New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-22
ba+tI. rrenared IN die. can be frightened.

battle prepared TO die, can be frightened.
Never was there a more monstrous hallu-
cination than that which holds the Tel
tonic mind in thrall The German sees
himself irresistible, terrible, all-compel-
ling; then he transfers this self-appraisal
to the mind of his foe. To act upon the
state of mind he conceives to exist in the
enemy he has recourse to devices which
foolish nurse might employ to terrify
nervous child.
There is only one thing that German ter
ribleness has accomplished in this world
so far. 1t has dug a gulf between the
German and the rest Of civilized mankind
Millions of men for the rest of their life
time will feel toward the German as most
of mankind feels toward snake. The
crimes. the offences against humanity, de-
cency, against all human and divine law
which have marked German policy since
August, 1914, have opened chasm that 1t
will be many decades before new German
shirt could close. Americans will not for
get the Lusitania, millions of Americans
at the least, when the war is over and
German ships return to American ports
to remind US of our murdered dead.
1t is the grim realization of the justice
that is daily marching onward, the daily
price in German life that is being eX-
acted for the German crimes; 1t is the I'M
derstanding of the ever mounting misery
in Germany, the ever widening application
of the lash to German backs, which makes
the thought of this European conflict toll
cradle in the present hour. Terrible as IS
the toll that is being taken Of all that is
Young and strong and brave in European
mankind, there is still the solace of know
ing that at the end of the sacrifice there
will be the achievement, that the foul Ger
man cancer will be cut from the flesh and
body of civilization.
The German has raped women, muir
dered children, destroyed churches, be-
fouled human habitations, believing that
by these acts he might terrify strong men
and reduce soldiers to terror. He has
sought to Conquer the world by using as
his weapons the instruments and the meth
DDS of the savage and the barbarian. But
he has not terrified the world he has not
conquered the world. He has only reused
the world as it has not been reused since
the first light of the modern era dispelled
the darkness that lay behind in the con-
fused annals of barbarian inroads.
What he has really done, what he has
accomplished, what position he has won
for himself in the eyes and the minds Of
the rest of the world, the German cannot
now know. But he will know when the
first days of peace break down the iron
ring surrounding him and permit to enter
and approach him the sentiments and the
emotions of the millions Of men and women
the world over who know what the Ger
man did in Belgium and France, who do
not forget the Lusitania, who will stand
beside the ruins of Rheims and Louvaln
and recall by whom and with what pu--
pose these crimes were committed.
Never in human history was there a
more terrible judgment awaiting nation
than that which awaits the German, when
at last the guns and the men of the Allied
armies have accomplished their task, which
is but beginning.