Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-09

across the border to neutral Hol-
land, shameful in defeat and daring
not to face the people he betrayed!
Where are the clerics who swore
that they alone knew the real god?
Where are the diplomats who
made faithlessness their creed and
tore apart the scrap of paper?
Where are the thousand profess
sors who professed that might was
right?
Where are the ten thousand
savants who declared that their ma
terialism bought them invincibility?
Where are the hundred thou
sand officers of the kingly caste to
whom the citizen was dirt, and who
wrote their creed in flame and sword
on Belgium?
Theirs is shame, the shame that
Kills. OF all history they are the
worlds supreme fools. Their sword
struck through the superficiality, the
carelessness of a seemingly spiritu-
ally inert world. That world tiamed
back against them, and from east
to west, from pole to pole, from
Christian to freethinker Mohamme-
dan to heather, it declared their
creed hateful vanity.
n1nQS.
The world was drifting under their
spell. Their espionage, their mate
rlaiistic skill, their materialistic
philosophy seemed to be overcom-
ing the nations. Hardy in conf
dence, they struck with the weight
OF forty years preparedness.
But not in Belgium, nor in
France, nor in Servia, nor on the
shamed seas could they defeat the
Power that rose TO meet them,
Neither the stricken fields nor the
REDEEMED oceans gave back victory.
Ever new forces rose to hurl them
back and the solid line of the strug-
CLING democracies bent asd swayed
but would not break. Then came
the turn, and four months were
enough.
"Autocracy and militarism are
dead. They are dead because they
had no inner life. Revealed, they
are utterly put to shame, made the
subject of the scorn and ridicule of
the world. 1t is that fact-the
shame-that has killed them In the
day and hour of their failure. Their
arch-priest dares not face the ruin
he wrought and runs away. That
is their end" ..
The fall of the figure e-head of this
folly Is compared by the New York
Tribune to the fall of Lucifer, and
the words of Isaiah concerning him
are quoted as adequate to Wilhelm s
case without added comment:
Isaiah xiv; 9-21
8. Hell from beneath is moved
for thee to meet thee at thy COM
ing: 1t stlrreth up the dead for thee,
even all the chief ones OF the earth; /;
1t had raised up from their thrones
all the kings of the nations.
10. All they shall speak and say
unto thee, art thou also become
weak as we? art thou become like
unto US?
IL. Thy pomp is brought down
to the grave, and the noise of thy
viols; the worm is spread order
thee, and the worms cover thee.
II. How art thou fallen from
heaven. Lucifer, son of the morn
ing! How art thou cut down to the
ground, which didst weaken the ma
tons!
13. For thou hast said in thine
heart, / will ascend into heaven, |
will eXalt my throne above the stars
of God: / will sit also upon the
mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north.
IA. l will ascend above the
heights of the clouds; / will be like
the most High. -ths
Is. Yet thou shalt be brought
down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
IL. They that see thee shall mar
rowly look upon thee, and consider
thee. saying. Is this the man that
made the earth to tTemble, that did
shake Kingdoms;
II. That made the world as a
wilderness, and destroyed the cities
thereof; that opened not the house
of his prisoners?
IS. All the kings of the nations.
even all of them, lie in glory. every
one in his own house.
10. But thou art cast out of thy
grave like an abominable branch,
and as she raiment of those that are
slain, thrust through with a sword,
that go down to the stones of the
pit: as a carcass trodden under feet.
20. Thou shalt not be Joined
with them in. burial, because thou