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ports. with her dgct secure on ths
western coast nf England
Then there waa fhc tale that the
Kaiser had one hundred socialists
shot We know that the socialists
who fell were al the front. One
socialist voted against one war ap-
preparation and more has been made
of that than Of the resignation ~
three Of Great Britains most dis
~tinguished citizens from her Cabinet.
because they did not approve Of the
war.
We hear about atrocities / shall
not go into thar subject. We know
that there are atrocities in al wars.
and that there are bad people in all
countries. But. upon reflection, the
American mind will hardly accept
that the German soldier Il least a
product OF a schooling system and Of
a system Of labor and works more
brutal than an army that is composed
.cf English, French, Begians, Russians,
Japanese, Hindus and Turcos. 1t does
not appeal to the imagination and
Judgment; and rather than listen to
all these accusations. ! would take the
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mar such as Great Britain has ever
had, a man, every inch Of him-who.
in writing the book Forty Years in
India observed the moderation and
the modesty that Grant showed in his
memoirs, and who deprecated these
accusations because. as he said. there
are atrocities in all wars Finally,
as investigations are made by Amer
leans, and even by Englishmen, these
accusations fall to the ground.
And so about the attcks upon the
coast. 1t is the purpose now to have
us believe that those attacks are bar
barous and savage. 1t is true a man
reading an account like that is bound
TO put down the paper. One child or
one woman killed or injured in that
manner is enough Of tragedy for a
whole war. Have you read about the
little peasant girl in Galicia who re-
ceiVed the highest order from the
Austrian Emperor because her leg
was shot off while carrying water to
the fighting soldiers9 But let US re-
member that the first attack on an
undefended coast was made by the
British ship Pegasus, while the coast
of England is at least defended; and
the firsti aerial raid was made upon
unfortihed Dusseldorf in Germany.
That was the introduction in the
early part of the war. which has been
followed up since then at other points;
and the only difference between the
is that the n has been effective
anf the other was not,
That brings to my mind the point
to which your chairman referred, and
which should not be forgotten. Great
Britain will naturally make much Of
these attacks because she has not
smelt foreign powder in her country
for several centuries. | do not say
that rejoicingly, but these are facts.
Great Britain has fought many wars,
and has had many peoples help her
fight, but she has had no fighting on
English soil. Granting that her men
have fought like brave men-and they
have been and are a brave people, in
spite Of everything that may be said
now-they have not known for CEN
what it is to have English wo-
men and children subjected to the
ravages Of war.
Germany, on the other hand, knows
what war means. She has never had
to forget, and she is not apt
to declare war hastily.
When abroad last summer | asked
whether / could get a piece Of old
German furniture. | knew | could
get French and Italian. but ! wanted
a representative piece of old German.
was told it could not be had, because
the thirty years war had left none.
That is the whole story. No one
how that country has been
devastated by wars fought upon its
soil, often by foreign contending
Only the other day | read that
no historian has ever dared to put in
print the real story OF the thirty years
war. Was ID very different in the
Napoleonic wars2 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ism, but no recognition in the treaty
81 Vienna. Had Germany been given
Eisas and Lothringen by treaty then,
that question would have been Justly
and finally settled. She was denied
SO much. She was left to take
these provinces in 1870. and thus was