The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-12

this article for the relief OF Belgium
direct to the Commission fer Relief
in Belgium, II Broadway, New
York. In his letter to the Commits
sion forwarding the article, Mr..
shaw suggests, in true Shaw vein,
that the Commission give permits
sion for "a republication of the copy
rightcd article to any newspaper OF
magazine throughout the world as
long as there remains a single Ger
man soldier on duty in Belgium"
Ii ] was TO say to a Belgian tina
line words butter no p%arsnips, he
would wonder what on earth l meant.
that Is perhaps fortunate; for If ever
q nation had reason to remind the
world of hat saying, 1t is the Bel
gan nation at the present crisis.
J I'M afraid many Of us have q
rather complacent impression that
France and Britain came in q very
handsome way to the rescue Of
brave little Belgium, and that it is
n noble trait in their character that
they have upheld the Treaty of Lon
don $3.50 these seventy-fve years
for Belgium's benefit. Now the King
al the BelgianS is far too chivalrous
TO let fall one word In criticism of that
attitude. Therefore, as gentlemen,
We who are on the Franco British
Quo hiuSl tiltlciEt IL ourselves. we
must confess that though Belgium has
saved us, We have not saved Belgium
At h battle Of Waterloo the British
lay down snugly behind the ridge, and
placed the Belgian brigade on the eX-
posed orwar slope IF it to be ham
mered To pieces by the terrible can
nonade u then cut to ribbons by
the charges that routed our own ar.
tllIery. And some English writer's
were NOT nOhaY mod - 3;-r D11
gan valor because the British square
stood up to the charges at the top
or the hill when the uncovered Bel
Slan brigade fell before a hail OF AN.
non balls. No Belgian then com.
planned OF being allotted the post Of
danger; it was his right on his own
soil to claim it.
History repeated itself Of Liege.
Ihere, too, Belgium was at the post
OF danger. There she held the
bridge for the whole west of Europe
against Prussia. and never once
looked back to ask, Where are the
French and British 2" Where. indeed?
Alas. 1t was a long way to Tipperary;
ana what were Napoleon's twelve
FOUNDERS and Observation-Disclosures to
the kaiser's hoWitzers that from i'm.
possible distances could blow whole
forts into the sky? Well, all the
generals of Britain n France have
since come into the field; bur none
"i them can Yet claim the laurel OF
me nathenatician OF Liege who
called his admiring captors to wit
ness that he had been taken alive ONLY
because he had been taken insensible.
10 MS magnificent warriorship even
the russians took off their hats.
Nothing that We Fan say about il
IAN 8 our debt to II.
for ] repeat. France and Britain
a11n moi In Nn RnlDirrra .- c-1y
Brussels has fallen, and and
'hent, and Bruges, and Ostend. Lou
vain mas been sacked more %Scientifi-
cally than lsnail by Suwarrow; towns
like Termonde have had the fiery
chariot OF war driven to n fro over
their corpses until they are thrice
slain, like the dead in a liars story:
and the Belgian government has been
drlNen out into a foreign land. What
worse could have happened TO Bel
Sluln had she stood alone against the
world? Well may her enemy laugh I,
Scorn the scrap Of paper that guar
anteed her integrity. 1t will be time
enough for Bclgium's friends TO re.
vile Germany Tor that when they have
made the scrap Of pape good.
tor tney must make il good. Il
they do not drive the Germans out O!
Belgium ana OFFER their armies as the
guard of honor to the most popular
III Eui ope Oh the DAY WheT
he takes his seat again on his thron.
In Brussels, they will be either dis
honored or beaten. If they sign {
treaty leaving the Kaiser one souar,
inch Of Belgian soil except under sucl
compulsion as would force them t,
give him Portsmouth. Belfort ant
Nerdun as we'll, they may as we'll tea.
up their flags and live by letting lodg
ing to foreigners and cheating then
over their bills.
Most unfortunately for Belgium, i
mas been almost impossible hilbert
10 procure publicity for an adequat
Acknowledgement of this obligation
or a fair statement Of her case. TIL
horror inspired by war is so grea
that oil the b~elligerent nations begal
by insisting that they were engage,
in a defensive war. They woul
have II that they were the innocen