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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-07-25, Page 18, 1919 tlf trAlf. PENEISERM4'°-"teit. that Smart rearing ,ts, most fashion- rns, Styles that ut the summer completing. :her e the country or r dresses among the values are present selling y crepes ging- ars. The styles izine the newest „ hem is beautifU Co. we have :!54 e •best summer al true because the materiaTS iecial_ purchase, 'al at this price. lilered--indeedt cter ot his wolik- peritt, design - plaid -find fancy TheyaiI.riave loze-n st I..4s to to 36 (some dits 1,25 map wishes to nd:abie Q rid ere u can buy here much more; tra sizes; lace to 2-50 tive garments andty `, style. rOidery, sorne rice. 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Following the rapture of. — ;Slaughter Sale o ... • = the ',World, Satan will have been east — the Saints which may be at any mom- - — int, will fie the tribulation period iT1 , . li. down, from the air, the Holy Ghost ._ ... • . '1" will be withethe church in the air, hence — — Men's and 13.oys' Suits . Daniel, will prevail .for seven years- - — _ ,-.. a • fearful tribulation, spoken of by ... the 17th verse of Chapter 9,, Dan. = At the close of that period will be _ = seen the sign of the Son of Man in — ... the -heavens: Rev. 19; the coming of — — - , = the Messiah to the earth to set up His . ...• , Summer Furnishings _ --. predicted kingdom, net man's, after a — = — i fewaireliminary judgments. Then will — ▪ the millemnum age be ushered in, sad- - denly and wholly by the Son of Man. . and Summer -Hats will, be cleared at .Special Sale E Surely the membership of the church ... e - e Prices to clear the lot. . E mud see its folly hi- prediction and . .. , work. God, • be praised, has a plan i Sale begins -on. Saturday, July 26th E — .. . tads will -change it. His naine will - 3 and neither politicians nor religious L Mr OM r . 4 NW be glorified His purpose must be met, — - His will supreme. Oh, that all true — We offer a very lerge stock Ot the above lines and .. . : members- of His holy body would -tell , the :sale prices- are adually. considerably below the, —74 out .the Pure message of salvation — ts , • , — throu h Jesus alone throu li His . Manufacturer s cost price to -day. Every buyer �f i exeseeeg w — . ork on Calva'ry.Wi.11 — - clothing at this sale makes a clear cash saving of I have His number by grae in this — — -.7.: a,ge kind -the earthly kingdoeni in the ... t . ... 25 to 4o per cent Rain Coats for Men -or Women •= Alf our Summer Clothing, Vurnishings, Raln Coats lirrrr 1111•• ON/ SIM IOW VINO NNW 111•11i MO. $2.50 lo $10 . . ..... .S5 to $10 Men's Straw Hats.. 25c to $1 • • • • • —$1 to $2 Men's Shirts*h(work) • Men's Summer Trousers... . . ..$2..50 to 55 Boys' Knickers. .. ........ ...75c to $2 Men's Sox... . 25c to 75c Light Underwear.. . 7o5c to 51 Boys' • ....25c to $1.50 Men's Overalls to $2i.50 Men's Khaki Trousers.,.. ...:.$2 to $2 50 Men's Palm BeacItTralsers $3.50 ' Boys' White Duck long trousers $1.25 to $2 Ladies' Wool and Silk,Coat Sweaters $8 to*$18 The .early buyers usually get the best picki =kingdom age. Teet us be close stii- Men's Motoring Cot Jas S Delgaty. dents of Hier work alone.- ts Women's Motoring oats Men's Shirts (fancy). — — SUCCESSFUL MUSIC PUPILS , — = . = • . The London. • Conservatory of Music . • ,...— announces the following results of its' •• = midsummer examinations recently held — = • in, London and at local centres. Pass — — 65 marks, honors 75 marks, first class ... honors 85 marks. ' — ... • •—• Seaforth — — Grade 1—.Piano----Mari e Flannery — — .86. Miss Flannery is a pupil of Mrs. — . — — ,O'Connell, of Seaforth? ..* am St JosepO's Convent — 72. — - Grade 3-,—Piano—Margaret McQuaid — — — —• Grade 2—Piano--Mary Dovniey 72. — = Grade 1—Piano---Mary Bodkin 85, , ... — Mary O'Leary 85, Mary Kennete78 • Junior .Singing .— Minnie Merner , — — — _ i ' . • Hensall . 'Grade 2---ePianoi—Graee Chapman — • -- % 79, Grace Cooper 78,'Dorothy Welsh — — — 82, Fertis Cantelon 72. - • Grog ciot. • SEA.FOlati tammummumlimunummimmilmminnumulikmuimmummummimmhz. Grade 1—Piana—Caro1 Evans 85, •= - Coleriso Salter 873/2, Beryl Salter 86, — Bessie Watson ,67. • Jtinior—Singing—Glaclys Petty 86 Mrs.1Mabelle Rennie 8.6%. .4111111111111111111 WHY 'A VETERANS DAY For five long years, the people of • this 'district have heard and read of the great deeds of their gallant sons on -the • battlefields of the World War. . You have heard how these sons. of yours 3phEid SO weil the, nrne Canada, how they brought fame to this - fair land, and also, .las, yon have heard how many of theta now lie sleep- ing /teeth foreign skies, that you their loved ones, might • secure and safe. It is not necessary here to point out the ,debt of gratitude you owe these • men, especially those who have given • their all. No one can -gainsay the fad that at crucial points. in the battle line, these boys of yours, time after time, saved the situation. How many of you here at home know just what that means, the fatigue endued, the 'hardehi, s innumerable, the ever pre- sent dahger of death and all the hor- • rible things that go to -make up thet hellish affair men call war. • The -average veteran says very little about these things„ he wants to forget,. The peoplein the district can htl.p. wonderfully by showing the returned men that they .are with him, that they wish to help hixn and that they desire to make his return to civilian life as pleasant a transition as pose- sible Your 'efforts in our behalf while overseas, through the medium .of the e Red Cross, the Ladies Auxiliary and • kindred societies were magnificent. Many a boy has gone over the tO1:1 strengthened for his last fight, by reason of the. fact that yaur gifts have made him know he has not been forgotten; that his people *expected something of him, and the little white miss out there in "No man's, Land," is ample proof of it° all. • • • Many things are needed to help tis get back- to civilian life, and start ;• once more where we. left off. There are the constant little expenses in righting small difficulties inherent to demobilization, there is the feeling amongst the Veterans that they should have a meeting place for themseivez, and finally then is felt the need for a Prater fitting -memorial to ethose gene, "West". All these things take money. and so it ie in order to provide tile' necessary funds that we, the Veteranse appeal to the people of Seaforth and district. Knowing as we do the -great •results attained through the co-opera- tion of the people • whilst the War was en, and feeling c.onfident. that the great mejerity are insympathy with any work which will further the' interests of the Veterans; there- • fore the Executive Committee feel' • assured that all who are called upon to aid in the making of our day a success will do so with the same spit they have always shown. This town is noted as one providi days, par -exoelleneee The boys febi assured that with the citizens behiutl.• them August lath—The • Veteran, Day ---will give ample proof .of the'l good will and helping spirit you wish 1 r.P Ito show those of us, now' happily re- turnedto ourland of peace and I - CHARLES P. SILL, Secretary G. , W. V.• A. - I. • FROM GILBERT' -PLAINS. • Gilbert Plains, July 18, 1919. Dear Expositor:—Here I am again to feirnish you, this time, an - article on tile truth. • You are kept.well post- ed on all secular matters, hence I Willi it advisable to -write dn-thingii ) eternal. I clO this because I believe a larger number. of people have the privilege of hearing the truth- than if 'sent this to a religious magazine for print Price to the great war, a large menaberehip of the professing church, held the opinion that through the. missionary effort and ministry the world wae-being civilized. and advanc- ed in spirituality, and as a consequence not much stress was laid on the need - • Zurich- • , • Grade 2 Piano—Mabel preeter 81%, Euloine Geiger 70. Grade 1—Piano---Newell Geiger 73., Intermediate—Singing—Mrt. Lydia Geiger 85. Jtinior-e-Singing—Euloine Geiger $9, Elva Heyrock 851,4, Newell Geiger 82, IdaThur 82%. • Mitchell , Gradel Piano—Aileen Davis 70, Annie Herbeet! 66. . Grade 1—Piano—Reta Butson' 851,4, Llo-yd Hunkin 864t,,,, Velma Phillips -88, Ernest Runnenberg 90, Minnie Eisler 784 Gertrude Hintz 79; Eva Chapman • ,69, IVIerjorie Clark .69, .Olive Herbert 73. • Grade '2—Ruclim-ents----Hattie Bolger 92, Margaret Smith -94, , Grade 1—Rudiments—Hattie BolOr 88, • ' of a. Saviour, but more stress laid on htunan leadership, However, the coin - me of the war thwarted their abbe and. eliminated the prospective fruit. Then patriotism ,became the cry of the religious reformers and that cry be . came the prevailing theme in Our pul- pits, naturally arousing among the professing !membership, a religious patriotic spirit that tended- to discard • the true Gospel Of grace, and taught people an earthly • salvation through the supreme • sacrifice Of the soldiers • and brave sacrifice of the boys at the front. Indeed„ so far did the patriotic spirit carry its advocates that the pul- pit predicted a new world after the• war. The coming home of our 'boys would demanda new religious, life, and a rare 'civilization to be enjoyed. But contrariwise the war has left to the sorrow of our patriotic advo- cates, -a world , of confusion, both in political and civil life. A revolution- ary spirit ,has followed, such as 'this generation has never experienced; di- contentl dissatisfactions and notoriety have followed in line, until Christians are bewildered as to its outcome. Here again human opinion, human designs, htunan predictions have sadly failed., • The queltion *nes, How account for all -this ebsa.ppoiniment? Instead of a predicted netillennium being ushered accolding to the faddists' pre war • theory, a confusion end aborninable wickedness have • settled over this whole country. • Well the answer is quite simPle. A Wrong conception of God's plan, a previous teaching *holly nnfounded,in scripture, aman theory not supported by God's ttrnth, a re- ligious fad- 'Ilirectly opposite ' to the teaching of the Bible. Instead of teaching by mans' theory, the coming kingdom of Christ through human leadership and patrioticien- thusiasm, the truth, as t was once delivered to the Saints, should have been taught. God alone.has a plan for the ages, and His plan will be carried out independent of man theories. True human instruments -will be used to carry it out but such must be used. ' solely of God. Saved man'a place ,or privilege is not the conversion of the sworld through preaching, but rather TJIE CANADIAN ACADEMY OF • music 4 • g. The follevei's ng have sunceSsful passed their examinations in conneo- tion with the Canadian ,Acatlarney.-of Music with which is amalgamated the Toronto College ' of Music: Preparatory piano — First class lemors—Bertlia Beattie. - Advanced preparatory- piano 1-1Pnors - -I-, Daisy Hamilton. • Junior pieties, - gonors-e-, Thelma E. Dale, Ellie S. ,ArcItibald, Vera Dunlop. 1Pass—Annie E., Strong, Josephine I. Livingston. Preparatory • rudiments First class honors —Annie .E Strong, ditaephine L Livingston, 'Thelma, E. Vale, Ellie S. Archibald, Vera Dunlop, all being upile of Miss Annie Govenlock • THE HERMIT OF AMERONGEN (Blasco -Ibanez In The Outlook.) Europe has been so absorbed- in the problems of peace that she has for- gotten the chief offender of the war. The fugitive Kaiser lives tranquilly in a castle in Holland, and only now and then do the newspapers mention this sorry personage, -whorl' we may style • "the hermit of Amerongen." • One' can understand how those i who have seen the war from a distance and know its horrors only by hearsay', are not greatly interested in the.fate of the mostsinister figure of the war. But we:farho 'have seen his work close at hand, the ,greatest mass ofl atrocities since the ravages of Attilas cannot quietly endive seeing theadevieer,and executor of thesimest live like a middle' clatS gentleinan spending his summer in the country, saffering no other. punishment than his own rage,at the loss of his huge, absurd power and at his shameful .ffight. b -. • I I have a right to epea,k of . this inan with complete liberty. I never believed•in him. I 'always feared' that his theatrical poses and his 'pedantrie.s the result Of superficial learning, would wind up in a tragic fashion for the world. Twenty years ago, when so many gullible pert" were hailing t, him' as the superman, I hai)the honor. to be arrested- and prosecut `lin Spain (at the instigation of the German Ambassador; no doubq for an article in which I compared him to Nero,: slince then, I have Spoken of hiin in a similar vein in several of my novels. My ideas. have dranged somewhat since then, and I nelist ask Nero' s pardon for having ,corapared him with William II. Nero confined himself to burning McLean Bros., Publishers $1.50 at Tear ill Advance rans' Seafollh, August 13th Auspices G.W.V.A. Baseball Latest Attractions Brass Bands Kiltie Bands Aeroplanes Boxing ExhibitiolLI Merry -go -Round Gorgeous Parade CaliOumpians Presentation of.Medals, etc. Extral Extra ! Exhibition of liT*9• Trophies Just larldecj. from Overseas Field Gun's, Machine Guns, etc. Under Government Supervision Oh Boy Some Day ---Some Show ° Believe Me See large Posters for complete program. • The .Day ---August 13, Wednesday Major R. S. Hays, Chairman James G„ Mullen,_Treasurer, A. D, §:dtherland, 'Secretary Executiire'Corainittee--OhaS. P. Sills, Charles Stewart, A. F. Cluff; W. P. Gt'ieve,'Frank Sills, Chas Aberhart. a few sections of Ala one nity, and besides, he knew how to die.. • Almost as irritating. as the atroc- ities of the war is the boundless ad- miration which just six •years ago the general public felt for this chatterbea, so devoted to speech-maIdngeto t,oasts, and to sermons'who participated with godlike self-sufficiency ' in all the' branchesof human activity. Strate:* gist; seaman, financiee, business mare farmer, musician, poet; -painter, sculp- • tor, there was neither science, art, nor profession in which he did not long to be leader. His is the agile, simian • ability of an actor who can, with the aid of costum.es wig's, and Makeup,. feutwardly imitate all types. But t it • is not the actor who puts the soal into the characters; it is the poet who talks through their mouths, • William is a man' of appearances. Garrulous, neryous, he touches upon everything with the, flightiness of an unbalanced person endowed with a vivid imagination. But he never pass- es beneath.the 'surface of things; there is not a single subject that he knows even halfway. For thirty years he, Paraded before the world as the perfect man of war, directing 'maneuvers that made old strategists •smile discreetly, -terrifying the world with hie ominous frown and his bragging And when- the decisive moment arrived hie generals passed him' about from one to, another like a ball; nobodywanted hiln near, for fear of his absurd counsels ,and his wild projects that amounted to, orders. Moreover, his army was. .a .heritage; Moltke- and 100171 had given it , to him; he had only enlarged and per- fected it, like a young capitalist who rounds out the fortune his father and grandfather began as poor men., Bat -the navy was his creation. There is no disputing that. It was he who exclaimed, "Germany's future lies up- on the water," No .doubt he had numerous collaborators, of more abil- ity than he, but we will pay no atten- tion to this. Let us grant that he was able to squeeze the second greatest fleet Of the world out of his country in a few years. He deserves. to have his paternity recognized., for the cre.ator is worthy of his. work. In its future writings' hietory will.be -at a loss to know which was more cow- ardly and which ended- in a 'more shameful rammer, the German fleet or the sovereign -who creat4 it. Through-. out .the war the huge Getman ships stayed hidden in port, protected bY nets and •mines, like an ostrich that buries its head in the sand to avoid seeing dangeis. • -And finally they sur- rendered without the least struggle, with a lack of dignity that offended the Professional pride. of the Allied, sailors intrdsted with taking them prisopers. The only active part of this navy of Wiliam II's was the submarine'a- gainst unarmed or careless boats kill- ing with certaintrand without anger, like an assassin who lies in wait for a victim that he knows cannot return the nete": "But there is his work of peace," some say. "The development of the commerce, industry, and education that has talc= place in Germany during his reign." I recognize this, too, as an indis- putable fact. ° But it is one more plagiaxism of this dilettante who has spent his life imitating others, and then presenting his imitations as pure German discoveries, The only thing original and sincere about hitt is his mediseval personality his romanrice mystic mentality which makes him consider himself the fav- orite child of tre—heavens. God, ae- cording to him, is interested only in • the prosperity of the Hohenzollern family, and in that of, Germany by consequence of her having the honar to be ruled i)y them. All his words and his acts have been in accord with, this belief. There could be•no simpler conception of humanity than his: all the world subject to GermanY is "the salt of the earth;" Germany subject to the Junkers and the iniumerable princelings, and above this haughty, proud nobility himself as Sovereign Lord. Warrior and Christian like Lehen- grin, bloody and religious like' the 'ancient tribal heads, in his philosophic moments he gave vent to the most ine,xplicable incoherepcies. We will. pass over his evangelical exhortation to the troops that went to China to 'repeat the barbarism's 'of Attilla. After the Russo-Japanese War he harangued his soldiers thus: "If the Japanese, who are idolators, have defeated the Russians, who are Christians, this is due - to the fact that the Japanese, even though they believe in Buddha, are true Christians because they are good soldiers." All the world has believed that if the Christian doctrine really ruled the earth there would be no soldiers Why does a doctrine of peace and . brother- hdod among men need soldiers? But William saw things in a different iFibre Board Fibre Board _ Fibre Board E..: After an absence from ig- g the market of nearly three E, i'years,Fibre Board is once 9 more available. -4 This wall board, design- E 9 ed especially .for paper- E 9' ing, is too well known to 9 require description. We. '2- E7 are glad to be able to an- E.-- nounce that we now have 9 .= MIS it 111 stock. Fibre Board F.'. E for papering on. NIS OOP - N, Cuff & Son' = -Seaforth, Ont. light. Only soldier a are Christians and what he underetands by soldie and how he describes it is well known from another of his 'discOurses: "An automaton, obedient to his king, who if necessary,- shoukl, without vacillat ing, fire upon his parents and hi bothers." ' Because he was the grandson, he compared his •glorious grandfather (who was nothing but a little soldier pushed on to success by Bismarck) with Moses, Abraham, Homer, Charle magne, Luther Shakespeare, Goethe and Kant. Arid, as this seemed but slight„praise, he added that if William I had. been boiri in the Middle Ages they Would have tanonized him. - This man, .with his psychology of a Mystic and his romantic ideas, has been at the same time, by reason of his Protean character, his desire to ha-ve his -fingers in every pie a man of his epoch. This figure of the Nibleun- gen, living out of date in the twentieth century, hast the gift of imitation and falsifieation that characeerizes the un- balanced. ents, after burning and bombarding cities and assuring the world that overcoming the Allies Was a Matter of weeks have quietly retired to their' c tles to raise chicken; or sport with their dogs, or, perheps, rt'oa write -their memoirs. • This is something new in history. Never has ethere been Iso lamentable an absence of professional -honor, such a demonstration of brazen shameless- ness. Napoleon, who in the number of his *them is comparable' with >William II (but who inherited nothing and who' built up everything himself, )who • had the vision of 4 ileader end 'who knew, when necessary, how to ;risk his life), behaved diffttrently in the hour of misfortune. In one ee his' last battles, seeing that all was lost, lie stationed his mount over a bonib which, by chance, failed to• explode. LaterinFontainebleau before sign. ing leis abdication, he tried to poison himself, and it was only by dint of great exertions that he was saved. On the eve of Waterloo the 'fugitives overwhelmed him and dragged him a- long withthent as lie Was walking, Ilikea somnambulist, toward the en- emies' lines that they might kill ,him. Only at the end did he desist from his attempts at suicide convinced by a Sort of fatalism, that death would not, ,on -ie to him Since he bed called to it again and again in vain!. And his nephew, Napoleon III, who was only a pale shadow of him/ also knew how to fall with 'dignity. Zola las des- cribed him ie that awful 4sc.- of Sedan. riding slowly down a .highway raked by artillery fire , was, hoping that a shell would ehatter him into bits, saving, • khne the. shameeof -.witnessing the surrender. But the projectiles spected his life, and, sick and dis- kouraged; he pursued his destiny. He might .have fie& Whole battalions took refuge frona Sedan in Belgium. But this ruler wished to share the fate of his comrades, and he gave him- self up as a prisoner together with his army. This is the way eraperers .behaved only a few dozen years ago. They may be censurable as emperoka, but they command respect as Men for the way they fe.ped disaster. And: the false Parsifal; the priest king terror of Europe, is hidden like a hare in his refuge at Amerongen. Perhaps he is giving lessons in hort- iculture to the gardeners of the castle, criticising the construction of the building, advising the owner about de- sirable changes, or thinking up a new. uniform, " the uniform of the exile," in which to stroll about with tragic' solemnity beneath the trees, as though tleiusands of cameras Were focused on him. - This canna contirmeIt is too im- moral. Perhaps it will go Con—for life is, nothing but a web of absurd realities —but I repeat that itshould rofft, The United States has the electric chair, England the gallows, France the guillotine; almost all. civilized coun- tries have their modes of Suppressing dangerous individuals that atta,ckethe safety Of society or its where. He who kills just one person4l he who burns just one house, he hic robs on the highway, pays this iso ted and in- dividual crime with his hfe And this man upon whOm rests the. weight of four years of inOessant slay- ing, who represents the authority for more mimes and brutalities than have been committed since,the days of bar- barians,living goes on peacefully; for- gotten in his refuge in Amerongen; and if they take him fromithere it will be to carry him to a picturesque far - of island that 'will recall' to him his sweet °refill Ah, not this is neither; ...logical nor 17°aIrfotriee certain objectioes' and hast- en to add that 1 do not. believe ,in capital punishment. But ahere are so many things to which we are opposed but -which we innst unbluihinglfyield to through the force of reality! Death proves nothing, I know. But the liv- ing must protect themselves. I know that all The is sacred; every life (let it be clearly understood) with- out categories or distinctions, for the social hierarchies are nothing in com- parison with, life. And When one eees millions and millions of innocent lives sacrificed throughthe ambition and arrogance of one single gailty life` one feels an irresistible desire, not for revenge, but for justice. Besides, the future is terrifying if the great catastrophe which we have just passed through bears no severe punishment for its authors. The worthy nation t have made war that there. might be no more ware. Well, there willbe if the makers cf wars get off unscathed. Without just pimishment the office of kings wile seekamusement, and ry war as in an interesting sport wl be a safe and desirable one. The pl4iin imidividual who ie.a.ftt of rage, pefrhaps justified, shoots or kills is pumshed severely. The ruler who carries whole nations /to death and , upsets the world's life has °illy to re - r tire afterwards to a castle, like a tragedian who, after brandishing his dagger upon the stage, goes to the , country for a rest. Fear of punishment is of great ser - s J vice.. All we civilized men have MOM-. ents in. Which we feel within ourselves the sanguinary fury df the primitive man. But we at once calm ourselves , remembering that there are police, judgea prisons andcapital punish- - ment. If in the future rulers knew that an Emperor of Germany who ex- terminated millions of men and pro- foundly .disturbed the world's order had been solemnly tried before the nations,- and afterwards no less • re3lemrdy shot, they would hesitate a long time before planning another -war, and they would end by desisting from it for dear of being held personally • responsible. The purapean "divine' right" mon- archies became liberal and constitu- tional, net through eenviction, but through frequent meditation on the heads of Charles I of, lEngland and Louis XVI of France. If the makers of wars go unichinisb- ed, the bad training that the heredi- tary princes receive from the cradle will conthme They are brought up as soldiers, and theironly dream is tO make - war which shall afford them glory without any Personal danger, for their sokliers fight for them. What responsibility need aLCST, fear? This: is the reason the Crovm Prince passed his early youth in such a fury because the long -Waited war, which he vision - el as the 'gay and iresh, was keg in coming.' Por tlifs reason bis father, after- so many speeches r in favor of. peace, concluded byprovoking the most terrible of 432 wars. TheYib,a4 srought him up as a soldier,!and be was go- ing to die without :other title than that of Chie" f Commission Agent of the Commerce of Germany. And he drew his sword when.the world least exPecNotbiteaist.war has not ended right Its trmination is neither logical nor moral. If the millions of dead could rise, they would surely cry Ut (espec- ially the Germans), looking toward .111n.11ecluislawAInthaertwigth6eTe 'existed in the world a nation far greaterand more powerful than his own, Which ruled the earth peacefully through its in- elesteer iedi its wealth, almost without soldie and without imposition of f any sett. This was the United States. :And he, copied its industry, iteeeein- merce, and its supposed systeM of advertelettent. All the development of Germany, so rreid and so noisy, is only Ameeleanism falsified in German the same way that an author 'ean'eftle suit- foreplagiatiete against one whoecopies his werks, the 'United States slkuld have sued William and his collaborators for infringement of author's rights; -with the added claim that they net only stole the work., but that they disfigured and spoiled it. I have often grown indignant at e,ertein short-sighted people of Europe who can. appreciate , only immediate values, wile admired the progress of the German Empire as something very. original and .peculiarly German "But en this is only a bed trantla- tiOn from the .Americareo I exclaimed. - knowing the original through books and magazines. The pirates arict mereltants of Ram - burg and Bremen, the -councilors if William II, were men who had. lived and werked in the •United States, who reproduced after their.' own* fashion what they -had' seen across the ocean,. Germany's banking systeme her tom- merce, the productive organization f her industry, -all were copied frora t'he American—but without the American spirit. The Germans plagiarized the ma- terial, exterior side of things, but they took good care not to imitate the spirit of freedom and democracy. The omnipotent "War Lord" wlo spoke of my army, my navy, _ merce„ my industry, wanted to add my sChools and my. universities-. He never eould endure Haeckel or Ostwald the two best known German scientists, because of their irreligiousness • He showed his displeasure toward* certain theaters because they produced -Works of Ilaupthann, the most famous!eon- temporary dramatist of Germany He abominated the painters and sculptors of leis country e whose merits were re- cognized by other nition0. One the other bend, ;he conferred honors ,and pensions on a series of second-rate, flexible-Spined xnen of learning, me- diocre writers, commonplace artistS, who were in perfect harmony witt:..his aesthetic and philosophic ideas. This man has deceived us all in a shocking, fashion. Deceived is putting it mildly; he has robbed us of the peinliar estimation in which we held him; he has swindled us in the only line of credit he ever had. . I never thought he would be a hero But, accustomed as I was to seeing him with his martial mustache, :his paralyzed hand 4n the hilt of his sword, and to reading his bellicose the whole world tiw°nB'ilN in lii`e;maile threatened fist" h " or spoke of "the 'dry powder and the eharp[ened sword," 1- finally imaged.. him', Os a perfect lieutenant who had continued rn his invetiile ,rank almOst to hi:pieties; one of those professional lieu nants of Europe, petulant bow, iesufferable, to be sure, but with a certain chivalrous conception- of their profession and of the obligations it impeses. I thought of him as the sort of lieutenant who when he enters a room looks past all the men, makes love to'all the women, talks on every subject, imposes his opinions' playa the piano; recites poetry—doesevery- thing badly -a -shows a ridiculous self- sufficiency, butto whom no one dares to say anything for fear of provoking a duel. This somewhat *surd,: com- pletely, intolerable • being bus never- theless one moment in his life in which. he commands re,spect. g (Continued on page 4.)