New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-22
KIPLINC DEMANDS
END OF GERMANY
Says War Must Not End
Until She Is Thrust from
Among Nations.
[By Cable TO The Tribune. ]

London, June 21.--Rudyard Kipling,
addressing 10000 people at recruit
ing meeting at Southport last night,
said:
"The German went into this war
with a 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 subscribed TO himself in
making war against combatants or non
combatants. men, women and children.
"All mankind bears witness to-day
that there is no crime, no cruelty, no
abomination that the mind Of man can
conceive which the German has not
perpetrated, is not perpetratlng and
will not perpetrate if he is allowed TO
90 on. These horrors and perversions
were not invented by him on the spur
of the moment. They were arranged
beforehand. Their outlines are laid
down in the German war book. They
are part of a system in which Ger
many has been scientifically trained.
at is the essence of that system to
make such a hell of countries where
her armies set foot that any terms she
NAV offer will seem like heaven to
people whose bodies she has denied
and whose minds she has broken OF
set purpose and intention.
$50 long as an unbroken Germany
exists, so long will life on the planet
be intolerable. not only for US and for
our Allies, but for all humanity.
There are only two divisions In the
world to-day. human beings and Ger
mans; and the German knows that the
human beings have long ago slckened
of him and everything connected with
him, Of all he does, says. thinks or
believes.
From the ends of the earth to the
ends of the earth they desire nothing
more greatly than that this unclean
thing should be thrust out from MEM
bership and the memory Of the nati .Ls;
1--WE have no reason TO believe that
Germany will break up suddenly and
dramatically. She took two generations
10 prepare herself in every detail and
through every fibre of her national
being for this war. She is playing for
the highest stakes in the world-the
dominion of the world. IL seems TO me
that she must either win or bleed to
death almost where her lines run to-
day.
Therefore we and our allies must
continue 70 pass our children through
fire to Moloch until Moloch perish.
an Belgium at this hour several
million Belgians are making war ma
terial or Notifications for their con-
uuerors. They are given enough 1000
TO support life as the German THINKS
IL should be supported by the way,
believe the United States OF America
supplies a large part of that food. In
return they are compelled 20 work at
the point of the bayonet. II they OBJ
iect they are shot. They have no more
property and no more rights than cat
tie. and they cannot lift hand to pro-
tect the honor Of their women. There
has been nothing like the horror OF
their fate in all history.
"If Germany is victorious every re-
finement of outrage which is within
the compass of German Imagination
will be inflicted on US in every aspect
of our lives We must realize, too.
that il the Allies are beaten there will
be no spot on the globe where a soul
can escape from the domination Of this
enemy Of mankind.
There has been childish talk that
the Western Hemisphere would offer
refuge from oppression. Put that
thought from your mind.
"If the Allies were defeated Ger
many would not need 10 send a single
battleship over the Atlantic. She
would issue an order and it would be
obeyed. Civilization would be bank
rupt and the Western world would be
taken over with the rest Of the wreck
age by Germany, the receiver
$50, you see, there is no retreat pos
sible. There are no terms and no re-
treat in this war II must go forward,
and with those men of England who
are eligible for service but who have
not yet offered themselves the decision
of the war rests. This is for US in
truth a war 10 the death against the