Evening star., 1917-11-25

Worlu- Germany is not wantOniy crueI
She is merely scientific in her warfare
scientific without mercy, scientific with
out the restraining Christian conscience
which has bound humanity together In
certain accepted conventional kindneSSes
more or less for a thousand years. Ger
many has abandoned the common re-
straints upon barbariSm which the hu-
man civil conscience has erected during
the Christian era Germany knows IN
stead of these restraints only military
necessity. The military conscience has
replaced the civil conscience in Germany
mot merely in Junkerdom. but through
the nation. The small group of protest
ing German pacifists does not affect the
actual conduct nor the accepted beliefs
I of the nation.
Not an Impulse.
egoistic ruthlessness tit the facts of the
so-called German atrocities that it may
be well to consider in review for q mo
ment these atrocities. not as the mad
deeds of a bIood-crazed nation, but as
/ the scientific policy of a logical people
unrsssSained by Christian prohibitions
against injustice and cruelty. Belgium.
for instance. bleeched under the rule of
/ frightfulness. Now frightfulness was
not an impulse. Frightfulness was all
calmly thought out years before the
war and set down as an article in the
manual of the German army officer.
The clause commanding frightfulness is
other army officer in the world. And
Germany before the war decided that
frishtfuiness was the best policy.
So the German army officer was pre-
pared for it. and an investigator of the
Belgian outrages from The Hague is
responsible for the story that he has
never heard OF an authenticated case of
the rape of any Belgian woman not
committed by German officer. The
private soldiers did none of that And
! why was it done? one asks. The an
swer is not that the officers were drunk
The answer is that Germany demanded
frightfulness. First, to quell the civilian
| population: second. to show Hol-
| neutrals what would happen to a ma
ton which opposed German civilization in
war.
Herbert Hoover. who lived in Bel
GUM right after the orgy of rapine and
plunder and murder that came during
the first six weeks of the war, once de-
clared that the world would be worse
shocked at Germany's explanation and
world was shocked by the outrages
themselves. And Germany's explanation
was terrible. Germany admitted the
charges. but declared that they were
demanded by military necessity. The
scientific military conscience was DOM
mating Germany. Germany did not re-
volt: the words Belgian atrocities" in
Germany mean the dreadful things the
Belgian civilians did to the German
army! The history of the past three
years in neutral countries near Ger
many we'll justifies Germany for in
serting the frightfulness clause in her
army officers manual AS a scientific
plan to keep northwestern Europe at
peace the Belgian atrocities paid well.
but they brought England and America
into the war. The military conscience
did not have forward squint into the
reaction of frightfulness on the world.
Because the insane vanity of Germany
had ignored the rest of civilization.
Military Necessity.
Again let us consider the enslaving
Of the Belgians and the inhabitants Of
Alsace and of northern France. Ger
official statement. admitting the en-
slavement of Alsacian girls. but deny
ing that more than 9 per cent were un-
der seventeen. and explaining that only
a. few of them were in the firing zone.
The enslavement of the people of Bel
gfan and northern France has been
publicly justified in Germany time and
again as military necessity. Its exist
ence has not been denied
When one says hundreds of thousands
Of French people. the poor and the
rich. the ignorant and the cultivated
alike. were forcibly torn from their
homes and families in France and Bel
gium and taken in slavery to Germany
to work in German fields and mines
and factories, one is not exaggerating
the number. And the stream of broken
| humanity coming through Switzerland
every morning and evening in the train
through Zurich to Avian proves what
kind OF treatment these slaves have
endured. They are eaten out with the
white plague. The children are COW
cred with skin diseases that come from
.IAr kI14 -
man slave trade Is upon the whole train.
Two hundred and sixty thousand of
these repatriots. as they are called,
have come into France through 1Switz-
and the daily stream today is as large
as 1t was last June. Yet 1t is no wan
ton cruelty that has ordered this en-
slavement Of the captured population.
Science Raps Work.
| Science tells the German that with
| out work he can live longer than with
| work done by the slaves from the lower
civilization of Belgium and France,
| which must be blotted out. and the
sooner the better for the world. SO
| man favored of God! More Germans
will survive the war: and naturally
| fewer of the French and Belgians and
Alsatians.. who have no right to live
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own civilization. German soldiers have
revolted at the awful science when the
slaves were taken. For when a man
or woman goes to slavery he goes to
death! But the German soldiers taking
| these slaves at the bayonet knew that
| their revolt was chicken-hearted. They
knew that the enslavement was the
best thing for the world. so they prod
| ded mothers with the bayonet who
would shelter their daughters. and shot
protesting fathers who tried to hide
] their sons BIT not IN anger were these
deeds done! They were done In cold
blood, because mountains Of vanity
backed by a materialistic philosophy
justified these bloody deeds and made
them heroic. That is why Germany
struck off medals celebrating the sink
ing of the Lusitania.
| Bombing Of Hospitals.
| Last summer the Germans began a sys-
tematic and thorough series Of air raids
| on the base hospitals Of the allies. Every
moonlight night the ''boche" came over and
dropped bombs on the hospitals, killing
land killing hundreds Of wounded soldiers
some Of whom were Germans. At Vadlin-
court the boche came earl in the evening
and dropped his first bomb. A German air
man taken prisoner the day before died OF
fright when the first bomb came, for he
knew what to expect. An hour later they
came again, dropping more bombs-some
Of the bombs being tncendiary bombs
Soon the hospital was ablaze. Again the
and again until o'clock in the morning
Then he dropped lot Of handbills warn
ing the allies that II they did not want
their HOSPITALS bombed to move them