Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-10
AMERICA GIVES
HOPEFOR

HUI EFVN EAIE
Noted British Publicist Says
Nation is Relentless
When Aroused.
The entrance Of America. into the
war is the one circumstance that
makes 1t sure that the German peo-
pie will come to know in time, not
w~ithstanding the Junkers,z what the
rest Of the world thinks Of their ma
TONS role in the great conflict. This
Frewen, the English publicist, in the
July issue of Overseas, which has just
reached this country. Overseas IL
the official publication Of the Over
seas club, OF which Lord Northcliffe
is the founder and president. Mr..
Frewen says that while, after the
war, the German government may be
able to suppress books and newspa-
pers expressing the views Of the
government, the millions Of German
Americans in the United States will
assuredly let their relatives know how
Germany stands in the eyes of the
world. In an Introductory para
graph, the editor of Overseas says:
Prophet of New Era.
"Moreton Frewen Is one Of the
prophets of the new era Of empire.
For many years he, fought unpopular
battles fora better understanding be-
tween the British and American peo-
pies, for the closer union Of the en-
pire and for economic reforms. His
commonplace of tomorrow
Mr.. Frewen sees only good in
Americas joining the allies.
Time has now run On well into
the third month since the great re-
public of the west entered the world
war; he writes. THE event itself
was as some vast. seismic disturbance
which, splitting a continent into frag-
ments, left it to the g%eologist. Of the
of a. disturbances so colossal The new
contours which are the product Of this
continental fracture are as yet too
new and too strange, while the up
heaval itself is too b~ewildering to al
low Of. any smap-making today; but
What stands u most fc~orspicuously
is that aIdemocracy Of more than q
hundred millions, possessed of the
wealthiest and most compacted re-
'gion on our planet has, in the Ian
guage of its chief magistrate, discov-
cred in the modern German power
the natural foe Of liberty and has en-
tered in a war of determination in the
spirit Of those immortal lines un-
known to & vast majority Of us in
these islands before the celebration
service Of Americas entry in our own
cathedral Of st. Paul:
I have read a fiery gospel writ in bur
nished rows of steel
las We deal with My contemners SO
with you Ny grace shall deal;
Let the hero born Of woman crush
the serpent with his heel,
Since God Is marching on.
In the beauty Of the lilies Christ was
born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that trans
figures you and me,
As He died to make men holy, let us
die to make, men free,
While God is marching on.
Spirit Of America.
"Such is the spirit in which Amer
lea enters a war In which her partic-
ipation has been quite inevitable and
memorable. Probably few.living Eng
ishnaen better know her peoples from
Maine totCalifornia, from the Great
Lake to the Rio Grande, than does
this writer, and unless I greatly mis-
take, history will afford no parallel for
the coming christening Of the miscre-
ant Prussian at the hand Of The Amer-
lean. ! believe that once aroused, the
American Is the most relentless Of hui
man beings, and when he has diScoy-
cred the Q than 'copperhead' fer
ocity which Is the basis of Kaiserism
"a ferocity which a modern French
philosopher has well stigmatized as
lie sadisme allemand.' there will be
no let up whatever until what sur
wives Of this Prussian horror has been
just f~1agellated to a new birth It is
Tor that reason most Of all that I re-
3joice for the entry of this vast and
new race in the finei fighting frenzy
we shall now discover.
Britain Can't Meet Problem.
I'VE Britons, at5least the Britons in
the British Isles. cannot be trusted ia
deal with the Prussian problem in
such q crisis in the worlds history
We are by far too piacable, a1most4too
incident, to be judicial. When the
time of peace arrives and with 1t the
opportunity to. punish murder and
rape as organized murder and rape
should be. punished, then I think the
verdict Of the American churches will
be of infinite Importance. Il associate
myself, and ! believe the readers Of
Overseas in general are with me, and
that we all associate ourselves at THU
|juncture with the new peoples; afhai
their moral code. the old rabbfpicaa
code. rings true at this, time, and tina,
we are behind them and with then
In their desire for peace. For peace
yes, but for Justice and for condigr
punishment as the conditions prece-
dent to any peace Whatsoever.
"But second only In Importance tc
the winning of the war Is that the
guilty should be educated rapidly te
q knowledge of the full measure Of
their guilt. The future peace Of the
world requires not only that Germany
shall be beaten to her knees, but that
Germans everywhere shall recognize
the full measure OF their crime against
the human family. If the legend thai
is seduously fostered today by all
their reptile press, namely athat the
German empires were hedged about
by hostile nations armed to the teeth
and only awaiting the proper oppor-
.tunity to destroy them, and that
seeing this, Germany struck frst--ii
this legend is allowed to write Itself
into German history, what chance Il
there Of q change OF heart on the part
of Germans eyerywhere2
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