Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
IRRESISTIBLE LOGIC
BY Our Special Correspondent

"Now promise me on behalf of the entire Ger;
man labor. We intend to hold out 10 the last
The assembly loudly chorused YES
hsl,--wil.HELM r. T. at Essen.
T WAS fortunate enough to meet the Kaiser
on his way to Iiindenburgs headquarters,
transporting with him a cultural Yes from
the dear friends at Essen | was anxious
to examine that Yes. TO see If it was sound
and in good condition. but he had it tightly
wrapped up. Evidently it was pershable
and the Kaiser did not feel any too sure
that il would keep
Il hear great things of your speech to
the Krupp folks" said. Il given to
understand. Majesty, that you surpassed
yourself I told that the worLm,r were
so impressed that they could think of moth
ing else, and had to be driven back to work
with bayonets."
The Kaiser looked bit tagged, | thought
There were dark hollows under his eyes. Il
myself was conscious of dark hollow under
my belt, for I had been in Germany for sew
eral weeksD He laid down book he had
been reading without much enthusiasm. |
| noticed the title--it was THE Kaiser as
| Know Him." by Dr. Arthur y. Davis.
ItT DO not claim TO be great orator., he
said. The arts of oratory are mere
| tricious, unworthy of the attention of a seri-
Gus thinker The reason for the success Of
| nv speeches is their unanswerabIe logic. 1t
| is curious how few of enemies will take
the trouble to think things out 10 reasoned
| conclusion. How absurd it is for the English
to imagine they know the truth about this
| ,h.,, haNa thinking
about it for four years. And the Americans,
| who never even began TO consider the phi
losophv of war until May. 1915 Why. !
have been thinking about this war for over
| forty wears And do you know. sonnet times,
even now l am not entirely certain that |
have reached the final and indisputable con-
| clusions,'
| That is uuanswerable your Majesty, ]
| said. Undoubtedly you must be eleven times
| as right as the English, as you have been
| studying the matter eleven times as long"
Il would not admit this to every one" he
said but as you apparently sensible
man let me point out that by the 5th of July,
| 1914, | had arrived at an entirely reasonable
| conspectus Of the whole problem. And now
the English, who are by no means nation
| of thinkers try to refute me by some hastily
| gathered arguments not one of which ante
dates the first of August of that year"
Thought will win the war" said Don't
waste it," But evidently he was absorbed in
his own musings.
ttNIOT only are the English pitifully
| IN illogical" he continued, but, far
worse they are ungrateful. You know that
for years the chief fetch Of the English has
been life in the open air, outdoor sports In
fact their word sport has been adopted into
almost all languages, the only English word
SO honored. Well i can truthfuly say that
| ! have done more than any other man TO get
the word out into the open air, and how am
! rewarded? BY universal invective 1t used
nation who lived almost entirely indoors
| give you my word that almost every able
! bodied man in Germany been ins Freie
since August, 1914 Look how they have
enjoyed it. Millions of them have found 1t so
congenial that they will never go back to
| the old life.
| * ANOTHER point that i should like to
"A emphasize is that 1t was our enemies
who introduced terrible hatred into this war.
| Who was II who caused all the atrocities by
continually retrestlng? What kind of war
fare rs that. 10 keep on retresting? And when
! the enemy retreats YOU have to follow, don't
your We would never have gone so far
'l,5pwsrs rasis n ths Ensliah sasa 9sene1