Evening journal., 1917-10-03
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1917.
REAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOLDIERS OF THE
FIGHTING ARMIES.


WAy HAT the real lesson Of the atrocities Germany
w has committed in the WARP
DO they prove that Germans different species OF
human benss2
This would do violence to the observations which
nearly an broad minded men have reached who have
come into contact with many breeds Of men.
Scientists travellers Just plain folk pretty well
agreed that in his home, in normal surroundings
the average man CLINE is very much like
the man Of any other breed Certainly the war has
proved that the primitive qualities Of courage endur-
ance ana loyalty the rank and Ole Of the combatant
races are very much alike.
Relying on these facts the defenders Of German crime
have continued to whisper. "oh all soldiers are alike
II the Allies had been on German soil they would have
done Just badly"
This is a slander on the living heroes OF every army
except the German Even the Turkish nghting man has
better record It is also a sander on the dead Of our
American armies Of the Revolution and the Civil War.
No such ourages the German crimes were recorded
IN any American war, by either slda
Even in the track OF sherman's march across Georgia
today there Is not tradition Of anything like the hell
ish things which marked the German tide through Bel
gum. In the South African war there not ono In
stance OF a British soldier insulting black or
white
The Germans IN 1870 did not do such things in France
To match the atrocities Of i9iii9i7 must travel
back TO the massacres and rspne Of the religious wars
Of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The answer to the whole anomaly IS very simple and
douby damning to the ruling caste in Prussia today
All soldiers very much alike, but armies and on
GERS are not.
Any army contains percentage Of men who WILL II
held by risd discipline perpetrate ourages of the
blacklist kind
Every city every village, every countryside has indi-
vlduas OF the same sort.
But every army in the world today and for 300 years
back except the German army has been controlled by
Of officers and system OF discipline, which held
such troops in check and kept them under the control
Of the decent majority
The fact that the German army, with its iron dsci-
plne did not do So proves that the crimes
oeDeraey encouraged and ordered by the government
through It's olcer class
'hai he real lesson Of the German atrocities They
Naen ma' INC German Government. and It's military
ss'snA ere different from an other governments and all
uNie hhAtarS systems For enduring such a system
'he German people and The German private soldiers
must bear fun blame
IN tnat sense al soldiers no, alike We can ho-s,,
imagine the clean minded and independent vo,nc so,
lows now gathered in our training camps eonrittine
any such acts as the loot Of Louvain even ~ ,,, -,
GERS told them TO- Military discipline in the Arnooo,
French and British armies has wen defined rroi,s h
Americans and their allies are not reared a. h
leve that any set Of men Gods earth has any dlvn
rights
And that is the real difference between the soldiers
the lighting armesa difference which explains atrocit
and Everything else.