The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-07-30
German hypocrisy

Whatever others may have TO say,
OF think. We here express the conyic-
ton that all those Germans who invoke
the moral law, Or even the humane
rule Of action against the manufactur-
ers Of the United States for selling war
supplies 10 any one who wants to buy
and is able 10 pay. are the rankest kind
Of hypocrites For thirty years Ger
many enjoyed q world monopoly Of the
manufacture and sale Of large and
small instruments and material used IN
wa1 10 Kill people. With that Gus
tomary efficiency for which they have
become proverbial they made the best
and most effective killing stuff 10 be
mad and the balance Of the world came
to her door to buy. Is there single
instance Oh record where Germany
ever refused, for any reason, 10 sell
cannon. powder and guns, and wal
ships, TO any nation that wanted 10
buy. either al peace OF engaged IN
war? Is not German wealth and pros
perity largely due 10 profits Oh the sale
Of war material Of one kind Of another
TO other nations? Are moi the Krupp
works, employing over hundred thon-
sand men, not 10 mention twenty other
German manufacturers Of Wal material,
only smaller than the Krupp works.
guilty Of selling wal material Of every
kind TO Moslen Turks TO Kill Christian
Italians 2 few years ago? OF selling
wa1 material TO heather Japan TO STAY
Christian Russians7 Did they not sell
powder and guns to al the wsring
Balken states 70 Kill each other two OF
three years ago? Have they not always
sold war material 10 both sides, to any
body who wanted 10 buy? They even
sold Lnger pistols to the United States.
Whenever new and more destructive
instrument Of destruction was given 10
the world by some other nation have
not the Germans improved and per
ferted Il and made profit nn III In
the past thirty years have not the
Krupps and the other German war ma
terial makers brought some len billion
dollars Of foreign money to Germany
Il is z well known fact that war ma
tsrial bears higher raie Of profit than
anything made, and the shrewd Ger
mans simply outdid the Yankees and
the other manufacturing nations. and
mp 10 the beginning Of the present wU
had q world monopoly Of making and
selling killing instruments and nS-
ferisl. Il tins is not al true somebody
riss ND and show otherwise. Now the
whole German nation is Pharissically
and hypocritically shouting al rs. Fou
are allowing your avgricions manuiac-
tu1srs 10 make profit OF material IN
tended 70 XII Germans Yon are a
low-bred lot Of money grubbe-s. You
are unchsistian. You are entirely
given over TO money making You
41e money worshippe-s. You are
worse than hesthens. and lot more Of
the same kind Of vituperztiTe adjec-
lives.
In the light Of the example which
the German nation set before the
world. 10; only once. bui repeatedly,
We assert they hare 10 night 10 com
plain Z, or government or or msnn-
iaciureTs. Their complain; sounds hol-
low and hypocridczl. Il is unsound
and lacks force. The whole nation is
mad with kin Inst and beside Itself
When they &c; sobsr they VII see how
nutenzble and unreasonable, IN the
Light Of thei Own practice n the past.
is their contention.
We do not believe In wr L there is
Al honorable way 10 avoid II. The
Germans should remember, few years
ago when the matter Of disarmament
came before the nations TIE German
government was one Of the first 10 OBJ
iect and discourage the movement
The American manufacturers might re-
DIV IN kind by saying. Because Of the