TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-09-18

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seen 30 gfsastf advantage. The
%phHusaphic calm, the essential mild.
ness 81 The TtainHic nature. which
is one 81 its greatest virtues az we'll
as enc ui VS. greatest dangers, seems
10 have triumphed over All the an.
holy passions aroused By the ucat
Crime and Conspiracy, Italy calls
forth q contempt that lies at too
cold and low a level 20 rise 70 the
dignity Of hale-Englands meanef
acts evoke disdain rather than rage.
Impossible is the picture Of the
Germans which the English have
created for themselves. IL Is one
with the monstrous imaRinaiions OF
malformcd and murky brains that
flare up with hate one moment,
then are choked with inky fumes the
next. On reading the English papers
one asks oneself, half in horror, half
in a sort OF stunned amusement,
whether it be possible that human
beings could accept as real the
CHASTITY %caricatures and incredible
monsters they have made of other
human beings2 The belief of the
Bushman in his grotesque chimeras
is as nothing compared to the belief
of the Britisher in his Monster Ger
man. In the days of Napoleon the
ignorant Britisher firmly believed
that "Boney" ate women and chill
dren; in our day the educated Brit
isher believes as firmly that the
Germans slaughter them. In the
same way we must measure the pro-
found debasement of a man capable
of uttering such low and revolving
words as those recently spoken by
Rudyard Kipling-"there are but
two creatures in the world today
human beings and Germans"
(cheers.)-by what they disclose Of
the speaker and not by what they
preposterously declare.
Therefore we and our Allies
must continue to press through FIRE
to Moloch till Moloch perishes."
(cheers).
Molochl How came this incredible
German to take root in the British
brain? How was il possible to
make sane men accept as real the
crimson devil which the slanderous
British press painted in such horrid
hues upon the armament? From
what wicked sorcery and poisonous
fumes did this hideous flamboyant
genie arise in the dull imaginations
of an e~asy-going and no longer
heroic race? That is a psychological
puzzle for those whose minds can
probe national morbidity. But its
mere existence is damning not only
for the English-but for that petite
nation of virulent and fanatic
gamins, the French.
The pendulum swings constantly
from one extreme of madness to an
other-from shrill jeers of contempt
at the weakness and despair of Ger
many to frenzied screams of terror
at her power and cold-bloodedness.
As | have more than once pointed
out, the mud-cemented, rotten-tim-
bered House of Lies which the AL
lies reared to shelter their so-called
Cause, cracks, totters and me1ts
away under the slow but elemental
attack of Truth. Hence desperate,
furious, embecile attempts to prop
it with further struts and lashings
of lies-like the Bryce Report of
German atrocities. The falsehoods
men believe accumulate to a noun
tain within their sight. And this
mountain in the imagination of the
real barbarians becomes in time a
mythical monster. That monster is
Germany as seer by the feverish,
war-maddened eyes of her western
enemies.
There is, to be sure, one deep
lying psychological reason for this.
The achievements, the victories, the
colossal physical power and moral
strength of Germany are by a
peculiar process of perverted thought
re-translated into evil attributes by
the obsession in the brains of her
enemies. IT. other words white is
deliberately transformed into black
because one sees nothing but red.
The inevitable results of modern
war waged in the most scientific
and energetic and intelligent way in
the enemy's country, are converted
into black atrocities" by her foes
who have not a single positive
achievement to show. The conviction
of this truthewhich must at times
steal over such reason as is left in
the hands of the Allies, produces in
turn that Unbalanced, impotent fury
finds no outlet save in coarse
or brutality against the help
less, or in torrents of indiscriminate
SANDER that bespeak the illness of
the nausea at a nations soul.
When the inky pail that hangs
before the eyes Of these nations
shall be lifted and the clean cool
wind of a sweet reasonableness blow
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