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Oswald Garrison Willard in the American
Reviews of Reviews.

Oswald Garrison Willard in the American
Reviews of Reviews.
What intensifies the difficulty of the
German-American is that there are two
GermanyS.
One is that of the kaiser and of the
military autocracy, those VINO beheve IN
the divine right of rulers, in the mailed
fist, in government by aristocracy, in
might as against right n have taught
the doctrine hat peace can only be as
sured if all the nations be armed to the
teeth.
It's adherents are those who see in the
Waffenrock another hat of Gessler, be-
fore which the public must bow They
uphold the officers who cut down lame
cobblers or run through civilians at
some fancied insult, and applaud those
wearers of the uniform who resort to
the duel, long since outlaWed by the en-
frightened sentiment of the world.
These are the Germans who intrench
power the ennobled and enriched
classes; who are without trust in the
people and are utterly opposed to any
extension of democracy, relying for aid
upon a subservient bureaucracy; who
support the Prussian government in its
refusal to remove the inequalities
among voters within it's electorate
against which 100000 Prussfans pro-
tested last ear on a single day.. 1t is
they who make a large part Of the
world forget that the Germans are
among the most lovable, useful and en-
lightened of people; that they are
bound to us by ties that ought to be
indissoluble. Surely no German-Amer-
lean who really believes in republican
Institutions, in popular government, in
the ideals Of Washington M Lincoln,
can uphold this Germany.
Have Great Souls.
But there is another Germany be-
sides this one of the autocrats-totally
| different, infinitely nobler. It is the
Germany of the great souls who have
really made the spirit of the nation, it's
thinkers, it's teachers, its scientists, its
civic administration, it's poets, it's glori-
BUS musicians, its philosophers, its
idealists, its patriots Of the wars for
reedOm and Of the lost struggle for
liberty in 1S4S.
To this Germany thousands of Amer
leans owe a debt of never ending graft
tude. From it hosts of our teachers,
our professional men without number,
and others in every rank of life have
drawn their most cherished inSpira-
lions. To it we owe in considerable
measure u university development;
rom 1t came in large degree the impe-
tus towards good civic government
which has been one of the glories Of
Dur American Progress in the last two
decades. From this Germany Lloyd
| GeOTSe mas dS1dTlZe llOSo plans Tor
the improvement of the welfare Of the
masses which nave made him at once
the best beloved and best hated man in
Great Britain
In the civic care of its own this Ger
many has led the world, with all to do
1t reverence. 1t has known best how
to build the city beautiful and made
good and progressive government the
b1rthright of all it's urban dwellers. In
no other nation has science in the same
degree become the partner of
and of industry. Nowhere else has there
been a keener. if as keen, an intellec-
tual freedom among those whose lives
are dedicated to the pursuit of truth
or to the instrucgtion of the young.
Nowhere has there been a greater
reverence for the aristocracy of intel
lect or as generous a recognition of it's
achievements. To sit at the feet of its
inspired teachers, men and women have
come from all quarters of the globe
knowing that in 100 fields his Germany
led the world.
And it is this Germany which TODAY
lies PROSTATE before us. 1t is this Ger
many which is being slaughtered, what
war. On behalf of this Germany any
really enlightened ruler must have
stood for peac against the world. no
matter who might be mobilizing or
where. To the support of his kingdom
the whole intellectual world would have
risen-it did in England-had the kaiser
but cried out its needs and asked for
allies to defend and not break the