Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1918 — HITS AT WARMONGERS [ARTICLE]

HITS AT WARMONGERS

Maximilian Harden Says They Should Be Muzzled. German Editor Finds No Justification For Gloating Over Alleged Teutonic Triumphs. Londpn. —By reading the following extract from a recent number of the Zukunft, Maximilian Harden’S German newspaper, one may understand why Herr Harden is in constant difficulties With the military authorities: “After all, what special justification is there for the Pan-Germans and the war at any price mouth heroes to gloat over recent triumphs over the English? “It is true that the U-boats have contrived to bring it about that in an English hotel or boarding house no more meat is supplied at breakfast and that afternoon tea guests receive only an ounce and a half of-bread or cake. Also an old maid of Dover, who fed

her fourteen little dogs with milk and biscuits, has had to atone for her crime with a five pound note. All this, however, does not yet spell the decay if the British empire. | “It is time that the warmongers were muzzled and that the authorities once for all gave them to understand that they are determined, whenever the claims of any nation or group of peoples are found to be justified, that Germany would honestly aid them in establishing themselves on a clean basis of self-government. “May our rulers reflect while yet there Is time that, unless a new order be substituted for the old one of violence and force, human life will become Intolerable and all hopes of human development will be rendered sterile for ages to come. “Questions of the very highest Import are at stake, questions that are not concerned about securing .Germany’s power, but that Involve the utilisation of that power in the upbuilding of a new, bright and joyful human world, in which, if its foundations are to stand strong for all time, every nation, the greatest, the smaU-

est —Germany as well as all the others —must sacrifice self to secure its neighbor’s welfare. ~ “This is the command of the hour. Dare Germany hesitate in obeying it?”