El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-10-04
(E. NesbIt In "rhs New wItness.")

nimn ia uoichho VI tue uohoE dHe
faith OF Christendom Is merely a quar-
rel with the living representatives o.
the house OF Hohenyollern Is one
which. on the face OF II, would APP
pear almost impossible Of considera
ton. much less OF acceptance; and
that II has been In some quarters
entertained and even. as It seems, &C
cepted, Is surely ground for a very
grave uneasiness. II Ia the sugges'
tion of an idea that ia not even partly
true. It is absolutely and ~uneauivo'
cally false.
But II is dangerous, because II ap'
peals SO intimately to that incurable
chiyalry which is at ono England's
deepest weakness and her highest
strength. We are ever prone to gen
erosity in the hour OF victory: we
make haste to shake hands with the
beaten foe. We are. indeed, In such
a hurry to forgive him that we are apt
to forget the causes II quarrel as well
as the incidents Of the fight. And
when the quarrel has been between
gallant, noble foes, such eagerness TO
forget and forgive is just and honorable,
But the foe whom we have fought for
these three years is not noble or gal
liant. He has forgotten justice and
mercy, truth and decency; he has wal
lowed in filth and blood; he has tram
pied on all which we love and rever-
ence; he has outraged mar and in
suited God. And now It Is above all
things necessary that we should not
forget, in the rush of generous emo
tion which will follow on the exulta'
tion Of victory. what sort OF animal 1t
is that we have been fighting.
Fighting the Monster
To cast out the Hohenzollerns and
make friends with the German people
Is as though we should hang Franken-
stein and embrace the monster which
he has made. The German emperor
set out to make. out Of simple, home
ly. kindly peoples, a monster that
should devour all good and gentle
things, and sprawl diseased and infec-
tious across a blighted world. With
almost incredible valor and sacrifice
we have fought this monster and
barred its way. We are fighting, it.
and we are driving 1t back. william
of Hohenzollern set out to make that
black beast and for that he deserves a
thousand deaths; but he not only set
out to create a monster; he did Gre
ate It.
When President Wilson said that
his quarrel was with the Hohenzollerns
and not with the German people, he
spoke for himself, and perhaps for the
American nation. But not for us. Our
quarrel is with the German people, as
we'll as with the kaiser; with the
Monster, as we'll as with its Maker.
There are no colors black enough to
paint this emperor, and the blacklist
of his deeds is the Transformation OF
the German peoples from what they
we're to what they are.
Soldiers obedIent
F. 1T is In vain to tell us that the Ger
man soldiers In Belgium only obeyed
orders. Those orders came down to
them from their kaiser through a
linked chain of officers OF varied
rank; not one of these was man
enough to break his sword and fling
It in the face of the officer above him.
The orders, when they came to the
men, were obeyed. Not a private dis
obeyed because his mind and soul re-
volted against such orders. Not a
man was too sick and ashamed to be
able to obey. This means that the
German officers of all ranks and the
German soldiers have been turned, by
the black magic of Perverted Educa-
ton and suggestion, into things that
are not men-as we use the word.
There are no officers in the allied
armies who could have given the or
ders that were given in the market
place of Liege; there is nc regiment
In the allied armies who would have
obeyed those orders. There Is no reg
iment In the allied armies who could
have carried those orders out. To ad-
vance, orderly and by numbers at the
word of command, and at the word
OF command to commit rape openly,
publicly, side by side with his com
rades, In a public square, under the
MONDAY sky, in the presence Of a
this would have been a thing
which a French or English or Italian
could not have done. But the
German did 1t. !,
Trail Of the Beast (,
They did other things, cruel things,
beastly things-things which I'M
healthy animals and human idiots love
to do-and when you ask us to think
of our quarrel as being only with the {
Hohenzollerns, you ask US to forget !
these things. Already they r in +
danger of being forgotten. Partly be- !
cause a slovenly press will not trouble .
to choose It's words, and contents It,
self with referring to "unp-intable /,
outrages." Nothing that can be done
by man is unprintable, If he who has ,
to write of such things understands ,
he meaning of words and will be at !
the pains to choose them. The things :
hat the Germans have done should be 4
written about in plain English and a
not any palmer than the English OF n
our Bible, which Is open to every d
,h,ld; and the record of their abomi. 7
should be circulated, with the
record Of the applause OF the home c
keeping German women, through the 8
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