Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-11
MUST KEEP OUR HEEL
ON EECK OF B0CHE
Germans Crushed But Have Ex-
pressed no Contrition for Bar
barities, Says John Bur
roughs.

Germany is crushed for the time being
as ajmiltary power; we have defeated
her nefariotls scheme of world conquest,
but ii we think we have changed her
spirit or made her humble and repentant
any less self-seeking, or cruel or un-
scupHous, or treacherous or ambitious
we dec i've ourselves. Not one sign have
her people or her rulers yet given that
they regret their colossal crimes lhere
are nearly or quite seventy million people
there yet with vast resources OF lana ana
money and economic power ntrenched IN
manufactures in mining, IN trade, IN agrl-
culture, and in all manner OF Industries,
cherishing their kultur, invoking their
tribal gods. and nursing their wrath
toward the nations that defeated their
schemes 1t is highly V probable that on the
surface they are now deliberately working
np a state of apparent chaos and dis
organization, hoping by the disappear
ance of any responsible government and
bv the setting up of number of small, in
dependent States to escape the payment
of the huge war indcmnitics which they
know are due and will be exacted.
No SIGN OF CoNTRIuoN.
The world is waiting for some sign of
German contrltion Not one authorIta-
i've voice has vet renounced or repudiated
their robber schemes At the beginning of
the war nearly hundred of their leading
minds physicians, divlncs, authors, col
lege professors signed a paper indorslng
the course of their Emperor in bringing on
the war. Later, in 1916, over thirteen
hundred. comprising the leading men of
all classes, put their names TO petition TO
their Chancellor setting forth their de
mands upon their enemies for lands and
money; declaring that France must he
utterly crushed and impoverished; that
Belgium must be retained; tie Channel
ports occupied; the African colonies
greatly enlarged, and so on.
MUST SEEK FORGIVENESS
Let those same men now come forth and
sign 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, en-
bracfng the League Of Agricuturists, the
German Peasant League, the WestphalIan
Peasant Society. the Central Association
of German Indllst-ialistS. the League Of
Indust rialiSts and the German Middle
Glass Associat ion, took action together In
petition to the Imperial Chancellor set
ting forth the rich harvest Of territory
mines iron and coal, colonies, harbors,
coast lines and 50 on, which the war must
yield Germany.
MUST SEIZE EVERYTHING.
Germany must hesitate at nothing that
would increase her political military
maritime and economic power and secure
her against danger of pressure from out
side 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 receive and
4 . r1al In 70 ~
the cool and matter-of-course air with
which they enumerate the territories
adjacent to their own which they must
have IN order that Germany may play
her role which the Teutonic God has laid
out for her Is one of the most stupendouS
pieces of effrontery in all history. They
must extend their frontiers east and west,
and then add more land to protect their
exposed frontiers. Just where they y o Id
stop does not appear.
1t is time there came q day of humIl-
iation and prayer in the land Of the Hun.
Let the people clothe themselves in sack
cloth and ashes; let Eucken be heard;
let Haeckel weep for invoking destruction
upon the land of Darwin to whom he
owed so much; let their clergy take back
boastful and unchrIstIan utteranceS; let
their editors and lawyers acknowledge the
existence and binding force of inter
national law; let their generals renounce
rnilitarisn, and Won TIrpitz swear he Is
filled with remorse over his pIratical sub
marine warfare. Some such manifestation
of sorrow and repentance from her lead
ing men would become Germany at this
time.
ALL CLASSES ARE HUNS ALIKE
Let US waste no sympathy on the
lower and middle classes among the Ger
man 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 VIC
torious? Had they Won the war and
crushed and Impoverished France and
England for hundred wears, would they
not have pocketed the spoils and glorifed
their Kaiser and his henchmen?
Germany was unit when the war
began; every voice, high and low, of |
people and autoeracy was for it; there
is division and discord now, because the
war was a failure, and instead of huge
spoils TO divide, there are huge bills 10
pay. The changed conditions awaken all |
classes to q sense of terrible realities
UNDEvEJoPED ETHIcALLY.
Gernanys ethical development has |
Jagged far behind her intellectual ] !
think it highly improbable that she viii |
be able at least in this generation, to /
get out of the narrow intense, exclu- |
sive tribal feeling into the larger feeling /
of world-hnship or brotherhood which |
France and England and the United /
States have exempliied over and over: /
such a feeling for instance as would |
have enabled her 10 appreciate the |
course Of this country IN regard 10 /
Cuba after we had released ner from the /
Spanish woke, or of Great Britain IN the |
freedom she grants to her colonies. You !
cannot put a soul into souIiess people. /
What is born in the bone cannot be got I
out of the flesh, and the tribal psy- |
chology is certainly IN the bone Of Ger
many
KEEP HEEL ON BRUTES NECK.
The only safe way for the guardians
Of civilization is, now that we have tic
Hun heel on the neck Of the brute to
keep it there. Keep it there for a gen
Grafton al least, and see what time viii
do The tremendous and growing spirit
Of hunanitarianism Of our time like .
genial climate ought TO make itself
felt al last
n we think the brute abdicated with
tho Kaiser We deceive ourselves He is