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with commercialIsm and pacifsm as
we were. and you are not in such a
good position for fighting as We are. by
reason OF the lack Of unity q the races
that now compose the United States.
On the other hand. YOU offer the same
temptation to any hungry and aggressive
enemy that we did. You have lots OF
money, few soldiers, and comparatively
few sailors. Troops can be moved to
your shores from hostile countries in
little more than the time II took to
move bodies from New York TO Boston
300 years ago. The fact that We have
been able to- transport at least million
soldiers across The SEE shows that that any =,
you were unprepared Gas you are). ship
them to you.
England. France. and the other allies
are grateful for the sympathy they have
received from large numbers or Ameri-
cans. Some ten thousand Americans. a
number Of whom have already become
officers, have shown their loyalty to
the cause OF democracy. freedom. and
indtvidualism by enlistinE in our army
either through Canada or direct. One
young artillery officer. said to me yes
terday: I'VE Americans are not hGhting
with you for King and country. We
are fighting for the liberty of the world
and because It Is our duty"
Germans Have Ideal.
The Germans have their ideal. II IL
not ours: It IS not that of France nor
is II that of the United States. Their
ideal is the subordination of the mass
of the people TO discipline. Just as
their women are entirely subordinate
to their men, so their men are suDor-
dinated during the whole of their lives
to either police or military laws.
A great many of them have escaped
from Germany to your country ana
our colonies to avoid this very system
of government. That IS why. 1t Is dlf-
ticult to understand why what you call
'ihyphenated" Americans, who nave
left Germany for freedoms sake. should
be siding against the United states and
with Germany. 1t is, j imagine, a
question of racial amour propre.
THE nation of house servants, as
Bismarck so aptly described them. are
coRnizant that they are not of the same
racial attitude as the Anglo-Saxons,
and. like all interiors, are more toucny
thar they should be. To one who mas
mixed much, as I have. with AmeIi,
except my own people for obvious rea-
sonsj, the suggestion that the Nortn
American, Australasian, or British
branches OF our race belong TO the
same racial grade as those so-called
Prussian supermen is preposterouS
Germans Are Marked.
The square heads, with no back TO
them and the outstanding cars, the
over-eating and drinking, the coarse
ness, the cruelty, the bullying of in
feriors and the cringing to superiors
that make up the Prussian, mark him
out for what he is-a man who has
to be ruled and regulated by the mill
tary and the police. AS far as Eng
land Is concerned We have never at
tempted to interfere with his system
OF government so long as It was con-
fined to his own country, but directly
the attempt was made to apply II tc
Belgium and France we leaped into
the ring and DO not propose TO listen
to any of the German peace squealing
OF which we get an almost daily Choir.
US, until militarism and policeism
have been taken home to where they
belong. If they like to treat theiI
women like squaws' and drudges, II
they prefer to elevate the policeman
to the dignity of ruler. II goose-step-
ping and cringing suit them, let them
have these things. That is their own
business. But the food riots and the
peace riots show that there is a limit
to what even Berliner can stand
Leaves 1t To People.
You ask me what is our view OF the
attitude OF America in the war. EV-
erybody has his own view in our
country on everything connected with
the conflict. My own view all along
has been that Americas attitude ID
entirely a matter for the people OF
the United States. You have internal
difficulties OF which we know moth
ing. Owing to our censorship you
know very little about our side OF the
war. Owing to the German prOpa-
gRnda with which your country has
been delnged. you are almost entire
" ignorant of the German campaign
OF women and child killing, Ameri-
cans say to me, "Do You really think
that my German gardener or Ger
man chauffeur, my German clerk. oil
my German servant is the kind OF 9
man who would fight behind living
rnmparts OF women and children
do not think so. Comparatively few
of the Germans with you are Prus.
slams: only very few are from east
Prussia, where the worst of the Huns
come from. Hardly any had been de.
based by policeism and milttarism be
fore they emigrated to your hospit
able shores.
The point Of view of practically ever.
Briton know, and one which is shared
! by Canadians, Australians, New Yea
| Ianders and South Africans, is that tho
English-spealSlng end of the war Is 8
matter for the British empire, and that
despite our lack of preparation. we de