germans is justified by -their use of science. - -It is not a question of the excellence, amount, or character of -science--all subjects of legitimate debate--but of the use the Germans -make of science. While science has been used in war at all times and -has been a formidable arm in the hands of those who have known how -to use it, still the limits of its use have been fixed with more or -less rigor. Even before the conventions of The Hague were formulated, -there was the general recognition of the natural distinction between -civilized and barbarous warfare. The savage’s poisoned arrow has been -the symbol of what, though scientific, was barbarous. The murder of the -wounded soldier or of the disarmed prisoner has always been condemned -as the crime of the _apache_, not the method of the gentleman. Pity for -the innocent--women, children, even the animals--and merciful treatment -of the helpless--the drowning, the famished--seem to mark man, even in -the profession of intentional killing of his fellow-man, as moved by a -certain sentiment, a certain sense of human superiority to the brute -which takes blood simply from the love of it. - -Even against the legitimate foe there are certain means of offense -so base--the use of poison in wells, the diffusion of microbes of -disease--or so treacherous--the dynamite-loaded cigar--that the -chivalrous man redresses himself at the thought of them with a shudder -of mingled moral contempt and physical nausea. - -This has been the use made of science by the Germans. They have -abolished the distinction between the knight and the brute, between the -man and the snake, between pure science and foul practice. This damns -the German race. - -Our grandchildren will say to their grandchildren: “You murdered -people in open boats, you bombarded audiences kneeling in churches, -you torpedoed hospital ships in plain ocean, you sent young girls into -immoral slavery, you tortured prisoners, you poisoned the wells used -by civilian populations, you did a hundred treacherous things that our -fathers and mothers shuddered to recall. _You Germans did it._” - -To future generations this will damn the German race. No theory of the -super-man, of the chosen state, of the alliance with God will ever -gloss it over. - -Their science may have honored the Germans, but the Germans have -dishonored science. - -German science has always had the credit of making happy application -and practical use of abstract laws and formulas, chemical, physical, -biological. In applying science in war, however, it has disallowed -the moral laws which underlie all sound science and healthy life. -Here German “applied science” will remain, let us hope, for all time -unrivalled. - - J. MARK BALDWIN. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Humanity and Her German Lovers_ - - -It is not possible to judge Louis Raemaekers as an artist. He is a -voice, a sword, a flame. His cartoons are the tears of women, the -battle-shout of indomitable defenders, the indignation of humanity, the -sob of civilization. They will go down into history. They are history. -To take them, to turn page after page, is to _know_ the European War, -to see it face to face, as a child sees, and not through a glass darkly. - -It is one of the great works of the world which he has done. Perhaps -genius was only dormant, waiting for the cry of general catastrophe to -bring it forth into vivid, terrific life. And yet--for who shall say -that all things in heaven and earth are understood?--it may be that -those same voices that called through the orchard of Domremy called to -the cartoonist in the office of the Amsterdam “Telegraaf,” that into -his simple soul, recommended to God by its love of flowers, there fell -a tear from on high. - - _George Creel in “The Century Magazine,” June, 1917._ - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Strikers_ - -_Striker to Agitator: “You speak very well, but when I see these -fellows I’m ashamed I ever listened to you.”_ - - -Raemaekers’ cartoons will prove an immortal comment on the great world -war. He makes the world see that war does not create atrocities but -that war itself is the supremest of all atrocities. When the names of -battles have been forgotten the name of Raemaekers will be spoken with -gratitude and reverence by coming generations. - - CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_1776-1917_ - - -Men, nations, and movements are symbolized by their moments of -crisis. The long, tedious, humdrum years of life never get into -picture, never fire human imagination; even though those years are the -necessary foundations upon which great events rise. So America for -nearly a century and a half has been symbolized--at least in European -eyes--by that great moment when she rose in the world and asserted -her independent status “among the nations of the earth.” The men of -’76 have stood for American valor, American military skill, American -statesmanship. Now has come a time when “a decent respect for the -nations of mankind requires” that Americans shall again stand for their -portrait in history. This time we are standing among the civilized -nations not for independence, but for interdependence! Where once we -stood for a nation consecrated to freedom, now we stand for a community -of nations consecrated to justice. Perhaps when the new portraits are -painted in this great hour of crisis all the nations of the world will -appear in history with new faces. The soldier of the revolution of ’76; -the red-capped liberty girl of France, the conventional John Bull, the -German war lord--all will “suffer a sea-change into something rich and -strange.” And the old portraits that glimpsed the old truth about the -old world shall in the new world have but an archaic interest! - - WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. - -[Illustration] - - - - -“_Now, Hindenburg, Bring on the Rest of My People_” - - -All of us who love the Old Germany we knew, who have dear friends -there, and who have rejoiced in the happiness honest industrialism -and widespread commerce were bringing to a great people before this -terrible slaughter began feel a deep pang of sorrow as we look upon -Raemaekers’ terrible picture of what the war has brought to Germania. - -The dreadful pity of it is that Germania should have brought this upon -herself by appealing to the Sword when the Temple of Peace stood open -and all her present enemies were pleading that there should be no -shedding of blood. - - DAVID JAYNE HILL. - -[Illustration] - - - - -_The Master of the Hounds_ - -“_Remember, Michaelis, every dog has his day!_” - -[Illustration] - - - - -_Processional_ - - - Not for a flaunted flag, O God, - Not for affronted power, - Not for a scurrile hope of gain, - Not for the pride of an hour, - Not for vengeance, hot in the heart, - Now have we swung to war! - Not for a weak mistrust lest peace - Is a shame strong men abhor. - Not for glory--for oh, to kill - Should be a sacred wrath: - Not for these! but to war on war - And sweep it from earth’s path! - - Patient has been our creed, till now, - Patient, too, our hope, - Patient for long our loathful deed, - For the just in doubt must grope. - But with a foe at last arrayed - Against the whole world’s right, - You, O soul of the universe, - Your very self must fight. - You yourself; so but one prayer - Need we to lift--but one, - That by our battle shall all war - Be utterly undone. - - CALE YOUNG RICE. - -[Illustration] - - - - - Transcriber’s Notes: - - Due to space constraints some lines of the poem ‘THE CAPTAIN OF THE - SUBMERSIBLE’ on page 180 have been split. - - Italics are shown thus: _sloping_. - - Small capitals have been capitalised. - - Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained. - An exception is ‘Raemaekers’ for ‘Raemakers’ on page 174. - - Punctuation has been retained as published. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICA IN THE WAR *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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