Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-09
CHAPTER IN-tContinucO

"MoNTHs" gasped the cure. Then
AN1 what will become Of my unhappy
country? Even today we are living on hope.
Liege still holds out, and the people are
saying, The English are coming; all Will
be wellr A man was shot today in this
very town for making that statement
He must have been a fool to voice his
views in the presence Of German troops"
The priest spread wide his hands in sor-
rowful gesture you don't understand
he said. Belgium Is Overrun with spies
| 1t is positively dangerous to utter an opin-
| ion in any mixed company. one or two or
the bystanders will certainly be in the pay
| Of the enemy"
Though the cure was now on surer
| ground than when he spoke of a British
army on Belgian soil, Dalroy egged him
on to talk. MY chief difficulty is to know
| how the money was raised to support all
| these agencies" he said Consider, mon
sieur. Germany maintains an enormous
! army She has a fleet second only to that
| Of Britain She finances her traders and
! subsidies her merchant ships as no other
| nation does. How is 1t credible that she
should also find means to keep up secret
service which must have cost millions
| sterling a year?'
Yes, you are certainly English" said
| the priest, with a sad smile You don't
begin to estimate the peculiarities OF the
|
| so TO speak within arm's-length Of Ger
| many, have long seen the danger, and
| feared IT, Every German Is taught that
| the world is his for the taking. EVERY
| German is encouraged in the belet that
| tho national virtue of organized effort Is
| the one and only means of commanding
| success Thus, the state is everything, the
| individual nothing. Gut the state re-
wards the individual for. services rendered.
| The German dotcs on titles ana decora-
| tions and what easier way OF ea'hIns
both than to supply Information deeIneu
| valuable by the various state departments
| Plenty Of wealthy Germans in Belgium paIu
| their own spies and used the kho"leuse
! SO gained for their private ends as wen 1o
for the benefit of the state Durlhs lne
| last twenty years the whole German rae
has become a most efficient secret society
| its. rnembers being banded together loI
| their common good and leagued against
the rest Of the world. The German ne. |
! loses his nationality no matter no" US
/ ho n9av dwell in a foreign country NY
l,,,r obvrcb claims to be Catholic and uni
| versal vet 1 would not trust a German
| coleapue in any matter where the interests
! Of his country We're AZ stahe' IH' -,
| mans are a race apart ana peucNe '~'s'a' ~
! selves superior TO all otnerS' ,lsi ,,.os
| n time in nv youth, when Prussl" Voc
! 1istinct from Saxony, or WurtemperB' OF
! bavaria That feeling is dead. The present
| E,nneror has welded his people hlto ouo
tremendous machine, partly by plaS ~
| upon their vanity, partly ny p"ns.'b -
"py,, %pun 5r,,r, during his travels, but main
| l.. h,, dorgling before their eyes the IeW"lu
! that men have always found lrTeSIst'piv
tbo snoIiatjon Of other lands, the proSpcC
| M, sudden enrichment Every soiulel u'',
| inc past this house at the preSeHt Ilo ,,no
| - - hopos 10 rob Belgium ana fraIce'
| Knd rnv, england is added to the ehuclhs
90 e. ~ ,yeIl-stocked properties that may
he lawfully burgled, am no p,opns,,
| ,,',,sto,r I am only an old man VINO mas
! watched the upspringing OF new az" ,a,,
rible force in European tF Cod snares
| live an hour or ten years put II ~ 60
| w ~ Sar tho latter period | shall see ger
n nv o,tber laid in the dust by an en- en-
rnged world or dominating the ear'" ~
| brutal conquest A., mar Dalrov
@ @buI 10 - nassed the Interpreter test
| MoS'u ["orr,or some few weeks later ne h'1
lil&,,t III - his .GanCuage leave In Berllh' anu
los necessarily familiar WIN ~ ~, ~, %n
tbought and literature ore" ia, H" +ho
smiled at Teutonic boastluImSS9. ~ Ma
7it.rra words Of an aged village cure @ @nau
49, a far-reaching and sinister lncallii5
20 rnuch that had seemed the mere 80 80
20 ''S,,orous race fermenting in successtul
trade .. ,,o C,orr,or colony
e, Tsnyiand pursues the same methods ne
sized and his heart sank as ne reCallSu ,
~ wealth and social standing OF the horde
~ Germans in the British Isles ~,
"Can the leopard change his spots!
o,oted the other. "A year ago one OF my
Srterds a maker OF automobiles thought
.,5od n holiday. He took me to England.
1'o5 Sos bcen good 10 Britain, monsieur'
fIo has given you riches and power, But
~, aro grown careless. / stayed in hVe
80 hotels two in London and three In the
Dro,inces They were all run by Germans
I made inquiries, thinking ! might peheh'
sonne Of my village lads; but the German
,,1anagars would employ none save German
uitars IllanaS German cooks, German reception
p,ort,s Your hall porters were Germans
You never cared 10 reflect, l suppose, that
hotels are the main arteries OF a country's
itSa Rut. the canker did not end there
Vn,,r mills and colieries were installing
German plants under German supervisors
Your BANKS .,,
.,put our God is not German God" he
,r,.d and his sunken eyes seemed to shoot
g. "T.ast night, listening to the guns
tbat were numbering Belgium / asked my
saIf WHY does Heaven permit this crime
All the answer came swiftly; German in
duences were poisoning the world. They
nod 10 be eradicated, or mankind would
sink into the bottomIess pit So God hai
sent this war. Be Of good heart. Re
member the words of Saint Paul: so alsC
is the resurrection of the dead II is sowI
IN corruption; It Is raised in interruption
n Is sown in dishonor; II is raised in glory
II is sown in weakness; it is raised IL
power ,-,,
tained the pulpit pitch. The clear, incisiv'
accents reached other ears
The landlady crept in. with a face o.
, ( scare. Monsieur she whispered, 9Th,
doors are wide qpen II Is an orderr'
Dalrov went r4pidly into the street N,
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