The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-05-30
Mr.. GERARD At
\ LYRIC JUNE 7-8

Coschens narrative of his last inter
/, view with the German Chancellor,
the famous scrap of paper Incident,
will be quoted That. however, is
but page in the history of events.s
To Mr.. Gerard was given the oppor-
tunity during four years to see Ger
many from within, and in particular
to watch an autocratiC and efficient
military machine at work during ov-
err two years OF war. His ambassa-
ldorship is memorable in two ways
display Of clumsiness, haughtiness
and suspicion on the part of Germany
/ toward the representative of pow
erful neutral country, II German
wants to find an explanation for the
consistency of America at the present
moment, he may easily discover it
by seeing the photoplay My Four
Years In Germany" No nation with
sense of honor and of It's own pow
er could long tolerate the scorn and
ignominy which the Kaiser and the
military leaders of Germany poured
out upon America in the person of
its ambassador.
But Mr.. Gerard's term is memoir
able because OF his printed record
Of It. Seldom before has an ambas-
sador published his "reminiscences
Immediately upon his retirement.
But new occasion called for a new
precedent. The world wanted an i'm
age of German life. picture Of
what was felt to be the twisted
psychology Of the German mind. Mr..
Garard was one Of the few men able
to give this, and the film MY Four
Years In Germany" has thus be-
come one of the most important dip
l0matic disclosures shown during any
war.
Pictured because want to bring
home to our people the gravity Of
the situation. to use the authors
words. it has become striking his
torical document. plain record that
none can misunderstood, of the mad
ness Of people drunk with autoc-
racy. a
EOrewOrl
We are engaged in war against
the greatest military power that the
world has ever seen: against peo-
pie whose country was for SO many
centuries q theatre Of devastating
wars that fear Is bred in the very
marrow of their souls. making them
ready to submit their lives and
fortunes to an autocracy which for
centuries has ground their faces.
but which has promised them, as a
result Of the war. not only security
but riches untold and the dominion
of the world; a people which, as
from a high mountain. has looked
upon the cities of the world and the
glories OF them. and has been prom
Used these cities and these glories by
the devils of autocracy and of war.
We are in this war because we
were forced into it; because Ger
many not only murdered our citizens
on the high seas. but also filled our
country with spies and sought to in
cite our people to civil war.
We are warning against a nation
whose poets and professors. whose
and whose parsons have !
united in stirring its people to
white pitch OF hatred first against
France and Russia. then against
England, Italy. Belgium, Serbia. Rou-
mania and now against America.
Is it not shame that the world
should have been SO disturbed; that
peaceful men are compelled to lie
in the mud and filth In the depth of
raw winter. shot at and stormed at n
and shelled, waiting for a CHI lnce to
some other inoffensive fellow
,reature? Why must the people In
DID Poland die of hunger, not find
ng dogs enough to eat in the streets
If Lemberg? The long lines Of brok-
n peasants in Serbia and in Rouma-
lia; the population Of Belgium and
northern France torn from their
homes to work as slaves for the
Germans; the poor prisoners of war
starving in their huts or working in
actories and mines; the cries of the
I'D and the children, wounded by
,ombs from Zeppelins; the walls OF
he mothers for their sons; the very
'ustling of the air as the souls of
he ten million dead sweep to anoth-