Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-06

Of Belgium, this is so because the
sympathies of the world have been
passionately enlisted for Belgium, and
partly because it is not in poor human
nature to wish to change our opinion
of persons of whom we have believed
the worst and for whom we have ex-
pressed the deepest loathing.
Lies, lie4 lies, have multiplied with
the passing of the weary days of Aug
Just, September, October, November
and December and not always have
they sprung from maleyolence so
much as from credulity. Anything
was believed from the preposterous
statement that eggs were costing /.
mark each in Germany to forged proc
addressed by the German emperor to
the German empire and beginning,
1T is our royal and imperial will
Every traveller who pays marks in
"a German hotel for an early breakfast
of three eggs, bread, butter, cheese.
jam and coffee knows that eggs are
not costing mark each, and every.
body who, is at all familiar with the
wording of imperial proclamations
knows that when the German emper-
or addresses the empire he does not
touch on the fact that he is also king
OF Prussia by speaking of his royal
Will
Your own amazing ingenuity in de-
duction has long since taught You the
worthlessness OF evidence given by.
persons who testify in rancor or from
hearsay. OF that character firmly
believe, have been the wicked stories
told In turn about combatants of every
nationality engaged In this war.
STOCK WAR ISLANDERS REVIVED.
Many Of them have been the stock
ISLANDERS of every war, and they are
stories as old as the annals of the
race. They were told during the civil
war in America i heard them In
Cuba during the Spanish American
war. And the wisest words i ever
read on this whole matter were writ
ten by the good and chiyalroQs Lord
Roberts only q few months before his
death. They are these:
May give a word of caution to-
my countrymen against the unsports
manlike psactice of abusing ones enc
mics. Let us avoid what Kipling dur
ing a Kruger with your mouth 80.
When we read charges against Ger,
man troops, let us remember that
gross charges, absolutely untrue, were
brought against our own brave sol
diers fighting in South Africa. But,
whether the charges are true or not,
let us keep our own hands clean and
let US fight against the Germans in
such way as to earn their liking as
well as their respect.
There never was truer saying than
that good soldier respects good
soldier. In my talks with German
soldiers have had repeated proof OF
that They did not curse or black
guard the French, the English, the
Russians, the Belgians, or the Indi-
ans. And Cen yon Heeringen said
to the party of which | was a MEM
Der, The English are good boys.
They stand. OF the Scotch soldiers
q German officer whose name / have
forgotten said: There is only one
thing to do with a Scotchman cap
ture him or kill him" The compli-
ment was not softly worded, but it
was an honest soldiers honest
tribute.
DECLARES GERMANS HATE LIES.
The Germans are not liars. They
are so loyal to the truth that their
loyalty sometimes lapses into gross
bluntness of speech. They call a
spade a spade, and their bluntness
sometimes leads them to use a crude
word when another would do as well.
They consider a lie not clever but ig-
nominious. and their point of view was
given with beautiful terseness one
day by Capt. Alfred Mannesmann,
who was storming about some pecu-
liarly hideous Islander which had ap-
peared in an English journal which
the Germans call The Daily Liar"
That statement" said the captain,
is not true. We Germans have ex-
plicitly denied it more than once, and
we are not liars. We hate lies. My
father used to say to me and my
brothers: You must be too proud
to lie. He brought us up on that say.
ing You must be too proud to lie'
Unscrupulous correspondents too,
have been q deplorable factor in this
war. OF one of them regret to say,
a countryman of mine who had writ
ten, and got printed in America, the
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