The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1915-08-06
An Arraignment of Germany
By Rndysrd KipI,ng

4AC NOIIic AcAo oPShO AuASS 40
much energy in the last as years
preparing for war as we have in
convincing ourselves that wars
should not be prepared far. He has
started this war with a magnificent
equipment which took him time and
heavy taxation to get together.
That equipment we have had to face
for the last twelve months. The
Germans went into this war with
mind which had been carefully
trained out of the idea of every
moral sense or obligation-private,
public or international. He does
not recognize the existence of any
law, least of all those he has sub.
scribed to himself, in making war
against combatants or non-combat-
ants, men, women and children.
He has done from his own point
of view very we'll indeed. All man.
kind bears witness today that there
is no crime. no cruelty, no abomi-
nation that the mind Of man can
conceive which the German has not
perpetrated, and will not perpe-
trate if he is allowed to go on.
These horrors and perversions were
not invented by him on the spur of
the moment. They were arranged
beforehand-the outlines are laid
down in the German YEARBOOK.
They are part of the system in
which Germany has been scientif-
ically trained. 1t is the essence of
that system to make such hell of
the countries where her armies set
foot that any terms she may offer
will seem like heaven to the people
whose bodies she has defiled and
whose minds she has broken of set
purpose and intention.
In the face of these facts it is
folly for any fit man to waste one
minute in talking about what he
would do if our system of recruit
ing were changed, or to wait on, as
some men are waiting, in the hope
of compulsion being introduced. We
shall not be saved by argument. We
shall most certainly not be saved by
hanging on to our private jobs and
businesses. Our own strength and
our own will alone can save us. II
these fail, the alternative for us is
robbery, rape of the women, star
walton, as a prelude to slavery
Nor need we expect any miracle tt
save us. So long as an unbroker
= Germany exists, so long will life or
. this planet be intolerable not only
for us and our allies, but for all hu
manity, and humanity knows it. A
: present six European nations arr
n bearing the burden of the war
a There is fringe of shivering neu
y trails almost under the German gun
r who look out of their front door
n and see, as they were meant to see
r what has been done to Belgium, tn
man-guaranteed neutral.
ar But however the world pretend
y to divide itself, there are only tw
divisions in the world today-hu
:, man beings and Germans. And tn
- Germans know it. Human being
" " have long ago sickened of him an
j everything connected with him, c
>. all he does, says, thinks, or b.
lieves. From the ends of the cart
to the ends Of the earth they desil
nothing more greatly than that tn
unclean thing should be thrust o,
from the membership and the men
in ory Of the nations.
ne The Germans answer to Il
as worlds loathing is: II am stron
n | kill. shall go on killing by &
at means in my power till have il
at posed my will on all human beings
ar He gives no choice. He leaves
he middle way. He has reduced civ
all ization and all that civilizati
vn means to the simple question of k
MS or be killed. Up to the present,
ely far as we can find out, Germany h
lily suffered some 3,0U0,000 casualti
ed She can suffer another 3,00O,0(
lid and, for aught we know, anotf
nd 100000 after that. We have
ing reason to believe that she will bre
ist- up suddenly and dramatically a
ub- few people still expect. Why sho1
ug- she?
She took two generations to p
pare herself in every detail {
through every fibre of her natio
>, being for this war. She is play
the for the highest stakes in
world-the dominion of the wol
tt;e 1t seems to me that she must cit
AN. win or bleed to death almost wh
her lines run today. Therefore
and our allies must continue to |
oirg our children through fire to Mol
day until Moloch perish. This, as l
it, is where we stand and WI
,nod Germany stands.