Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-01
THE GERMAN PRISONER 1

The German prisoner his way his comfortable inernment with fine ddain written his To this there agreement those who have and described him, both the other side and lsior of naughty warriors of Kultur, humancly rescued from beaten submarine way southern camp The Kuur finds many things dcspisc when gets among Very likely he dcspss the kindness contrary therefore be despcabe But in this country England hc finds still other, and him things He his great surprise. in civil world here soldiers their wide hats him only funny armed civilians They do airs o superiority to the civil population and they be regarded brothers Of the Of the people. Plainly country which has been organized and still conducted basis the principle that people the world work and live first and fight only if they The German knowns that this all wrong Generations his people accepted the doctrine of Frederick the Great and of Sharnho which later be rubbed into them by rctschse and Bernardo that the civil ian exists only for the soldiers sake War; the military the sword pketoppcd hcme-thcsc only things that he really respects And he his capacity. nation which does share his and k consequently having particularly hard time this resist tho nation which entertaining the opposite view has brought itself to point o efficiency beyond anything of the kind reach cd in the world before What be good for and the liberty of the citizen before the glory of the soldier:
 He sneers too of Kulur, at d which the principle of individual initiative has been by the doctrine of the supremacy of the state in all things He people here actually living for themselves and their welfare
 
 happily the good and glory of immense ization ccnee in which knows what k better for the people better than the people know themselves. He the borne up the shoulders o the individual citizen the citizen taking his bread and his very right live the proyison the kind gift of the holy The thing perfectly apparent in the air and walk workngmcn the easy schooboy say individual freedom blows into the German prisoners face the air that in of the And of il altogether different from the o things that prevails Germany and there fore concmptiblc.
 There k still another thing which fills the German prisoner contempt the respect which the AngloSaN pays Wo walk about among unairaid insucd tree and honocd These American have had chance the thoughts which the recently arrived German brings him concerning In their lives they have had thoughts They pitu and kind and willing give the prisoner of coffee meal ol bcadwlng forget the niamics. beyond their understand ing their imagination. which he has done their sisters in Belgium. France. Poland. Serbia wherever his ad nirabc system has thrown the wives and mothers and sisters o his his power Sex the German soldier understands he does know. and he dcspscs them, them he passes Iuu,ain aniuc and thc slave pens where French mains have suffered agony and dshono his hands him he Gcntcncs domestic life concmptiblc him. people devote themselves these weak virtues how they kill and conquer:
 It k evident that the German prisoner really help nccrng he k led through his the pleasant camp which will be his home long as the lasts