Arizona republican., 1918-04-25

out distinction of persons. The inno- 1 cent will suffer with the guilty" After 1 ! this town was destroyed ana all the in-
 habitants killed, from the body of
 soldier slain on the retreat, we find ] this page in his diary. We lived gor-
 seously. Two or three bottles of cham
 pagne at each meal. All the girls we want. It is fine sport Are we sur prised that many of the letters and journals taken from the bodies of Ger mans quote eGenral von Hartmann's sentence, Terrorism is a principle
 made necessary by military consider atlons. German American objections that these towns were destroyed be.
 cause the inhabitants had fired upon | the invading army from the windows of their houses is concluslvely met and
 answered by another letter written by
 a German officer to his wife. On ap-
 preaching a village soldier is sent on
 in advance to insert a Belgian rifle in
 the cellar window or stable and of
 course when this weapon is found We
 take it to the Burgomaster, and then
 the sport begins"
 On Q little board in one ruined will
 lage, read these words, Marie. Aged
 sixteen. Dead August 24, 1915. Ven
 geance is mine, l will repay. saith the
 Lord" The hundreds Of atrocities per-
 Sonally investigated only serve to in-
 terpret Ambassador Morgenthau's
 statement as to Armenia, that the
 Turkish soldiers and German officers
 nnassacred in Armenia a half million
 people. that they might move into their
 farm houses and little shops and stores.
 German Philosophy Denauches Uni. '. yerslty Men
 This glory of every great city and country is its scholars, with their love
 of truth, and their stainless lives. We
 have had our civilization at the hands of men who loved the truth supremeiy pursued the truth eternally, and cher
 lshed the truth above their fear of hell
 or hope of heaven. The world has its liberty, it's science and its law at the hands of the heroes who preferred the truth above life. Concerning the pat i riots, the reformers and the statesmen, we can only say they were stoned, they were sawn asunder they were crucified
 in Jerusalem, poisoned in Athens, tor tured in Ephesus. exiled in Florence. , burned at the stake in Oxford, assassi. f mated in Washington, crucified in Jeru-
 salem. But the iron autocracy and mill , itarism of Germany debauched her uni f versity men. Here in my hand is an ? address to the civilized world, signed , by ninety-three German professors. : They all receive their salaries from , state endowments. Any hour the kaiser I or Bethmann- -Hollweg can cut off their income. When the indignation of the . civilized world flamed out against Ger
 many in the winter of 1915, the Ger u man government asked these profess I sorS to sign document and these men i had been so degraded by the German ' philosophy of militarism and autocracy D that they obeyed-losing their souls to , save their salary. And consider what s they signed In the previous August, :, Bethmann- Hollweg issued a statement ' to the world, saying that as the viola 2 tion of Belgiums neutrality, the 2 wrong-I speak openly-that we are committing" etc.
 S Moral Cowardice of Scholars
 6 These ninety-thrce professors signed a a statement, saying: Tt is not true that y we Wronged Belgium In the kaisers = address that ne himself has published. = he says, Give no quarter, take no d prisoners. Let all who fall into your
 hands be at your mercy. Make your
 self as terrible as the Huns" Now s this address was circulated in postal e cards all over Germany. Realizing the r mistake, these professors sign a state. q ment saying: Tt is not true that ouI 5, soldiers ever injured the life of single 0 Belgian Socrates or Dante, or ever f Calico, Savanarola, or Milton, or Vie. = tor Hugo, or Lincoln, would have died - g. thousand deaths by faggots. or upon u the rack, rather than have signed theil = names to such a statement-to lies t. The kaiser and Bethmann- -HollNe es s must have been desperate and beWiid- Is cred when they had to endeavor tG 0 counteract their own documents at ths y beginning of the war, by asking theil e professors to contradict these docu Ie ments during the middle of the war. s makes every university professor al
 most ashamed of llls calling. Think O 1t Harnack and Eucken with their mora g cowardice and their intellectual impo of tencyi Plainly that is what Nietzsch. r. meant when he said (page 1S4 Fec, F. Homo) every crime against cultur s. that has been committed for hundred
 years rests upon Germany l. The Frenehman's Love of France Is All men love their native land, bu n. the Frenchman's love has a uniqu n quality. The patriotism of the English W man is undemonstrative. The Britishe r. surrounds his home and his gardel
 with a high brick wall, conceals hi ,n home and his garden with a high bric D. wall, conceals his finer feelings fror eQ l iAio NIOSSSk IT anu WuSU HS enter se his club on Pail Mall and disappear Is behind the threshold the door is close
 upon tomb. The Amefican's patriot e. ism is largely academic: national safe c. ty through isolation breeds contemp ct for danger. The time was when hi ne love of country was vocferous on tn l. Fourth of July. but the enthusiasm ila D. died down. until he is now ready to eX CT anguish even a fire cracker. The ocSa Id sional speaker deals in historical state sn mentS about the four wars fought b
 our country. But the Frenchman's lov
 of country has a tender. gentle, wooin oy note. He speaks of La Belle France a ne Danie spoke of Beatrice, as Petrarc he lspoke of Laura, and thesrame of Franc h. fingers upon his lips as music tremble 1d in the air after the song is sung. !Th ct reason, doubtless, is found in the fac e. that the French people have carved il, lis hillsides and smoothed the valleys an no adorned the ridges and mountains wit UT vineyards, until the whole land is al thing of radiant beauty. It is love ths q has made France beautiful just as th e. lark. after completing the nest, make cd 1t soft and warm by pulling the dow he out finer own bosom. The Frenc ge people love France as an artist lovs A his own canvas, as Bellini loved tf ,Iy nissal he had illuminated; and as ths nv young architect loved the little Rossly ", chapel, upon whose delicate capitals CT had lavished his very soul. Would yo ial have an emblem of France in the mon,
 of June, with her wide, fat valleys, hs e. green pastures, and the hillsides U in which the pines climbed in serried re, ,le iments? If so, take a great robe u- green velvet lying loosely on the foo ,ot the CreaSeS and VelVpt rid nrec arSu,o,