The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18

that of the French. The German. owing to his strong individualism, does not rel ish the prominence of another German alongside of him; it is the failing our our virtue. But the coalition of our enemies is indeed a single conspiracy of envy. The German merchant, with his efficiency, is thorn in the side of the greedy Eng lishman. German education and honesty form a dam against the Russian flood. The splendor of our victories has dark ened the glory of France. But. after all it was the huckster with his greed who has brought the whole conspiracy to head. Without England's aid there wauld Lave been no war. We see France crouch at the feet of Russian barbarism, the same France which has taught the world the ideas of liberty. equality. and fra , ternity. and we see England join hands with her old arc henemy.A Russia-the same England which was the ella ssical home of constitutional government So sincere, then. were you in your defense of liberty for Europe that, when your vanity or your pocketbook'is affected. you are willing to refute all the old glory of your history9 The English gentleman, in nis personal life. knows no greater dis grace than to lie: and yet you are not ashamed to lie in the face of God and an enlightened world by reporting every one of our victories defeat? You sec tlie sublime spectacle of the complete unity or Germany, and yet you tell the world about riots and revolution in Berlin Your frst act of heroism was to cut our cable In order that you might deceive the world by lies without contradiction.
 Blush for the Truth
 You have to do it, for you could not ten the truth without blushing. so bad IS your cause But the penalty of your conduct will overtake you To be van quished in honest warfare IS no disgrace but to be unmasked in defeat as a com mon liar and fraud is disgrace which even the greatest nation cannot bear with impunity. The world will blush for shame. and will not forgive you for hay ing deceived it. It win long for and hail With satisfaction the fall of govern ! ment which has dared to poison all the world with lias
 But for us 1t is better thus. We know what We fight for It is to be or not to De; the existence or nonexistence of the Germanic spirit is the stake. England in league with Muscovitism, Is to deter mine that Germanic culture shall no longer count in mundane evolution. What a sad spectacle of vanished glory that in this struggle France is merely an appendi! She is no longer counted on as Independent and, what Is worse. she has consecrated herself to the cause of darkness, to Russian tyranny.
 What fills our souls with immeasur- able confidence is that the German cause Is the cause of decency and truth We fight for the preservation of German thought on this earth. We fight for a life of German depth and sincerity and Teutonic liberty. We fight for the prin- ciple that man shall pc allowed to gain success by education and efficiency without hindrance by envy and Jealousy.
 Fight for Worlds Cause
 We wage this war not for ourselves alone but for the whole earth, for do not be deceived: If Germany were crushed. then the last decisive battle would occur between Russia and Eng land. The old world would become either Russian or English it would sink to the depth of Russian barbarism or content it. self with the doubtful boon of English responsibility and hypocrisy. We fight for higher purposes and for something besides. Policies which have their source in hatred and envy and such as forced England and France into the Czar's yoke should be forever banished. We fight for the worlds relief from the lie. You Americans, you Japanese have you no sense of the disgrace which results from the fact that you must ac-
 
 English spectacles as to everything that transpires In the world? There must be an end to this net woven around the whole globe and in which the world hangs captive for the benefit of the Eng fish huckster spirit We want to strug- gle for the comprehension by the world that in the last analysis 1t Is a moral force which determines life on this globe and that sacred will carries and weighs the people in its hands. Our faith in an ethical order of things shah find it's con firmation. It is sacred cause, for the deepest and only meaning of piety Is that our whole life shall be dedicated to sacred will unto death. It Is the cause of God which you defend. my young friends, and in God Is your strength.
 Has Read of "Atrocities'
 'T have read and heard about the atrocities which your comrades in Bel gium, France, and Russia have suffered at the hands of the population. Not even the physicians and sisters in performing their samaritan duties. and not even the wounded and dying, are secure against develish murderers. Everybody, even the