Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-22
NO REAL REPENTANCE
IN IMPERIAL GERMANY
Defeated In War, 1t VIII But
Change Its Weapons to
Attain It's Ends.
DOES NOT Changes MIN
Prussia VIII Remain World Menace
Unless Placed In Bounds Until
Lessons of Judgment, Justice and
Pity Arc Well Learned.

AestSu DOuAVS
Lessons of Judgment, Justice and
Pity Are Well Learned.
ny PROFESSOR GEORGE ID. HEBRON
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, October
.i.-Let US not be deluded into think
ing that Germany has changed or will
caange her mind.
ent to repent. but It Will be repen-
lance based on convenience only-a
Nsxer ele il repentance of las, resort,
Is real. nor the dawn Of moral reason,
n existing imperial Germany. If this
I ,yei, h even pretends TO repent, it
1851 the game. coupled with a cunning
ana unshaken determination so TO con-
4 POSITION to make another and sue
cessfui gamble.
! am convinced. as a result of. my
ipat no repentance of Germay for what
hne mas been and done will afford Sc
6Ss sr to the ,. World I re fail to strip
repeat what she has done. Germanys
most sacred guarantees will prove
them We sham nave pG noshn ne e To de-:
PEND upon, after our formal peace with
Germany Is made. beyond the weapons
Keep mat peace-at least for long
time 70 come. for there is no moral
substance In Germany upon which to
depend In the German national mind.
IN the German national experience and
oeTeiopment, moral obligation does not
DEPENDS on PEACE
CONFERENCE TO GAIN ENDS
Nor let US be deluded into thinking
laat tho consciousness of moral ,obli-
cation will be created by the Victory
OF our, arms, or that i Is with our ar
fnies the ultimate settlement with Ger
many rests. Germany's struggle for
sss sFss, sSo ends not with her military
cns; she does not change her mind
She temporarily counts on her masaed
peace conference Itself. for gaining
some OF the ends for which she went 10
So far as his power goes the Ger
man will not be a whit less the menace
% the moral being of humanity after
i .asv War ds,. than he Is nov Mere mill
th,e. channel OF his past history. nor
will any Kind Of treaty bind him. Dc
or psychoiogical .processcs--wiil no;
cnange his mentality as whole. Ger
many has prepared for peace just as
systematlcally. and Complementary as
she prepared for war before 1915 Her
purpose 70 penetrate and dominate the
world Nil be no more subdued by the
mere victory Of our arms than the
nature OF the hyena Will be changed
by circumscriblng the area over which
q, do. And i, Will still be a German
WIN whom you have 10 do when you
The Germans speak much, it is true.
OF thcir national honor. They say they
are ready for any concessions. for the
sake OF peace, short of what they con-
ceive TO be the honor Of the German
state and name. Yet ever they show
as srent an ignorance. of even tho
alphabet OF honor they do of the
fundamentals OF morality. What they
inistnke for national honor is merely
primitive tribal pride. I, * the ar
neSfanCe and DrestiPe IF
outward show of material ana mill
tary might, they are determined to
conversations have had with Ger
mans. the first hint of an honor tina,
was moral-an honor based upon inter
national and national honesty. I have
not discerned the least sign of a search
Tor national righteousness. ! have not
been able TO excavatc. from the Ger
for what he calls a peace OF under
standing" the faintest comprehension
OF fidelity to promise or principle In
deed, honor in the Anglo Saxon sense
Of that word exists not In German
political philosophy or practice or ma
uenal consciousness.
ONE WONDERS If EVEN
GERMANS REALLY GERNIANIC
One wonders. indeed, if the Germans
are really Germanic. When we remem-
her the early Saxons OF England: when
we consider. the sacred Wi,enaec,note
town mee %h,sh a eao the The New nsiann
brotherhood or democrats nations:
when we recall King Alfred's or John
compare. it with that Of the German
PHILOSOPHER. then do we wonder II the
present German race is. after all. gem
erically Germanlc. We as.; If ali that
is really Germanic did not pass with
the. Saxons and tho Franks to other
lands and continents; If the existing
be not chiefly mongrei. made nn or
extinct prehistoric and Turanian types
whether this be SO or not. it is Ger
OF the German Is not only different,
hut antipodal to that OF the Anglo
SAXON, and that 1t deties Anglo Saxon
psratus In no sense works as the An
Glo- Saxon's does. The difference be-
tween the two is so great as to derry
interpretative or communicative con-
nection Even the effort 10 grasp the
German mind, TO get inside it's pro-
cesses. has, the effect Of deranging the
intent Anglo Saxon inquirer.
1lAY LEAD TO HEBRAIC
CONCLUSION OF WAN
We arc all hoping, in one degree
or another, that the war may end in
providential society, a round and fair
this reconciling ultimation depends
upon our sturdy and unhinchirg APP
Enen h;,3i Of yet nnapprehenGed re-
upns' US Some Of these responsibili-
ties are terrible enough in aspect and
requirement They may lead us to con-
ciusions that seem ancientl!' Hebraic
rather than Christian. But we shall
have to follow them, accepting the
heroic judgments they impose. ii the
war be brought to Il creative and com
pensatlnR cr6.
THIS constitutes, of course. q stu
ptndcus spiritual paradox-the supreme
paradox of this altogether paradoxi-
cal time. For not only must we Kill
in order to make alive; not only must
we make ehvtioping and sweeping war
in order to procure pure ana per-
manhnt rcace; va must prepare our
individual minds our national willis.
to put the powerful people against
which we war under precise and pro
longed restraint, under unbreakablc.
though benehcent, bonds, in order that
The whole family of man may be saved
from ruin at this peoples hands, in
order that. tina people itself lie saved
and for freedom made fit.
You Will have to face This, gentlemen.