New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-04
"GERMANY'S FUTURE"
With Remarks on the German Ha bit
of Whining.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.


Sir: Ny letter, which you published some
few days ago under the caption of Ger
many's Future" drew reply from Richard
". Germcr, in which he ascribes to my pen
the use OF the word Indemnity" which |
am positive did not make use Of.
What did say was that Germany's prod
ucts after the war was ended would be so
heavily taxed as TO preclude their entry into
those countries with which she is now at
war, and would strongly suggest to r. ".
G. the use Of Webster, whereby he can be-
come acquainted with the very broad dis
tinction between taxation and indemnifca-
ton.
The letter is so distinctly German in its
attempted craftiness that child can per-
ceive its object and is thoroughly in keep
ing with the workings Of the German mind
which this war has brought forth so that the
world to-day is wondering il Germany is not
a nation wholly gone mad.
| have noticed among Germans in the last
few years a trait (which is none other than
criminaD OF accusing others Of actions and
words which only their own dark souls are
capable OF doing and saying.
As examples let us take the first use Of
poison gas in Flanders. Before its extensive
use by the Huns they accused the British OF
using it, knowing full well what effect 1t
would have upon civilized people, and think
ing thereby to save their military reputa-
ton" by such an act of cowardlce. Then
there is the arming of merchant ships, about
which they have raised such childish cries,
when they were the first people TO place
gurs on their steamers and slip out to sea,
destroying all peaceful traders that came IN
their path. Once more, there is the case OF
the aerial bombardment of Karlsruhe. what
a howl went through Bocheand! How
senseless and cruel to rain havoc and Kill
peaceful inhabitants in that beautiful city.
OF course, so long as the supermen OF hultur
sent their aircraft to Kill women and chill
dren for military necessity all was right.
The abandonment of the L~19 at sea by
the trauler King Stephen is another instance
Of these mad people. Here was an aIrshlp
returning from an English raid and IN a
sinking condition in the open sea. Its occu-
pants expected rescue from an English sailor,
after deliberately numbering their innocents
at home, To have rammed and sunk this
vampire OF the night was too good punish
that Of stewng them in their own fat.
The case Of the Bsralong is but another in
stance of these stupid, whining creatures. To
sink a submarine having flag with an iron
cross stamped on it is crime, but TO slaugh-
ter hundreds Of helpless women and chill
dren is an act that calls forth national ella
ton, What about the slaughter OF the crew
Of the E-l3, of the Danish coast, when the
Germans turned their guns on the drowning
British seamen and the commander of Dan
ish warship stood between the Germans and
their victims? This war has made us fully
acquainted with the true German character
The mantle Of odousness so long held by
the Turk has fallen upon the shoulders of
the Teuton, and we'll has he earned the dis
tinction.
I know not, Richard ". Germer, whether
YOU are German. pro-German or hyphenate,
but this do know that so long as the great
German population are so stupidity blind 10
their best interests, and are bent on support
ing a few hundred thousand junkers, Off
Gals who have deceived them so thoroughly
during the last few years, they must be pre-
pared to accept the penalty Of ruthless, re-
lentless rcprsal which will surely befall
them ere long. DONALD MACE" En-
New York, March 20, 1915