Evening journal., 1915-05-12

of that happiness which our constitu-
ton declares is their right.
Poor, crushed, ravaged Belgium was
but the first sacrifice and the immedi-
ate victim of the new German spirit.
Louvain and Rheims, the slaughtered
women and babies of the Lusitania-
these are but incidents in the evolu-
ton of the German purpose. What
Germany did at Liege she would do
on Long Island, if only her fleets
could be sent here to impress her will
upon our faces as the iron heel OF
the Prussian soldier impressed the
same will upon the upturned faces
of the Belgian children who were
murdered to awe and terrify Belgium.
Let no American now mistake the
point to which we have come. II Ger
many, having admitted, proclaimed,
her responsibility for the Lusitania
massacre, now asserts her determine
ton to continue the policy that led
to it. then there is but one course for
a nation hOnoring itself, caring for its
citizens. We are not yet sunk to the
Chinese level or become totally dead
to all that makes a nation a contin-
uing force in human history.
In the jungles of Hindustan when
a man eating tiger approaches the Vi
entity of a village and begins to prey
upon the inhabitants these wretched
creatures prepare propitiatory offer
ings, kill animals TO satisfy his hun
ger in the hope that their children
may be spared. But the tiger. hav-
ing tasted human blood, scorns all
such substitutes, rejects all such Of
ferings.
Let us not mistake the German
tiger Let us not imagine that by
any tributes, any prayerful courtesies
we shall persuade him to turn aside
from the paths he has entered. If We
cannot drive him from his lair. from
the position which enables him ia
kill our children, by any other means
then we must go out and share in the
work of killing him; we must join
with the other villages and hamlets
in a tiger battle: we must do our
share that men and women and chill
dren may hereafter be safe.
The thing that German naval Off
GERS have done to American men, wo-
men and children was an act of wal
as well as a deed of barbarism. Il
has been Endorsed by the German
government If it is to be repeated
there is but one course for the Presi.
dent and for this country. We shall
not invite peace but new massacre
if we fail to make the Germans under
stand that to prevent a repetition Of
the Lusitania affair we shall fight
From last Friday some millions o.
Americans will ceaselessly regre
that there are not American army
corps in Flanders, fighting not fol
France or Britain. not even for Bel
GUM. but for civilization, for hui
manity, for all that sweetness anC
light means in a world suddenly
brought face to face with the HUI
and the Vandal.
Let Germany but announce that SHIT
purposes to repeat her offence agains
us. against humanity, and all Mr.
, Wilson's task will be done. He nigh
then lead. but he could not restrain, ;
/ nation looking from the grim spec
tacle OF the women and children OF
= the pier at Queenstown, poor, NUT
, evidences of the meaning of the Ger
/ man policy of "terribleness." to thOs
{ other. living children. against whom
- German rage may now be directed
1 One question remains to be answered
: after that our action will be auto
{ matte.