The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-13
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS
"Grim visaged war" walks abroad.

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 In this twentieth century of the Chris tian era the world is a place of battle still and life is war. Kaiserism is filling Europe with the sounds of it's swords and the sky with the smoke of it's ruins.
 
 The story of modern Germany reeks with blood and ravenly with the lust of blood, and culture yields place to barbarism.
 The papers fairly reek with stories of fighting by land, trench warfare; fight ing by sea, naval battles on the bosom of the ocean. submarine horrors beneath the waves; duels in the air, and murder dropped from the skies. will the Prussians never tire of the old gods-Thor. Odin and Freya and the rest-and turn from bloodshed to the white Christ who breaches peace on earth and good will towards all men? Militarism has made them bold, quar- felsome, vengeful, treacherous, cruer, until it seems that the hearts of the 1 fighting men in Germany are the hearts of wolves.
 | To get the modern viewpoint of the l Hehenzollerns who are in the saddle rid l ing roughshod over Europe in their mad gallop of conquest we must go back to Richard III, the last Plantagnet.
 
 1 Richard kills the Duke of Somerset and, apostrophizing the body, exelains; Sword, hold thy temper; heart be wrathful still; priests pray for enemies, i but princes kill"
 l This Is the working, If not the avowed theory of Emperor William to kill all who crosses his purpose of world em- l pire even though his armies have to smash Belgium. a friendly neighbor Like Richard III, though deformed in body, he has prowess in battle. 1
 The Kaiser is the great soldier of the Prussians-the foremost in all the fight | the driving power behind his generals 1 the most bloodthirsty-the foremost in 1 the fight and the one who is ever eager | for action and blows, It's he who rallies and sends his men against the iron line that day by day is fighting closer to Berlin.
 1 rybot 1,o,, xr,in yuiII;o, ,,, TIT 1f rsar l many like Richard III of England, is a great soldier, man of the highest abil- ity, bold, determined, relentless, with an iron will and an address which bends his nation and his allies to his pur- pose of greater Germany that shall rule Europe and dominate the world. | sss | He comes of a race, the Hohenzollerns who, for generations. have been occupied l in getting and holding thrones; and his whole life has been absorbed, and al his immediate family has been concerned in a struggle to make the Prussian crowr not merely dominant in the fatherland but throughout Mittel Europa
 
 It is hard for me to realize that tn, dashing crown prince who used to rid by the University of Berlin during m, student days and who became Empero during my residence in Berlin, is tn, man who, like a Colossus, seeks now tt stride the world.
 l He has shown himself to be a strong man. capable of rule. Germany Is at hi. J,aJ H. IL a mere Kaiser's war. If this had beer the case, it would have been over lon. ago. Emperor William Is recognized al the ablest man in the kingdom, both al general and administrator These ar facts that we must face.
 
 And now turn to an entirely differen type of a man and shift the scene t. a land where there is totally differen atmosphere. Let's look for a moment a our sohoolmaster President and conside for awhile the hopes of America.
 Woodrow Wilson carries no 'big stick but he believes in the rule of the people the great American idea, and under prov ocation carried beyond the point of en durance, picked up the challenge of au tocracy and is going to show those wh claim to rule by divine right that unde } God it's his high mission to "safeguar democracy for mankind
 | ,, Let every true American get in benin President Wilson, who is fighting tn battle of the people against the militar system of Germany, which seeks to abol ish the liberty bought for us by ou forefathers at the price of their lives. eaaw1ntaM1@aassN