Evening journal., 1918-04-04
kIPLlNG'S WAR CALL
From the LONDON MornIng PosL.l

iffOm tnc IOndOT
To an audience which filled the Pleas
ure Gardens Theatre at Folkesione 90
the point or oNern0ving Mr.. Rudyard
kpllng delivered a stirring address
yesterday afternoon on The need Of re-
Dewng and strengthening our will To
prosecute the war 90 Just and VIC
torlous finish aud In very drab oolors
he pictured The outlook FOR England
and the rest OF The civilized world
should The end come on anything but
those terms
Mr. Kipling said. "We have rather
dry subject 10 talk over this afternoon.
so before ! begin. II YOU Will allow me.
/ will tell YOU q story once upon
time a hundred years ago, there was
a large and highly-organi1ed commu-
nifty In India who lived by assassination
and robbery. They were educaled TO
70 from their infancy they followed it
a. a profession, aud 10 was also their
religion. They wore called Thugs.
Their method was TO disguise them
selves az pilgrims. or travellers, or
merchants, aud lO join With parties of
pilgrims, travellers, and merchants
moving about India They got into The
what they had 90 them. and In due
meafter weeks or months OF ac-
Qualntance they Killed them by giving
them poisoned sweelmcals for
cllo.cc-0r by slrangling them from be
hind as ihey sat over the fire of an
evening. with a knolted towel or spc-
cially prepared piece OF rope. They then
stripped the corpse of lll v3luablcs.
threw 10 down a well 0r buried ll and
went on TO The next job. AZ last Things
g0l so bad that the government of IN
dia had io interfere. Like an govern
menls, u created "A department. the
Department ot Ihuggeo 90 deal with
the situation Unlike most departments
lhs department worked we'll and after
many years of tracking down and hang
ing mp The actual murderers. and i'm.
prisonng their spies and confcderaies
who included an ranks Of society, n
put an end tO ihe whole business Di
rhugRee
"rhe world has progressed since that
day BY prcsen. standards of crime
those Thugs were ineffective amateurs
/ ,Laughter.) They did not mutllate on
denle the bodies OF the dead; they did
not torture, or rape, or enslave peO-
/ pie; they did not hil children for fun
and they did not burn villages. They
merely killed and robbed in an unob.
trusve way as a matter Of education
duty and religion, under the patronage
of their Goddess. Kali the Destroyer
Very good At the present moment all
The powers OF the world that have mol
been bulled or bribed 90 keep out OF
it have been forced 10 Join IN one In.
ternaiion1l Department to make an enc
of German International Thuggee-
CHEERS r. for the reason that il it &.
not ended now this planet becomes in
supporlable for human beings. Ever
now there are people 10 England whc
find IL hard TO realize that the Hun
has been educated by the state from
his birth 90 look upon assassination anC
robbery, embelllshed with every treach.
cry and abomination that the mind 0i
man can laboriOusly think out, as q
perfectly Legitimate means to the ma
iional ends of his country. He is no
shocked by these things. lie has beer
taught that 10 is his business TO per
form them. his duty TO support them
| and his religion 90 Justify them. The.
are, and for a long time past they have
been. as legitimate in his eyes as th'
ballot In ours. This remember, was a.
true OF the Germans in 1914 as 10
/ now People who have been brough
up TO make organized evil in every form
their supreme good because they be
lieve that evil Will pay them, are no
going 10 change their belief ill II
proved that evil does not pay. So far
the Hun believes that evil has paid hin
| in The past and VIII pay him bette
] in the future. lie has had a good start
! Like the Thug, the Hun knew exactly
what he meant 10 do before he opened
| his campaign against mankind. As W.
/ have proof now, his poisoned sweet
meats and knotted towels were pre-
pared years beforehand, and his spies
had given him the fullest Information
about an the people he intended to at-
tack. So he is doing what is righi
in his own eyes. lie thought out the
hell ne wished to create: he built II
up seriously and cieglncally with hi.
best hands and brains, he breathed intC
( IL his own spirit that it might grow
with his needs; and at the hour tha
| ne judged best he let 10 loose on
world that TN then had believed therN
mere limits beyond which men born o.
women dared not sin.
"Nine-tenihs OF the atrocities Ger
many has committed have not beer
made public think this a mistake
Hear, hcar.) But one gets hint of then
here and there -FOlkstOne has had NOR
than hint For instance, Ne Wer