The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS


 ! Doubtless 1t will be made by the sword 1t means that if we lose, then Germany may fashion it on a German pattern, and the world will have to live on gov efnment made in Germany"
 Now, let's quit fooling ourselves with hlgh-sounding phrases. They are good for rallying purposes, but we might as well get down to brass tacks, and warn 1 our people as to the fniquitous mean- ing of German kulture. There is no use after three years war. made with the ruthIessness of Huns. for any one to be ignorant of what we may expect from the autocrats who run things at Potsdam. The German type of civili- zation has been set in characters of blood and fire before mankind. | l have been called in question for writing so bitterly, and for denouncing so fiercely the Attla of the north, who has forgotten the pale Christ and re- verted to the bloody Thor. Knowing what I know about the Kaiser, and his rninions having waged war according to
 
 neutral nations lie bleeding in the path way of the war-mad Colossus whose ambition it is te bestride the world even though he has to trample under foot everything which civilization holds dear, I cannot help it.
 Yes, I am a preacher, but I would feel unworthy if did not cry aloud and | spare not the militarists of Wilhcm- strasse, who in cold blood make war to add to Gerrnania with an utter dis regard of the rights of the lesser nations who stand in the way. I cannot shut my eyes to what Prussan beastiality did with malice aforethought in Belgium to put other unoffending countries on no- tice that their fate would be the same, it they dared to oppose the war pro- gra,nme of Germany, which is to bring the world to her feet to be schooled in the damnable doctrine that might is | right. As long as I have voice and pen l expect to use them both to combat such a helish travesty on the Christian re- ligion, and expose the sacriligeous Kaiser, who continually prates about be. ing an instrument in the hands of God, and ruling by divine favor until he is whipped
 I am glad that America, after cen turies of isolation, has come into the concert of powers set to beat Germany, and that President Wilson has served notice on them that he is going to sit at the board when new Europe is formed. I have little patience with those who tell about a patched up peace have less sympathy with those who hold that the war should end when Germany is ready to give guarantees that she will not run amuck any more.
 It would be sheer folly in the light of German perfidy and treachery at this stage of the game to put our trust in protocols, treaties, or any other forms of parchment and beeswax, though signed by Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey, for it is too fresh in our mind that the Kaiser tore up treaty with neighbor and seemed shocked be- yond degree when any one in the twen- tieth century was silly enough to fight over "a scrap of paper"
 We will never get a new Europe with William of Germany dominant partner in Mittel Europa that has not been whipped to it's knees. I am with the English clergyman who says our guar antics must be living and armed na- tions. resolute as never before to perish fighting rather than to put their neck in a yoke of slavery" Yes, when we have beaten Germany and her allies, until the pious Emperor is ready to lift I his murderous hands on high and call on God whom he has outraged and blasphemed to have mercy, and his be- trayed people cast him aside, as the Ger man Mephisto who led them astray by his dreams of empire; when that day arrives then it will be time to talk about peace Let us make no mistake about it, there is no place in a new Europe for a Kaiser who has the power without con- sulting the people to rush them into war of conquest for the mere sake of
 
 zollern dynasty. There is no place in a new Europe for crown prince who is fool enough to have said that if he came to the throne and there was no real ex- l cuse for war, he would start one for the fun of it. His silly saying will go down with that of the Empress Eugene who lost her crown after remarking that France had embarked on a merry little war with Germany. But thank God this time it will be the Germans time to lose his useless headgear. Keep it ever before you that we are fight ing so that in the new Europe no one will ever again wage war as the sport of kings. No one knows yet how to draw the map of a new Europe, but I do know this. that there is going to be new kind Of diplomacy to remake it. have confidence enough in the President of the United States to believe that he will refuse to have any part in a mere trad ing game, where the smaller nations are treated as pawns, but that his voice will be influential enough to see to it that every one gets "a square deal' have faith to believe that the old dead hands of kings which pulled the strings of their puppets at so-called peace tables will be paralyzed and that the represent