The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-07
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A4N4O ] R1I1NNDS | The drama
 The great war drama moves on to an- other act America now comes on the boards.
 This country is beginning to play the part the Lord God of Hosts intends it to act.
 On the day the United States entered the war on the side of the allies, a French senator dramatically said in the Chamber of Deputies: This is Gods day in hrs- tory"
 The United States has never waged war of conquest, but it has fought for humanitys sake. Humanity is a belated discovery in certain European courts.
 
 It's common knowledge that so long as the Germans were hacking their way through Belgium. it did not exist for them; it was only for weddings, not for "supermen." Now that the English and the French are doing some hacking the war lord begins to be aware that peace might be a good thing for humanity.
 
 It's now the advocates of "frightful- ness" who are alarmed because the war is already beginning to play havoc with the extreme Prussian pan-German pro- gramme of Deutschland uber Alles." It's true Germany spoke of peace, but on terms that meant merely let-up, so that she could better prepare to carry out in the near future her policy of blood and iron.
 The inspired German press was full ot dark warnings to the enemy and the neu- trals and they were told to beware if her terms were rejected. They threatened war with increased intensity-and it was no bluff
 "A negative answer" declared one of the German papers will make an echo from us such as our enemies never dreamed . It will be war to the knife war with every weapon we possess" An other leading paper boasted, If they reject the outstretched hand then let them bear the terrible consequences" The Westphalian Diet wired to the Kaiser imploring that august peace lover' to let Britain taste "all the mighty weapons which have been placed in your majestys hands by the spirit of German inventors, German technical skill and Ger man heroic courage"
 
 And the Emperor, so the story goes, soothes these frebrands with his laconic entry in the war album of Vienna's city council: "Dennochr'-whch means, come what may.
 It was no bluff. The threat was made good in blood. Germany dealt surprising strokes by land and sea and air until at last President Wilson saw that the sink ing of the Lustania was to be followed with still greater acts of atrocity.
 The killing of helpless American men, women and children was the mistake of the bandit empire. Added to the wall of bleeding Belgium now arose a cry from the threats of our own people, who had lost their beloved ones-and patience all gone, Uncle Sam got into the war to help stop the bloody march of Emperor William.
 There are already signs that the Ger man people are wearied with the Kaiser's claim, There is only one will, and that is mine"
 That part of the world which believes in democracy is in revolt against the ruler of Germany, whose military policy and predatory habits has compelled his neighbors not only to go constantly armed, but to provide weapons of ever increasing number and costliness for self defense.
 The drama goes on as the acts change and the scenes shift; the audience be- gins to note that the people are showing the kings off the stage, i e., those who pretend to govern by divine right
 How long will the play go on? God only knows, but let's all pray who love humanity that when the curtain is rung down on the bloodiest drama of history that it will be the end of war.