The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-02

I ulFect that 1t leaves no doubt. This evidence is colossal and conclusive and
 IS almost all German. IL is no longer 1 possible to debate the question, and
 the court has decided-the court con- sisting of the nations of the world. Ihat court found that Germans plotted | to dominate the world and decided and
 attempted to kill the men and women
 and children of certain other nations
 and to continue the killing until these
 nations submitted to German domina-
 ton, after which all remaining nations l would be compelled to submit
 It seemed incredible that there were such ideas left over in the twentieth i century world, but there is no longer
 any doubt of it. It is the preposterous put undeniable truth that there exists
 large and powerful group of Ger | mans-prosperous people and of high attainment in certain specialties-who
 decided to have great numbers of sim pie minded men under their orders 50 | out and kill their fellow men, and con i ttnue to kill them in order to increase l the power of the plotters The great majority of the men who did the actual l killing would obtain benefit what | ever for themselves and many of these German soldiers might have brought little enthusiasm to their task if they had understood it. so they were told that they were fighting for the exist ence" of the "fatherland," and that Russia began itH and "England be- gan it."
 WOULD LIE TO PEOPLE Of course, a government which be-
 lieves in violating oaths-that is, violat-
 ing the honor of the nation which it represents or contros-such a govern
 ment would lie to it's own people. 0t made Germany perjurer, for the Ger
 man government stands before the world as Germany and acts as and for Ger many-until the German people remove l IL, and only by removing it can Germans regain for Germany something of lost honor) This government deceived it's own people first about the immediate causes of the war, then about the his- torical causes of the war, and then most vehemently about the character and in
 tentions of the allies opposed to Ger many.
 Is there doubt anywhere that the
 German rulers will lie, in any manner whatsoever, if they believe the lie will result to their own advantage? Then | take one lie with which they have filled Germany: That the President of I the United States and the American
 Congress, with the American people behind them, declared the United States
 to be in state of war with the Ger
 man empire because the American muni- tion makers wanted to make more
 money, ard J. P. Morgan was afraid I or the depreciation of his loans to Eng land
 l There are two significant things about this lie. One is the state of mind of the German politician who puts it forth, and the other is the state of mind of ! the unfortunate German subject who be- lfeyes 1t. The politician must necessarily | counteon an abysmal ignorance as well as loyal credulity in theN sub ject; and | vb ic of | type we know in our own country, in certain lower forms of sum- precinct
 manipulation But in Germany this type better educated, incomparably more l powerful, but nevertheless the moral 1 twin of one of our corrupt precinct com-
 mitteemen of the slums--is. in actual i high control of the Germany destiny and 1 has as it's obedient machine, not ward ! heelers from the barrel houses, but the
 most terrible army Known in history l And If the German spirit truly manifests l itself through such an agency it is a l spirit so sinister and Of such mighty l Ill omen to us that we must either ex-
 ercise 1t by high explosives or be it's | slaves. For this Is the voice that we l hear from Germany:
 1 We Germans" it trumpets, i've are Gods chosen people, His special favor ties, and God is German Himself. God rules over us in the person of our l purpose We are better than all other people of the earth: we are wiser and purer and nobler and more industrious
 and more learned and stronger and
 more spiritual and more warlike than ] all others.
 I We are so much greater than they that whatever we do to advance our
 own interests. at the cost of theirs, is right and praiseworthy If we kill a l great many of them, those who survive will in the end be improved, because they will work for us and learn some
 thing by observing us. Any deceit is proper and morally correct if it bene-
 fits us; and when we practice a policy
 of terror upon those who oppose us 1t 1 Is really philanthropy and shows how 1 gentle We are, because the survivors learn through our cruelty that it is use
 less to oppose us, therefore they the | sooner submit their wills to ours. We cannot do wrong, no matter what we do, so long as all that we do Is for our own benefit. And, since our nature is warlike, war Is beautiful and neces- sary. We study in peace times how to use every man of us in time of war and that is our great glory. By our bright swords we will take possession of the earth, which ought to belong to us, because we are Germans. We believe in the heaviest possible breed ing of babies, that they may grow up and be trained to carry liquid fire and l poison against any opposition to us l And, all the same we are the only real
 peace lovers in this ma1ign and preju :
 diced world, which, except for us and ] the Austrians and the Bulgarians and
 the Turks, is composed exclusively of
 stupid ruffians who were so jealous
 and envious of us that they forced
 this war upon us, hoping to make some money out of us by annihilating us We love peace and are fighting for our
 mere existence-that is, the right to adjust our frontiers so that they will
 include the countries which we have 1 conquered by the sword For instance,
 we must never again be threatened by an invasion through Belgium We l prepared for this war as no country
 ever before pfepared-not even in 1ST0,
 when we made war on France-and we had to begin it before somebody 1 else did"
 THIS IS GERMAN VOICE
 ] That is the German voice as we hear
 it clamoring with the hundred and
 hundred thousand tongues of books
 of pamphlets, of editorials, of sermons
 of diplomatic documents." of Kais- erly and crown princely and govern 4 mental and legislative speeches and
 writings-a voice whose import is . l thousand times confirmed, day after day and year after year, throughout this age of slaughter by the actions Of the Germans and their government Here and there German cry of pro- test is Eeard; there is a sound as of something human wailing for human ity on the vast wind of Germanism
 Sometimes for moment a name is
 heard out of the fatuous Hurricane