Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1914-09-09

enough for such action.
But let us turn our attention,
for a moment, in another direc-
ton. There is Russia, the unspeak-
ably brutal, betial Russia. Being
not entirely ignorant of the in
ner history of that country, |
confess that what | know of Eng
fish, SO far, is not sufficiently
vitriolic to handle this case in
proper fashion. Yet many, prob
ably most, of our countrymen
wish that Russia may beat Ger
many. Russia, where helpless old
men, women and children, with
the cOnniyance Of the authorities,
are being sabred, shot, manned,
prosecuted, maltreated, and ex-
lied, because these unhappy ones
did commit the fearful crime of
being born Jews. 1t may not be
generally known that the Gar
(half Dane and whole Barbarian
is afraid to trust either Christian
or Jew with his precious life, so
that his guards, those that daily
watch over him, are Mohamme-
dams. Aand this man, whose GO
vernment knows how TO crush a
subjugated country with an iron
heel, now holds out hope for a
restoration of the Kingdom Of
Poland, if the Poles will fight
Germany also, that he will give
the poor Jews full religious and
political equality of rights, if
they will do as much. Poor Jews,
poor Poles, poor Finlanders !
Will they belive such honeyed
prattleY Have they forgotten the
golden promises made by the
same man, when Japan was tear
ing his army and navy to shreds,
the promise of a bona-fide repre-
sentative government - and how
the promise materialzed
Kind reader, do you really
wish that Russia might win in
this terrific ware
AS between a Russian and a
German victory, give me the
latter.
What have we that we did
not reeeiye-from Germany. This,
Of course, is a hyperbole. But if
absolutely everything, both of
a spiritual and material nature,
which we have obtained from the
German nation, were suddenly
taken away, we wouldn't know
ourselves. Almost every abstract
idea in our higher thoughtful ;
a large number of social improve
ments; even our very Lutheran
faith came from Germany. What
have we received from England ?
A helping hand in 1s643l-And
from Russia, WHAT Oh, yes,
from that country we have con
tinually received news Of bestial
brutality of medieval stagnation
in the forms and methods of
government of graft and drum
keness and so on. And this is a
nation deserving of victory, do
you say
Not that the Germans are
faultless. They have literally
been drunk with victory ever
since 1870. But not without rea-
son, considering the glory Of
beating an enemy which had pre-
viously subjected them to an end
less variety of humiliation. The
day of vengeance came and was
taken advantage of to the full ex-
tent. If the Germans had not
been proud and overbearing.
since 1870, they should have been
more than human. But, taken by
and large, their social system is
based On justice.
War, as has been suecinctly
said, is hell. And a world-war
is hell with the flues open, and
all the furnaces roaring. When
under fire, and surrounded by
brutalizing sights, the mind Of
the soldier involuntarily retro
grades a thousand years. All in
termediary civilization and hui
manizing influences are as though
they were not. 10 was said of
japanese soldiers that, in the