Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-12-25
..nrpESTANr GERMANY
Given Not One sign OF Regret
~" for Colossal Crimes.
lRn .Ioan Barrouqhsl.

military power; We nave uNAe@teN
.,,yious scheme OF world conquest,
Dr. :, pe think we have changed her
2" ar made her humble aud re-
any less self~seeking, or
or interruptions, or treacherous,
ahitinus--we deceive ourselves. Not
s;gn have her people or her rulers
vst given that they regret their colossal
crimes
rhere are nearly or quite seventy
,,iIlion people thera yet with vast re-
.,-ces NJ land and money and economic
nover entrenched in manufactures, IN
aiming. in trade, in agriculture, ana in
al manner of industries, cherisbing
.hsir kultur, invoking their tribal gods,
and nursing their wrath toward the
nations that defeated their schemes.
II Is highly probable that on the surface
they are now deliberately working up
state of apparent chaos and disorgan-
i,ation. hoping by the disappearance
NJ any responsible government and by
tho setting up OF a number of small, in
dspendent states to escape the payment
NJ the huge war indemnities which they
know are due and will be exacted.
The world is waiting for some sign OF
Germsn contrition. Not one authoritative
voice has yet renowned or repudiated their
robber schemes. At the beginning of the
war nearly a hundred Of their leading
minds physicians. divines, authors. col
lege professors signed paper indorsing he
course of their emperor in bringing on
the war. Later, in 1915, over thirteen
hundred, comprising the leading men
OF. ali classes, put their names to a
petition to their chancellor setting forth
their demands upon their enemies for
lands and money; declaring France must be
utterly crushed and impoverished; that
Belgium must be retained; the Channel
ports occupied; the African colonies
greatly enlarged, and so on. Let these
same men now come forth and sign a
petition to the whole world begging
forgiveness and acknowledging their sins.
We want to be convinced that they
have met with a change OF heart.
At about the same time the German
business men, embracing the League of
AgrieGit wrists, the German Peasant
League, the Westphalian Peasant society,
the Central Association OF German
lndustrialists, the League Of lndustrislists,
and The German Middle Glass association,
took action together in a petition to the
imperial chancellor setting forth the rich
harvest OF territory, mines Qron and
coaD, colonies, harbors, coast lines, and
so on, which the war must yield Ger
haE taft e- h.
ing that would increase her political,
military. maritime, and economic power,
and secure her against danger of pressure
from outside nations. They must not
only seize French territory, but all 'the
large and medium-sized properties must
be placed in German hands, and their
owners driven out" "France must re-
ceive ana indemnify the original owners"
In fact, the cool aud matter Of course
air, vita which they enumerate the terri
tories adjacent to their own which they
must have ia order that Germany may
play her role which the Teutonic God has
laid Out for her is one Of the most stu
pea,:uous pieces Of effrontery in all his
tory. They must extend their frontiers
eass ana west and then add more land to
protect their exposed frontiers. just
where they would stop does not appear.
1t IS time there came day of humilia-
ton and prayer in the land of the Hun.
Let the people clothe themselves in sack
cloth an, ashes; lei Eucken be heard; let
Heck weep for invoking destruction
upon the and OF Darwin to whom he~
owed so much; let their clergy take back
their bosstful and unehristlan utterances;
let their editors and lawyers acknowledge
the existence and binding force of inter-
national law; let their generals renounce
militasism, and Won Trpitz swear he is
filed with remorse over his piratical sub
marine warfare. Some such manifesto
tion Of sorrow and repentance from her
leading men would become Germany at
this time.
Let US waste no sympathy on the lower
and middle classes among the German
people; they were body and soul with
their kaiser as long as he was winning the
game; when he began to lose, they turned
against him. Their instinct of self
preservation caused the revolt. They
were badly scared. Was there any pro-
test as long as their armies were Vlcto-
rious? Had they won the war and crushed
and impoverished France and England for
hundred years, would they not have
pocketed the spoils and glorified their
kaiser and his henehmen?
Germany was unit when the war be-
gan; every voice, high and low. OF people
ana sutocracy was for it; there are divi-
ha
was failure, aud instead OF huge spoils
to divide, there are huge bills to pay.
The changed conditions awaken all
classes to sense of terrible realities.
Germany's ethical development has
Jagged far behind her intellectual. /