To the American who has not read about two dozen books and pamphlets of the pan-Germans, or better still, William Archer's sledgehammer "Gems (?) of German Thought," there is no such thing as fully comprehending the colossal egotism, the greediness, the lust for more power and the ruthlessness of the German mind. These precious "Gems (?)" are 501 in number, representing 119 different authors, and they range all the way from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the Germanized renegade, H. S. Chamberlain. They can be bought in permanent book form of Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, for $1.25, and they are worth double the money. Consider the following samples: 1. Germany's Colossal Egotism. The German is a hero born, and believes that he can hack and hew his way through life.- Treitschke. The German people must rise as a master-folk above the inferior peoples of Europe and the primitive peoples of the colonies. A Pan-German. The German people is (sic) always right, because it is the German people, and numbers eighty-seven million souls.- Tannenberg. We must vanquish, because the downfall of Germanism would mean the downfall of humanity.- Pastor K. Konig. God defend the noble cause of Deutschthum. There is no other hope for humanity.-H. S. Chamberlain. If we come out victorious in this war, we shall be the first people on the earth. A rich stream of gold will pour over our land, and this greatness, these riches, may be a blessing to us if we always remember that true greatness, true riches, lie only in the possession of moral advantages, and that to the fact of our possessing such advantages we owe our success.-W. Helm. 2. German Ruthlessness in German Eyes. The German soldiers alone are thoroughly disciplined, and have never so much as hurt a hair of a single innocent human being.- H. S. Chamberlain. By W. A. Ireland, in the Columbus, Ohio, "Dispatch." This picture of the scorn and aversion of mankind is truthful and just. It represents the world's greatest criminal! It shows THE MAN who ALONE is responsible for this war. And Bloody Kaiser William is the man to be held responsible for a million German and Turkish crimes. Not one word ever has come from him against rape, murder, arson, robbery, poisoning or starvation of helpless peoples. Judged by his record, Kaiser William is the most inhuman monster that ever lived. The scorn and the hatred of the world will follow him a thousand years through the annals of crime. It is perfectly just for history to write down William the Accursed as the Leper of Potsdam. He, and he alone, is all-responsible for all the atrocities committed by Germany in this war. With his rasping voice and his domineering and wolfish temper, by ten words either written or spoken, he could have made all the side atrocities and " frightfulness" of his war impossible. He, by one stern command to the bloody, brutal but subservient German-vassal Turks could have prevented the massacre of 800,000 helpless Armenian Christians. And to-day, by the silent consent of William the Accursed, the Turks are finishing up the extermination of the Armenians! From all sides testimonies are flowing in as to the noble manner in which our troops conduct the war.Pastor J. Rump. We see everywhere how our soldiers respect the sacred defenselessness of woman and child.-Prof. G. Roethe. Terrorism is seen to be a relatively gentle procedure, useful to keep in a state of obedience to the masses of the people. Gen. Hartmann. I warn you against pity.- Nietzsche. The more pitiless is the væ victis, the greater is the security of the ensuing peace. In the days of old, conquered peoples were completely annihilated. To-day, this is physically impracticable, but we can imagine conditions which should approach very closely to total destruction.-" By a German." Whoever cannot prevail upon himself to approve from the bottom of his heart the sinking of the Lusitania,whoever cannot conquer his sense of the gigantic cruelty to unnumbered perfectly innocent victims, and give himself up to honest delight at this victorious exploit of German defensive power,— him we judge to be no true German.- Pastor D. Baumgarten, in a discourse on "The Sermon on the Mount.' 3. Germany After the War. Germany, as the preponderant Power in a Great-German League, will with this war attain world supremacy.— Prof. W. Blume. Germany will be the schoolmaster of all the world, as every German has a bit of the schoolmaster in him. The war must last until we have forced disarmament upon our enemies. . . . Since the enemy States behave so childishly as to misuse their arms, they must be placed under tutelage. Moreover, our enemies have acted so dishonorably that it is only just that rights of citizenship should be denied them.— Ŏ. Siemens. Just such a systematic transformation of the world as Augustus effected, Germany must now undertake, but on how much nobler a plan.-H. S. Chamberlain. And there you have it, fellow-citizens! How do you like the prospect? For the past two years the slogan in Germany has been, says Mr. Gerard, " Gott strafe America." Mr. Gerard found it stamped in red on (heavily depreciated!) German paper money. We hear that already the always-forehanded German Authority is laying the foundations for a new national subsidized industry, the breeding of postbellum Germans. With apologies to the reader I offer the following interesting bit of next-war literature, from the columns of the Crefeld "General Anzeiger," and republished here by the American Defense Society. Of course the dullest American knows that nothing of this kind ever is published in a German newspaper without the approval and the permission of the government. GERMAN WIDOWS MUST RE-MARRY SO ANOTHER WAR "There are more than a million war widows in Germany. They cannot be allowed to remain widows, for two reasons. In the first place, the empire looks to them to provide an army for Germany's future defense, and in the next place, many of them are attending to the business of their late husbands without possessing the necessary knowledge. "All the widows must, therefore, get married at once, and preferably to wounded or otherwise unfit soldiers. They may rest assured that the National Committee for the Remarriage of War Widows will handle the business with the requisite discretion. The Committee will pay special attention to men in the hospitals, and will insert anonymous advertisements in the papers generally read by war widows. It may be added that the utilization of crippled soldiers and war-stricken women in the interests of the empire's future wars has the cordial approval of our great Hindenburg." 66 66 But why should the war widows take the trouble to marry the maimed soldiers when "official" pregnancy is so cheap? We marvel at the self-sacrifice called for by the German Authority. Surely the General Anzeiger "knows what it is for an unmarried woman to be encouraged to promote the new industry. No? Well, let us offer, as Exhibit A, a copy of a letter received not long ago by a New York lady from her maid on the new firing line in Berlin. It runs as follows: "Dear Madam B "I write now to tell you that I can not come to Amerika back. I am now my country serving in the only way a German girl can her dear country serve by the war. I am officially pregnant, as also is my sister, and we are promised by the Government already that it will give good care to our children. We are very happy, and we expect two good soldiers to fight for Germany in the next war. Yours respectfully 66 “Hedwig K——__” Germany never again will remain at peace with any of her present enemies, save a peace of Force and Fear; and she never will disarm. Even during the retreat of the Chinless Hero (!) of Verdun from the unhealthful vicinity of the Chemin des Dames, the panGermanists at Berlin were smoking opium and dreaming pipe dreams of colonial empires after the war. The German Colonial Society, which claims 250 branches in Germany, is headed by W. S. Solf, the Colonial Secretary, the Duke of Mecklenburg and our old friend Dr. B. Dernburg. The program of the Society demands a treaty of peace that will provide such an |