8 Recital of German Atrocities by Dr. Hillis Makes Big Audience Shudder With Horror Crowd Quivers With Anger at Beastliness [Continued from First Page.] of the Kaiser, in the face of the mass of proof which cannot be dis puted, they make themselves ridicu lous before the world," said Dr. Hillis. Slaughter of Babes So intently did the audience fol low Dr. Hillis' every word that there was little applause. The moments were too precious for mere hand jlapping. After bleeding France and devastate! Belgium comes England —apd then America! To many per sona the last vestige ol' tho veil has been torn away, and to-day Germany stands revealed as the arch traitor of the ages, convicted of the viola tion of maidens, the razing of cities, the destroyer ei'. peace, hope iind happiness in a vailey that once flow ed with milk and honey, the desola tion of villages, the murder of old men and the slaughter of innocent babes. But when the people of Harris burg did applaud! Quietly, and speaking rapidly, that tho people of this city might know as much as possible about the real conditions in Europe, Dr. Hillis came to the state ment: . "Gentlemen, there is only one word to be answered to the Kaiser's peace proposal—unconditional sur render!" The applause was deafen ing. Dr. Hillis waited, made an ef fort to raise his voice above the din, and again waited. Then someone sprang to his feet and the vast audi ence rose as a man to echo and noted minister's sentiments. The Rt. Rev. James Henry Dar lington opened the meeting with prayer. William Jennings, chairman of the Second Liberty Loan commit tee, introduced Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh, a boyhood friend, of Brooklyn's famous lecturer. Fol lowing the address by Dr. Hillis, Her bert A. Emerson, associate with Her bert Hoover and the Liberty Loan campaign, urged Harrlsburg people to back up the government by the liberal purchase of bonds to-day. Dr. Hillis discovered when he ar rived in this city that he had left many of his protographic records in Reading, through mistake. For this reason tho address as originally pre pared was not given here, numerous changes being made in the illustra tions employed to form a vivid word picture of German frightfulness. "Terrorism Is a principle made necessary by military considera te —ijencrnl >on lla-.tmaii. "Strike him dead. The Day of Judgment will nsk you no ques tions." Inscription on the alumi num token carried by the Ger man Soldier. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis' address follows in full: "Every American who has passed through France and the edge of Bel gium this year has returned home a permanently saddened man. German cruelty and French agony have cut n bloodv gash in the heart, and there Is no Dakin solution that can heal the wound. Here upon this pulpit rests a reproduction of an iron coin given as a token to each German sol dier. At the top is a German por trait of Deity, and underneath are these words: 'The good old German God.' To encourage the German soldier to cruelty and atrocity against Belgians and French, the Deity holds a weapon in his right hand, and to dull his conscience and steel his heart to murder, the token holds these words: 'fmite your enemy dead. The day of judgment will not ask you tor vour reasons.' To this native characteristic Goethe was re ferring w'len ho said. 'The Prussian j is naturally cruel, civilization will in tensify that cruelty and make him a savage.' The German atrocities of i the last three years simply illustrate Goethe's words, for we must confess that German efficiency reached its highest point in the discovery of new and horrible devices for torturing old men, helpless women and little chil dren. Thousand Atrocities "Documented" "For three years German-Ameri cans have protested that the stories of German atrocities were to be dis believed as English inventions, Bel gian lies and French hypocrisies, but that day has gone by forever. When the represent.atives of the na tions assemble for the final settle ment, there will be laid before the representatives of Germany affida vits, photographs, with other legal proofs that m-" ire the German atro cities to be far better established than the scalpings of the Sioux In dians on the western frontiers, the murders in the Black Hole of Cal cutta, or the crimes of the Spanish Inquisition. On a battle line three hundred miles in length, in whatso ever village the retreating Germans passed, the following morning ac credited men hurried to the scene to make the record against the day of judgment. The photographs of dead and mutilated girts, children and old men tell no lies. Jurists rank high two forms of testimony: The testi mony of what mature men have seen and heard, and the testimony of chil dren too innocent to invent their statements but old enough to tell what they saw. For the first time in history the German has reduced savagery to a science, therefore this great war for peace must go on unt'l the German cancer is cut clean out of the body. Tlio Catalogue of Crimes. "The cold catalogue of German atrocities now documented and in the government archives of the dif ferent nations makes up the most sickening page in history. Days spent upon the records preserved in Southern Belgium, Northern France, or in and about Paris, days spent in the ruined villages of Alsace and Lorraine, leave one nauseated — physically and mentally. It is one long, black series of legally docu mented atrocities. Every solemn pledge that Germany signed a year and a half before at the Hague Con vention, as to safeguarding the Red Cross, hospitals, cathedrals, libraries, women and children, and unarmed citizens, are scoffed at as a 'scrap of paper.' "These atrocities also were committed, not in a mood of dmnl"' Mess, nor an hour of an ger, hut were organized by a so called German efficiency, and and perpetrated on a delilicrate, cold, precise, scientific policy of German l'rightfiiliiess. it Is not simply that tliey looted factories, carried away machinery, robbed houses, liombcd every farm house and granary, left no plow lior reaper; chopi>od down every jiear tree, and plum tree with every grupc vino, and poisoned all wells The Germans slaugh tered old men anil matrons, mu tilated captives in ways that can only be s|>okcii of by men hi whispers; violated little girls un til tliey were dead; finding a calfskin nailed upon a lNirn door to he dried, they nailed a baJie Im'slilc It and wrote heiicnth the word "7.wei," they thrust women anil children ltWween themselves and soldiers eomlnw n to de fend their native land; bombed THURSDAY EVENING, and looted liospitals, Hod Cross buildings; vioiutcu the white flag—while the worst atrocities cannot even 1m? named in tills mixed audience. Branded His People as "Huns." "No one understands the merman people as well as the Kaiser. Our President, in a spirit of magnani mity, patience and good will, distin guished between the Kaiser and the Prussian government, and over against them put the German people. But Germany's Chambers of Com merce, Hamburg's Board of Trade, and certain popular assemblies, would have none of this, and in the fury of their anger passed resolu tions, saying: "What our govern ment is, we are. Their acts are our acts. Their deeds and military plans are our plans.' Knowing his people through and through, the Kaiser called his soldiers before him and gave them this charge: 'Make your selves more frightful than the Huns under Atilia. See that for a thous- | and years, no enemy mentions thei very name of 'Germany' without shuddering.' Why do the German people ! say they feci so terribly because j the authors of the world call | then 'Huns' and 'barbarians?' | Who named them 'Huns'." Their j Kaiser. Who christened them i lKu-lwrians? Their Kaiser. Who likened the German soldiers to bloodhounds held upon the leash b.v the Kaisers tliiong, as they strained upon the leasli with bloody jaws, longing to tear their French and Belgian prey? With bloody fingers, the Kaiser said, 'I baptize the "Hun" and "bar barian." ' Let the Kaiser's words -in iid: "For a thousand years no mail shall speak the word "Hun" without shuddering.' Philosophy Tliat Produced Cruelty. "All wise men trace deeds, wicked l or good, . back to the philosophic thinking of the doer, just as they trace bitter water back to a poisoned spring. What the individual or the nation thinks in the heart, that he does in the life. Judas thinks In terms of avarice and greed, and his philosophy results in treason and murdr. The Kaiser, Nip'/.scne, von Bethmann-Hollweg, von Bisslng and Plauss, think and teach the theory of iron force, the right of big Ger many to loot litt'e Belgium or North France, and drill them in the belief that Germany's right is the right of the lion over the lamb, and that no question" will l>e asked by a ,I'ist God on the Day of Judgment. This war began in a conference in the Pots dam Palace in 1892. The pamphlet distributed by the Kaiser begins with these words: 'The Pan-German Em pire: From Hamburg on the North Sea to the Persian Gulf. Our imme diate goal: 250,000,000 of people. Our ultimate goal: The Germaniza tion of all the world.' The explana tion of the Kaiser contains theae words: "From childhood I have been under the influence of five men. Alexander, Julius Caesar, Theodorie 11, Frederick the Great, Napoleon. Each of these men dreamed a dream of world empire—they failed. I am dreaming a dream of the German World Empire—and my mailed fist shall succeed.' He printed one map headed, 'The Roman Empire,' with all the great states captured and their capitals—Athens, Ephesus, Je rusalem, Alexandria, Carthage—re duced to county-seat towns, mving tribute to Rome. But the Kaiser prints side by side with that map another world man. with Berlin the capital: and by 1915, St. Petersburg, Paris and London were to be county seat towns, subdued provinces of Germany—and Washington and Ot tawa were to follow with the word 'Germania' stamped on the United States and Canada. That is why the Kaiser told Mr. Gerard: 'After this war, I shall not stand any nonsense] from the United States.' The Presi dent, heard, but he did not tremble. The originator of this World War was the Kaiser: Treitschke was itsj historian: Nietzsche its philosopher; j von Bissing and von llindenburg its' executives. The murder of Edith j Cavell, hundreds of women and chil dren on the Lusitania, the rape of Belgium, the assassination of North ern France, were thexouter exhibi tion in deeds of the inner philosophy of force. Their great master whom they ce'ebrato and never tire of prais- ! ing—Nietzsche, judges Germany | aright. On page 38, in his Eccoi Homo, "Nietzsche says: 'Wherever j Germany extends her sway, she ruins j culture." On page 124 of the same volume, he says: '1 feel it my duty to tell the Germans that every crime against culture lies on their con science.' By 'culture' Nietzsche means painting, sculpture, cathe drals. International laws, the Athen ian sweetness, reasonableness and light. Germany's goal should be a super-Hercules or Goliath, with the club. Germany has no gift for cul ture of the Intellect. As to that there is no other culture beside France." Reflex Influence of Philosophy. "Consider the reflex Influence of Germany's philosophy of militarism upon her statesmen and diplomats. In one of his greatest Speeches, Ed mund Burke speaks of 'the peculiar! sanctity attaching to the word of a! foreign minister.' From Phocion to John Hayi Prime Ministers havej been jealous of their pledges. Lin coln speaks of the failure of a gov-! ernment to make good its word as 'a | crime against civilization.' Business, men scoff at the trickster, who does | not count his written pledge more precious than life itself. With the standards of civilized states in mind. | , recall the Intellectual and moral atrocities of the Kaiser and Beth-| mann-Hollweg. In 1911 the German' Foreign Office reaffirmed the Treaty with England and France, to ob serve the neutrality of Belgium in the event of war with France. On July 31, 1914, the Kaiser's Prime Minister telegraphed Lord Grey that Germany would of course keep her treaty obligations as to Belgium. The French and English govern ments now have full knowledge of the conference between the Austrian Emperor and the Kaiser at the Pots dam Palace on July 5, with the agreement to launch the war August 1. When the war proclamation was delayed until August 3, the Kaiser's representative used this sentence in his speech in the Reichstag: 'We must not postpone the agreement entered into with Austria at the con ference of July 5.' For more than three weeks, therefore, before war was declared, Germany and Austria were preparing cannon guns equip ment, and as soon as the last buckle was on the harness, and the last rifle In the hands of the soldiers, on Au gust 3, war was declared. Then Bethmann-Hollweg sent out this statement to the world, as to why the Kaiser and himself counted an In ternational treaty a 'scrap of paper.' Brand of Infamy on Germany. "He said: 'As to Belgium—we are now ; In a state of necessity, and nec essity knows no law. The wrong—I speak openly—that we are commit ting, wo will endeavor to make good as soon as our military goal has been reached. We have now only one thought—-how to hack the way through." So the international bur glar's excuse is that he must hack his way through the neighbor's house and kill his family, because that house > stands between himself and the" Frenchman's vault whose gold he wants to steal! "That is why our President, answering the Pope, said that no treaty signed by the Kaiser and Ills government means anything. And hero is Hernstorff, (icrnum Ambassador In Washington, who forgets that eannibaJs and sav ages, even, consider tliat eating salt in nnother Indian's tent or white man's 1 louse is a pledge of truth—while tills Judas Ambas sador dines at the White House at niglit and goes 011 plotting seditions In Mexico, blowing up of our munition factories, and the killing of our people. Hern storff smiled and smiled, as lie kept one hand above th© table and hi the other liaiul under the table whetted a dagger on his boots with which to stab Ids host in the hack. "Witness the discovery of treach ery to Norway two months ago. After several Norwegian steamers had been mysteriously sunk at sea, the German Consul was found trav eling back and forth from the For eign office in Berlin, tilling his trunk with bombs and glass tubes containing the cultures of glanders to spread one of the most deadly dis eases, to annihilate men, horses and cattle, ar-? srotecting these instru ments of deai?;. sv the seals of the Berlin Foreign Oftlce. The sub stance of Germany's answer to Nor way's protest was the sneering an swer, 'What are you going to do about it?' While Germany's Ambas sador to the Argentine Republic, ad vising the sinking of Argentine ships so as to leave no trace behind, is a part of the same cunning, devilish, German diplomacy that exhibits those German Ambassadors as a composite Judas, Macchiavelli and Mephistopheles, united and carried up to the nth power of diabolism. No wonder the Kaiser baptized them 'Huns' and 'barbarians.' German Philosophy Degrades "The German philosophy has de-| humanized Germany's officers and I men. Later on, I shall give a de tailed account of the devastated re gions of Northern France, but here and now let us confine the observa tions to the ruined villages and towns of Eastern France. Pulling his iron token out of his pocket—that exhib ited Deity as a destroying soldier — the German officer and private reads the words bene;>th: 'Smite your ene my dead. The Day of Judgment will not ask you for your reasons.' Hav ing, therefore, full liberty to loot, j these Germans became the wildj beasts. The plan had been "Brussels | in one week; Paris in two weeks; | London in two months,' and then, two pockets filled with rings, brace lets and watches, from Paris or Nancy, for the sweethearts at home. When the German army in Lorraine was defeated by one-half of its num ber, it fell northward, passing through French towns and villages where there were no Frenchmen, no ] guns, and where rfb shots were fired, i During July and August we went! slowly from one ruined town to an-| other, talking with the women andi the children; comparing the photo-1 graphs and the full official records made at the time with the state ments of the poor, wretched survi vors, who lived in cellars where once there had been beautiful houses, or chards, vineyards—but now was only desolation. In Gerbevlllier, stand ing beside their graves, I studied the photograph of the bodies of fifteen ojd men whom the Germans lined up and shot because there were no young soldiers to kill; heard tho de tailed story of a woman whose son was first hung to a pear tree in the garden, and when tho officer and soldier had left him and were busy setting fire to the next house, she cut the rope, revived the strangled youth only to find the soldiers had returned, and while the officer held her hands behind her back, his as sistant poured petrol on the son's head and clothes, set fire to him, and while he staggered about, a flaming torch, they shrieked with laughter. When they had burned all the houses and retreated, the next morning, the prefect of Lorraine reached that Getlisemane and photographed the bodies of thirty aged men lying as they fell, the bodies of women stripped and at last slain. In the next village stood the ruined square belfry into which the Germans had lifted machine guns, fiien forced every woman and child—27s in number—into the little church, ?.nd notified the French soldiers that if they fired upon the machine guns, they would kill their own women, and children. After several days' hunger and thirst, at midnight, these brave women slipped a little boy through the church window, and bade their husbands fire upon the Germans in the belfry, saying they preferred death to the indignities they were suffering. And so these Frenchmen turned their-guns, and in blowing that machine gun out of the belfry killed twenty of their own wives and (Aiildren. In a hundred years of history, where shall you find a record of any other race, who call themselves civilized, who ore such sneaking cowards that they could not fight like men or play the game fairly, but in their chattering terror put women and little children before them as a shield? Proof overwhelm ing. Here are, in brief, the records of more than a thousand individual atrocities, that go with the original photographs, affidavits and docu ments resting in the archives of France against the day of reckoning. What is more important still, here are the letters taken from the bodies, of dead German soldiers with their diaries. Out of the large number note these: Photographs of dead bodies of aged priests, some of whom were dead because they had been staked down and used as a lavatory until they perished. Dead girls, with breasts cut off—and for this reason: Every German soldier i 9 examined for syphlllis by the sur , geon of the regiment and only the healthy ones receive the card giving access to the camp women. If the syphillitic German contaminates the camp woman, his disease is handed on to his brother soldier, and that means he will be shot. This syphil litic soldier, therefore, finds his only chance with the captured French girls, but having contaminated a girl, he fears that she In turn will con taminate the next German soldier and, therefore, he mutilates her body to warn away Germans. "The girl's life weighs nothing against a German soldier's lust or the possibility of the brute's handing his contamination to the next soldier. Here is Ger man efficiency for you; and or frnt v the" devil himself. Take these pages found in the dlnrles of German soldiers, Au gust 22, notebook of Private Max Thomas: 'Our soldiers arc so excited, we are like wild beasts. To-day, destroyed eight houses, with their inmates. Bay onetted two men with their wives and a girl of eighteen. The little one almost unnerve*] me. so Innocent was lier expression.' Diary of Kitcl Anders: 'ln Ven dre all the Inhabitants without, exception were brought out and shot. This shootimt wn* heart breaking, as they all knelt down and prayed. .It Is real sport, yet It was really terrible t.o watch.' 'Hnecht I saw the dead body of a young girl nailed to the out- HA3UUS3URG TEI EGR7JPH side door of a cottage by her lumds. She was about fourteen or sixteen years old.' Page 21. Affidavits H-87. "In retirement from Mallnes eight drunken soldiers were marching through the street. A little child of two years came out and a soldier skewered the child on his bayonet, and carried it away while his com rades sang. D. 10, 45. "Withdrawing from Hofstade, In addition to other atrocities tho Ger mans cut off both hands of a boy of sixteen. At the inquest affidavits were taken from twenty-ttve wit nesses, who saw the boy before he died or just afterwards. "Passing through Haecht, in addi tion to the young women whom they violated and killed, affidavits were taken and the photographs of a child threo years old nailed to a door by Its hands and feet. Affidavits D 100-8. "That all these atrocities were care fully planned in advance for terror izing the people Is proven by the fact that on the morning of August 25 the officers who had received great kindness from Madame Roomans. a notary's wife, warned hec to make her escape immediately, as the loot ing and killing of all the citizens, men, women and children was about to begin. Show No Mercy, "These records could be multiplied by thousands. Upon the retr.eat from one city alone, inquests were held upon the bodies of over six hundred victims, including: very aged I nife>l and women, and babes unborn, removed by tbe bayonet from their mothers. It is the logical result of the charge of the Kaiser to his avmy. 'Give no quarter and take no pris oners. Let all who fall into your hands be at your mercy.' The gen eral staff of the German army pub lished a manual several years be fore they began this war. They ex plicitly charged their soldiers to break the will of the enemy by curelty. Witness this page from the War Manual on page 52: 'A war isi conducted with energy merely j against the combatants of the enemy | states and the positions they occupy, | but it will and must in like manner ! seek to destroy the total intellectual! and material resources of the latter.' j "And witness this injunction to atrocity, page 35: 'By steeping him self in military history, an officer j will be able to guard himself against excessive humanltarlahlsm. It will teach him that certain severities are indispensable to war. Humanita rian claims, such as the protection of men and' their goods, can only be taken into consideration in so far as the nature and object of the war per mit.' Therefore, the war general gave each German soldier his token, large as a silver dollar, bidding the soldier, 'Strike him dead. The Day of Judgment will ask you no ques tions.' Jesus said, 'Take heed that ye offend not one of my little ones." The Kaiser says, 'I have done away with Jesus' teachings.' The Master who loved the little children said, 'I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat. I was athirst and ye gave me no drink. Therefore depart from me into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his fellows.' The War It answers: 'Don't be afraid. Look at your token. The Kaiser will take care of you in the Day of Judgment. Kill old men and little children, loot merchants' houses, violate women: the Kaiser will see that the God of Justice asks you no questions.' The result was logical and inevitable. These horrible atrocities! On August 27, General von Lieber gave out this proclamation. 'The town of Waevre will be set on fire and destroyed, without distinction of persons. The innocent will suffer with the guilty.' After this town WBH destroyed and nil the inhabitants killed, from the oody of a soldier slain on the retreat, we find this page in his diary: '.We lived gorgeously. , Two or three bottles of champagne at each meal. All the girls we want. It is fine sport.' Are we surprised that many of the letters and journals taken from the bodies of Germans quote General von Hart man's sentence, 'Terrorism is a prin ciple made necessary by military considerations.' German-American objections that these towns were de stroyed because the inhabitants had fired upon the invading army from the windows of their houses is, con clusively met and answered by an other letter written by a German of ficer to his wife. 'On approaching a village a soldier Is sent on In ad vance 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 a little board in one ruined village, I read these words, 'Marie, aged sixteen. Dead August 24, t9lo. "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," saith the Lord.' The hundreds of atrocities personally investigated only serve to interpret Ambassador Morgenthau's statement as to Ar menia, that the Turkish soldiers and German officers massacred in Ar menia 'a half million people, that they might move into their farm houses and-little shops and stores. "The 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 supremely, pursued the truth eternally, and cherished the truth above their fear of hell or hope of heaven. The world has its liberty, its science and its law at the hands of the heroes who preferred the truth above life. Concerning the pa triots, the reformers and the states men, we can only say they were stoned, they were nawn asunder, they were crucified In Jerusalem, poi soned in Athens, tortured in Ephe sus, exiled In Florence, burned rt the stake In Oxford, assassinated in Washington. But the iron autoc racy and militarism of Germany de bauched hr universitv men. Hew in my hand is an address to the civil ized world, signed by ninety-three German professors. They all receive their salaries from state endow ments. Any hour the Kaiser or Bethmann-Hollweg can cut off their income. When the Indignation of uie civilized world flamed out against Germany in the winter of 1915, the German government asked these professors to sign a document, and these men had been so degraded by the German philosophy of militar ism and' autocracy, that they obeyed —losing their souls to save their salary. And consider what thev signed! In the previous August Bethmann-Hollweg Issued a state ment to the world, saying that as the violation of Belgium's neutral ity, 'the wrong—l speak openly— that we are committing.' etc. Moral Cowardice of Scholars. "These ninety-three professors signed a statement, saying: 'lt is not true that we wronged Belgium,' in (the Kaiser's address that he himself has published, he says, 'Give no quar ter. take no prisoners. Let all who fall Into your hands be at your mercy. Make yourself as terrible as the Huns." Now, this Address was circulated In postal cards all over Germany. Realizing the mistake, these professors sign a statement saying: 'lt Is not true that our sol diers ever Injured the life of a single Belgian.' Socrates or Dante, or even Galileo, Savonarola, or MUton, or Victor Hugo, or Lincoln, would have died a thousand deaths by faggots, or upon the rack, rather than have signed their names to such a state ment—to lies. The Kaiser BJid Beth mann-Holweg must have been des perate and bewildered when they had to endeavor to counteract their own documents at the beginning of the war, by asking their professors to contradict these documents during the middle of the war. It makes every university professor almost ashamed of his calling. Think of Harnack and Eucken, with their moral cowardice and their intellec tual impotency! Plainly that is what Nietzsche meant when he said (page 134 Ecco Homo) 'every crime against culture that has com mitted for a hundred years rests upon Germany.' The Frenchmen's I<ove. "All men lovo their native land, but the Frenchman's love has a unique ouality. The natrlotism of the Englishman-is undemonstrative. The Britisher surrounds his ome and his garden with a high brick wall, conceals his finer feelings from his closest friends and when he en ters his club on Pall Mall and disap pears behind the threshold the door is closed upon a tomb. The Ameri can's patriotism is largely academic; national safety through isolation breeds contempt for danger. The time was when his love of country was vociferous on the Fourth of July, but the enthusiasm has died down, until he is now ready to ex tinguish even a firecracker. The oc casional speaker deals in historical statements about the four wars fought by our country. But the Frenchman's love of country has a tender, gentle, wooing note. He speaks of La Belle France as Dante spoke of Beatrice, as Petrarch spoke of Laura, and the name of France lingers upon his lips as rrfusic trem bles in tho air after the song is sung. The reaf*,i, doubtless, is found in the fact that, the French people have carved tho hillsides smoothed the valleys and adorned the ridges and mountains with vineyards, until the whole land Is a thing of radiant beauty. It is love that has made France beautiful Just as the lark, after completing the nest, makes It soft and warm by pulling the down out of hef own bosom. The French people love France as an artist loves his own canvas, os Bellini loved the missal he had illuminated, and as that young architect loved the little Roslyn chapel, upon whose del— cato capitals he had lavished his very soul. Would you have an em blem of France in the month of June, with her wide, fat valleys, her green pastures, and the hillsides w'p which the pines climbed in serried regiments? Tf so take a <rr"nt ro'-> of green velvet lying loosely on the floor, the creases and velvet ridges answering to the rivers and the val leys and the hills, and then fling a handful of rubies, pearls and sap phires down, so that these gems will lie within the creases as the lovely French cities at the foot of the hills, and besides the rivers, and you have France, the beautiful; France, the mother of the modern arts and sci ences; France, full of sweetness and light; that France concerning which Heinrich Heine exclaimed, "Oh France, thou daughter of beauty! Thy name is culture!' The Devastated Regions. "For forty years the two great enemies of farms and towns .and cities have been fire, flood and enrthouake. Wttneiiu the city of St. Pierre. An interior explosion blew off the cap of the mountain, and a flood of gas poured down upon the lovely city, asphyxiated the citizens and left not one house standing. Witness that mighty convulsion in San Francisco that brought thous ands of bricks crashing down in ruins. Witness the fire in Chicago that turned the great city into twist ed iron and ashes. In New Zealand there is a lake called Avernus, the birdless lake. Poisonous gases rise from the black flood of water, and soon the lark with its song, and the eagle with its flight fall into the poisonous flood. But all these im ages are "ulte inadequate tn exolain the desolation, the devastation of France upon the retreat of the Ger mans. About forty miles north of Paris, one strikes the mined region. Then liour after hour passes, while with slow movement and breaking heart one Journeys 100 miles to the north and zigzags 125 miles south again, through that black region. The time was when it was a wild land, rough, with forests filled with wolves. Then the Frenchman en* tered the scene. He subdued all the wild grasses to which Julius Caesar referred in his story of his war in France; he drained the valleys, and widened the streams into canals. He I enriched the fields, and made them wave with gold. He surrounded the meadows with odorous hedges, and banked where there had been a swamp with perfumed shrubs. Slow ly he threw arches of stone across the streams and carved the bridges until they were rich In art, while everything made for use was carried up to outbreaking beauty. The roof of the barn had lovely lines; the ap proach to the house was upon a curved road, the highways were Bhaded by two rows of noble trees. The stony hillside was terraced, and there the vines grew purple in the sun. How simple was his life! What a sanctuary his little home! With what rich embroidery of wheat and corn he covered all the hills! He was ; prudent without being stingy, thrifty ! without being mean. He saves [ against old age with one hand and I distributes" to his children with the other. What Ilatc Can Do. "And having lavished all their love upon the little farm house, the gran ary and the barn; having pruned these grape vines with their clusters of white and ourple, until each seemed like a friend, dear as that miraculous picture was to Baucis and Philemon, having at last made every tree to be shapely, their little world was invested with affection and beauty. Do you remember how that Florentine artist after his day's stint was done, tolled upon his stu dio. slowly carving the capitals, col lecting a little terre cotta from Cy prus, an old manuscript from Athens, a lovely head of Apollo from Knhesus. and iridescent glass from Persia, with a bit of old Tyrlan pur ple lending a spot of flame in one corner, and a little mosaic from' Thebes colored another, when hej saw the end was approaching, while on a visit to Egypt, asked that he might be carried home to die in the studio, which he made rich with his soul. In some such way as that the French "peasants loved their land, and then lost it. One morning the enemy stood at the gate. The far mer with his pruning knife was 110 match for a German with a machine gun. and down he went under the plum tree he was pruning. The de vastated regions of France are like unto a devil world. All the pears and plum trees have fallen over un der the stroke of a German axe, and arc dead and dry. Here and there one sees an occasional tree where a half Inch of bark remains, and sym pathizing with the peasant's sorrow, the roots have sent a flood of sym pathetic tears and sap out Into one little branch .amidst the death of a hundred other boughs that flamed in May Its rose and pink of bloom, then In August gave Its red glow of clus tered food. But as for the rest, it is desolation. Gone all the lovely and j majesty churches of the Thirteenth I Century. Gone all the galleries for every city of 6.000 people in France has Its quarterly exhibition of paint ings sent out from Paris, and somo of the finest art treasures in the world have perished. The land hasl been put back to where It was when Julius Caesar described it 2,000 years) ago—a wild land, and waste, grow ing up with thorns and thistles. That proclamation on a/wall tells the whole story. 'Let no building stand, no vine or tree. Before re treating let each well be plentifully polluted with corpses and with cre osote.' The spirit was this, 'Since we Germans cannot have this land, no| one els 6 shall.' Your eyes never saw a more exquisite bit of carving for the corner of a roof than this (a spray of myrtle leaves, carved in stone, after tho Germans had de stroyed the Cathedral of Arras. Look at this firebrand. Every Ger man company of soldiers carried one automobile iorry filled with these firebrands, with a tank of gasoline hanging beneath the axles. One of the historic chateaus is that of Avri court, rich in noble associations of history. It was one of the buildings specially covered by a clause In the international agreement between England, Germany, France, the United States, and all the civilized nations, safeguarding historic build ings. For many months it was the home of Prince Eltel, the Kaiser's second son. Prince Eltcl's Crime. "Forced to retreat, the aged French servants, who the electric lighting and the gas plant, and who had served Eitel during his occupancy, when the judge and jury held the trial at the ruins of the chateau, stated that they heard the German officers telling Eitel that he would disgrace the German name if he destroyed a building that had no relation to war, and could be of practically no aid and comfort to the French army, and he would make his own name a name of shame and contempt, of obliquy and scorn. But the man would not yield. He brought in great wagons and moved to the freight cars at the station absolutely every object that was in the splendid chateau. And, having promised to leave the building uninjured, ho stopped his car at the entrance and exit gates of the ground, ran back to the historic building with a can of oil that he had secreted, filled the asbestos in this ball of perforated iron, ran through the halls and wait ed until the flames were well in progress, and then ordered his men to light the fuse of a dynamite bomb. All the testimony was taken imme diately afterward from aged ser vants and from the little children, and the degeneracy revealed has not been surpassed since the first chap ter of Romans was, written on the unnatural crimes of the ancient world. There are the copies of the affidavits. In the ruins, hard be side the black marble steps I picked up this firebrand with which Prince Eltel assassinated a building that be longed to the civilized world. I hope to live long enough to see Ger many forced to repay at least one debt, in addition to ten thousand others. Conceived by the Gothic ar chitects, after four thousand years of neglect, the Germans about 1875, completed the Cathedral of Cologne. When this war is over every stone in that cathedral should be marked. German prisoners should be made to pull those stones apart. German cars be made to transport every stone to Louvain and German hands made to set up the Cathedral of Co logne in Louvain or Arras. For a judgment day is coming to Germany, and though dull and heavy minds doubt it, men of vision perceive its Incidents and outlines already tak ing shape. Devastation of Home. "But the ruin of his bridges, his school houses, his churches, his farm houses, his vineyards #.nd orchards, is the least of his sorrows. In a little village near Ham dwelt a man i who had saved a fortune for his old age, 100,000 • francs. When the in vading army, like a black wave was approaching, he buried his treasure beneath the large, flat- stones that made the walk from the road up to the front step of his house. Then, with the other villagers, the old man fled. Many months passed by, while the Germans bombarded the village. At last the German wave retreated, and once more the old man drew near to his little village. There was nothing, nothing left. After a long time, he located the street, which was on the very edge of the town, but could not find the cellar of his own house. Great shells had fallen. Exploding in the cellar, they had blown the bricks away. Other shells had fallen hard by and blown dirt to fill what once had been a cellar. The small trees In front of his house had been blown away and replaced by shell pits. In Paris Am bassador Sharp told me that the aged man had up to that time failed to locate his house, much less his treasure. But what trifles light as air are houses! A Broken Man. "At the officers' chateau, late one night after returning- from the front, a general and a captain were re counting their experiences. Anion;? other incidents was this one. Dur ing the winter of 1915, months after the Germans had occupied that ter ritory, several English officers and a young French captain were recount ing their experiences. In saying the farewells before each man went out to his place in the trenches to look after his men. the English boy ex claimed: "Next week at this time T will be home. Five more days and my week's leave of absence comes.' Then suddenly remembering that the French captain had been there a long time, he asked when he was go ing home. To which came this low answer, 'I have no home. You men do not understand. Your English village has never been invaded. When the Germans left my little town, they destroyed every little building. My wife and my little daughter are both expecting babies within a few weeks. I—I—I—" and the storm broke. The two English men fled into the dark and night, knowing that there was a night that was blacker, that rain was nothing against those tears, for all his hopes of the future were dead. His only task was to recover France anil transfer all his ambitions to Go(t in Heaven. That is why there will be no inconclusive peace. Do not de lude yourself. Whether this war goes on one year or five years or ten years it will go on until these Frenchmen are on German soil. Nor will the German ever learn the wick edness of his own atrocities and the crime of militarism until his own land is laid waste, until he sees the horrors of war with his own eyes, and hears the groan of his own fam ily with his own ears, and sees his own land laid desolate We r*v>* believe that vengeance belongs unto God, and we may argue and plead for forgiveness but it will not avail. You will remember that passage in ProverbS. in which the penalties of nature become automatic, and where an outraged brain and nerve and di gestion are personified and speak to the transgressor: 'I warned you but ye would none of my reproof, I stretched out my. hand and pleaded, but ye would not listen. Now I will laugh at your calamity; I will mock at yftur desolation. When desola tion comes as a whirlwind and fear and destruction are upon you.' "The (lam that held hack the black waters lias broken and it was the German who dynamited the dam and releawd the flood of destruction upon his own peo ple and Ills owu land. Whether OCTOBER 25, 1917. It takes another summer or many, there is no British nor CniiH'* 'i oHlcer. no French nor Italian whose face does not turn to granite and steel when ever you suggest tliat he will not walk down the streets of Berlin and Institute a military court, mid try a Kaiser and Ills staff for murder. That is one of Jhc tilings that Is settled, and about which discussion Is not permit ted by soldier regiments. The Hum of Klieims. "One of tho things that has horri fied the civilized world has been the' ruin of Rheims Cathedral. Ger-1 many, of course, was denied the gift of imagination. It belongs to France, to Italy, and to Athens. Heinrich Heine, her own poet, says that Ger many appreciates architecture t>o little that it is only a question of time when 'with his giant hammer, Thor will at last' spring up again and shatter to bits all Gothic Cathe drals.' This gifted Hebrew had the vision that literally saw the Germans pounding to pieces the Cathedral at Louvaln and Ypres, in Arras, in Bapautne, in St. Quentin. and Rheims. The German mind is a heartf, mediocre mind, that can multiply and exploit the Inventions and discoveries of the other races. The Germans contributed practically nothing to the invention of the loco motive, the steamboat, the Marconi gram, the automobile, the airplane, the phonograph, the sewing ma chine, the reaper, the electric light. Americans invented for Germany her revolver, her machine gun, her tur reted ship, and her torpedo subma rine. In retrospect it seems abso lutely incredible that Germany could have been so helplessly and hope lessly unequal to the invention of the tools that have made her rich. But that is not her gift. If Sheffield can give her a model knife, Germany can reproduce that knife in quanti ties and undersell Sheffield. The German people keep step in a regi ment, in a factory and on a ship, and therefore are wholesalers. The French mind is creative. Stands for individual excellence, and is at the other extreme from the German tem perament. The emblem of tho Ger man intellect is beer; the emblem of tho English intellect is port wine; the emblem of tho French mind is champagne: the emblem of an Amer ican intellect like Emerson's is a beaker filled with sunshine—my knowledge of these liquors is based on hearsay. It is this lack of Imagi nation that explains Nietzsche's statement that for two hundred years Germany has been the enemy of culture, while Heinrich Heine de clared ,the name oS culture was France. Destruction of Rheims. "It is this total lack of mental capacity to appreciate architec ture t ir.it explains Germany's destruction of some of the no blest buildings of the world. sSlie cannot by uny chance conceive how the other races look upou her vandalism. Her own for eign government expressed it publicly in one of her state pa pers, in these; words, 'let the neutrals cease chattering about cathedrals, Germany does not care one straw if all the galleries mid churches in the world were destroyed, providing we guln our ends.' "Gulzot in his history of civiliza tion, presents three tests of a civil ized people: First, they revere their pledges and honor; second, they rev erence and pursue the beautiful in painting, architecture and literature; third, they exhibit sympathy in re form toward the poor, the weak and the unfortunate. Louis Orr and Rheims. "Now apply those tests to the Kai ser and his war staff, and you" un derstand why Rheims Cathedral is a ruin. No building since the* Par thenon was more precious to the world's culture. What majesty and dignity in the lines! What a wealth of statuary! How wonderful the Twelfth Century glass! .Wltn what lightness did these arches leap into the air! Now, the great bombs have torn holes through the roof; only little bits of glass remain. Broken are the arches, ruined some of ihe flying buttresses, the altar where Jeanne d'Arc stood at the crowning of Charles is quite gone. The great library, the bishop's palace, all tho art treasures are in ruins. Ancient and noble buildings do not belong to a race, they belong to the world. Sacred forever the threshold of the Parthenon, once pressed by the feet of Socrates and Plato; thrice oacred that aisle of Santa Croce in Florence, dear to Danto and Savonarola, to be treasured forever the solemn beauty 1 of Westminster Abbey, holding the dust of the men of supreme genius. In front of the wreck of the Cathe dral of Rheims, all blackened with German fire, broken with the Ger man hammer, is the statue of Jeanne d'Arc. There she stands, immortal forever, guiding the steed of the sun with the left hand, lifting tho banners of peace and liberty with the right. By some strange chance, no bomb injured that bronze. Oh, beautiful emblem of the day when the spirit of liberty, riding in a chariot of the sun, shall guide a greater host made up of all the peo pies who revere the treasures of art and architecture, and law and lib erty, and Christ's poor, and will ride on to victory that will be the sublimest conquest in the annals of time. "Over against the greatest mili tary machine that was ever forged, and controlled by merciless and cruel men, who have given up all faith in God, who practice the Ten Commandments with the "Not" left out, who have stamped out of the souls of their soldiers every instinct of pity and sympathy, are our Al lies. Here is Belgium, after all her agony, ready to die to the last man rather than submit to a cruel mas ter, the Kaiser. And here is Eng land. am' nil ber colonies. How glorious this land! 'Tho land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land,' as Shakespeare said. She has already sacrificed one-third of her total wealth —a million of her sons; and here is France, not bled white, but tired after years of grievous toil. Her bankers are tired, her businessmen are tired, the women and the little children are tired, for they have struggled unto blood striv ing against a cruel militarism for which they were unprepared. France Is Tired. "The French boy is like unto one who carried food and drink a long way unto perishing men, until the heavy burden forces his fingers to relax—but give the youth a little time and he will take up his task afresh and brin* water to the thlrstv soldier. The coming of the Ameri can troops has been a tonic to France and rested her weariness. Said the French wife as she sent away her young husband with smiles ruid words of pride: 'I gtv him gladly. I am only his wife—France Is his mother.' Ana here is Great Britain, whose fleet to-day holds the German battleships behind the Kiel Canal and safeguards our republic, New York and Boston. On one side of the silver dollar write these words, •In God We Trust,' and on the other side of the dollar write the words. 'And in England's navy.' Every force that makes toward Justice, humanity and liberty Is on our side. Soon or 1 late, an unseen Providence will take off the wheels from the chariot of the enemies of truth and justice., That dying German officer In Roys packed the genius of a moral uni verse into a few words. Wounded last winter through the spinal cord* unable to move the lower Dart of his body, for weeks he waited for Two aged Frencli women cared tot the dying man. Little by little the wings of the Angel of Death fanned away the mist before his eyes. One day the German officer sent for the village priest and told him that the von Hindenburg lino was nearly complete, that the order to retreat had been given, that the home of these aged women who had cared for him so tenderly would be burned; that not one church, house, barn, vineyard or orchard would be left. The news crushed the old priest. In his dying hour a righteous wrath filled the heart of the German pris oner. These are his last words, as I transcribed them from the lips of that man of God, standing one day in Noyon: 'Curses upon this army! Curses upon our Kaiser and his war staff! Ten thousand curses upon my country! Either God is dead, or Ger many is doomed!" The officer h' come to understand that soon or latn the wheels of God will 'grind t i nothingness those who wrong God's I children. 'Woe unto the man who offends one of My little ones. It j were better for hint that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depths of the seas.' "Better days are coming. We may have to enter the wilderness, but soon or late the pilgrim host will enter the Promised Land and hang out the signals of victory. Truth is stronger than error; liberty is stronger than despotism; God 1s stronger than Satan; right makes might and must prevail. In this faith we must strive on for a peace that will safeguard democracy, de fend the frontier lines, vindicate tho rights of little lands, destroy mili tarism and autocracy. During tho January snows, a dear friend and noble surgeon, at th© head of a hos pital at the front, wrote me a letter which stays my heart as tho anchor the ship in time of storm. The ground was deop with snow, many wounded men had been carried in from the field, but at midnight, when his work was done, tho sur geon wrote me this letter: " 'Tills war Is of God. Some times It is peace tliat is hell. The soldier's life is a Ufe oPpov crty, obedience, self-sacrifice; we know what the civilian's life is. But. for tlie chastisement of this war, IScrlin and Vienna, l/oiuloii anil l'arls, would liavc descended Into hell within three genera tions. I once spoke in your Plymouth on tlve blessings of peace; If ever again I have that privilege, I shall speak on the the blessing of war. I never dreamed that men conld be so noble. Fof three months I have slept 011 the stone; for three months before tliat hi a tent: for six months 1 have not been in a bed; but I have never been so happy. I have acquired the Nno freedom of a do?, and like a dog I wear a metal tag around my neck so that they may know to whom I belong when it hap pens tliat I can no longer speak. And never was a man engaged In a cause so noble. 1 have seen Belgium; I have seen a lamb torn by the wolf; I am 011 the side of the Lamb. I know the explanations the wolf has to of fer they do not Interest me. I only wish tliat you were here with me at tills battle for your own good; for right here at this western front this war will be decided, Just where all the great wars of history have always been decided. It Is decided already, but will take the enemy some time yet to find it out.' What .does this noble scholar mean? History makes that meaning plain! No wine until the purple dus ters are crushed. No linen un'il the flax is bleeding and broken. No re demption without shedding of blood. No rich soul for men's bread until the rocks are plowed with Ice gla ciers and subdued with fire billows. Five forms of liberty achieved by our fathers, for which they paid over three thousand battle fields, blood down. This war was not brought by God, but having come, let us be lieve that His Providence can over rule It for the destruction of all war. When Germany is beaten to her knees, becomes repentant, offers to make restitution for her crimes, then and not till then can this war 3top. Autocracy too must go. There is no room left in the world for a kaiser or a sultan. The hangman's noose awaits the peasant murderer, and already the hemp is grown (o twist into the noose for a kaiser's neck. "At all costs and hazards we must fijilit tills war through to a successful Issue. Our children trust he made to walk <!u'oo"h all this hloo<l and muck. Tlie liurdcii of militarism must le lifted from the shoulders of God's poor. Any state that will not forever give up war must be shut out "of the world's clearing houses and markets, through fi nance and trade. "Geologist* toll ns that the harbor of Naples, protected by islands was once the crater of a volcano like unto Vesuvius, but that God depressed that smoking basin until the life-giv ing: waters of the Mediterranean stream In and put out that fire. Oh. beautiful emblem of a new era, when God will depress evorv battle Held and every dreadnought and bring In the life-giving waters of peace. Then will come a golden age, the parlia ment of mankind, the federation of the world, a little international navy policing the seas, a little interna tional army policing tho land, a great international cqurt deciding disputes between Germany and France; to this purpose let our sons dedicate themselves. To the end that we may achieve a Just and last ing peace, hetween ourselves and all nations. Let us consecrate not only the income of our rich land but also all our property. Back of our boys' bayonets let us put our own bonds. Let our subscriptions to this Liberty Loan be so vast that we will have the right, to say to our enemy. 'You shall not crush the hopes of Abra ham Lincoln. You shall not grind mankind beneath the iron heel of militarism. You shall not make government of the people for the people, by the people, now or over, to perish from the earth."/ Why Stay Fat? 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