New Britain herald., 1918-05-02
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German rulers. without the shad-
oW OF a doubt have planned system
"'lcaiiN TO impose their will upon the
people Of the entire world Tn prep
! aration for this event, all GERMANY
has been drilled into war machine
| poth efficient and terrible
The people of Germany, through
every available agency, have been
| taught to believe that their laws.
1helr government, their institutions,
! the qualities they possess, are far SUI
pcrlor to those of any other nation on
the earth today. That they are real
~ possessed Of, and believe, this idea
admits OF no denial Consequently
1t seems like a holy mission. on their
part to insist that the world DE
brought to their manner of thinking
Listen to the spoken words Of Pas
tor Lehman in sermon delivered
August 9, 1915. He says Germany
Is the leader of the entire domain OF
intellect, character and soul. All the
deep things, courage, patriotism
faithfulness. moral purity conscience
the sense of duty. activity on a moral
basis. inward riches, Industry. No
other nation possesses all these things
In such high perfection as we do. This
war is a war of envy and jealousy
against Germany'S leadership
To run briefly down the list Of vir-
tues claimed by Pastor lehman:
what shall we say of the courage of
German officers, who dare not lead
their men In action, but follow in tie
rear? OF the courage of German
troops who use on-combatants, in
Guiding women and children, as
screens to protect them in their ad-
vance into battle? Of the coura ge of
men whom it is necessary to chain 20
their guns, in order that they may
not turn away during the fight? OF
the courage Of soldiers who cannot be
trusted to fight save in massed forma-
ton? Who are, in reality, kept in
line because they are more fearful Of
their masters in the rear than Of the
opponent in the front? In snort,
wherein does the boasted courage Of
the German army exceed that shown
by the allied forces opposed to them,
in any respect whatever?
At the beginning Of this war the
German people We're Solemnly told
that their existence as u nation YVES
threatened and that they must fight
70 maintain their place in the sun.
That this was absolutely false made
no difference for they believed it to be
true. Their patriotism was evoked
through a we'll planned series of lying
manifestoes and they entered the
war with enthusiasm, in full conf
dence that their legions, being irwin
chile, would soon reduce their enemies
to sue for peace. But q patriotism
ia 20
moulded into weapon to deprive
other peoples of their liberties, at the
same time riveting the tighter the
shackles Of it's own slavery. is a thing
accursed in the sight OF God and the
humanity he has created.
And again we are. told that Gar
many exCels in faithfulness. Faith
fulness to what? To a dream of am
bition engendered in the diseased
minds of a. Prussian military autocra-
cy; not to truth, justice and right
Her utter and contemptuous disrc-
gard for her pledged word, in count
less instances, is ample proof OF this
A list of the unfaithful actions on the
part Of the German government and
it's tools in every part of the world,
would fill the pages OF the Herald Tor
months to come.
The moral purity among German
military officers, who are said to
show little or no respect for the hon
or and virtue of their own women
cannot be of a high order. Such be-
ing the case they can scarcely be OK
pected to have any regard for the
honor of the women of the nations
they have conquered. Yet, we are
gravely informed that they excel in
this virtue also.
The conscience that can, without
cause or conjunction, torture and
massacre innocent and defenceless
men, women and children; that can
deport for forced labor thousands of
workers, separating them from their
families, with ruthless hands: that
can deliberately destroy hospitals and
hospital ships and dishonor the Red
Cross flag; that can wantonIy defile
and ruin the most sacred emb1enns of
civilization and like midnight assas-
sins, murder the people of neutral
nations in mid ocean, Is a conscience
tho perfection of which 1t is difficult
for an ordinary intellect to under
stand. The most charitable thing
that could be said in its defence,
would be to call it the conscience Of
an insane people, whose standards Of
Judgment had been turned upside
down. It not that then it is the con-
science Of a race whose moral fibre
is scared with crime.
Listen again for moment to
distinguished professor of the Univer-
sity Of Berlin, Adolph Lassen, by
name. Speaking Of his own people
he says:
1--WE are truthful, our characteris-
tics are humanity, gentlencss, the
virtues of Christ. We represent love
and God is with u.s.
Ask the Belgian, whose wife and
have been made the victims
OF a 1echerous soldiery, whose child