Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-02
SELF.DEFENSE PLEA
DOESN'T HOLD GOOD
AS A HUN ARGUMENT
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We do Is Tor our own pcncut Rilu'
since our nature Is warlikc. war Is
beautiful and necessary. We study In
peace times how 10 use every mar or
us in time of wor, and that Ia 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 breeding of babies. that they
may grow up and be trained Ia carry
liquid fire and poison against any op.
position to us. And, all the same.
we arc the only real peace lovers In
this maIign and prejudiced world.
which. except for us and the Au*tr,ans
and the Bulgarians and Inc Turks. is
composed exclusively OF stupid ruff
fans who were SC jealous and cnVious
Of US that they forced this war upon
u.s. hoping TO make some money out
OF us by annihi,ating us. We love
peace. and are lighting for our mere
cXi5tence--that is. the right to adjust
our frontiers so that they will include
the countries which We have conquer
cd by the sword. For Instance, we must
never again he threatened by an IN
rasion through belgium. We prepared
for this war as country ever be-
fore prepared-not even In 1870. when
We Uldue WIT OH fIaute--huu W. Ntlt
forced TO begin II because we lad
TO begin II before somebody else dill"
SOMETHING HUNAN
WALLS ron HUMANITY
That is the German voice aa We hear
IL ciamoring with The hundred and hun
dred thousand Tongues OF books. OF
pamphlets, of editorials, Of sermons.
OF diplomatic documents" Of kaiserly
and crown princeiy and governmental
Lar Lat "a a r
voice whose import is a thousand
times confirmed, day after day. and
year after year. throughout the age
of Slaughter by the actions Of the Ger
mans and their government. Here and
there German cry OF protest IN heard:
there is sound az Of something hu
man wailinG for humanity on the vast
wind Of Germanism. some times for y
moment a name Is heard out "t the
fatuous hurricane name like Eiaaso
or Licbknecht or IIarden-and there
seems to come the murmur as OF q
troubled multitude who do not ride
the wind: but the sounds are uncer.
tain and come TO us but weekly. We
can only hope that there Is some on.
there" Woodrow Wilson has called
to them i'm a loud voice. but they have
not known how TO answer IL they
would--or could.
The President called, hoping that
there might be Germans in Gcrmany
peace. Is there any one who does not
realize that II IL the world which /.
1T war with Germany? The United
states of America. the French rerub-
lie. the Russian republic, the British
empire, the Chinese republic. the Jap
nnesc empire, the Portuguese republic.
the republics CT Brazil. of Cuba. and
OF Bolivia; the Kingdoms Of Italy, of
Rouman'a. OF Serbia. Of Montenegro.
OF Greece. OF Siam, and the republics
Co., A,
war with Germany. Is 1t conceivable
that. even under great provocation. th..
people OF all these nations could have
brought themselves to go forth and
XIII Germans if the German cause had
been good one or il Germany had
been a peaceful country wantor!y at
tackled and not the calculating assail-
amt? And the world cannot make peace
with Germany, because t,te men who
lee Germany out to Kill in the bad
cause are stili In control Of Germany.
SO long as their power remains what
II Is. Germany cannot BE- trusted an
inch farther than our pioneer faith
crs could trust q Comunchc
The plain reason is this that the
rulers of Germany have come 10 be
known, as the Comanohes were known,
az creatures persistchtly and ihcurabiy
treacherous
They were on their oath and their
honor to protect the neutrality of Bel
Eium. and they themselves violated
that neutrality, while their Chancellor
called a solemn oath n scrap of paper"
FheE have not been content TO leave
the betrayal Of Belgium as IA single
example; they have made their record
since the war began. an elaborate series
OF proven treachericS. They violated
the law of nations and sank the Lust
tania, upon which were American
citizens who trusted that law to pro-
Them Ms.
those c!tiZens--men. women. children
and babics-and continued TO murder
other American citizens in the same
manner, meanwhile engaging our gov
eminent in n correspondence which was
afterwards said by :lt German Chan
ccllUr to have been ruse intended to
delay action on our part until the GER
man navy had made such submarine
preparations as would profit Germany
to defy US.
WOULD JAIL KAISER
IN UNITED STATES
At the head of the German govern
ment. and controlling ii. is a man of
singular appearance and of a mind az
singular, He has beliefs about himself
which were he a citizen of our coun-
try, would cause him to be cared for
in sanator!um, and he has theories
about human conduct which. were he
an American and did he cndcavor to
put those theories into action, would
cause him to he cared for In n peni-
Tertiary. Imagine an American-or
any modern human being-who serious
~ believed himself personally selected
and appointed by the God of the uni
verse to rule SO absolutely over mil
lions of his fellow men that II would
he their conscientious, duty to shoot
down their own parents and their own
children at word Of command from
him! And ina CINE what would happen
TO an American who got a neighbor
killed because the neighbours yard
stood between him and the yard of a
second neighbor whom he intended to
Kill! And what sort of plea would be
the murde. er's if he said in court:
but heard on good authority-I don't
say whose-that the second neghbor
thought of coming through the dead
mans yard to tight me In mine?
The German Kaiser has really
thought pcrsistently of all non-Teu-