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| lions that these towns were destroy
! ed because the Inhabitants had free
upon the invading army from tn,
windows OF their houses is concla
| ,ivcly met and answered by anothci
! letter, written b. German Officer
20 his wife: On approaching a vii
! age soldier IS sent on in advance
o insert a Belgian rifle in the cellar
window or stable, and, of course
when this weapon is found we take
to the BurgomaSter and then the
port begins"
On little board in one ruined viii
age read; these words: Marie
,ged 10; dead August "A, 1915. Nen-
| geance is mine; will repay, saith
he Lord" The hundreds of atroci-
Ties personally investigated only
| 'erve to interpret Ambassador Nor
genthau's statement as to Armenia
that the Turkish soldiers and Ger
nan officers massacred in Armenia
half million people, that they
might move into their farm houses
and little shops and stores.
German Philosophy of Mlitaris m
Has Debauched Germany's Univer-
sity Professors.
The glory of every great city and
country is its scholars, with their
love Of truth and their stainless lives.
We have had our civilization at the
hands of men who loved the truth
supremeiy, pursued the truth >eter-
lally and cherished the truth above
their fear of hell or hope of heaven.
The world has its liberty, its science
and its law at hands of the heroes
who preferred the truth above life.
Concerning the patriots, the reform
ers and the statesmen. we can only
say they were stoned, they were
sawn asunder, they were crucilied
N Jerusalem, poisoned in Athens
ortured in Ephesus, exiled in Flor
ence. burned at the stake in Oxford
assassiuated in Washington. But the
ron autocracy and militarism o.
Germany debauched her universit,
nea. Here in my hand is an address
% the civilized world, signed by g
German professors. They all receive
heir salaries from state endowments
Any hour the Kaiser or Bethmann-
ioliweg can cut off their income
| When the indignation OF the civilized
world famed out against Germany
4 the winter of 1915, the German
government asked these professors
0 sign a document and these mer
lad been so degraded by the Ger
nan philosophy of militarism and
| ,utccracy that they obeyed losing
heir souls to save their salary. AND
onsider what they signed In tho
previous August Bethmann- Hollwef
ssued a statement TO the world, say
ng that as the violation OF Bel.
GUMS neutl ality, the wrong, | speal
)penly--that we are committing,
etc
These 90 professors signed state
nent, saying: at is not true that we
address that he himself has publish
I'd, he says; Give no quarter, take
10 prisoners. Let all who fall into
your hands be at your mercy. Make
Yourself as terrible as the Huns
Now, this address was circulated in
postal cards all over Germany. Real
izing the mistake, these professor
,igncd statement saving: 1T is no.
lrre that our soldiers ever injured
he life of single Belgian" Socrates
Or Dante. or even Calico, Sayonar-
ola, or Milton, or Victor Hugo, or
Lincoln, would have died thousand
leaths by faggots, or upon the rack,
ather than have signed their names
% such a statement-to lies The
Kaiser ard Pethr33 ua-l4ollweg mus.
ave Deen desperate and bewilder-
ID when they had u C..u.@..or L.
ouatcract their own documents at
he beginning of the war by asking
heir professors TO contradict these
documents during the middle of the
war 1t makes every university pro-
lessor almost ashamed of his calling.
Think OF Harnack and Euclen, with
heir moral cowardice and their in
tellectual impotencyl Plainly that is
what Nietzsche meant when he said
(see page 134 Ecce Homo: Every
rhine against culture that has been
ommitted for 100 years rests upon
Germany"
The Frenchman's Love of France
All men love their native land
But the Frenchman's love has a
unique quality. The patriotism of the
alnglishman is undemonstrative. The
Britisher surrounds his home and
garden with a high brick wall, con
ceals his finer feelings from his clos
est friends, and when he enters his
club on Pail Mall and disappears be-
mind the threshold, the door is clos
ed upon tomb. The Americans pa
triotism is largely academic nation
al safety through isolation breeds
lcontempt for danger. The time was
when his love of country was yoci-
ferrous on the Fourth of July, but the
enthusiasm has died down, until he
is now ready to extinguish even a
fire cracker. The occasional speaker
| deals in historical statements about
the four wars fought by our country
But the Frenchman's love of coun-
try has tender gentle, wooing note
He speaks of La Belle France as
Dante spoke of Beatrice, as Pc
trarch spoke OF Laura, and the namC
of France fingers upon his lips a:
music trembles in the air after the
song is sung, The reason, doubtless
is found in the fact that the French
people have carved the hillsides anC
smoothed the valleys and adorned
the ridges and mountains with vine
yards, until the whole land is ;
thing of radiant beauty. 1t is low
that has made France beautiful, jus
as the lark, after completing thu
nest, makes it soft and warm b,
pulling down out of her own bosom
The French people love France a