Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-12-12

perhaps carry you back TO still sum-
mer evenings on the porch OF Sea
Girt, when an easterly wind brought
across the meadows the sound of
breakers, except that this sullen roar
of iron anger would deafen your ears
to everything but Its own horror;
this thunder would stop the very
pulsations OF your heart with its
sense Of the billows OF agony beating
upon the shores of existence.
Misery on All Sides.
If you could see what / see as
write-this woeful desolation, this
Ishmaelitish waste, these stretching
miles Of landscape stricken, smitten,
forgotten Of God and accursed by
men; il you could hear the tales told
by French and English prisoners, OF
the miseries which exactly repeat
what we see on this side Of the fatal
line, ! think, Mr.. President, there
would be no question OF your react
ing" to the greatest tragedy in the
history Of men.
The voices of all the angels OF
mercy that must hover over these
bloody miles would not fail to appeal
to you. The inarticulate murmurs
lie slain, the lmportunate pleadings
OF the thousands who still await the
doom OF death unless this horror Of
the ages soon shall cease would reach
you.
remember-it is only in the pres
ence OF a grief SO great that put
down for the public eye reference to
an hour SO familiar--I remember
fttr ~ xtfo IN
years ago-when / saw you in deep
perturbation Of soul because you had
been asked to tell young man of
the death OF an aged relative. 1t was
but one revelation Of many Of the
humanity OF your heart.
One Man Has Great Powers.
No one shall tell mel will not
listen TO it--that it does not ache
over tragedy more gigantic, more
piteous, than any enacted while the
world has rolled around. NO one
shall tell me unrebuked that your
consciousness does not react to the
most gigantic fact in human his
tory.
Is it possible that it is today with
in the power OF one man to end this
hideous thing? Is ii possible that
ious processes that it lies in tho hand
Of one man today to check this
slaugh ter possible that the currents
OF world events today set toward the
almost inconceivable opportunity
that has come to man of the West
ern world nurtured in years Of clois-
| tered reflection. that he may speak
tho compelling word, make the ecu
/ xtrh
tired and tormented remnants OF the
heroes cs these direful years shall
drop their weapons?
believe II Is so. True, none Of
| the bellRcrent governments will con-
fcss it; but you learned long ago,
Mr. President, to distinguish between
| governments and peoples, as we'll as
between the official outgivings OF
| governments and their real inten-
I tions.
Insnlt From Lloyd George.
TO us here on this bloody field
have come echoes OF the ribald ut
terances OF Mr.. Lloyd George, in
which, in tho language OF the race
track and the prize ring, he hingeS
insult into the teeth OF the President
OF the United States and the head OF
| the Catholic Christcndom. the Pope,
IL either OF them dares to dream OF
tho day when this war shall cease.
1t would be unjust to the people OF
| England, whose history and litera-
turc. whose heart you know so well:
II would be unfair to the sobermind-
cd statesmen OF his own land, and
/ more especially to those Of Russia,
France and the central European all
lies. to believe that they recognize
in the lewd language Of this English
| politician any meaning to which the
heart OF suffering humanity in this
hour responds.
prefer to believe that that heart
is Watching with eagerness and ex-
pectancy for tho rising OF a man who
shall fulfill the character described
in noble poem which ] have heard
you read, not without moving en-
phasis, of him
"Who, If an unexpected call succeed,
Come when 1t viii, Is equal to the
need"
Men must suffer bodily pain and
| mental anguish, though they have
never suffered on scale 50 colossal
as this. But why should they agonize
! ~ ultltShlJ IfNftly AdJ uOWAt tAIiA
lives without avail?
War Mt Standstill.
This war Is at a standstill. | have
travelled 500 miles alopg the western
! German lines OF defense. They cam
not he broken through in a hundred
years. have seen q few square
\ miles OF blood-soakod soil change
masters at an awful price. / have
been IN the east front. Nothing can
happen there apprcciably to alter the
decision, which might as well be
rendered now as next year, or five OF
ten years hence.
Without doubt all the governments
involved know this. All are weary
weary, weary OF the strife. They
await, Mr.. President, the word that
at this great moment should be
spoken by the head Of the chief OF
the neutral peoples.
Time Is Ripe for Peace.
Tn moving language you have your
self described the miracle which cur.
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