New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

The following paragraph, which opens
a chapter on Methods of Persuasion" is
of special interest just now, with the
fate of Holland grimly balancing in the
scales of war: =
BY the preparation of these abominable
atrocities the Germans not only hope to
wreak their vengeance on those who have
dared to oppose their invading armies, but
to give the neutral states to understand
that the same fate is reserved for them
should they throw in their lot with the
enemies Of the Central Powers. At the same
time, they employing all dishonorable
means in order to bring these neutral states
over to their own cause"
alphabetically granting that the GerA>
mans are going to win the war, the
writer asks:
"And when they have conquered the world
how will they use their victory? What will
happen is too appalling to contemplate.
Having stopped at nothing during the war,
will they stop at anything when it is over?
All nations to be moulded after them
selves-Deutschtum, German thought, Ger
man methods and German manners pervad-
ing everywhere. And in Germany, as
Fernau, himself German, says Individual
opinions no longer exist, but only opinions
that have found official sanction. Journal
lists and newspapers standing to attention!
Fleld-gray sentiments and field-gray sci
ence! Iron words and iron money! The
whole nation one mass Of bronze, in which
no golden streak of individual character
is allowed to glimmer.'" ("Gerade well ich
Deutscher bin." English translation: "Be~
cause / am a GERMANY
And continuing under the above
specified hypothesis:
civilians will be of no account. Mill
tarism will be rampant in its worst form.
The lack Of good faith on the part of our
neighbors and our open frontiers will for
ever compel US to remain great military
state. Neither Belgium nor England nor
democratic France is a military state;
hence the gulf which separates our ideals
and our culture from theirs, and that gulf
truly appears unbridgable. We cannot af-
ford the luxury of the catchword liberty"
Quoted from the same work.
In chapter headed "The Germans as
They See Themselves and as Others
Have Seen Them" Mr.. Willmore saws:
at is hoped and believed that as the
war goes on it is becoming more and more
clearly understood throughout the neutral
world that the question at stake in the
present struggle, incredible IS it may SEEM.
Is whether the better or the baser in
stincts of mans nature shall prevail.
whether humanity, shall continue to pro-
coed on its course toward higher and
yet higher ideal, or shall revert to its con-
dition Of many thousands of years ago
when its motives were actuated by nothing
but the lower animal passions. By their
own acts our adversaries are revealing that
this is the true meaning of the struggle.
The concluding chapter resumes a
theme suggested in the very beginning,
the danger Of premature peace As
throughout the book, the writer quotes
contemporary authors and the press very
extensively and with wonderfully telling
effect. And then he sums it all up In
these lines:
III has been said that this is q war 70
END war. If this aim is reached good Will
ensue commensurate even with the hlsckS
meas Of Germauy's crima.s