Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22

King of England by everybody who cares
for an understanding and not for de-
fusion. OF course, now we have taken
up the sword and now we are not going
to lay it down until before God and
men we have proved our holy fight.
Who was it that did conspire to bring
about this war? Who even whistled for
the Mongollan. for the Jap, that he
should come TO viciously and cowardly
bite at Europe's heel? Doubtless our
enemies, who, surrounded by hordes of
CoSsacks, claim to fight for European
civilization.
II is with great pain and bitterness
that | pronounce the word England"
| belong to those barbarans upon whom
the English University of Oxford be-
slowed the degree of doctor honor,s
causa. have friends in England who
with one foot are standing on the in
tellectual soil of Germany. Haldane.
former English Minister of War, and
with him numerous Engllshmen under
took regular pilgrimages TO the small
barbarian city of Weimar where the
barbarians Goethe, Schiller, Herder,
Wieland and others have exerted them
selrs for the humanity of the whole
World.
BLOOD TIES OF RULERS.
We have a German poet whose dramas
have become national property as the
dramas of no other German poet. Hi.
name is William Shakespeare. the same
Shakespeare who is EngIand's prince o,
poets The mother of our Emperor, is
an English woman, the wife of the
King Of England a German And vet
this congenerical and congenial naaion
las sent the declaration of war into our
house. Why? Heaven only may know.
hut TINS much is certain-the sang7li-
NuOuS world concert now raging on the
European Continent has an English diplo-
mat as !mpEcSariu and conductor. The
question Is whether the finale of this
horrlnl" music still will see the same
conductor. My cousin. thou didst not
mean well. neither with thyself nor with
MS, when thy tools threw murder andi
arson into our huts." While I am writ,
lng these words the day of the solar,
"Clips. hd- passed The German army,
has defeated between Metz and thea
N"SS"s eight French army corps and
driven them into fight. Every German
in his native country feels it had 10
come this way. Our Jealous enemies
forged an iron ring around our breast
and We knew our breast had 10 expand
that il had to split asunder this ring or
else we had 10 cease breathing But
Germany Will not cease TO breathe, and
50 it came to pass that the iron ring was
forced apart
We rather want TO and will keep on
being German harbsrians, who consider
the women and children Of our enemies
sacred. ! am in position 10 assure Mr..
that We will never stoop so
low s 10 torture and slaughter, like cow
ards Belgian girls, women or children.
AS said before, on frontiers our off
spring is standing, the Socialist elbow 10
elbow with the bourgeois, the peasant
shoulder 10 shoulder with the scientist
the prince and the laborer side by side,
all fFhtIng FOR German liberty. German
home life. German art, German science.
German progress: fighting in fun and
clear consciousness for a noble and rich
national treasure for all We call our own,
for our material and spiritual posses
s.o-s which are furthering the general
progress and ascent Of humanity