Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-09-18

EDITORS Note.-Mr. Z. L. Orehelle
the famous American author. who has
been soiourniug in London. is now tray
cling in Germany We here print one
Of his virile articles sent from Berlin
and published in "The Vital Issue.
II is a view Of the war generally en-
d0rsed BY German. Americans, and is
printed as presenting their side Of the
issue
Day after day meet Germans of all
degrees, from the si.nple workman to
the highest official, diplomat or pro-
I fessor, and always am / amazed at the
almost superhuman tolerance, magnan-
7 unity and understanding these marvel.
Gus people display towards their enem-
les, French, Russian, English. There
7 appears to be almost no aDimositJ
against the two former, and even
against England the resentment shown
is comparatively milu It is mixture
of sadness. surprise, perhaps hO0r0r
and pain rather than hate. The Hymn
Of Hate made famous by England, is
deprecated and apart from few post
cards | have scarcely seen much less
heard, that phrase which, as England
liars would persuade the world, splut-
tiers from every Germans lips: "Gott
strafe England" Chauvinistic writers
are frowned upon; in everything the
real the kindliest Interpretation is
sought Never has the profundity Of
the German soul nor the exaltation Of
the German character been seen TO
greater advantage. The philosophic
calm, the essential mildness Of the Teu-
tonic nature. which is one Of its great
est virtues as well as one of its greatest
dangers, seem to ht.r triJmphed over
all the unholy passions aroused by the
great Crime and Conspiracy. Italy calls ,
forth a contempt that lies at too cold .
and low level to rise to the dignity Of
hate-England 5 meaner acts evoke dis .
dan rather than rage. y
Monstrous is the picture Of the Ger (
mans which the English have created /
for themselves. 1t is one with the hide. /
Gus imaginations Of malformed and |
murky brains that flare up with hate
one moment. then are choked with inky .
fumes the next. On reading the Eng
lish papers one asks oneself, half in .
horror, half in sort Of stunned amaze.
ment, whether it be possible that hu. /
man beings could accept as real the 4
CHASTITY caricatures and impossible mon
sters they have made of other human
beingsl The belief Of the Bushman in
his grotesquc chimeras is as nothing
compared 20 the belief Of the Britishcr
in his Monster German In the days
of Napoleon the ignorant Britisher
firmly believed that "Bouey" ate wo.
men and children; in our days the edu-
Gated Britisher believes as firmly that
the Germans kiln them. In the same
way we must measure the profound de-
basement Of a man capable Of uttering
such foul and murky words as those
recently spoken by Rudyard Kipling
''there are but two futures in the
world today--human beings and Ger
mans (cheors) by what they disclose
Of the speaker aud not by what they
preposterously declare. I'VE must con.
tinue to send our children through Mol.
och until Moloch perish (cheers).
How came this incredible German
to take the root in the British brain3
How was it possible to make sane men
accept ns real the crimson devil which
British falsehood and slander painted
in such horrid hues upon the firma-
mentl From what wicked sorcery and
poisonous fumes did this hideous flam.
hoyunt dihinn arise in the dun imagin.
atons OF whitening and no longer
virile racel That is psychological
puzzle for those whose minds can probe .
national morhidity But its mere exist
ence is damnmg not only for the Eng
lish-but for that petite nation Of viru
lent and insane gamins, the French.
''The plummet swings constantly
from one extreme OF madness TO an.
other-from shrill jeers of contempt at
the weakness and despair of German to
frcn2ied screams Of terror at her pow
cr aud cold.bl0odcdness. As / have
more than once pointed out, the mud
cemcntcd, rottcntimbcrcd House Of
Lies which the allies reared to shelter
their so.colled "Cguse,' cracks. tot
ters aud mclts under the slow but ele
mental attack Of Truth Hence desper
ate FURIOUS, imbecile attempts 20 prop
IL with further struts aud lashngs Of
lies--llke the Bryce report Of German
atrocities. The lies men believe aeeum
mulate 20 mountain within their sight. .
And this mountain in the imagination
of the real barbarian, becomes in time
a mythical monster That monster Is
Germany as seen by the feverish. war
maddeued eyes Of the French and Eng.
lish,
There is 90 he sure. one dccp,lying
psychological reason for this The ach
ieycmeutS. the victories, the colossal
physical power aud moral strength of
Germany are by q peculiar process Of
perverted thought re.translated into /
evil attributes 10y the ohsession in the
brains of her enemies, In other words
white is deliberately transformed into Z