,,america ,,in ,,the ,,war ,,america ,,in ,,the ,,war ,,by ,,louis ,,raemaekers ,,each ,,cartoon ,,faced ,,with ,a ,,page ,,of ,,comment ,,by ,a ,,distinguished ,,american1 ,,the ,,text ,,forming ,,an ,,anthology ,,of ,,patriotic ,,opinion ,illustration ,,new ,,york ,,the ,,century ,,co4 #aiah ,copyright1 #aiah1 by ,,the ,,century ,,co4 ,published1 ,october1 #aiah ,list of ,cartoons ,,page ,,the ,,stars ,,and ,,stripes ,,in ,,the ,,service ,,of ,,humanity #b 8,,when ,i ,,was ,a ,,child1 ,,it ,,was ,,you ,,who ,,saved ,,me0 ,hon4 ,myron ,t4 ,herrick #d ,,the ,,hun3 8,,keep ,,neutral0 ,robert ,underwood ,johnson #f ,,peace ,,plots ,,revealed ,,in ,,america ,,and ,,france ,john ,jay ,chapman #h ,,belgium1 #aiah ,ralph ,adams ,cram #aj 8,,we ,,will ,,not ,,wear ,,convicts' ,,stripes1 ,,wear ,,them ,,yourselves0 ,poultney ,bigelow #ab ,,the ,,final ,,argument ,charles ,hanson ,towne #ad ,,the ,,end ,,of ,,the ,,hindenburg ,,line ,meredith ,nicholson #af 8,,something',s ,,wrong4 ,,she ,,doesn',t ,,seem ,,to ,,inspire ,,confidence0 ,robert ,grant #ah ,,angels ,,of ,,the ,,war ,,zone ,gertrude ,atherton #bj ,,as ,,thou ,,sowest1 ,,so ,,shalt ,,thou ,,reap ,hon4 ,a4 ,s4 ,burleson #bb 8,,don',t ,,stop1 ,,old ,,chap1 ,,keep ,,it ,,up60 ,john ,philip ,sousa #bd 8,,so ,,we ,,are ,,only ,a ,,dollar-,,making ,,people1 ,,are ,,we80 ,john ,kendrick ,bangs #bf 8,,no1 ,,thanks1 ,i ,,know ,,these ,,princes ,,of ,,yours ,,too ,,well0 ,herbert ,adams ,gibbons #bh ,,speeding ,,up #cj ,,toward ,,the ,,valley ,,of ,,decision ,rev4 ,stephen ,s4 ,wise1 ,ph4,d41 ,,ll4,d4 #cb ,,wake ,,up1 ,,america6 ,mary ,e4 ,wilkins ,freeman #cd 8,,there ,,are ,,plenty ,,of ,,lamp-,,posts60 ,hudson ,maxim #cf 8,,we ,,don',t ,,seem ,,to ,,inspire ,,enough ,,confidence0 ,hon4 ,henry ,cabot ,lodge #ch ,,german ,,submarines ,,fire ,,on ,,open ,,boats ,alice ,brown #dj ,,not ,,this ,,time6 #db ,,the ,,president ,,to ,,the ,,workers #dd 8,,well ,,done1 ,,fellows6 ,,keep ,,the ,,home ,,fires ,,burning60 ,hon4 ,lindley ,m4 ,garrison #df ,a ,,bit ,,of ,,the ,,hindenburg ,,line ,david ,bispham #dh ,,the ,,rats ,,in ,,our ,,home ,,trenches ,e4 ,s4 ,martin #ej ,,seeing ,,stars ,booth ,tarkington #eb ,,the ,,two ,,giants ,hon4 ,james ,w4 ,gerard #ed 8,,will ,,they ,,last1 ,,father80 ,george ,w4 ,cable #ef 8,,the ,,ugly ,,talons ,,of ,,the ,,sinister ,,power0 ,john ,burroughs #eh ,,restitution ,,and ,,reparation ,ellis ,parker ,butler #fj ,,the ,,only ,,possible ,,position ,,for ,,traitors ,h4 ,c4 ,chatfield-,taylor #fb 8,,do ,,you ,,mean ,,to ,,make ,a ,,real ,,war80 #fd ,,justice6 ,basil ,lanneau ,gildersleeve #ff ,,another ,,peace ,,proposal ,henry ,dwight ,sedgwick #fh ,,the ,,fine ,,american ,,spirit ,g4 ,e4 ,woodberry #gj ,,poisoning ,,the ,,well ,,of ,,public ,,opinion #gb ,,the ,,enemy ,,within ,william ,roscoe ,thayer #gd ,,count ,,von ,,bernstorff3 8,,noblesse ,,oblige0 ,george ,trumbull ,ladd #gf ,,peter ,,the ,,hermit ,ida ,m4 ,tarbell #gh ,,the ,,germ-,,man ,albert ,bigelow ,paine #hj 8,a ,,tid-,,bit ,,for #8,,the ,,sick ,,man'0 ,hon4 ,george ,w4 ,wickersham #hb ,,plain ,,language ,,from ,,truthful ,,james #hd ,,helping ,,hindenburg ,,home #hf ,a ,,bad ,,prophet #hh ,,at ,,the ,,holland ,,frontier ,hon4 ,william ,jennings ,bryan #ij ,a ,,rehearsal #ib ,,the ,,path ,,of ,,kultur ,edwin ,markham #id ,,to ,,the ,,victor6 ,geraldine ,farrar #if ,,the ,,eyes ,,of ,,the ,,army ,thomas ,mott ,osborne #ih 8,,is ,,it ,,nothing ,,to ,,you1 ,,all ,,ye ,,who ,,pass ,,by80 ,rachel ,crothers #ajj ,,the ,,rainbow ,,division ,,leaves ,,for ,,france ,hon4 ,frederic ,courtland ,penfield #ajb ,,russia ,,reborn ,edward ,alsworth ,ross #ajd ,,higher ,,than ,a ,,sour ,,apple ,,tree ,samuel ,hopkins ,adams #ajf 8,,what ,a ,,mean ,,trick ,,to ,,turn ,,on ,,that ,,strong ,,light60 #ajh ,,christmas1 #aiag ,henry ,mills ,alden #aaj ,,helping ,,uncle ,,sam ,,to ,,get ,,up ,,speed #aab ,,the ,,wind ,,of ,,democracy #aad 8,,this ,,one ,,for ,,the ,,babies60 ,rev4 ,lyman ,abbott #aaf ,a ,,scene ,,on ,,the ,,somme #aah ,,hollweg ,,as ,,robespierre ,j4 ,g4 ,phelps ,stokes #abj ,,president ,,wilson',s ,,declaration ,john ,luther ,long #abb 8,,don',t ,,stand ,,in ,,our ,,way ,,to ,,victory60 ,george ,haven ,putnam #abd 8,,german ,,soldiers ,,cut ,,the ,,throat ,,of ,,an ,,american ,,sentry0 ,cleveland ,moffett #abf ,,bang6 #abh 8,i ,,must ,,break ,,in ,,here ,,before ,,that ,,comes ,,down0 ,palmer ,cox #acj ,,bring ,,her ,,in6 ,charles ,edward ,russell #acb ,,germany',s 8,,peace0 ,,with ,,russia ,arthur ,train #acd ,,the ,,better ,,fighter #acf ,,the ,,dungeon ,,of ,,autocracy ,hon4 ,maurice ,francis ,egan #ach 8,,hurrah ,,for ,,peace1 ,,lads60 ,s4 ,stanwood ,menken #adj ,,ecce ,,homo6 ,robert ,w4 ,chambers #adb 8,,we ,,must ,,so ,,destroy ,,france ,,that ,,she ,,can ,,never ,,resist ,,us0 ,rev4 ,hugh ,black #add ,,the ,,japanese ,,mouse #adf 8,,ueber ,,alles0 ,,and ,,underneath #adh ,,expostulation ,,and ,,reply #aej ,,the ,,second ,,election #aeb ,,the ,,mad ,,shepherd ,alice ,hegan ,rice #aed 8,,sink ,,without ,a ,,trace0 ,oliver ,herford #aef ,,changing ,,the ,,guard ,agnes ,repplier #aeh ,,the ,,penitent ,,artist #afj ,,peace ,,angels ,,of ,,doubtful ,,purity #afb ,,the ,,black ,,flag #afd ,,the ,,annexation ,,of ,,america ,rear ,admiral ,robert ,e4 ,peary #aff 8,,welcome1 ,,mate2 ,,you',,re ,,just ,,in ,,time60 #afh ,,the ,,editor #agj ,,german ,,intrigues ,,in ,,mexico ,albert ,bushnell ,hart #agb ,,german 8,,militarist0 ,,socialism ,william ,english ,walling #agd ,,the ,,old ,,hammer ,,and ,,the ,,new #agf ,,the ,,spirit ,,of ,,washington #agh ,,the ,,massacre ,,of ,,the ,,innocents ,william ,dean ,howells #ahj ,,in ,,the ,,ring ,,to ,,stay ,harvey ,o',higgins #ahb 8,,we ,,attacked ,,the #8,,fortress ,,of ,,london'0 #ahd ,,not ,a ,,bad ,,start6 ,hon4 ,thomas ,r4 ,marshall #ahf ,,an ,,echo ,,of ,,the ,,luxberg ,,case #ahh ,,german ,,chivalry ,,to ,,wounded ,,officers ,hamilton ,holt #aij ,,socialism ,,in ,,germany ,john ,spargo #aib ,,the ,,spirit ,,of ,,german ,,science ,j4 ,mark ,baldwin #aid ,,humanity ,,and ,,her ,,german ,,lovers #aif ,,the ,,strikers ,carrie ,chapman ,catt #aih #aggf-aiag ,william ,allen ,white #bjj 8,,now1 ,,hindenburg1 ,,bring ,,on ,,the ,,rest ,,of ,,my ,,people0 ,hon4 ,david ,jayne ,hill #bjb ,,the ,,master ,,of ,,the ,,hounds #bjd ,,processional ,cale ,young ,rice #bjf ,,america ,,in ,,the ,,war ,the ,stars and ,stripes in the ,service of ,humanity 8,we have no selfish ends to serve4 ,we desire no conquest1 no dominion4 ,we seek no indemnities for ourselves1 no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make4 ,we are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind4 ,we shall be satisfied when those rights have been as secure as the faith and the freedom of the nation can make them40 ,from ,president ,wilson's ,message to ,congress1 ,april #b1 #aiag4 ,illustration 8,when ,i was a ,child1 ,it was ,you who ,saved ,me0 ,whether it is that an invigorating climate has given our ,anglo-,saxon blood a piquant ,gallic flavor or because ,europe sent us for ancestors only those light-hearted and adventurous souls with a spirit akin to that we admire in the ,french people1 true it is that ,americans have always had an especial liking for ,france and the ,french4 ,they were our first allies as they are the latest4 ,from ,lafayette and ,rochambeau to ,joffre and ,viviani1 a host of ,frenchmen have won the affectionate regard of ,americans and are numbered with our national heroes4 ,but our relation to the ,french has a deeper foundation than admiration for a courageous and accomplished race which for centuries has made generous contribution to the sum of the world's knowledge and achievement4 ,the ,french were early settlers on this continent2 ,la,salle and ,champlain were the forerunners of a host of ,french explorers and settlers whose descendants are today taking active and honorable part in the life of community and nation4 ,before the war one of the foremost ,french statesmen said to me1 with a certain note of sadness1 that in the course of two thousand years of advancing civilization his countrymen had lost something of their initiative3 that he believed it would not now1 for instance1 be possible to build up in ,france vast industrial organizations like those which are so effectual in establishing the commercial prestige of the ,united ,states4 ,if that were true before the war1 it can scarcely be credited now4 ,france has never failed to provide effective military organization for the protection of western civilization against the repeated attacks of her enemies from the east4 ,she defeated the forces of ,mohammedanism and saved ,christianity4 ,time and again through the ,middle ,ages she beat back the invading ,huns and kept them from overrunning ,europe4 ,the victory at the ,marne which definitely stopped their latest irruption is only the latest and greatest of many such victories by which ,france has laid mankind under lasting obligation4 ,and the industrial organization which supplies the armies of ,france with the products of farm and factory1 and even produces a surplus for her allies1 including the ,united ,states1 is additional proof that the genius of the ,french race is neither decadent nor limited1 but as broad as all human activity and as ardent today as when ,joan of ,arc inspired kings and peasants alike with her mystic fervor4 ,with their ,french allies ,americans can work in most cordial understanding and sympathy4 ,that subtle spirit of unselfish dedication to country which has won for the ,french the admiration of the world consecrates the alliance of the peoples who are giving their sons in common sacrifice to save liberty to the world4 ,out of the heat and turmoil of war bonds are being forged between the ,allied nations which time and circumstance can never sever4 ,on that alliance the hope of civilization depends2 from it may come1 in ,god's good time1 some great forward step in the march of progress which began at a manger in ,bethlehem4 ,,myron ,t4 ,,herrick4 ,cleveland1 ,ohio1 ,march1 #aiah4 ,illustration ,the ,hun3 8,keep ,neutral0 ,every great event is an occasion for the moral education of the world4 ,froude1 in his essay 8,on the ,science of ,history10 says that the value of history is that it sounds across the centuries the eternal note of right and wrong4 ,along with the unbelievable calamities that have come in the train of the war that in ,august1 #aiad1 was shamelessly1 dishonorably and with malice aforethought precipitated by the ,kaiser and his fellow highwaymen1 there stands out one colossal good3 it has made the world increasingly ethical4 ,the flaunting by the ,german military party of all that we associate with fair play1 chivalry1 democracy1 humanity1 even ,christianity itself1 has aroused the ,allied peoples to the fact that the foundation principles of happiness are at stake4 ',tis for the holiness of life ,the ,spirit calls us to the ,cross4 ,the brutality of the ,teutons--,austrians and ,germans alike--their willingness1 in order to win1 to throw away everything we think admirable in conduct1 created a reaction in ,america by arousing us from our laissez-faire attitude to the conviction that there can be no neutrality between right and wrong4 ,the opportunity should not be lost to enforce this lesson upon the young1 who should be taught to hate the devilish spirit by which the ,teutons are obsessed4 ,in due time1 when their defeat is accomplished1 a reaction will set in among themselves4 ,the cost is appalling1 but ,i believe that nations1 like men1 can 8rise on stepping-stones ,of their dead selves to higher things40 ,meantime1 with what pride we realize that--as eventually even ,german historians will admit--our own part in the war is on a higher plane of disinterestedness than we have ever reached before1 a level of altruism that has rarely1 if ever1 been attained by any other nation6 ,,robert ,,underwood ,,johnson4 ,february #bb1 #aiah4 ,illustration ,peace ,plots ,revealed in ,america and ,france ,mr4 ,rathom1 ,editor of the 8,providence ,journal10 whose exposure of von ,bernstorff's plots seemed to show a gift of necromancy1 states that his information came to him through men and women 7often ,bohemians and ,slavs7 8who not only took grave risks in the work--for they were braving ,german vengeance--but gave up their time and in many cases their own funds1 without a dollar of compensation from the #8,journal' or anyone else1 in order to give us the facts which would prove to the ,american people the manner in which they were being tricked and fooled40 ,if this cartoon of ,mr4 ,raemaekers shall serve to make the native ,american take seriously a situation which is serious in the extreme1 it will not have been made in vain4 ,whenever an ,american hears or overhears any one in any station of life uttering treasonous language1 he should report the matter and give the name of the culprit immediately to the ,secret ,service1--not content himself with repeating the words at the club as a good story4 ,,john ,,jay ,,chapman4 ,illustration ,belgium1 #aiah ,you1 who on the tree of shame show forth again the ,sacrifice of ,calvary3 you for whom scourge and thongs and the mockery of dull beasts are the circumstance of martyrdom3 you who freely offered yourself that man might be saved1 8yet so as by fire03--,belgium6 in the depth of your agony and the long torment of a red martyrdom1 remember that the ,cross of your own ,passion endures only until the ,resurrection that comes after the third day4 ,god1 in mercy ,incarnate1 as ,man suffered the shameful death of the ,cross that the world might be saved from the penalty of its sins4 ,the ,tree of ,scorn is raised up on ,calvary1 becoming the instrument of shame and of death1 yet 8the leaves of that ,tree shall be for the healing of the ,nations40 ,nails and spear1 scourge and thongs1 crumble and fall away2 the obscene mockers 8that watched ,him there10 and watch you1 ,o ,belgium1 go hence to that place prepared for them by ,eternal ,justice1 but with the sun of ,easter morning1 behold a great wonder6 ,the ,cross1 that was a dead engine of death1 is transformed by ,divine miracle4 ,it lives1 it throws out branches and leaves2 it is now the ,tree of ,mercy1 8and the leaves of that ,tree shall be for the healing of the ,nations40 ,,ralph ,,adams ,,cram4 ,illustration 8,we will not ,wear ,convicts' ,stripes1 ,wear ,them ,yourselves0 ,mr4 ,raemaekers refers in this cartoon to the insulting proposal of the ,german ,government1 just before the entrance of the ,united ,states into the war1 that ,american ships at the rate of one a week would be permitted to pass the submarine 8blockade0 if they were painted in stripes in a specified manner4 ,when ,attila laid ,rheims in ashes1 cut the throats of his hostages1 tortured his prisoners1 and thus earned fame as the ,scourge of ,god1 he found priests and professors to justify his acts and to predict the speedy ,hunnification of the world4 ,attila is to-day popular in ,prussia--mothers have their babes called ,etzel and when ,william ,,ii sends forth his armies he bids them be worthy of their illustrious namesake4 ,attila was the first of the great ,junkers4 ,his army was largely ,german and he held court in the centre of ,thuringia4 ,he is the hero of ,germanic song and legend2 and his spirit animates the ,hymn of ,hate1 the murder of ,edith ,cavell1 the sinking of the ,lusitania and above all the hired criminals who have been operating in ,america in the disguise of patriotic citizens4 ,,poultney ,,bigelow4 ,malden-on-,hudson4 ,washington's ,birthday1 #aiah4 ,illustration ,the ,final ,argument ,in the now happily distant days of ,august1 #aiad1 the people of the ,united ,states found themselves facing an opaque wall of neutrality4 ,but we are an emotional people2 and the rape of ,belgium had hit us emotionally4 ,though we were asked not to applaud the pictures of ,allied soldiers that flashed across the screen in every motion-picture theatre of the country1 we did clap our hands2 and1 what is more1 we valiantly hissed the ,kaiser when he strutted before our view4 ,let the ,american people ever rejoice that in those first tragic days they had eyes of the heart4 ,oh1 those months of shame for us who felt that the cause of ,england and ,france and ,belgium was the cause of the ,united ,states of ,america6 ,they have passed now1 thank ,god2 and the man of vision who first brought home to us what ,belgium's sorrow meant1 was ,louis ,raemaekers4 ,each line he drew was a full platoon of soldiers advancing toward ,berlin4 ,his vivid1 ironic pencil was a gun thrust at ,prussian autocracy4 ,his art opened the door in that opaque wall ,i have spoken of2 and it was a garden that we looked upon--though a garden filled only with red flowers3 the poppies of everlasting sleep2 crimson blooms that spoke of the blood so nobly shed in the name of national honor2 fiery blossoms that burst upon our gaze through the smoke of ,german guns2 dark passion-flowers that breathed pain1 but never despair4 ,the sad garden of ,belgium--this it was that one man of genius revealed to us1 in all its pity and sorrow4 ,and ,america looked1 and wept1 and sent messengers into that place of desolation4 ,for never for an instant had we been neutral1 never had we really dreamed of standing by and letting this agony go on4 ,had we done so1 the years to be would have held only grief for us4 ,we could not have lifted up our heads in the world of nations if we had not seized our splendid opportunity4 ,who has ever doubted the integrity of the ,american people8 ,as one man we rose when war was at last declared1 and as one man we will fight1 in the name of ,democracy1 in the name of ,humanity1 until the ,prussian yoke is lifted from the ,belgium we love and reverence4 ,a task lies before us of unbelievable magnitude4 ,but we shall not falter1 we shall not fail2 for if we fail1 life itself must crumble in ashes on the hearthstone of the world4 ,with a triumphant ,kaiser1 existence would be unbearable4 ,the pacifists lay all the emphasis on mere living4 ,they forget that most of us do not wish to live on a ,prussian-ruled earth4 ,surely it is not much to die for a principle that is higher than the stars4 ,louis ,raemaekers1 you have opened a door on life4 ,you have brought news to thousands who had not heard and seen4 ,and great is your reward4 ,,charles ,,hanson ,,towne4 ,illustration ,the ,end of the ,hindenburg ,line ,the ,hindenburg line is a menace to every courthouse in ,america4 ,in my recent journeys through the ,west ,i have never seen a courthouse tower printed against the sky without relating it to the great world conflict4 ,we are fighting for all that is embodied and expressed and safeguarded in these citadels of democracy4 ,a little while ago ,i looked with reverence at a log hut preserved at ,decatur1 ,illinois1 the first courthouse of the county4 ,in that little room ,abraham ,lincoln appeared as attorney for pioneer citizens who understood perfectly the promise of ,american democracy4 ,the laws invoked to preserve their rights were a crystallization of the thought and the hope of liberty-loving peoples1 and no settler in wilderness or prairie1 no matter how humble1 but felt himself a partner in the benefits of ,american institutions and the great tradition of ,english law4 ,every ,american courthouse is founded upon ,magna ,charta4 ,if we are indebted for anything in our democracy to the ,teutonic-,turkish combination ,i am unaware of it4 ,dull of wit indeed1 the ,hohenzollern ,,beast1 to think his mailed fist could ever splinter the door of one of these ,american courthouses6 ,the price our forefathers paid for their liberty was too great for any yielding to a devil gone mad and attempting to bestride the world4 ,during the ,civil ,war ,lincoln once remarked to ,seward1 speaking of ,weems' 8,life of ,washington0 which he had read before the fireplace in his father's cabin in ,spencer ,county1 ,indiana1 8,it occurred to me that it must have been something pretty fine those men were fighting for40 ,it was2 and it is for that same fine thing that ,america has again drawn the sword4 ,,meredith ,,nicholson4 ,illustration 8,something's ,wrong4 ,she ,doesn't ,seem to ,inspire ,confidence0 ,it is ,germany's 8,kultur10 her spiritual code1 that is responsible for ,america's entrance into the war2 her gruesome sacrifice to ,moloch of all which distinguishes humanity from the brute and the savage4 ,it is her philosophy which has made us her horrified but resolute foe4 ,the fruits of her spirit stand forth alike in her speech and acts4 8,kultur is a spiritual organization of the world1 which does not exclude bloody savagery4 ,it raises the daemoniac to sublimity4 ,it is above morality1 reason1 science10 so wrote a ,teutonic expounder in the first year of the war4 8,we have become a nation of wrath2 we think only of the war4 ,we execute ,god ,almighty's will1 and the edicts of ,his justice we will fulfil1 imbued with holy rage1 in vengeance upon the ungodly4 ,god calls us to murderous battles1 even if worlds should thereby fall to ruins10 so wrote one of ,germany's poets4 8,whoever cannot prevail upon himself to approve from the bottom of his heart the sinking of the ,lusitania1 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 ,german10 so wrote one of her pastors4 ,and for hideous1 ruthless deeds which violate every sanctity and deify falsehood we need but cite her slaughter of children and the aged1 her poisoning of wells1 her shooting of nurses1 her sinking of hospital ships1 her brutal deportations and all the revolting sinuosities of her spy system4 ,it is this catalogue of crimes committed in the name of moral superiority that has incensed the ,american people4 ,it is to combat 8,kultur0 which ,germany extols as the quintessence of civilization1 this gospel which constitutes military might the only inviolable law1 that we have pledged our precious sons1 our abundant resources1 our supreme1 indefatigable energies4 ,if ,prussian arrogance be not rebuked1 ,christian civilization fails4 ,hence the growing and embattled sentiment that a world in ruins yet free for man would be preferable to the sway of ,satanic ,teuton efficiency4 ,,robert ,,grant4 ,illustration ,angels of the ,war ,zone ,i have sometimes wondered if it is really possible to hate a country for which one has such unbounded contempt and disgust as one has for ,germany4 ,it is quite possible to fear without hate2 one would not hate a rattlesnake or a shark1 even at close quarters4 ,on the other hand it is conceivable that you might hate a fearsome but still noble beast like the lion1 if you were camping on the desert and he sat persistently in front of your tent1 alternately licking his chops and shaking your soul with his loud anticipatory roars4 ,usually we do fear what we hate4 ,but the ,germans have overshot the mark4 ,they have been so dully and unchangeably brutal1 that many of us have come to feel for them the same mental condition of loathing we should feel for an obscene1 flat-headed giant running amok1 while doing our best to hit him in a vulnerable spot4 ,even if they reached these shores and went automatically about disciplining the natives ,i feel sure we should continue to despise them and to find them ridiculous4 ,it is possible that if they had won the war in three months we should feel differently4 ,then we might have hated them for devastating ,france1 but she it would have been who received our contempt4 ,her course in history would have been run2 she would have been as degenerate as the ,germans so fondly hoped4 ,we might have hated ,germany for subjugating so vast and potential a country as ,russia1 but we should have respected her might1 the magnificence of her great army4 ,we should have hated her roundly1 and the hate would have done us all good1 for it would have been a great emotion provoked by a great cause4 ,but ,germany as a fighting machine is a failure4 ,she has been defeated where she has been compelled to depend upon force of arms alone4 ,her only striking successes have been won by hitting below the belt1 cowardly underhand methods1 sneaking propaganda1 millions expended upon buying human tools1 and furnishing them with other millions necessary to work wholesale destruction1 and sacrifice the helpless proletariat4 ,in the ,death ,house at ,sing ,sing the robust murderers have no sympathy for the poisoner1 refuse to admit him to that last tragic companionship4 ,so it is with ,germany4 ,she is the poisoner1 the ,medici1 among nations4 ,from strangling her enemy with gas to bombing unfortified towns1 torpedoing passenger ships and firing on the life boats1 or sinking hospital ships1 often carrying her own wounded to ease and plenty1 she has merely shown herself the super-snake1 supercharged with venom1 not the lion1 who proudly stands in the open spaces and challenges his enemy to battle4 ,the bewildered expression on the faces of these ,german clods in the act of being rescued by ,british women nurses1 while a home torpedo burrows in the vitals of the ship1 is a fair portent of the minds of the ,german people after the war when they learn that they have been fooled1 and martyred1 and crushed1 not by the enemy but by their own unregenerate rulers in ,berlin4 ,if they annihilate that caste and set up a ,republic they may win back the respect of the world4 ,otherwise not4 ,we sometimes forgive those we hate1 but only a miracle forces a man to respect where he has both instinctively and thinkingly despised4 ,,gertrude ,,atherton4 ,illustration ,as ,thou ,sowest1 so ,shalt ,thou ,reap ,creeping behind a mask--stooping1 cringing and cowardly--the planter of sedition sows his seed in the dark4 ,the masks behind which he hides are numerous and of great variety4 ,no sooner is his identity disclosed than he assumes another disguise4 ,behind 8,freedom of ,speech10 8,liberty of the ,press10 8,conscientious ,objector10 and 8,pacifism0 he hides4 ,he makes his masks similitudes of virtue4 ,whispered rumors1 distortion of truth1 appeals to fear1 and appeals to prejudice are mixed with even the grosser seeds he sows4 ,when other disguises are torn away he may fashion a mask of spurious patriotism4 ,most dangerous of all traitors is he who keeps just within the law of trespass while scattering afar his seed of sedition throughout the ,land of ,liberty4 ,a4 ,s4 ,,burleson1 ,postmaster-,general of the ,united ,states4 ,illustration 8,don't ,stop1 ,old ,chap1 ,keep ,it ,up60 8,cheer up1 ,willie1 the worst is yet to come4 ,don't view me with alarm and suspicion4 ,don't avert your eyes from my smile4 ,it may be sardonic1 but ,i cannot control my facial expression4 ,i must look as ,i think4 ,i am not like you1 ,wilhelm1 looking ,god and thinking devil4 ,oh1 but you are a cute one1 friend of mine6 ,i love you for a thousand things you have done1 but don't fool yourself1 friend of my heart1--,i beg pardon1 ,i forgot1 ,i have no heart4 ,in that and some other aspects1 ,willie1 we are as alike as two peas in a pod4 ,willie1 we are so close in our method of working that ,i am going to give you permission to call me #8,du' hereafter4 8,how in the world could or can you1 for all these years1 make the ,german people believe that the firm name of their ,empire is #8,me and ,god4' ,you and ,i know that ,god withdrew ,his ,name1 ,his ,goodness1 ,his ,honor and ,his ,capital from the firm when you signed up as ,emperor4 ,god is a one-price ,god4 ,god never adulterates ,his goods2 ,god never advertises one quality and sells another4 ,since you have been ,kaiser1 ,wilhelm1 a multitude of firm names could be exhibited on the sign board2 none of them1 ,i imagine would rate high with ,bradstreet1 but they would be truthful4 #8,me and ,ambition1' #8,me and ,power1' #8,me and ,ruin' are a few ,i would suggest4 ,of course1 your people would have shunned you just as a mother shuns a house with a ,board of ,health sign on it1 had you given the real name of the firm4 ,you are the most worried looking potentate ,i have ever met1 ,wilhelm4 ,yes1 ,wilhelm1 there will be ,hell to pay when your people awake to the fact that you have no partnership with ,god1 but are simply a vassal of mine4 ,i'd be scared out of my wits if ,i were in your place4 ,while you are thinking of the horrible mess you have made of your manifold opportunities be good enough to note a deadly parallel4 ,once ,i was a prince1 a prince in a vast and beautiful ,empire where all was tranquillity1 peace1 holiness and bliss4 ,i was called ,lucifer1 ,son of the ,morning--,i had an all-absorbing ambition to rule or ruin4 ,i revolted and seduced some restless spirits to ally themselves with me1 fellows like your von ,tirpitz4 ,i rebelled against the ,king and ,kingdom of ,heaven4 ,the ,king of ,heaven still reigns and the ,kingdom of ,heaven still retains all its tranquillity and beauty4 ,after the row was over ,i found myself in ,chaos4 ,from there ,i was rushed to ,pandemonium1 and it is needless to tell you that ,i am now in ,hell--and it lives up to its name4 ,note the deadly parallel1 ,wilhelm1 and while you are getting it into your noddle1 ,i will whistle the music of our national ,hymn of ,hate so you can memorize it4 ,try it on your piano4 ,the words are-- 8#8,strafe ,hope4 ,strafe ,manhood4 ,strafe ,womanhood4 ,strafe ,everything ,but ,,me4'0 ,,john ,,philip ,,sousa4 ,illustration 8,so ,we ,are ,only a ,dollar-making ,people1 are ,we80 ,it has for many years been a favorite gibe of thousands of foreigners1 living for the most part upon inherited wealth1 and taking the customary snobbish attitude of the consumer toward the producer1 that ,americans are 8only a dollar-making people10 as ,mr4 ,raemaekers has it in his forceful cartoon4 ,barring the word 8only0 perhaps the indictment is true--,i hope it is4 ,one of the fondest of my many fond wishes for my fellow-,americans is that they may all become successful dollar-makers1 since he who makes his own dollars is able always to maintain his independence1 to look his creditors large and small squarely in the eye1 and live by grace of his own powers1 and not by favor of potentate or patron4 ,there is nothing disgraceful about a dollar1 and it may be said on its behalf that it differs from the ,sovereign ,incarnate of the ,germans in that it is redeemable always at par1 being worth the full one-hundred cents that it calls for2 in that it rings true2 in that whether it be of gold1 of silver1 or of paper1 that which it promises it fulfills1 and has never yet been known to dishonor itself4 ,it may occasionally be seen in bad company1 but it never falls below the level of its evil associations1 and is genuine to the core4 ,loose thinkers sometimes speak of the 8tainted dollar10 but there is no such thing4 ,if any taint lingers near it is not in the dollar itself1 but in the holder4 ,so excellent1 indeed1 and so immune to the effects of evil association is the character of the dollar1 intrinsically1 that any one of ,uncle ,sam's many billions could pass from the pocket of a ,burglar into that of a ,bishop1 and be worthy of its latter estate4 ,i have yet to meet an ,american who confounds this true and honest servant of his well-being with his ,god1 but1 alas1 ,i have met countless ,germans who call it our ,american ,king1 and themselves bow ignobly down to a ,lord and ,master whose assumption of a divine relationship has made of his life a prolonged blasphemy2 a ,king whose deeds of savagery are a complete negation of his hypocritical pretensions to the possession of lofty ideals2 whose ring is the ring of a brazen counterfeit1 and whose word has been so dishonored by himself that it has become the synonym for worthlessness throughout the world4 ,if ,kings or ,masters of any sort must be endured who would not rather abase himself before the ,american ,dollar1 true and honest to the core1 than debase himself by bending the knee to a ,kaiser who by his infamies has made an ,attila appear to be an ,angel of ,peace1 a ,bill ,sykes a ,gentleman1 and the word of an ,ananias a ,bond of ,faith8 ,,john ,,kendrick ,,bangs4 ,illustration 8,no1 ,thanks1 ,i ,know ,these ,princes of ,yours ,too ,well40 ,on ,november #e1 #aiaf1 ,poland was 8restored0 by ,germany and ,austria-,hungary to her old place as an independent member of the family of nations4 ,high hopes were aroused in the hearts of the ,poles4 ,they had suffered for over a hundred years1 and in this war of liberation1 which was to form the ,society of ,nations1 the ,austro-,german proclamation was the first recognition of their aspirations4 ,the ,entente ,powers had committed the serious blunder of refusing to encourage the ,poles for fear of offending ,czarist ,russia4 ,but very soon the ,poles realized that the ,central ,empires were playing them false4 ,the 8independence0 was for to-morrow and not for to-day1 and even for to-morrow it was contingent upon 8being good40 ,at the beginning of #aiag1 which was the year of national rebirth1 hatred of ,russia and resentment against the policy of expediency of ,france and ,great ,britain1 as well as the necessity to accept the de facto ,austro-,german occupation1 influenced most of the ,poles to trust--in defiance of history and experience1--the good faith of ,germany and ,austria-,hungary4 ,at the beginning of #aiah1 they had learned the lesson ,raemaekers' pencil eloquently depicts--not to put their trust in ,german princes4 ,at ,brest-,litovsk1 8independent0 ,poland was refused a place in the peace negotiations4 ,answering ,president ,wilson and ,premier ,lloyd ,george1 ,chancellor von ,hertling impudently asserted that the future status of ,poland concerned only her conquerors4 ,the cartoon1 drawn to illustrate the scepticism of the ,poles1 should drive home a truth to the ,americans4 ,we must realize that camouflage is not confined to military operations4 ,its use to deceive armies is not so dangerous as its use to deceive the nations behind armies4 ,from bitter experience the ,poles are learning that behind the prince put forward as ruler is hidden ,german militarism and ,german imperialism4 ,this form of political camouflage is as dangerous for the ,united ,states as for ,poland4 ,peace proposals may come to us--they will come to us--in plausible and appealing form4 ,they will have the appearance of fairness and justice4 ,what is behind them8 ,what inspires them8 ,our mission in this war is sanctified by its goal4 ,to attain that goal we have consented to make sacrifices unprecedented in the history of our nation4 ,from a purely military standpoint1 no camouflage can possibly obscure the path to the goal1 and the method of reaching the goal4 ,the ,german armies1 as yet unconquered1 stand in front of us1 defending the loot of ,german imperialism1 won by ,german militarism4 ,we must dispossess these armies of their loot1 and punish them for having looted4 ,but--alas6--diplomacy is at work in #aiah to attempt to save by wile what cannot indefinitely continue to be held by force4 ,every means of diplomatic camouflage will be used by our enemies4 ,our inspiration1 our determination to pursue the struggle to the bitter end1 will be kept alive only if we see1 through various forms of camouflage1 the spiked helmet hidden behind them4 ,to make peace with ,germany wearing the spiked helmet would mean to consecrate the success of her imperialistic policy4 ,,herbert ,,adams ,,gibbons4 ,illustration ,speeding ,up ,uncle ,sam3 8,i think ,i had better speed up and build a ship or two60 ,april #h4 ,keel laid4 #dth day4 ,double bottom completed4 #fth 0 ,frames and bulkheads erected and portion of shell plating finished4 #gth 0 ,stern-frame in place4 #adth 0 ,boilers put on board4 #bast 0 ,stern-post bored and stern-tube put in place4 #bb;d 0 ,masts stepped and engine installation begun4 #bdth 0 ,funnel put in place4 #bfth 0 ,machinery all in and engines completely installed4 ,finishing touches4 ,may #e 7#bgth day74 ,launched4 ,the building of the 8,tuckahoe10 ,april-,may1 #aiah1 at ,camden4 ,illustration ,toward the ,valley of ,decision ,they shall go down to the ,valley of ,decision1 multitudes of young ,americans from ,east and ,west1 from ,north and ,south1 some slow to have gone into the war but none ever to go out until a ,decision shall have been reached4 ,into the ,valley of ,decision1--for a ,decision final and irrepealable we are battling4 ,not a ,decision as to the victor in the war1 but a ,decision that shall give us victory over war1 its defenders and glorifiers6 ,for the ,german ,empire which wars made this war shall unmake4 ,we go down to the ,valley of ,death for a ,decision whether the world shall be ruled by ,germany or by civilization1 be subject to ,prussianism or master of its own fate and freedom4 ,and ,america knows the cost1 which it refuses to count1--knows its sons must be slain if liberty and justice are to live4 ,to the ,god of ,justice1 ,america lifts its heart in prayer1 beseeching not security for its beloved sons but vowing that the sun shall perish out of the heavens ere we and our ,allies surrender our liberty1 the freedom of the least of men1 to the barbarism of force and the forces of barbarism4 ,out of the ,valley of the ,shadow of ,death shall emerge the ,decision1--,never again4 ,the war against war has brought freedom to nations1 and secured peace to them that seek public right as the law of mankind4 ,,stephen ,s4 ,,wise1 ,,ph4,d41 ,,ll4,d41 ,rabbi of the ,free ,synagogue1 ,new ,york4 ,illustration ,wake ,up1 ,america6 ,this was done to ,canadians by the ,huns ,america wakes6 ,the ,white ,christ has called her2 ,she has seen the devils abroad in ,his world2 ,evil vaunting himself has appalled her2 ,to the ,war-wind of ,heaven her flag is unfurled6 ,america wakes--with his murder and lust ,let the ,hun take the path he has carved into hell4 ,no longer blaspheming the ,cross with his trust4 ,america wakes1 the sick world shall be well4 ,america wakes--,god's last peace-lover1 ,god's fighter to death1 when her peace is assailed4 ,shout1 sing1 fling out the flags1 ,war is over2 ,when ,america battles1 right has prevailed6 ,,mary ,e4 ,,wilkins ,,freeman4 ,illustration ,there are ,plenty of ,lamp-posts6 ,there are creatures that to be hated need but to be seen4 ,the sight of the serpent awakens all the dead1 old body-memories of ancient ages1 when that reptile was man's ever-present1 mortal enemy4 ,the domestic horse1 made unafraid by a thousand generations1 when he smells his ancient enemy1 the bear1 will rear and plunge to break and run for his life4 ,the face features a man's character1 his eyes window his soul4 ,there are faces that instantly beckon all our better nature and bind us in loving thrall4 ,there are other faces that repel us as the snake repels4 ,there are human tongues voiced with the serpent's hiss4 ,there are persons about whom hangs an odor of the reptile that wakens all the dead old memories of primal hate4 ,the poet is born the poet4 ,genius is an inheritance4 ,human character is a summation of ancestral traits4 ,so the traitor-spy is an atavic embodiment of all that is reptilian in a line of ancestry back to the serpent of ,eden4 ,though after-acquaintance may camouflage him to our eyes1 still the first sight1 the first impression of the traitor-character has in it the temper of aversion4 ,one who has in him the heart and taste for atrocious conduct1 one who has in him the grass-lurking viper's soul1 wears a warning in his face for the safety of others4 ,the true caricaturist--and ,raemaekers is one--sees and accentuates what ,god has placed in the face of the scoundrel1 the traitor1 the spy1 for our protection4 ,great occasions are great opportunities for great genius4 ,war exacts the supreme from all men and all women4 ,only the superlative poet can give the inevitable expression to master deeds on the stage of war1 and only the supreme artist can picture them with the due and true inevitable expression1 which is more aptly and more truly given in caricature than in any other form1 because in caricature that and only that which is supremely characteristic is portrayed4 ,of all the artists of this world war1 none has1 better than ,raemaekers1 given in clean and lucid unit view1 the true character of what he has pictured4 ,,hudson ,,maxim4 ,illustration 8,we ,don't ,seem to ,inspire ,enough ,confidence0 ,the one memorable contribution to art produced by the great war is to be found in the cartoons of ,louis ,raemaekers4 ,it is not necessary here to analyze the qualities of his fine and powerful drawings as art4 ,they must be apparent to everyone who looks at them with considerate eyes4 ,but ,raemaekers' cartoons also have a high literary and historic quality4 ,i do not mean by this that they tell or suggest stories1 which are used generally as an attraction for very commonplace pictures1 but that they have that quality of enduring literature which awakens the deepest feelings and points to the loftiest ideals which are as enduring as the history of the race in its striving to reach the heights of achievement4 ,hogarth was one of the few men in the history of art who possessed these qualities1 but great as ,hogarth was1 ,raemaekers has always been upon a higher level4 ,raemaekers has the poetic imagination and we can feel in his work the 8prophetic soul ,of the wide world dreaming on things to come40 ,in his cartoons we find the appeal to all that is best in human nature1 to the finest impulses of man1 to his deepest passions and his noblest emotions4 ,all ,raemaekers' work is marvellously effective1 but ,i take one single example1 not perhaps the most important--his treatment of the rulers of ,germany and ,austria--in order to show his genius4 ,by the power of his cartoons ,raemaekers has fixed in the public mind a truer and deeper conception of the two emperors and the ,german crown prince than endless pages of print could possibly produce4 ,the brutality1 the over-weening arrogance1 the hideous religious cant of the ,emperor of ,germany1 with the touch of lunacy upon him1 will live forever in ,raemaekers' portraits4 ,the feeble senility of the late ,emperor of ,austria--joined as he frequently is with the ,sultan and the ,king of ,bulgaria1 kindred spirits--a senility marked by the drivelling insensibility of extreme old age--those unlovely attributes are all there4 ,as for the ,crown ,prince1 he is known through these cartoons to millions who have never seen him and never will see him and will have only this image of him graven in their minds4 ,as depicted by ,raemaekers1 he has a figure and face of low dissipation in which degeneracy and ferocity contend for mastery4 ,and yet all these figures harmonize with the rest of the cartoons in teaching the one overpowering lesson as to the meaning of ,german victory4 ,the barbarism1 the belief in might as against right1 the faith in brute force1 the absence of human feeling1--these cry out to us through the pencil of the great artist that a world in which ,germany should be dominant would be a world of slaves in which no free man could wish to live4 ,,henry ,,cabot ,,lodge4 ,illustration ,german ,submarines ,fire on ,open ,boats ,lord ,god made the earth and its wonders1 ,the sea and the land4 ,the rain of delight and the thunders ,fall alike from ,his hand1 ,to gladden ,his children1--and warn them ,who will not understand4 ,and the ,lord ,god cried in ,his anger3 8,who has poisoned ,my sea8 ,who has made it a desert of danger ,for ,my ships sailing free8 ,i am ,god6 and ye who have done it ,shall account unto ,me4 8,i have planted the wasteland of water ,for ,my folk to find food2 ,and ye sow it with whirlwind and slaughter1 ,ye ,devil's dark brood4 ,so now shall ye reap in full measure ,the harvest of blood40 ,,alice ,,brown ,hill1 ,n4 ,h4 ,july #ah1 #aiah4 ,illustration ,not ,this ,time6 ,,raemaekers ,,the ,,prophet 8,for twenty years ,i have clearly foreseen ,germany's present attack on the world4 ,for twenty years ,i have been drawing and publishing the same type of cartoons which have attracted so much notice since the war4 ,seven years before the war ,i was already being called #8ein feind ,deutschland' by the ,german press4 ,i cannot possibly express to you the unhappiness which ,i felt at being absolutely certain of the impending doom1 and at the same time being incapable of making people foresee and believe it4 ,my friends used to call me #8the man who can see ghosts even in sunshine4' ,yet it was ,i1 not they1 who really knew the beasts as all the world knows them today2 ,i was born in the little town of ,lemberg near ,roermond1 at a distance of only a few miles from the ,german frontier1 and have known the beasts all my life1 not only in my own country1 but also in theirs1 which ,i have visited many times4 ,i might almost say that ,i have visited it every year of my life4 ,in ,holland we have a saying that #8even the best ,german has stolen a horse4' ,i do not believe that there is any ,german who is not a pan-,german4 ,all of them suffer from this national and nation-wide megalomania40 --,from a conversation with ,raemaekers reported in ,eric ,fisher ,wood's 8,note-,book of an ,intelligence ,officer40 ,illustration ,the ,president to the ,workers3 8,if you are with me1 ,i am with you40 8,if we are true friends of freedom--our own or anybody else's--we will see that the power of this country1 the productivity of this country1 is raised to its absolute maximum and that absolutely nobody is allowed to stand in the way of it4 ,when ,i say that nobody is allowed to stand in the way1 ,i don't mean that they shall be prevented by the power of the ,government1 but by the power of the ,american spirit4 ,if we are to do this great thing and show ,america to be what we believe her to be1 the greatest hope and energy of the world--then we must stand together night and day until the job is finished40 ,from ,president ,wilson's speech before the ,american ,federation of ,labor1 ,november #ab1 #aiag4 ,illustration 8,well ,done1 ,fellows6 ,keep the ,home ,fires ,burning60 ,this cartoon brings home to us the imperative necessity of putting our own house in order and keeping it in order4 ,if the world is to be made safe for democracy1 our own conspicuous example of democracy must be made safe for those who dwell under its protection4 ,if we cannot conquer and control the enemy within our gates1 we will be but impotent instruments of conquest over him abroad4 ,both at home and abroad we must rid ourselves of all hampering and distracting illusions and stare the facts in the face4 ,the facts are that we are at war1--the grim and grimy business of killing or being killed4 ,the issues involved in this war have been appealed to the sword1 and he who lives by the sword must die by the sword4 ,the time for doubt1 debate1 discussion or diplomacy is past4 ,the only thing left to do is to fight1--fight for all that is in us1--fight as long as we can and as hard as we can1 and until there is no fight left in our enemies4 ,then and not until then is it worth while to consider other aims1--so-called war aims4 ,the only real war aim now is victory4 ,we must not let anything distract us from that essential aim4 ,,lindley ,m4 ,,garrison4 ,illustration ,a ,bit of the ,hindenburg ,line ,,these ,,fellows ,,are ,,hot ,,on ,,the ,,trail4 ,,let ,,us ,,follow ,,suit4 ,,wherever ,,you ,,find ,a ,,hun ,,you ,,find ,,an ,,enemy4 ,,get ,,him6 ,,david ,,bispham4 ,illustration ,the ,rats in ,our ,home ,trenches ,really1 the great question of the war is3 ,what kind of people are the ,germans8 ,can they be reformed1 or are they incurable8 ,all ,germans are not alike4 ,there are those who distinguish between ,north and ,south ,germans1 and tell us that the ,saxons1 in particular1 have in them the making of excellent people4 ,doubtless all ,prussians are not alike2 doubtless all ,bavarians are not of the type of the 8,black ,bavarians0 whose exploits in the war have had unfavorable mention4 ,but what has come to be the image that 8,german0 calls up in the mind8 ,it is an image of ruthlessness1 of frightfulness1 of poison gas and traceless sinkings2 of murder1 pillage1 spies and lies2 of a black and formidable ambition for mastery on any terms and at any cost2 of treachery2 of a tireless industry that gets up early to fetch away by work or wile whatever in the world is worth taking from any one who has it6 ,the current image of the ,german is an image of an enemy--a savage enemy4 ,since #aiad ,german descent has been terribly prejudiced4 ,as to every man of ,german blood the observer asks himself3 ,what manner of man is this8 ,the ,hohenzollerns did not invent the ,germans4 ,they found1 acquired1 trained and used them4 ,for centuries--a thousand years at least--the ,germans have had a known and demonstrated rating for brutality and brutishness4 ,they have been cruel in war and destructive and greedy in pillage beyond most other nations that were their neighbors4 ,when one hears it said that the trouble with ,germany is ,germans1 there comes to mind abundant basis for that suggestion4 ,yet the ,germans are far too many and too useful to exterminate1 and even if that were possible1 no nation but ,germany could seriously entertain the idea of exterminating a whole people4 ,so what do we come to8 ,to this3 that ,germany's fate rests in the hands of the ,germans4 ,their qualities will determine their destiny4 ,along with their abilities go enormous disabilities4 ,they must do according to what is in them4 ,they must obey the demon that drives them until1 out of the extreme of suffering1 they gain the courage to expel it4 ,they must destroy1 and so invite destruction1 until their racial propensity has wrought its own correction4 ,they must keep on accumulating enemies1 exasperating neutrals1 alienating allies1 until blind and wicked policies have perfected their work4 ,what the ,german has most to fear is what is inside of him4 ,by current estimate the worst that can happen to ,germans has happened already1 in that they are ,germans4 ,the world is not going to adjust itself to their misfortune in this particular4 ,it is they who will have to adjust themselves to the world4 ,they will not be able to make the world an overgrown ,germany in which the other peoples will have to live under ,german direction4 ,no4 ,they will have to live in a world largely populated and managed1 as now1 by folks who are not ,germans and don't want to be1 and whose primary concern for as long as is necessary will be to keep ,germans in their place4 ,e4 ,s4 ,,martin4 ,illustration ,seeing ,stars ,canadian3 8,and you'll soon see the ,stars and ,stripes40 ,german3 8,saw some already1 sir40 ,this is the voice that he hears from ,germany3 8,we ,germans are ,god's chosen people1 ,his special favorites1 and ,god is ,german ,himself4 ,god rules over us in the person of our ,kaiser1 whom ,he has appointed for that purpose4 ,we are better than all other peoples of the earth2 we are wiser and purer and nobler and more industrious and more learned and stronger and cleverer and kinder and braver and more spiritual and more warlike than all others4 8,we are so much greater than they that whatever we do to advance our own interests1 at the cost of theirs1 is right and praiseworthy4 ,if we kill a great many of them1 those who survive will in the end be improved1 because they will work for us and learn something by observing us4 ,any deceit is proper and morally correct if it benefits us2 and when we practise a policy of terror upon those who oppose us it is really philanthropy and shows how gentle we are1 because the survivors learn through our cruelty that it is useless to oppose us1 therefore they the sooner submit their wills to ours4 ,we can not do wrong1 no matter what we do1 so long as all that we do is for our own benefit4 ,by our bright swords we will take possession of the earth which ought to belong to us1 because we are ,germans4 ,we believe in the heaviest possible breeding of babies1 that they may grow up and be trained to carry liquid fire and poison against any opposition to us4 ,all the same1 we are the only real peace-lovers in this malign and prejudiced world1 which1 except for us and the ,austrians and the ,bulgarians and the ,turks1 is composed exclusively of stupid ruffians who were so jealous and envious of us that they forced this war upon us1 hoping to make some money out of us by annihilating us4 ,we love peace1 and are fighting for our mere existence--that is1 the right to adjust our frontiers so that they will include the countries which we have conquered by the sword4 ,we must never ,,again be threatened by those rascals of ,belgians60 ,,booth ,,tarkington4 ,illustration ,the ,two ,giants ,germany3 8,i destroy60 ,america3 8,i create60 ,uncle ,sam has given the ,germans three surprises4 ,it was believed in ,germany3-- #ast--,that ,america would not break diplomatic relations2 #bnd--,that ,america would never fight2 #crd--,that ,america could not fight4 ,forced to it1 in self-defense1 we are now giving all our energies to war1 led by a ,president1 whose vision meets the extent of the calamity brought on the world by the selfish ambitions of material ,germany4 ,american built ships will end the menace of the slinking ,u-boat4 ,and after the war the flags of the ,american ,merchant ,marine once more will float on every sea4 ,,james ,w4 ,,gerard4 ,new ,york1 ,july #ab1 #aiah4 ,illustration 8,will ,they ,last1 ,father80 ,the four greatest events in history2 the advent of ,christ1 the discovery of ,america1 the ,reformation1 and the ,french ,revolution1 are all we can compare with the days in which we are living--and dying4 ,in a cyclone of desolations surpassing the terrors of the insane1 the world1 so far from recoiling1 rolls forward into vast and irrevocable changes that seemed but yesterday the remotest goals of laborious evolution2 rolling up the precipitous steep of custom in all the fury with which we should look to see it roll down4 ,and the unique wonder of this fifth and last of these supreme events is that only it has sprung primarily from an evil design and can attain its true end only by that design's everlasting overthrow4 ,so speaks the matchless hand of ,raemaekers4 ,the vastest murderer the race has ever borne and1 at his heels1 his most remorseless waster of blood together watch the glass of time1 abhorring every upward plunge of a maddened world and daily hounded by one implacable question1 one four-headed dog of hell3 ,will their treasury1 will their sinking of ships1 will their delusion of their own people1 last8 ,no4 ,one or another will presently fail1 and when one fails all fail and the world1 refined by fire1 will be1 shall be1 saved4 ,,george ,w4 ,,cable4 ,illustration 8,the ,ugly ,talons of the ,sinister ,power0 ,the attitude of scorn1 of contempt and of defiance with which ,raemaekers in his cartoon1 8,america's ,choice10 represents ,uncle ,sam as he confronts the treacherous ,kaiser1 bearing the olive branch in his talons1 well expresses the attitude of the ,united ,states towards ,germany at the time we entered the war1 and this attitude will probably continue for a generation or two after the war ends4 8,the ,intolerable ,thing10 which ,president ,wilson so aptly named the irresponsible ,german ,government1 can never disguise itself so that we will not detect the terrible menacing claws with which ,raemaekers portrays the ,kaiser4 ,it will continue to be an ,intolerable ,thing until the horrors of this war are forgotten4 ,the ,german philosophers brazenly justify their nation's course in this aggressive war with all its attendant horrors1 by an appeal to the ,darwinian doctrines of the struggle for existence1 and the consequent survival of the fittest1 which play such a prominent part in biological evolution4 ,germany must be taught the lesson that while man is the product of evolution like all other creatures1 yet in his case new factors come into play--he is a part of the animal kingdom1 but is a new kind of animal1 and new factors1 not operative in the orders below him1 have played leading rles in his development4 ,these factors are his reason1 which gives him a sense of the true and the false1 and his conscience1 which gives him a sense of right and wrong4 ,these faculties subordinate the rule of might to the rule of right1 and they have resulted in the establishment of conduct for individuals1 for communities1 and for organized governments that do not exist in the lower animal orders1 and only in a limited sense in the lower human orders4 ,amid a national rejoicing1 a waving of flags and ringing of bells1 such as are evoked by a great national festival1 the ,germans celebrated the ,lusitania murders--the entire nation suddenly slumping into a barbarism worse than that of their ancestral ,huns4 ,the ,hun was again triumphant1 gloating over his unspeakable crimes1 his plunders and piracies1 his orgies of crime and lust--a spectacle to make the ,genius of ,humanity veil her face and weep tears of blood4 ,it is a comfort to know that the ,allies have killed or rendered harmless several million of these modern barbarians1 and that many of their carcases have gone to enrich the soil of ,france and ,belgium4 ,in this way a dead ,hun may help to undo some of the evil which a living ,hun has wrought4 ,if two or three of their bodies could be planted in every shell hole which their guns have made in ,france and ,belgium1 though the inoffensive soil might sicken1 yet in the course of years the poison of the ,hun would disappear1 rendered innocuous by the beneficient alchemy of ,nature4 ,,john ,,burroughs4 ,tryon1 ,n4 ,c4 ,february #ab1 #aiah4 ,illustration ,restitution and ,reparation ,it is with good reason the ,prussian covers the thick bone of his head with a helmet1 for into it ideas of right and justice can only be battered with a club4 ,the tough1 club-resisting helmet is the arch-symbol of ,prussianism4 ,from its earliest days ,prussia has taught its neighbors the ,prussian theory of right and justice by means of a club4 ,when the ,prussian wishes to educate his neighbors to an appreciation of ,prussian ethics he puts on his helmet1 picks up a club and slugs the neighbor on the head4 ,the ,prussian theory of right and justice is this3 8,what is mine is mine4 ,what is yours is also mine if ,i want it40 ,this idea is deep buried beneath the thick bone of the ,prussian head4 ,he holds it with stolid stupidity and deep1 prehistoric crudity1 like a pig or an idiot4 ,he cannot understand that there are any rights higher than ,prussian greed4 8,if ,i want it1 it is mine because ,i want it40 ,it is the logic of the primitive human animal1 the cave-man4 ,cornered and accused of his thefts he clings to his loot like the pig that has stolen a carrot4 ,when asked to disgorge he is shocked by the suggestion4 8,but they are mine6 ,i wanted them1 so they are mine60 he says4 ,right and ,justice answer1 8,they are not yours2 you stole them40 8,maybe so60 says the ,prussian4 8,but just the same they are mine--,i stole them a long time ago40 ,the logic of the ,prussian fills ten thousand volumes4 ,it is written in hundred-line paragraphs and six-inch words4 ,it can be condensed into two short words--piggish greed3 piggish because it knows neither right or justice1 greed because it is greed4 ,,ellis ,,parker ,,butler4 ,illustration ,the ,only ,possible ,position for ,traitors ,while the submarine controversy was at its height1 a ,hun high in authority in his nefarious land said that it was impossible for the ,united ,states to enter the war1 because there were a half million ,german reservists in our country4 8,that is true10 replied the ,american to whom this contemptuous remark was addressed2 8but there are also a half million lamp-posts40 ,since the ,german reservists have failed to fulfil the expectations of the ,fatherland1 the lamp-posts of the ,united ,states are as yet unadorned with their lifeless bodies4 ,but history has shown that while ,americans are an easy-going race1 when once their anger is aroused there is no withholding it2 therefore let the traitors in our midst take warning from the cartoon upon the opposite page4 ,one may pardon a murderer who kills in a moment of passion1 one may even revere a military spy who penetrates an enemy's lines to gather information needful for victory2 but for the skulking traitor who whispers sedition within the land which harbors him and seeks to hamper the efforts of its government by a stealthy means1 no punishment seems too severe1 since of all crimes his is the most despicable4 ,it is not to the half million ,german reservists alone that ,mr4 ,raemaekers' warning is addressed2 for1 inconceivable though it be1 there are native-born traitors aplenty to shame the land which gave them birth4 ,for these1 the only position which will seem possible to ,uncle ,sam1 when once his anger1 ever slow to rise1 bursts forth in righteous indignation1 will be the one which ,mr4 ,raemaekers has depicted4 ,let these traitors remember that there is an abundance of lamp-posts in the land as well as a goodly supply of hempen rope4 ,h4 ,c4 ,,chatfield-,,taylor4 ,illustration 8,do ,you ,mean to ,make a ,real ,war80 8,germany has once more said that force1 and force alone1 shall decide whether justice and peace shall reign in the affairs of men1 whether right as ,america conceives it or dominion as she conceives it shall determine the destinies of mankind4 ,there is1 therefore1 but one response possible for us3 ,force1 force to the utmost1 force without stint or limit1 the righteous and triumphant force which shall make right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust40 --,from ,president ,wilson's ,message on the ,first ,anniversary of the ,declaration of ,war1 ,april #f1 #aiah4 ,illustration ,justice6 ,the woman figure called ,justice in ,raemaekers' cartoon has a ,greek name4 ,she is ,themis1 consort of ,zeus1 ,themis1 who sits by his side on the judgment seat4 ,the scales are the scales of gina1 in her day a great money centre1 whose talent was the standard of value then1 as the ,american dollar is to-day4 gina was the mother of acus1 one of the three great judges of the lower world1 and be it remembered1 it was acus that administered justice4 gina is called by one of the greatest ,greek poets the place where ,themis is worshipped more than anywhere else on earth1 and he tells us further that there was much weighing in gina1 the ,merchant ,state4 ,heavy weights there were in either scale4 ,much care was needful in the weighing1 no little balancing doubtless4 ,so there were many in our gina who felt the draw of kindred1 of friendship1 of fellowship4 ,but this is the ,day1 the ,day of ,decision1 the ,day of ,lord acus4 ,after the knife edge of the balance comes the knife edge of the guillotine4 ,,basil ,,lanneau ,,gildersleeve4 ,illustration ,another ,peace ,proposal ,the artist has depicted a spectacled ,old ,gentleman wearing a triple crown and a pontifical mantle1 who is offering a proposal of peace to a heroic young woman1 torn1 bleeding1 thorn-crowned1 but dauntless1 who spurns it with scorn4 ,the spectacled ,old ,gentleman is the ,pope2 the heroic young woman is1 ,i take it1 outraged ,justice4 ,since ,justice is our cause1 we must try to be just4 ,the ,pope is not lying on a bed of roses4 ,he is in a position of the utmost difficulty4 ,he has faithful adherents on both sides1 he dislikes war1 and finds his perplexities1 great enough in time of peace1 now magnified an hundred-fold4 ,he is not a hero2 he is old1 he is a lover of ease1 and would dearly like to wear a ,king's crown and hear multitudes in ,st4 ,peter's cry out 8,papa-,r1 ,papa-,r40 ,let us be just4 ,the first ,pope 7according to ,roman ,catholic reckoning71 received the grace of a great opportunity to be true to his ,master1 but he denied ,him thrice4 ,why should we be surprised to find ,benedict ,,xv denying his ,master8 ,fate has held out her hand to him1 as she held it out to ,st4 ,peter1 and offered him his opportunity to be greatly true4 ,in the old happy days when all the world cried 8hosanna0 to ,justice1 the ,pope also had professed himself a disciple of ,justice4 ,but now ,justice has been taken by bloody-minded men to be crucified1 and the ,pope has stayed afar off4 ,many witnesses have remarked1 8,this man also was a professed disciple of ,justice40 ,and now the ,pope denies it vehemently4 ,he has put forward a series of humiliating proposals that ,justice--heroic1 bleeding ,justice--should hold out her hand to the murderers of ,belgium and confer1 as if there had been equal error on both sides1 upon the crafty schemes of peace by which ,germany hopes to dominate the world4 ,poor ,old ,gentleman6 ,timidity1 love of ease1 fear of ,austria1 and fantastic ambition1 have induced him to deny his ,master4 ,the cock will crow1 and he will weep bitterly4 ,poor1 pitiable ,old ,gentleman4 ,,henry ,,dwight ,,sedgwick4 ,illustration ,the ,fine ,american ,spirit ,who are these1 watching from ancestral doors ,the instant passing of our youth to ,france8 ,henceforth1 a chapter of the world's romance ,their eyes have seen2 it fills their native shores ,with an undying moment2 now it pours ,on silent breasts1 o'erawed1 the voice1 the glance1 ,the last1 fond gleam of each loved countenance1 ,and the heart trembles1 while the spirit soars4 ,the generations draw immortal breath ,that breathe a nation's soul4 ,from sire to son ,the glory of the fathers entereth ,the children's hearts1 and maketh all as one3 ,bright1 at time's touch1 breaks out the holy flame1 ,and to all lands doth freedom's blood proclaim4 ,g4 ,e4 ,,woodberry4 ,illustration ,poisoning the ,well of ,public ,opinion ,aliens in this country must assist in maintaining the liberty they enjoy1 or we shall know the reason why4 8,ninety-five per cent4 of the people of the ,united ,states would die as willingly for their beliefs as the men of #aggf4 ,it is for the other #e per cent4 to show not the slightest manifestation of disloyalty4 8,our message to them will be delivered through the criminal courts all over the land4 ,and may ,god have mercy on them1 for they need expect none from an outraged people and an avenging government40 --,speech of ,attorney-,general ,gregory in ,new ,york1 ,november1 #aiag4 ,illustration ,the ,enemy ,within ,not even the prodigious ,cruelty of the ,germans in this ,atrocious ,war has shocked the moral sense of mankind as much as has their ,deceit4 ,we are horror-stricken by the reports of their premeditated cruelties which link the ,germans with the beasts--the wolf1 and tiger1 and boa constrictor1 and vulture4 ,the beast does these things because he has never risen to a higher plane than that of the beast4 ,but ,deceit is the attribute of ,man2 of one who dwells above the standards of the brute creation1 who has had the moral sense developed in him1 who has known the compulsions of conscience1 who has acknowledged the obligations of duty1 and has recognized himself as being a striver after the ,ultimate ,good4 ,through some flaw in the ,german's nature all these qualities in him changed1 turned bad1 and he hailed ,evil as his guide and inspiration4 ,whatever of good there was in him he uses to promote his wicked designs4 ,had he not been human he could never have understood how to make his perverted nature work successfully to deceive his fellow-men4 ,the snake and panther do not deceive us1 we know their ways and guard against them4 ,but the moral pervert can deceive1 because he hides his purpose and his method behind the mask of a counterfeited virtue4 ,lying is the commonest form of ,deceit4 ,the ,german ,emperor practised it for twenty-five years1 when he proclaimed to the world his ardent desire for peace2 and it was natural for him to lie when1 on making war1 he declared that the sword was forced into his hands4 ,then the ,german nation1 fed so long on falsehood1 accepted this4 ,another common form of ,german ,deceit has been to accuse their enemies of the very enormities which they themselves invented and carried out4 ,diplomatic chicane is a commonplace tool which the ,germans employed1 only clumsily4 ,but we cannot measure the full extent of ,german ,deceit unless we follow it in its varied propaganda among foreign peoples1 in its spies1 its instigators to violence1 its corrupters of the press4 ,it poisons food and wells2 it sets fires to burn crops or forests2 it hires ruffians to burn factories or blow them up1 to hide bombs in ships2 it incites sabotage and strikes4 ,so universally do ,germans take to ,deceit1 that it has evidently become their national trait4 ,the soul of ,germany is a lost soul1 which worships ,satan as its master and welcomes ,evil as its ,good4 ,,william ,,roscoe ,,thayer4 ,illustration ,count von ,bernstorff3 8,noblesse ,oblige0 ,behold this group of sinister and menacing forms surrounding the nation as typified in the person of its ,president4 ,for four years past they have been coming1 one by one1 out of the darkness4 ,we can now only too well recognize them and the dangers with which they threaten us4 ,in front1 there is arrogant1 boastful1 jealous and unscrupulous ,hate1 with its policy of 8might before right10 and its doctrine of 8frightfulness10 conscienceless and cruel1 in its murder of the innocent1 its arson1 its robbery1 its slavery of the weak1 and its outrages of womanhood4 ,crouching1 while it tramples on our flag1 is ,treachery1 ready to use pistol and dagger1 to burn bridges1 to place bombs1 to blow up ships1 to hide and sneak and cringe1 if only it can deliver its blow more surely and safely4 ,and back of both1 is hypocritical and lying ,diplomacy1 with its protestations of innocence and friendliness1--studiedly polite in manner1 but really black at heart4 ,behind1 all engaged in tying the nation's hands1 lest it might strike promptly and forcefully1 is ,pacifism1 cowardly and self-seeking1 more anxious to avoid temporary suffering than to preserve the honor and safety of the nation2 and ,divided ,allegiance1 traitorous to both causes which it vainly endeavors to harmonize2 and ,intrigue1 working in secrecy to part friends1 and stir up strife between those whose interests are common1 or even identical4 ,but out of the darkness comes also the call to the nation3 8,america6 awake4 ,open your blinded eyes4 ,banish partisanship4 ,abjure political jealousies4 ,leave it to the men who know4 ,make your hearts stout4 ,grasp the sword firmly4 ,listen to no compromises1 until the nation is proved worthy of its birthright1 civilization is rescued1 and the world made safe for ,democracy40 ,,george ,,trumbull ,,ladd4 ,illustration ,peter the ,hermit 8,dieu le ,veult60 ,the ,prussian outdoes the world in his single-minded devotion to physical things4 ,he believes and frankly declares that mercy and honor weaken human power1 that if you consider them you must eventually fall before the strong who disregard them4 ,germany's attempt to prove the soundness of the ,prussian thesis has gradually loosened the moral consciousness of the world4 ,it has gathered to defend the things of the spirit in what is as truly a crusade as that which ,peter the ,hermit led1 a crusade to preserve the sanctity of contract1 the few laws between nations that men have worked out1 the right of the weak to their chance4 ,germany1 disbelieving in the strength that love of mercy and of honor give men1 cannot counter-attack in kind4 ,every day develops more clearly that the weak place in the ,prussian armor is its indifference to moral considerations4 ,,ida ,m4 ,,tarbell4 ,illustration ,the ,germ-,man ,the stout gentleman on the opposite page wears a pleased look1 as if he were enjoying his occupation4 ,that is natural1 for he is a scientist engaged in a very pretty process--the propagation of lockjaw1 typhus and other malignant germ cultures with which he expects to speed up the annihilation of his enemies4 ,how does he propose to accomplish this8 ,i will tell you3 he is going to introduce those young and vigorous colonies of germs into those little packages marked with a cross which you see lying on the table before him4 ,those are ,red ,cross bandages1 and they will presently be binding the wounds of our soldiers1 and the lockjaw and typhus hordes in them will awake1 and rally in a silent loathsome attack that will lay torture and death upon thousands which the noisy1 mis-aimed guns have failed to destroy4 ,the germ-man is assured that his atomic missiles will not be mis-aimed4 ,his government has efficiently arranged for those packages to go to the hospitals of ,roumania and ,belgium and ,france4 ,that is why he smiles--that is why he has that roguish look4 ,in the germ-man's smile is incarnated 8,deutschland ber ,alles0 and its correlative1 8,the end justifies the means40 ,we in ,america have produced exponents--criminal exponents--of a similar psychology1 and we have generally 7when we could catch them7 hung or electrocuted or imprisoned for life these moral perverts1 in order to make the world a safer and cleaner place to live in4 ,only a little while ago the ,state of ,new ,york electrocuted a man who1 having set up his individual 8,ueber ,alles and ,general ,justification0 court1 had proceeded cheerfully to introduce malignant germs and other deadly things into the foods and medicines of his wife's parents1 who stood between himself and fortune4 ,here we have an exact parallel4 ,those defenceless old people were doing him no wrong4 ,they in fact admired and trusted him1 just as ,rumania and ,belgium and ,america only a little while ago admired and trusted ,germany4 ,they stood in his way1 however1 and from the 8,ueber ,alles0 standpoint any means for their removal was warranted4 ,secret assassination is an ancient art4 ,it has been practised in every age and in every nation and its votaries have been hunted down and exterminated by decent people4 ,to-day1 for the first time in the history of the world1 we have the spectacle of stealthy death for the defenceless adopted as a government policy4 ,for the decency and safety of mankind the allied nations have highly resolved that the government which promotes such a policy must 8perish from the earth40 ,,albert ,,bigelow ,,paine4 ,illustration 8,a ,tid-,bit for #8,the ,sick ,man'0 ,the nearness to ,america of the ,european theatre of war so greatly fills our minds with the contest there raging that we give but little thought to the progress of events in the far countries tributary to the ,tigris ,river4 ,for a time1 the heroic resistance of ,general ,townsend to the ,turkish forces which surrounded him aided by the natural obstacles of river and climate1 claimed a share of our interest1 and later1 the splendid and successful work achieved by the new ,british army under ,general ,maude1 awakened renewed interest in a campaign designed to split ,islam into two parts3 one1 acknowledging the domination of the ,turk and his ,german masters2 the other1 a new ,caliphat of ,bagdad1 ,arabian1 rather than ,turkish1 looking to the ideals of justice and freedom1 rather than to the rule of the sword2 finding its inspiration in the tradition of the enlightened and humane ,haroun-al-,raschid1 rather than the warring1 bloody conquerors and ,muhammed and ,sulman4 ,still later1 the northward progress of ,british arms extended over the greater part of ,palestine1 and the capture of ,jerusalem brought the sacred places of ,israel and of ,christianity within the control of ,christendom after five centuries of ,turkish occupation4 ,these campaigns are only second in importance to the progress of the ,german invasion of ,france2 for if the ,british successes in ,arabia and ,palestine shall be maintained1 and the ,islamites of ,egypt1 ,arabia and ,mesopotamia shall look in the future to the ,caliph of ,bagdad1 not to the ,sultan of ,turkey1 as their spiritual head1 the great ,german scheme of aggression in the ,near ,east will have been defeated4 ,the subtle ,teuton suggestion to the ,turk of a ,pan-,turanian league1 was but a scheme for the promotion of a closer ,turkish organization under ,german control1 as ,raemaekers' cartoon1 8,a ,tid-,bit for the ,sick ,man10 so cleverly intimates4 ,the ,turks should have said to themselves1 8,beware of the ,greeks--the ,prussians--and the gifts they bring40 ,a ,german gift is like the shirt of ,nessus1--it will consume utterly those who accept it4 ,not alone on the shores of the ,mediterranean1 but on the ,persian ,gulf1 on the ,baltic1 on the ,english ,channel1 in the ,caribbean1 on the ,pacific1--there is no limit to the schemes of expansion of ,german control to which that nation in its mad lust of power has given itself4 ,never since the dawn of recorded history has an issue been made so plain4 ,aut ,csar aut nullus4 ,the world must choose between ,germany1 the highly developed1 hyperorganized1 scientific state1 proceeding on the openly avowed theory that might alone makes right1 and that no principle of ethics1 morality or religion must be allowed to affect or deter a course which scientific militarism determines to be best calculated to attain a pre-determined end1 and the other nations1 who believe in ,god and in ,his justice1 who conceive that it doth not profit a nation to gain the whole world at the cost of its soul4 ,once this issue is manifest to the world1 the result cannot be in doubt4 ,,george ,w4 ,,wickersham4 ,illustration ,plain ,language from ,truthful ,james ,the ,mexican-,japanese ,plot 8,for ways that are dark ,and tricks that are vain--0 ,illustration ,helping ,hindenburg ,home 8,we regret being unable on this occasion to follow the counsels of our masters1 the ,french1 but the ,american flag has been forced to retire4 ,this is unendurable1 and none of our soldiers would understand their not being asked to do whatever is necessary to restablish a situation which is humiliating to us and unacceptable to our country's honor4 ,we are going to counter-attack40 ,this was a message sent by an ,american general in command of ,american forces south of the ,marne on ,monday afternoon after the ,germans had succeeded in forcing the ,americans back towards ,conde-en-,brie4 ,the ,french commander had informed the ,american general that the early ,german success could not have any great effect on the fate of the battle2 that it was understood perfectly that after hard fighting the ,americans had slowly retired1 and that it was not expected that they immediately launch a counter-attack4 ,he added that a counter-attack could be postponed without risk1 and it might be better to give the ,american troops an hour's rest4 ,immediately after the ,american general sent the above message1 which is quoted by the correspondent of the 8,matin10 the ,americans launched their counter-attack and the lost ground was soon recovered1 with an additional half mile taken from the ,germans for good measure4 ,the ,new ,york ,times1 ,july #ah1 #aiah4 ,illustration ,a ,bad ,prophet ,the ,all-,highest3 8,only a sham war with ,uncle ,sam8 ,oh1 ,hollweg1 you are a bad prophet60 ,one of the delusions the ,german ,government and its ,general ,staff have been laboring under for many years is that the ,united ,states could not create an army that was worth consideration as a foe4 ,that ,government and its ,general ,staff are tasting the quality of our troops in the field1 and the flavor is bitter on their tongues4 ,one hundred and twenty-six years ago there was fought a battle in ,france 7at ,valmy1 within the zone of war today7 on the date that ,france first called herself a republic4 ,kellermann won that battle against the ,prussians and ,austrians with levies of new troops from the lower and middle classes of ,france1 who 8found that they could face cannon balls1 pull triggers1 and cross bayonets without having been drilled into military machines1 and without being officered by scions of noble houses40 ,they had1 it seems1 the same spirit we like to think animates our army1 which the ,germans abroad and some critics at home denied our men3 8they awoke to the consciousness of instinctive soldiership40 ,the ,army and ,navy ,journal4 ,illustration ,at the ,holland ,frontier ,,whether ,,the ,,war ,,be ,,long ,,or ,,short1 ,,the ,,quickest ,,road ,,to ,,peace ,,is ,,the ,,road ,,straight ,,ahead ,,of ,,us1 ,,with ,,no ,,division ,,among ,,the ,,american ,,people4 ,,william ,,jennings ,,bryan4 ,illustration ,a ,rehearsal 8,when ,i say1 ,down with ,wilson6 you all cheer60 ,illustration ,the ,path of ,kultur ,here ran a road for lovers once1 ,with maples in the moon2 ,and under a bridge a water went ,weaving a dreamy rune4 ,and high upon the sycamores1 ,the nightingales all night ,besieged the dark with melody1 ,disturbed the boughs with flight4 ,and here in coverts of tall grass ,looked up a friendly spring1 ,glad to behold a face bent down1 ,or feel a fleeting wing4 ,but now the lovers come no more2 ,the road is rutted and marred ,by wheels and shrieking shells3 the trees ,are shattered1 chopt and charred4 ,new graves are billowing now3 the field ,like windy water heaves3 ,the nightingales are gone3 the spring ,is choked with bloody leaves4 ,and here at noon a vulture swoops ,on obscene errands bound3 ,and here at night remembering ghosts ,go by without a sound4 ,,edwin ,,markham4 ,illustration ,to the ,victor6 ,france crowns with laurel the dead ,american aviator4 ,tho' the ,american mother mourns across the seas for her hero son1 who has touched the skies in ,france1 the foster mother lays her laurel of glory on the bier of ,youth1 whose brave spirit in passing welds an eternal bond of sympathy and union to the end4 ,,geraldine ,,farrar4 ,june #bc1 #aiah4 ,illustration ,the ,eyes of the ,army ,the great poet of ,victoria's reign1 in his wondrous vision of the future1 ,saw the heavens fill with commerce1 argosies of magic sails1 ,pilots of the purple twilight1 dropping down with costly bales2 ,heard the heavens fill with shouting1 and there rained a ghastly dew ,from the nation's airy navies grappling in the central blue2 ,far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm1 ,with the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm2 ,till the war drum throbbed no longer1 and the battle-flags were furled ,in the ,parliament of ,man1 the ,federation of the ,world4 ,dealing not with the shadowy future but with the actual present the great ,artist of the ,great ,war sees aerial navigation1 not in terms of commerce nor of battle engines1 but as the 8,eyes of the ,army02 the sense without which the terrestrial movements of war1 both by land and sea1 tend to become mere blind and purposeless blundering4 ,with one graceful figure in a finely balanced design the artist tells the story4 ,future generations will be grateful to the ,prussians for one thing--and one thing only4 ,from war--that 8noble art of murdering10 as ,thackeray called it1 they have stripped the last vestiges of romantic glamor4 ,they have not hesitated to press the premises of militarism to their logical conclusion1--with results that have staggered humanity4 ,in one field only has it been possible for something of the old knightly chivalry to linger4 ,romance1 driven from earth1 has taken wings2 and the world1 sated with horrors of trench and shambles1 thrills with eager wonder at the new science of the sky2 at the individual skill and daring of its pilots and their wonderful service to their fighting brethren on earth4 ,but even as we read of these things come tales of ,zeppelin raids over defenseless cities and the deliberate dropping of bombs upon hospitals4 ,civilized warfare6 it is a contradiction in terms4 ,it may be necessary1--it has proved to be necessary1 for civilized men to fight the barbarians in order to uphold and preserve the great principle of individual liberty2 but war must come to an end among civilized peoples2 and to that end there must be a closer and closer union of such as care for law and order1 believe that the weak have rights which must be protected1 and are willing to base their governments on the firm and enduring foundations of ,,liberty1 ,,equality and ,,fraternity4 ,,thomas ,,mott ,,osborne4 ,july #ai1 #aiah4 ,illustration 8,is ,it ,nothing to ,you1 ,all ,ye ,who ,pass ,by80 ,all we need to remember hour by hour is that we are living through the greatest crisis in the history of the world2 that the greatest number of people are concerned in it ever concerned in one thing before2 and that the most important epoch concerning humanity since the birth of ,christ is now at hand2 that humanity is about to fall to a lower plane of living or rise to a higher one than it has ever reached2 that we can only do our little share toward that rising by stiffening ourselves to a long endurance4 ,we have proven our mere ability to give valuable service4 ,what we must prove now is our patience and steadfastness1 without which brilliancy is worthless4 ,we must strike a pace which we can hold1 both mentally and physically and plod on together4 ,we must and we will be ready1 for our own sake1 for our country's sake and for the sake of what the world was created for4 ,,rachel ,,crothers4 ,illustration ,the ,rainbow ,division ,leaves for ,france ,as the rainbow is heaven's token of faith1 so have we faith in these modern knights journeying to beloved ,france to give battle to invading barbarians4 ,ponder a moment over these men of the ,rainbow ,division1 lads with minds clean as their hearts are true1 and compare them with the blood-craving hordes reared in a school having no other aim than to kill their fellow beings4 ,one is ,man in the superlative1 and for the other there is no name sufficiently abhorrent4 ,when an ,american soldier enters ,hun territory we know how scrupulously the laws of humanity will be respected3 he will at least be knightly and merciful4 ,and the four years' record of ,german savagery is so well known that it must forever befoul the pages of history4 ,lack of opportunity in the library has prevented a thorough exploration of the unspeakable atrocities of the early ,huns who under ,attila ravaged a great part of ,europe4 ,but sufficiently have ,i read to be convinced that the ,huns and ,vandals and ,goths of early history1 compared with the ,hohenzollern-inspired fiends1 were scarcely more than bungling altruists4 ,we know it to be fact that ,german soldiers murdered priests and raped nuns in ,belgium1 violated practically every young woman in the ,aisne and ,champagne1 razed defenseless towns and hamlets in these ,french ,departments1 murdered old people and children and mutilated youths everywhere1 delighted in destroying hospital ships and treated ,red ,cross signs as targets for their guns1 inoculated ,french prisoners as a means of furthering the ,berlin plan to diminish the ,french race1 and in cold blood murdered scores of women and children on the ,lusitania4 ,these are awful indictments1 with not one excusable on the ground of military need or expediency4 ,given trial at the bar of civilization their perpetrators must forever be judged as outside the pale of humanity and hereafter can have no standing in lands where the principles of ,christianity and humanity have a meaning4 ,with my own eyes ,i have seen scores of proofs of ,german 8frightfulness02 with me it is not hearsay4 ,and remember that it was none other than ,goethe who wrote that 8the ,prussian was born a brute1 and civilization will make him ferocious40 ,positive is it that the ,united ,states and her ,allies will crush the conscienceless militarism of ,germany1 and ever of good omen is the ,rainbow1 telling of improving skies and perfect conditions for the morrow4 ,,frederic ,,courtland ,,penfield1 ,american ,ambassador to ,austria-,hungary1 #aiac-aiag4 ,illustration ,russia ,reborn ,in a hundred years no people has been so tortured and abused by rulers of its own blood and faith as the ,russians4 ,the free peoples have nothing in their experience by which they can imagine the greed and cruelty of which the subjects of the ,romanoffs have been the victims4 ,no adequate picture of the diabolical old rgime can be painted till scholars have had time to explore its archives and expose the dark forces that operated it4 ,let no one look for ,freed ,russia to be shining and beautiful4 ,from the gloomy caverns in which they have mouldered the ,russian people stagger out upon the sunlit heights of freedom weak1 bent1 half blind4 ,few of the older will ever conquer the dense ignorance in which they were kept by autocracy4 ,few of the characters twisted and deformed by oppression will ever become quite straight4 ,in the behavior of this people there will be exhibited folly1 fanaticism and brutality that will make the peoples born free uneasy as to the new sister4 ,whatever happens1 doubt not that the ,russians are gifted and great-hearted4 ,their excesses have proclaimed how much they were held back and brutalized by the ,tsars4 ,it will take long for them to rid themselves of the traces of their servitude and misery4 ,even the children born in the new era will catch from their parents some of the evil heritage4 ,only the grandchildren of the common people of today will come into the full birthright of the free and prove the worth that is in the ,russian race4 ,,edward ,,alsworth ,,ross4 ,illustration ,higher ,than a ,sour ,apple ,tree ,other wars end with those who made them4 ,it is the will of the ,german ,emperor that his war should pass on like a blight from generation to generation upon those whose fathers dared to stand against the ravager4 ,to this end he has not only slaughtered and enslaved the defenders2 he has sought to destroy the very fruitfulness of the land whereby their descendants must live4 ,to me the deliberate1 coldly reckoned murder of the invaded countries' trees and vines so that the children of the slain and enslaved and their children's children may draw no sustenance from the kindly earth--that seems the most perverse1 the most detestable1 the most typical of all the crimes of ,kaiserism4 ,the sterilization of ,mother ,earth6 ,it took the mind of a ,wilhelm to conceive it4 ,and for that offence against generations unborn he shall hang1 higher than was ever ruler before him1 gibbeted in the righteous hatred of an outraged posterity4 ,,samuel ,,hopkins ,,adams4 ,illustration 8,what a ,mean ,trick to ,turn on ,that ,strong ,light60 8,peace must be framed on so equitable a basis that the nations would not wish to disturb it4 ,it must be guaranteed by destruction of ,prussian military power1 so that the confidence of the ,german people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies4444 ,europe is again drenched with the blood of its bravest and its best1 but do not forget the great succession of hallowed causes4 ,they are the stations of the cross on the road to the emancipation of mankind4 ,i again appeal to the people of this country and beyond that they should continue to fight for the great goal of international rights and international justice1 so that never again shall brute force sit on the throne of justice nor barbaric strength wield the sceptre over liberty40 ,from the ,rt4 ,hon4 ,david ,lloyd-,george's ,glasgow speech on war aims1 ,june #bi1 #aiag4 ,illustration ,christmas1 #aiag ,on the day of the ,nativity1 the ,infant ,brother of ,humanity was born and was laid in a manger1 there being no room for his human mother at the inn4 ,but wherever he lay--there1 through the mystery of his kinship1 was the shining ,gateway of ,heaven4 ,that translucent ,light1 from the moment of its appearance1 intensified1 as by opposite polarity1 the baleful lights from all unholy fires in human breasts4 ,herod was first aroused to the ,slaughter of the ,innocents1 and he has had his successors in every age during the growth of ,christendom4 ,as the ,light of the ,world has expanded these nineteen centuries1 shining in the hearts of men1 ever awakening new ideas of ,truth1 ,justice1 and ,mercy1 against every fresh gleam1 promising wider horizons of human ,love and ,sympathy1 have been arrayed the brutish hosts1 with ,hatred and ,murder in their hardened hearts4 ,for the present generation has been reserved the vision of the very ,armageddon of this ,conflict1 in which the world is divided against itself4 ,the ,powers precipitating it inaugurated it and have in its whole course attended it with every conceivable form of atrocity and outrage against noncombatants--innocent men1 women1 and children4 ,but that ,heavenly ,light which shone in the stable at ,bethlehem can never be put out6 ,,henry ,,mills ,,alden4 ,illustration ,helping ,uncle ,sam to ,get ,up ,speed 8,the military masters of ,germany denied us the right to be neutral4 ,they filled our unsuspecting communities with vicious spies and conspirators and sought to corrupt the opinion of our people in their own behalf4 ,when they found that they could not do that1 then agents diligently spread sedition among us and sought to draw our own citizens from their allegiance4444 8,they have learned discretion4 ,they keep within the law4 ,it is opinion they utter now1 not sedition4 ,they proclaim the liberal purposes of their masters2 declare this a foreign war which can touch ,america with no danger to either her lands or her institutions 444 and seek to undermine the ,government with false professions of loyalty to its principles4 8,but they will make no headway4 ,the false betray themselves always in every accent4444 ,the facts are patent to all the world1 and nowhere are they more plainly seen than in the ,united ,states1 where we are accustomed to deal with facts and not with sophistries2 and the great fact that stands out above all the rest is that this is a people's war1 a war for freedom and justice and self-government among all the nations of the world40 ,from ,president ,wilson's ,flag ,day ,address1 ,june #ad1 #aiag4 ,illustration ,the ,wind of ,democracy 8,without doubt1 the majority of the ,german nation is still monarchist4 ,the different peoples of ,germany still hold to their princes1 more or less1 according to the individual character of the sovereigns4 ,but that confidence in the supreme chief of the ,empire is still entirely intact is an affirmation which1 after three years of war1 cannot be maintained4444 ,confidence in the direction of the ,empire has begun to disappear among the ,german people4444 ,they begin to ask themselves how it happens that nearly all the world is in arms against us1 and who is responsible for it40 ,reply of ,prince von ,hohenlohe to the clerical deputy1 ,spahn1 in the ,reichstag4 ,illustration 8,this ,one for the ,babies0 ,germany1 in her war against ,civilization1 has disregarded not only ,international ,law and the ordinary laws of humanity1 but has ruthlessly set aside the four great laws of the social order which all civilized nations recognize as having a divine sanction4 8,thou shalt not bear false witness40 ,she has broken her treaties and lied openly1 frequently1 brazenly4 8,thou shalt not commit adultery40 ,she has permitted1 if she has not given official sanction to rape committed upon a scale never before known in the history of the civilized world4 8,thou shalt not steal40 ,she robbed her neighbor's hills of their coal and iron1 her neighbor's fields of their standing crops1 her neighbor's banks of their money1 her neighbor's houses of their pictures1 statuary and books1 and what she could not carry away she has in mere wantonness destroyed4 8,thou shalt not kill40 ,she has murdered thousands of defenceless men1 women1 children1 and little babes1 and has done this not in a sudden and feverish rage1 but as part of a deliberately conceived and carefully executed policy4 ,one must multiply ,raemaekers' picture by the thousand in order to get its full significance4 ,,lyman ,,abbott4 ,illustration ,a ,scene on the ,somme 8,infinitely interesting is our contact with the ,american troops4 ,they have occupied the sector immediately beside ours4 ,we have seen them at work1 and could form an idea1 and it should be told and retold that they are marvelous4 ,the ,americans are soldiers by nature1 and their officers have the desire to learn with an enthusiasm and an idealistic ardor very remarkable4 ,there is the same spirit among the privates4 ,they ask questions with a touching good-will1 setting aside all conceit or prejudice4 ,naturally they have the faults of all new troops4 ,they show themselves too much and expose themselves imprudently1 letting themselves be carried away by their ardor1 not knowing when to spare themselves or to seek shelter or when to risk everything for an end4 ,this experience will be quickly learned4 8,as for bravery1 activity1 and discipline1 they are marvelous4 ,they absolutely astonished us on a morning of attack4 ,the cannonading1 suddenly becoming furious1 had just thrown me out of my bunk4 ,no doubt about it1 it was a ,verdun attack4 ,taking time to seize my revolver1 put on my helmet1 and gather up several documents1 ,i descended to the streets4 ,when ,i arrived there they were already filing by with rapid1 easy1 decided steps1 marching in perfect order in silence with admirable resolution1 and above all with striking discipline1 to their fighting positions4 ,it was fine4 ,you can have no idea how cheering it was to my ,poilus40 --,from a letter of a ,french officer published in the ,paris 8,temps40 ,illustration ,hollweg as ,robespierre ,the ,kaiser3 8,he has managed to fool the ,german ,socialists4 ,why should he not fool the ,russian ,socialists80 ,few things have been more disheartening in the course of the ,war than the way in which the ,teutonic foes of liberty have used so many friends of liberty in ,russia as unwitting instruments to undermine and destroy the resistance of the ,russian people to the ,german armies4 ,vast territories1 amounting to nearly half a million square miles in area1 have thus been abandoned to ,german domination1 practically without a struggle2 and over fifty million people in the abandoned regions have seen their prospects of freedom vanish4 ,the ,german armies thus released from the eastern front and poured into northern ,france1 have enormously increased the difficulties of the ,armies of ,liberty1 battling in ,france and ,belgium to save the world for ,democracy4 ,j4 ,g4 ,,phelps ,,stokes4 ,illustration ,president ,wilson's ,declaration ,raemaekers is1 here1 having the ,president say3 8,when ,germany is defeated1 and peace can be discussed1 we shall pay the full price of peace1--namely1 justice for all the nations40 ,we know what justice will be for the nations spoiled4 ,but what will be justice for the spoiler8 ,we know what this latter would be to an individual2 and a nation is only a greater individual1 capable of greater mischief1 subject to greater punishment4 ,an individual1 who1 with progressive malice1 had broken all the laws of his country1 society and ,god1 from simple lying1 through perjury1 robbery1 piracy1 up to wholesale murder1 would be destroyed--for the good of his fellowmen and as a warning to others4 ,if he should escape the noose the quieter but no less inevitable force of public morality would destroy him4 ,neither man nor nation has ever long lived by force1 flaunting his crimes in the face of the world1 committing1 threatening yet others4 ,nor will ,germany4 ,she is now1 ,i believe1 in the way of destruction1 either by the public executioner1 or1 more likely1 by the slower1 but not less certain1 process of isolation and decay4 ,she has unmasked herself and we now see the hideous1 distorted face of her4 ,how can so monstrous a ,thing have friends after this8 ,who will trade with her8 ,who will ever again accept a promise of hers8 ,who but must be ashamed of her name and her language8 ,anathema she will be to all peoples--the outcast of nations--living for and upon herself1 where her life-doctrine of force must inevitably turn to her own destruction4 ,this has been the fate of every world-conqueror and his nation4 ,and1 surely1 none of them all has so richly deserved it as this intolerable ,germany4 ,ask ,history6 ,and1 yet1 to the individual1 there is always left repentance and restoration--even though he1 himself1 must be destroyed4 ,so1 if this besotted ,germany had but the courage and virtue to lay down her arms and retire behind her own borders1 she could have the peace she pretends to wish for in twenty-four hours--for so little and simple and right a thing as that6 ,i think1 indeed1 that the nations she has so wantonly spoiled would permit her to go without further punishment at their hands1 leaving that to the very ,god she has so vilely exploited as her partner in her monstrous crimes4 ,i think they would accept back the goods which she has stolen1 damaged as they are1 beyond redemption1 glad to be rid of her and her debasing contact4 ,but she is mad4 ,germany is quite mad4 ,she would laugh1 like a blood-smeared1 amuck-running lunatic at any such proposition4 ,whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad4 ,the madness is accomplished4 ,i believe that it will be for the peace of the world that the rest shall be4 ,,john ,,luther ,,long4 ,illustration 8,don't ,stand in ,our ,way to ,victory0 ,all wars bring their full measure of miseries and misfortunes1 and this world war1 initiated by ,germany for the purpose of imposing a military domination upon ,europe and ,america1 and conducted with methods which combine the barbaric standards of the ,huns and ,mongols with the skilled mechanism of the twentieth century1 has brought upon the world miseries that can hardly be estimated or described4 ,there are some offsets1 however1 even in a contest like the present1 which is a fight for the preservation of civilization against the onslaughts of scientific barbarism4 ,no nation can take up arms for the defense of its rights and liberties and for the fulfilment of its obligations without bringing into the souls of the people some development of national and patriotic spirit4 ,the soldiers in the trenches and the citizens working at home are fighting and working for a common cause4 ,they come in this manner to have realization of what they owe to each other1 to their country and to their consciences4 ,we may feel assured that through the sacrifices that are being made today in our country1 of lives1 of labor and of wealth1 there will be developed from a people which had in its prosperity been growing rich and lazy-minded and forgetful of national morality1 the soul of ,america4 ,louis ,raemaekers has done more than any one man to bring into expression the spirit of fierce indignation and horror that has come not only upon the people of ,belgium and of northeastern ,france1 who have been directly exposed to the brutal despotism of the ,prussians1 but upon all of those who are fighting to rescue the people of these imprisoned devastated provinces1 and upon the whole civilized world4 ,raemaekers has been able with the powerful genius of his pencil to give expression in cartoons that belong to the history of art and of the world1 to this protest of civilization4 ,he is a poet as well as an artist4 ,his weird and sombre conceptions gave evidence of a powerful imagination4 ,his work has been compared to that of ,gilray1 but the caricatures which in #ahje amused ,english men and frightened ,english children were merely clever pieces of drawing4 ,the wonderful designs of ,raemaekers set forth the devilishness of the policies and the actions of the ,prussians as incisively and as conclusively as if he had been sitting as judge in the court of final appeal4 ,these grim pictures constitute indictments of great criminals4 ,it is impossible to tell how far they may as yet have penetrated ,germany1 but sooner or later these irrefutable judgments of criminal acts will be brought home to the consciousness not only of ,prussia1 and of the leaders who are directly responsible for the murders and the other horrors1 but of the whole people of ,germany who1 poisoned by the fumes of prussic acid from ,berlin1 have been willing to give their strength and their force to the attempt to impose ,prussian tyranny upon the peoples of the world4 ,,geo4 ,,haven ,,putnam4 ,february #a1 #aiah4 ,illustration 8,german ,soldiers ,cut the ,throat of an ,american ,sentry0 ,a ,,layman',s ,,prayer ,,for ,,american ,,soldiers ,our ,father which art in ,heaven1 bless and inspire our armies in the field1 our ships upon the sea4 ,watch over the sons of ,america fighting for ,liberty4 ,strengthen and hearten them in the hour of pain and peril4 ,grant them victory1 we beseech ,thee1 and lead them safely home4 ,make us who love them do our part loyally4 ,keep us united in our will to bring upon earth a reign of right and freedom4 ,amen4 ,,cleveland ,,moffett4 ,illustration ,bang6 8,dog-gone it1 ,hindenburg1 don't make your strategic moves when ,i am standing directly behind you60 ,on one occasion1 when ,hindenburg reported having 8carried out his retreat according to plan10 the ,kaiser1 encamped at the rear1 received a very discomfiting bump4 ,evidently1 the 8plan0 was no less an inspiration of the moment than many others the ,germans have announced1 in order to put a good face upon their reverses4 ,illustration 8,i ,must ,break in ,here ,before ,that ,comes ,down0 ,the small speck that at first seemed a dull mist hanging over the ,western ,hemisphere caused little else than sarcastic flings at our own ,republic1 and had it been possible to awaken pity in the breast of the ,arch ,demon1 striving to spread his wings over the whole world1 some sympathy might have fallen to us1 for the weak mind we showed in presuming we could do anything to check the ,imperial army in its brutal course4 ,but happily great oaks from little acorns grow1 from stationary mists dark clouds may rise1 from low uncertain rumblings the ear-splitting thunder clap may spring1 and make man and beast seek cover4 ,so1 by the ,grace of ,god1 things have developed1 and the mist that was a banquet joke1 is transformed1 and spread into a veritable storm1 and its direction is across the wide ocean2 it is an on-rusher that awakens a craven fear2 and it well may4 ,it is no autumn cloud1 whose fleecy skirts the sun has painted with gold2 but something equalling the harbinger of death1 that the soothsayers saw driving over ,rome when ,csar's end was nigh2 on which could be seen 8,fierce fiery warriors in ranks1 and squadrons and in right form of war02 and from which blood is drizzling1 not only to fall over ,france1 or ,flanders1 but perhaps to darken the sky1 and crimson the soil1 even at that nest of iniquity1 ,potsdam4 ,,palmer ,,cox4 ,illustration ,bring ,her ,in6 ,yea1 bring her in--the scarlet sign of shame6 ,of shuddering horror to all times and lands6 ,bring her1 though late1 to justice4 ,those1 her hands1 ,with children's blood thick-crusted1 are the same ,that stealing through night's peaceful curtains came ,to throttle blameless ,belgium2 from the brands ,of sacked and burning churches those dark bands ,befoul her garments1 noisome as her name4 8,guilty of more than murder60 ,not alone ,of broken hearts1 drained eyes and myriad graves ,shall men make up the sum of her dread score1 ,but of faiths blasted1 world hopes overthrown4 ,then judgment write in tears of her bowed slaves1 8,earth sickens of her--,let her be no more60 ,,charles ,,edward ,,russell4 ,illustration ,germany's 8,peace0 with ,russia ,count ,hertling asks resentfully3 8,who dares to suggest that ,i am not on the side of justice80 ,count ,hertling is undoubtedly sincere4 ,until this war began the world had almost forgotten the record for duplicity and inhumanity of the military tyrants of ,prussia1--the treachery and barbarity of the race of which he and they are the offspring4 ,they are running true to type1 but for the time we had forgotten what the type was2 yet it was known well enough to ,julius ,csar and to the others who ruled the ,roman world4 ,for him the ,germans were 8that treacherous race which is bred up from the cradle to war and rapine10 who 8practise the base deception which first asks for peace and then openly begins war10 who are 8outside the pale of negotiations0--yet ,csar had not heard of the treaty of ,brest-,litovsk6 ,history is repeating itself after two thousand years1 yet two thousand years ago it was then only repeating itself4 ,the ,prussian has always been the same4 ,his instincts are today as they were when he roamed the swamp lands1 naked and with a stone club in his fist1 pig-eyed and bull-necked1 like the mastodon of his native forests4 ,raemaekers has done well to symbolize him in his treatment of helpless ,russia1 as a hairy prehistoric beast crushing out the life of a bleeding nation beneath his ponderous feet4 ,count ,hertling says he is on the side of justice4 ,he is--of ,german justice1 the justice of which the butchered civilians and outraged girls of ,belgium1 the crucified ,canadians1 the murdered ,edith ,cavell1 and the martyred babies and their mothers of the ,lusitania1 are examples4 ,it is the justice of the mammoth and the cave-man1 the sabre-toothed tiger and the woolly rhinoceros1--all of whom would agree that ,count ,hertling in his dealings with ,russia was actuated by the only recognized ,prussian ideal--the right of the strongest brute to ravish and destroy4 ,,arthur ,,train4 ,illustration ,the ,better ,fighter ,,canada',s ,,part ,,in ,,the ,,war 8,bound by no constitution1 bound by no law1 equity or obligation1 ,canada has decided as a nation to make war4 ,we have levied an army2 we have sent the greatest army to ,england that has ever crossed the ,atlantic1 to take part in the battles of ,england4 ,we have placed ourselves in opposition to great world powers4 ,we are now training and equipping an army greater than the combined forces of ,wellington and ,napoleon at the battle of ,waterloo40 ,speech of ,sir ,clifford ,sifton at ,montreal4 ,illustration ,the ,dungeon of ,autocracy ,there is a part of ,germany that longs for freedom2 but that is not the ,prussian part4 ,the soul of ,germany is not entirely killed by her mortal sins of money and land-lust2 and ,raemaekers here paints the remorseful soul1 crowned with the blurred cross4 ,germany turns her back to the sky2 she prefers to look at the dark ground of her dungeon rather than to face that light4 ,she is chained by her own will1 and yet her inmost soul revolts4 ,let us not imagine that there are two ,germanys4 ,before the war the ,social ,democrat was the official hater of the despotism of the ,hohenzollerns4 ,the war came1 he ceased to be a ,social ,democrat when he became a ,prussian4 ,before the war1 the ,centrum defended the rights of conscience against the ,hegelian dogma of the absolute supremacy of the ,state4 ,the ,kaiser rushed from ,norway1 war was declared1 and the recalcitrant ,centrum1--the creature of the indomitable ,windhorst1 whom even ,bismarck could not terrify1--becomes subservient6 ,the ,emperor does not say1 8,the ,state is ,i40 ,he says1--8,germany over all1 and the ,german ,god must rule40 ,germany has chained herself4 ,for more than ten years1 ,i have lived geographically in ,germany1--for ,denmark1 though one of the freest nations of the world1 is a few miles from ,berlin1--and ,i have seen the ,old ,germany growing into the ,new1 materialized ,germany4 ,bismarck helped this process with blood and iron4 ,the ,new ,germany has a soul1 but she has chained it to avarice and pride and power4 ,,maurice ,,francis ,,egan1 ,american ,minister to ,denmark4 ,may #bh1 #aiah4 ,illustration 8,hurrah for ,peace1 ,lads60 ,early in the war the great writers and poets of the ,allied nations joined in combating1 with all the inspiration of the cause of liberty1 the campaigns launched in varied guise by seditionists here and abroad4 ,in this effort literature has made a worthy contribution to the battle for civilization4 ,it remained1 however1 for the art and genius of ,raemaekers to rout the propagandists of the enemy by delineating the great basic truths of war as waged by the ,huns4 ,it has been his work1 more than that of any other person1 to delineate the righteousness of the ,allied cause4 ,his portraiture is a protest1 an indictment1 and an inspiration4 ,he destroys the foe's misrepresentation and exposes his mendacity while constructively informing the mind and awakening the imagination4 ,he enables us to grasp all the details of sorrow1 of devotion1 together with all the splendor of modern battle behind his story4 ,he horrifies us with the brutality of uncivilized warfare1 and at the same time arouses within us the determination to right the wrongs of an outraged world4 ,his very shock is a stimulus1 for in telling us of the horror of war1 ,raemaekers makes us understand that to stop it forever by victory is the only thing worthy of thinking and feeling human beings4 ,by speaking the universal language which art alone possesses1 he has made the war clear to those who cannot read4 ,because of this genius for arousing our emotions1 he is the premier recruiting agent of the armies of civilization for and behind the battle-line4 ,he is truly a mainspring of our armed forces4 ,s4 ,,stanwood ,,menken1 ,president of the ,national ,security ,league4 ,january1 #aiah4 ,illustration ,ecce ,homo6 ,an' ,thou art ,god1 and be not one ,with the god of the hun--,behold ,thy ,son6 ,only belov'd begotten ,son ,and see with ,thine eyes what the hun hath done4 ,see how ,his tender temples bleed6 ,how they have mocked ,him in their scorn-- ,thrust in his hands a withered reed ,to hail ,him ,king--,thine only born-- ,and crowned ,his shrinking brow with thorn6 ,where must ,he pass--,lord ,christ--,thy ,son8 ,calvary looms in the ,west again3-- ,we thought the sad world lost and won ,when ,he died on the ,cross for the sins of men4 ,must ,he die again8 ,and where8 ,and when8 ,where1 in their hell1 the heathen rage1 ,the hun's imperial priest appears ,smeared with the blood of youth and age ,dragging his god that nods and leers ,dripping with murdered children's tears4 ,god of the bright1 swift sword1 how long8 ,moloch rides with the swinish hun3-- ,the boche is boasting with shout and song ,that ,thou and his bestial god are one1-- ,thou and ,moloch and ,christ1 ,thy ,son6 ,,robert ,w4 ,,chambers4 ,new ,york1 ,april #cj1 #aiah4 ,illustration 8,we ,must so ,destroy ,france ,that ,she can ,never ,again ,resist ,us0 ,heine1 when he warned the world that the real ,god of ,germany was ,thor and that when the ,christian veneer wore off the old pagan god would with his hammer break in pieces the ,gothic ,cathedrals1 especially warned ,france1 whom above all the ,beast hated4 ,the warning has been justified by history4 ,before the war ,i have heard ,germans speak gloatingly of what they did to ,france in #ahgj1 and of what they meant to do next time4 ,the phrase 8bleed ,france white0 had become a commonplace of ,german speech4 ,this hatred is rather mysterious4 ,england fought ,france many times during five hundred years1 but whenever peace was declared ,paris would be full of ,englishmen to celebrate1 to shake hands and be friends4 ,there never was this ferocious hate1 and ,france has always been generous and chivalrous and human4 ,germany hates ,great ,britain and ,america with her head1 but she hates ,france with her soul4 ,it must be that the modern ,hun feels that there is something in his hated enemy which he does not possess and never can possess4 ,and because the rest of the world loves ,france1 he hates her all the more1 with a cold and cruel and scientific hatred1 as our artist depicts it in his terrible cartoon4 ,perhaps some light is thrown on the problem by a typical piece of ,gallic wit4 ,a ,french writer commenting on the wanton destruction of the ,cathedral of ,rheims declared it to be the greatest single calamity to art that was conceivable1 and then added that there could be another greater calamity--to allow the ,germans to restore it6 ,it adds fuel to the flame to know that the only great period of ,german literature--the period of ,heine himself--was when it was under the complete influence and inspiration of ,france4 ,in a true sense the whole civilized world is fighting for ,france1 to decide whether it is to lose all that ,france stands for1 or whether the future is to be dominated by the ugly bestial force1 without conscience and without heart1 which ,germany represents4 ,the world knows that if it is a case of alternatives1 civilization can do without ,germany1 but would be eternally poor without la belle ,france4 ,,hugh ,,black4 ,illustration ,the ,japanese ,mouse 8,can the ,japanese mouse free the ,russian bear from the ,german netting80 8,japan must act on the broad principle that she is the guardian of peace in the ,far ,east1 and ,i am sure that to fulfil her duty she will utilize every resource at her disposal4 ,her part1 instead of attempting the impossible1 will be to stand on safe and reasonable ground4 ,through her control of the ,southern ,manchuria ,railroad she is in a position to cut off communication between ,harbin and ,vladivostok now afforded by the trans-,siberian line4 ,harbin is the military1 economic1 and political base of ,russia in the ,far ,east4 ,that means that the ,russian possessions in ,east ,siberia would be protected by ,japan from ,german domination or aggression4 ,let me say1 however1 that any suggestion that ,japan intends to seize these ,russian possessions is monstrous4 ,japan would offer protection and assistance1 but that is all40 --,dr4 ,t4 ,iyenaga1 in the ,new ,york 8,tribune40 ,illustration 8,ueber ,alles0 and ,underneath ,illustration ,expostulation and ,reply 8,we cannot take the word of the present rulers of ,germany as a guarantee of anything that is to endure1 unless explicitly supported by such conclusive evidence of the will and purpose of the ,german people themselves as the other peoples of the world would be justified in accepting40 --,from ,president ,wilson's ,reply to the ,pope1 ,august #bg1 #aiag4 ,illustration ,the ,second ,election ,bernstorff3 8,we have defeated ,wilson60 ,wilson3 8,wait a moment60 ,illustration ,the ,mad ,shepherd ,,the ,,german ,,substitute ,,for ,,the ,,twenty-,,third ,,psalm ,the ,kaiser's our shepherd1 we shall not rest4 ,he maketh us to desecrate green pastures2 he forceth us to kill in still waters4 ,he claimeth our soul1 he leadeth us in the paths of frightfulness for his name's sake4 ,yea1 though he plunge us into the valley of death1 we must call him not evil1 for he is our master1 his rod and his staff they drive us4 ,surely horror and evil shall follow us all the days of our life till we flee from his rule forever4 ,,alice ,,hegan ,,rice4 ,march #af1 #aiah4 ,illustration 8,sink ,without a ,trace0 ,to his dark minions undersea ,flashed the ,imperial decree3 ,sink ,everything6 ,spare naught6 ,sink everything that floats3 ,merchantmen1 liners1 fishing boats2 ,sink ships on ,mercy's errand sped1 ,dye ,christ's red cross a deeper red3 ,sink ,everything6 ,sink honor1 faith1 forbearance1 ruth2 ,sink virtue1 chivalry1 and truth1 ,sink ,everything6 ,sink everything that men hold dear1 ,that devils hate1 that cowards fear1 ,all that lifts ,man above the ape1 ,that marks him cast in ,god's own shape3 ,sink ,everything6 ,,oliver ,,herford4 ,illustration ,changing the ,guard ,with the entrance of the ,united ,states into the ,great ,war1 we ,americans laid aside forever our spiritual isolation4 ,we accepted our share of responsibility for the assaulted civilization of the world1 and our share of danger at the hands of its great assailant4 ,a free people1 we willingly chose the path of uttermost pain1 and we chose it for the sake of our nation's honor1 our nation's ultimate safety1 and the salvation of our nation's soul4 ,when ,germany denied us the waterways of the world1 she struck hard at our commerce1 at our just rights1 and at our decent pride4 ,what were the ,hohenzollerns to us that we should have taken our orders from the ,kaiser1 tied up our ships in harbor at his behest1 and1 cowering by our own firesides1 have waited for his permission to carry our flag across the sea8 ,was it for this that our forefathers had bought our freedom with their lives8 ,had we revolted when we were colonists1 weak1 poor1 and without resources1 from the tyranny of ,great ,britain 7a stupid but never a brutal tyranny71 only to bow the strength of our manhood before ,germany's shameful threats8 ,had we preached the sacredness of human rights for over a hundred years1 only to acquiesce in ,germany's campaign of murder2 and1 by consenting to her crimes1 become a partner of her guilt8 ,we had suffered cruel injury at her hands4 ,were we also to lose our souls through ignoble submission to wrong-doing8 ,our answer was given when ,president ,wilson asked ,congress to declare a state of war4 ,we had then1 and we have now1 no choice but to fight for our liberty1 or to lose it4 ,our ships had been sunk1 our seamen drowned4 ,treacherous officials had plotted to embroil us with friendly nations4 ,treacherous hands had fired our factories and murdered our citizens4 ,the careless lie or the insolent taunt which were ,germany's alternate answers to our remonstrances1 and which she seemed to think would keep us quiet until she had leisure to turn her arms upon us1 are silenced now4 ,we are upholding the safety and decency of the world1 which has been as deeply degraded by vandalism as when ,attila swept his hordes across the ravaged face of ,europe4 ,our young soldiers are changing guard with the war-worn veterans of ,france and ,great ,britain4 ,valiant and gay1 they face the oppressor4 8,he that loveth his life shall lose it02 and these men stand ready to lay down their lives for all they hold sacred and dear4 ,faithful to their country1 faithful to their allies1 faithful to the freedom in which they were reared1 they strike their blow in the great name of ,america1 and for the peace of ,god4 ,,agnes ,,repplier4 ,illustration ,the ,penitent ,artist 8,i will never make drawings against the ,yellow ,peril again60 ,the ,kaiser has a good many things in his past to live down1 but he certainly never foresaw that some day his inept activities as an artist would stand across his path4 ,raemaekers1 who was not likely to forget anything that ,wilhelm had done in this particular line1 shows him on his knees to ,japan 7and incidentally to ,mexico71 as the infamous ,zimmermann note to the ,german minister at ,mexico ,city revealed him1 full of remorse for those drawings he once made against the ,yellow ,peril4 ,and what is ,japan's reply8 ,the expression which ,raemaekers has caught certainly agrees very well with the following statement of ,count ,terauchi1 ,japanese ,prime ,minister3 8,nothing is more repugnant to our sense of honor and to the lasting welfare of this country than to betray our friends and allies in time of trial and to become a party to a combination directed against the ,united ,states1 to whom we are bound not only by the sentiments of true friendship but also by material interests of vast and far-reaching importance40 ,illustration ,peace ,angels of ,doubtful ,purity ,william3 8,go1 my doves2 your charms may prove more fatal than my armies40 ,illustration ,the ,black ,flag ,germany ,sinks ,british ,hospital ,ships ,the ,british ,admiralty issued a statement on ,april #bc #aiag1 announcing the sinking of the two hospital steamships ,donegal and ,lanfranc without warning by submarines2 nineteen ,british and fifteen wounded ,german officers were drowned4 ,in their statement the ,british authorities denied the ,german charge that hospital ships were employed to transport troops and military supplies4444 ,germany was notified that1 if her course was persisted in1 reprisals would follow1 yet the ,british hospital ship ,asturias was torpedoed without warning on the night of ,march #bj4 ,the ship was steaming with all navigation lights burning and the proper ,red ,cross signs brilliantly illuminated4444 ,on the night of ,march #cj-ca the hospital ship ,gloucester ,castle met with a similar fate4 ,on this occasion the ,berlin official wireless message again published a notification that she was torpedoed by a ,u-boat1 thus removing any possible doubt in the matter4 --,the ,new ,york ,times ,current ,history4 ,illustration ,the ,annexation of ,america 8,i think1 ,all ,highest1 we had better not insist upon the annexation of ,america40 ,in the inscription 8,ten ,million ,men ,between #ba and #cj0 on the ,statue of ,liberty1 ,raemaekers has as usual gone to the heart of things4 ,ten million trained citizen soldiers666 ,what an insurance of peace and security against attack or insult4 ,universal ,citizen ,military ,education and ,training4 ,from the beginning the first article in our ,international ,creed has been the ,monroe ,doctrine--,america for ,americans4 ,if the result of the present war shall be to add two additional items to that creed1 namely1 ,universal ,military ,education and ,training1 and the ,united ,states1 the ,first ,air ,power in the world1 it will be worth all that it costs1 and this great nation can go on in peace and security to work out the mighty destiny awaiting it4 ,raemaekers' placing 8,all ,highest0 and his aide upon the conning tower of a submarine1 suggests another most vital matter at this present time4 ,the submarine has held the world's spotlight for the last two years4 ,its deadly efficiency is universally conceded4 ,that deadly efficiency is the direct result of ,admiral von ,tirpitz's unyielding insistence on a centralized1 independent1 untrammeled ,department for the submarine4 ,we must adopt the same methods if we expect to attain equally deadly efficiency in the air4 ,but the possibilities of the aeroplane are greater than those of the submarine4 ,the aeroplane is capable of offensive in the air against aeroplanes or dirigibles1 on the surface of the sea against ships1 and under the sea against submarines4 ,the offensive capabilities of the submarine can and soon will be restricted to under-surface activities4 ,again1 the submarine is limited to the oceans4 ,the aeroplane is limited by nothing4 ,it can go wherever there is air1 and that means everywhere4 ,in other words1 the aeroplane is the master of the submarine4 ,if we today had a thousand swift1 heavily armed seaplanes continuously patrolling the water within a radius of three hundred miles of ,sandy ,hook 7from ,portland1 ,maine1 to ,norfolk1 ,virginia71 we should have our five ,atlantic sea gateways well guarded1 and could feel secure against any further serious damage from these pests4 ,thus equipped1 submarine raids upon our coast would be an impossibility2 and even the imagination of a ,raemaekers would not dare to conceive of a hostile submarine within sight of the ,statue of ,liberty4 ,,peary4 ,illustration 8,welcome1 ,mate2 ,you're ,just in ,time60 8,i am in the happy position of being1 ,i think1 the first ,british ,minister of the ,crown who1 speaking on behalf of the people of this country1 can salute the ,american ,nation as comrades in arms4 ,i am glad2 ,i am proud4 ,i am glad not merely because of the stupendous resources which this great nation will bring to the succor of the alliance1 but ,i rejoice as a democrat that the advent of the ,united ,states into this war gives the final stamp and seal to the character of the conflict as a struggle against military autocracy throughout the world40 --,from the ,speech of the ,rt4 ,hon4 ,david ,lloyd-,george at the ,american ,club in ,london1 ,april #ab1 #aiag4 ,illustration ,the ,editor3 8,use always the ,american flag and commit as much high treason as you like40 8,woe to the ,german-,american1 so-called1 who1 in this sacred war for a cause as high as any for which ever people took up arms1 does not feel a solemn urge1 does not show an eager determination to be in the very fore-front of the struggle2 does not prove a patriotic jealousy1 in thought1 in action and in speech to rival and to outdo his native-born fellow citizen in devotion and in willing sacrifice for the country of his choice and adoption and sworn allegiance1 and of their common affection and pride4 ,as ,washington led ,americans of ,british blood to fight against ,great ,britain1 as ,lincoln called upon ,americans of the ,north to fight their very brothers of the ,south1 so ,americans of ,german descent are now summoned to join in our country's righteous struggle against a people of their own blood1 which1 under the evil spell of a dreadful obsession1 and1 ,heaven knows6 through no fault of ours1 has made itself the enemy of peace and right and freedom throughout the world40 --,from ,otto ,h4 ,kahn's 8,right ,above ,race40 ,illustration ,german ,intrigues in ,mexico ,many things in the present war have aroused and enraged the people of the ,united ,states against ,germany4 ,the defilement of ,belgium1 the ravage of ,serbia1 the assassination of ,armenia1 all crimes against human nature in which we ,americans share4 ,besides that1 some revelations apply especially to us1--grievances1 injuries and outrages1 things that seem so far removed from the secret thoughts of decent and self-respecting nations that we hesitated to believe them4 ,we must believe them now for we know at last that ,germany has for not less than twenty years been working against the influence and good name of the ,united ,states4 ,it was not for nothing that one of our best-known public men1 when he visited ,germany as far back as #aiaa1 said that it was a country where he felt that 8every man1 woman and child looked upon him with hatred10 because he was conspicuous in this country which had become rich and powerful and prosperous by the road of democracy instead of by the ,german path of militarism4 ,every day reveals some new evidence that the ,german mole was working in ,south ,america1 in ,central ,america1 in almost every ,american state and city1 to prepare the minds of those who were to take part in the infamous conspiracy4 ,before the war broke out in ,europe1 ,germans were trying to organize an active cohort within our boundary4 ,the effort to arouse ,mexico against us while we were still neutral1 is no worse than other ,german diplomacy such as the 8spurlos versenkt0 radiograms of the scoundrel ,luxburg1 directed against the ,argentine2 but the appeal to ,mexico to 8reconquer0 ,texas and the ,southwest was worse than a crime1 it was a blunder1 especially resented by the people of that part of the country4 ,nothing but an absolute breach with ,germany has made possible the revelation of the cynical violation of diplomatic privileges by ,german and ,austrian officials in this country from titled ,ambassadors down through consuls-general and consuls-particular and military aides and secretaries and clerks and hangers-on and spies and jackals1 all uniting to stab the land which gave them hospitality4 ,whatever else may happen1 a hundred years will not efface from the minds of the people of the ,united ,states the belief that 8,germany cannot be a ,gentleman40 ,,albert ,,bushnell ,,hart4 ,illustration ,german 8,militarist0 ,socialism ,does not the cartoonist ,raemaekers fail in this cartoon8 ,the artist ,raemaekers is inspired--here as always4 ,but does the cartoonist succeed this time in burning the right idea1 his idea1 into the reader's brain8 ,here is the real ,kaiser and here are real ,german workingmen4 ,it is they who are carrying the burden of ,kaiserism4 ,all this is convincing4 ,but do not other workingmen in other countries carry burdens8 ,the failure is only at first glance4 ,raemaekers is not concerned to reproduce the conventional cartoon of workingmen carrying a burden of other classes on their shoulders4 ,the point lies not in the burden1 but in the nature of the burden1 the contrast1 so perfectly portrayed1 between the character of the ,kaiser and the characters of his proud and willing slaves4 ,the ,kaiser1 crafty and contemptuous1 but neither so ignorant nor so stupid as to be wholly unconscious of the foolish and contemptible position he occupies6 ,the workingmen evidently once strong1 intelligent and enthusiastic1 though now blinded and crippled1 are utterly unconscious of what they are doing4 ,carrying the heavy burden of ,kaiserism seems no more to them than their day's work4 ,you see ,raemaekers knows both ,kaiser and workingmen1 and so will have nothing to do with the conventional portraits of either4 ,the ,kaiser is neither a beast nor a fool--however foolish his position may be4 ,the workingmen are neither labor heroes ready to revolt1 nor conscious and beaten serfs4 ,so much for the picture--at second glance4 ,it leads to an endless chain of reflections4 ,but the first and most obvious is on the sort of burden these men are carrying4 ,here is an accepted ruler who is allowed to monopolize the force of the nation1 as the cartoon clearly indicates4 ,this of itself gives him an absolute and unlimited power over his workers4 ,the only possible alternative use of that force is to make slaves of the workers of other nations4 ,the ,german workingmen1 it is suggested1 lend themselves blindly to this work of enslavement also--naturally1 for it is no different for their ,kaiser to rule by force and lies over non-,germans than to rule by force and lies over ,germans4 ,the face of the ,kaiser shows a subconscious realization of these lies4 ,the workers show utter unconsciousness4 ,the rule of autocracy over themselves and the extension of that autocracy over others by means of their blood is to them as much a part of nature as the motions of sun and moon or the rise and fall of the tides6 ,indeed1 the workingmen are clearly proud of their burden and his successes and undoubtedly feel that any people is blest to be brought under his benign rule4 ,and here is the moral of the tale4 ,it is the ,kaiser's successes that have so utterly blinded his serfs4 ,then there is one remedy and only one4 ,we need hardly say what that remedy is4 ,,william ,,english ,,walling4 ,illustration ,the ,old ,hammer and the ,new ,president ,wilson elected for a second term4 ,illustration ,the ,spirit of ,washington ,president ,wilson's answer to ,hertling4 8,woodrow ,wilson is in no sense a herald4 ,the revolution of betrayed idealism has been in progress for more than a century1 and in the last decade particularly there has been steady assault upon evil and outworn institutions4 ,these passionate gropings of the spirit in the direction of ideals professed and not practised have merely lacked great leadership and authoritative expression4 ,this is what ,woodrow ,wilson gives4 ,he comes as a leader1 as a nucleating force1 as a clear1 rallying cry to the almost mystic passions that are peculiarly the dominant note of the day4 ,he fits the need of the bloodless revolution as skin fits the hand1 bringing purpose and courage to the struggle for nobler fulfilment of the hopes and aspirations that thrilled those who first sought refuge in the ,new ,world from the oppressions of the ,old--the struggle for real democracy40 --,from ,george ,creel's 8,wilson and the ,issues40 ,illustration ,the ,massacre of the ,innocents ,the following lines are dated ,july1 #aiaf4 8,as it stands10 writes ,mr4 ,howells1 8the poem ignores the glorious retrieval of our former sufferance4 ,it might better now be called ,a ,shame ,lived ,down40--,,ed4 ,,the ,,american ,,people ,what was it kept you so long1 brave ,german submersible8 ,we have been very anxious lest matters had not gone well ,with you and the precious cargo of your country's drugs and dyes4 ,but here you are at last1 and the sight is good for our eyes1 ,glad to welcome you up and out of the caves of the sea1 ,and ready for sale or barter1 whatever your will may be4 ,,the ,,captain ,,of ,,the ,,submersible ,oh1 do not be impatient1 good friends of this neutral land1 ,that we have been so tardy in reaching your eager strand4 ,we were stopped by a curious chance just off the ,irish coast1 ,where the mightiest wreck ever was lay crowded with a host ,of the dead that went down with her2 and some prayed us to bring them here ,that they might be at home with their brothers and sisters dear4 ,we ,germans have tender hearts1 and it grieved us sore to say ,we were not a passenger ship1 and to most we must answer nay1 ,but if from among their hundreds they could somehow a half-score choose ,we thought we could manage to bring them1 and we would not refuse4 ,they chose1 and the women and children that are greeting you here are those ,ghosts of the women and children that the rest of the hundred chose4 ,,the ,,american ,,people ,what guff are you giving us1 ,captain8 ,we are able to tell1 we hope1 ,a dozen ghosts1 when we see them1 apart from a periscope4 ,come1 come1 get down to business6 ,for time is money1 you know4 ,and you must make up in both to us for having been so slow4 ,better tell this story of yours to the submarines1 for we ,know there was no such wreck1 and none of your spookery4 ,,the ,,ghosts ,,of ,,the ,lusitania ,,women ,,and ,,children ,oh1 kind kin of our murderers1 take us back when you sail away2 ,our own kin have forgotten us4 ,o1 ,captain1 do not stay6 ,but hasten1 ,captain1 hasten6 ,the wreck that lies under the sea ,shall be ever the home for us this land can never be4 ,,william ,,dean ,,howells4 ,july1 #aiaf4 ,illustration ,in the ,ring to ,stay ,it is ,ambassador ,gerard's opinion that when the ,german government issued its final insult to the ,united ,states1 all the ,kaiser's advisers were convinced that no provocation would make the ,american people fight4 ,president ,wilson1 they argued1 had just been re-elected on a peace platform4 ,they counted1 it was evident1 upon the influence of the millions of ,german-,americans to frustrate hostilities1 and ,herr ,zimmermann of the ,foreign ,office openly threatened the revolt of #ejj1jjj ,german reservists in ,america if the ,united ,states dared 8to do anything against ,germany40 ,the ,western ,states were reported to be indifferent to the technicalities of the submarine dispute4 ,the ,east was described as interested in the submarine sinkings only because they interfered with the traffic in munitions and the profits therefrom4 ,the whole country was supposedly averse to war1 unwilling to enter into ,european entanglements1 and devoted solely to peaceful industry and money-grubbing4 ,yet within a year afterwards1 ,america had accepted conscription and raised an armed force of two million men4 ,it had contributed billions of dollars to the war through government loans that were more popularly subscribed than even the ,german or the ,english loans4 ,government control had been accepted without question in every sort of private activity4 ,food regulations1 fuel regulations1 the regulation of industry1 shipping1 labor and transportation1 voluntary censorship of the press1 military censorship of the cables and the telegraph and the mails1 prohibition of distilling1 the enforcement of price-fixing1 the curtailment of profits and the levying of confiscatory taxes had all been submitted to without a murmur4 ,it had come to be a byword in ,washington that 8the people could not be asked to do enough02 that the fund of patriotism was so great it was difficult to find channels for it2 that no war in the history of the nation had ever been supported so unanimously4 ,what explanation is there for the miracle of that change8 ,washington believes that it is chiefly due to one man4 ,it believes that ,president ,wilson1 by his patient efforts to maintain peace1 convinced the whole nation of the impossibility of avoiding war before he gave voice to that conviction4 ,it realizes that1 even then1 a great mass of the people were loyal but unenthusiastic1 until he outlined the country's war aims in his famous messages1 and at once lifted the conflict to a higher level of purpose and gathered to his fervent support every sentiment and hope of democracy in the land4 ,washington is now convinced that the war can have but one issue4 ,there is no question of the outcome4 ,the leaders of the nation are aware that the ,united ,states is 8in the ring to stay40 ,as the ,secretary of ,war has said3 8,the ,american people were slow to rouse to this war4 ,they will be as slow to cool4 ,they wished peace4 ,they still wish it4 ,but they have learned that there is but one way to obtain peace1 and they propose to obtain it that way4 ,they know what they are fighting for1 and they will fight till they achieve it40 ,,harvey ,o',,higgins4 ,illustration 8,we ,attacked the #8,fortress of ,london'0 ,illustration ,not a ,bad ,start6 ,can a ,republic fight a successful war8 ,can a people with a century and a quarter of free thought1 free speech and free press change suddenly from words to deeds8 ,can custom and tradition yield gracefully to necessity8 ,is the heart and brain of the ,republic so impressed with the magnitude and importance of this war as to induce it to forget the things which are past and to press forward to the things which are needful8 ,the ,imperial ,german ,staff thought not4 ,it imagined that a people1 whose daily sport was carping criticism of their public officials1 whose army was hardly as large as a policeman's squad1 whose sentiments were all for peace and arbitration1 whose ordnance was archaic and whose only gas-bombs were perfervid oratory could never right-about-face and set themselves to engage in the horrific warfare desolating the fields of ,europe4 ,the mistake in this ,german opinion sprang from a misconception of what liberty really means and of the things for which freedom really stands4 ,its assumption was that there could be no courage with kindliness nor strength with flexibility4 ,to the slow-going mind of the methodical ,german his mistaken view is beginning to appear4 ,his first jolt came when the traditions of a century and a quarter with reference to military service were1 without riot1 tumult or disorder1 set aside and #aj1jjj1jjj young men of ,america1 without murmur1 submitted themselves to conscription4 ,he was further prodded when he learned that1 as each successive liberty loan was presented to the people of ,america it was promptly taken1 and what is more important1 taken by larger and larger numbers of citizens4 ,no wonder ,uncle ,sam and the world think it no bad start that we have made4 ,like all reforms1 it has been accompanied by lapses1 by weaknesses1 by mistakes of judgment1 but through it all there has run the golden thread of a cohesive1 coherent and indomitable ,american public opinion that this country1 having set itself to the task of assisting the ,allies in forever freeing the world from the menace of ,german military power1 will never turn back in the breaking of a single furrow until the blood-guiltiness of the ,german race shall be put underneath the sod and the world shall be planted with the asphodels of a permanent peace4 ,uncle ,sam still smiles confidently1 knowing full well that every day is rectifying mistakes and that every day is adding to the bull-dog tenacity of a people1 who are willing to defend to the uttermost the principles for which they stand against invasion from without and sedition from within4 ,,thos4 ,r4 ,,marshall1 ,vice-,president of the ,united ,states4 ,illustration ,an ,echo of the ,luxberg ,case ,the ,junkers3 8,these ,lansing disclosures are bad4 ,we don't know how to counteract them because we don't know how much more evidence he has got40 ,illustration ,german ,chivalry to ,wounded ,officers ,they do these things differently in ,france4 ,while in ,france in ,may and ,june1 ,i saw many squads of ,german prisoners working at the railroad stations1 on the roads and in the factories4 ,of the several thousands ,i saw1 not one looked underfed1 ill clothed or abused4 ,while their barracks did not have steam heat1 electricity and all the comforts of home1 the board and lodging they received compared favorably with that of the average ,french soldiers1 and the franc a day thrown in as wages could all go for extras if desired4 ,i was told that they all preferred to be prisoners in ,france rather than to return to the 8freedom0 of ,germany while the war lasts4 ,once ,i obtained permission to question a gang of ,prussians working in ,france on an ,american road under a ,british guard4 ,this is what they said to me3 8,we believe ,america intends to conquer ,france4 ,certainly you will never leave this country after having spent so much money on docks and wharves and warehouses and railroads40 ,evidently the common ,german mind cannot conceive of a people going to another's territory and spending money there unless with some sinister1 ulterior1 selfish1 political motive behind it4 ,as ,irving ,cobb says1 we must extract the mania from ,germania4 ,,hamilton ,,holt4 ,illustration ,socialism in ,germany ,it is one of the tragedies of history that the great ,social ,democracy of ,germany1 in which liberal thinkers of all lands reposed so much faith1 proved1 when the testing time came1 to be utterly devoid of intellectual and moral integrity1 a base betrayer of international ,socialist ideals and a subservient tool of ,prussian autocracy4 ,the great majority of the ,german ,socialists1 led by such men as ,scheidemann1 ,sudekum1 ,david and ,legien1 upheld the ,imperial ,german ,government and thus became the accomplices of the assassins of ,potsdam4 ,these so-called 8,socialists0 even stooped so low as to attempt to bribe the ,socialists of other countries in the interests of the ,kaiser and his cowardly crew4 ,in ,italy and in ,russia in particular1 and in other countries less effectively1 they used their ,socialist connections to assist the military schemes of ,germany1 notwithstanding the fact that these were designed to destroy every essential ,socialist principle4 ,herr ,david1 perhaps the ablest of the leaders of the ,majority ,socialists1 declared in the ,reichstag that 8,the ,german armies must continue to fight vigorously whilst the ,german ,socialists encourage and stimulate pacifism among ,germany's enemies40 ,the whole policy of the ,majority ,socialists has been based upon that sinister principle4 ,the small and uninfluential but heroic minority1 led by ,karl ,liebknecht1 ,rosa ,luxemburg and ,george ,ledebour alone have exemplified the ideals of ,socialism4 ,they deserve our lasting honor as fully as the others deserve our lasting contempt4 ,socialism is not dead in ,germany3 only the great political party of ,socialism is shattered4 ,in the hearts of the brave men and women of the ,minority ,socialists the sacred flame still burns4 ,in that lies the only hope for ,german ,socialism4 ,history will record this bitter judgment of the ,german ,social ,democracy3 ,it was an active partner in the crimes of the ,hohenzollern dynasty against civilization2 it infamously betrayed the ,russian ,revolution and prostituted itself to the most malefic despotism of a thousand years4 ,,john ,,spargo4 ,illustration ,the ,spirit of ,german ,science ,the moral revulsion of the world against the ,germans is justified by their use of science4 ,it is not a question of the excellence1 amount1 or character of science--all subjects of legitimate debate--but of the use the ,germans make of science4 ,while science has been used in war at all times and has been a formidable arm in the hands of those who have known how to use it1 still the limits of its use have been fixed with more or less rigor4 ,even before the conventions of ,the ,hague were formulated1 there was the general recognition of the natural distinction between civilized and barbarous warfare4 ,the savage's poisoned arrow has been the symbol of what1 though scientific1 was barbarous4 ,the murder of the wounded soldier or of the disarmed prisoner has always been condemned as the crime of the apache1 not the method of the gentleman4 ,pity for the innocent--women1 children1 even the animals--and merciful treatment of the helpless--the drowning1 the famished--seem to mark man1 even in the profession of intentional killing of his fellow-man1 as moved by a certain sentiment1 a certain sense of human superiority to the brute which takes blood simply from the love of it4 ,even against the legitimate foe there are certain means of offense so base--the use of poison in wells1 the diffusion of microbes of disease--or so treacherous--the dynamite-loaded cigar--that the chivalrous man redresses himself at the thought of them with a shudder of mingled moral contempt and physical nausea4 ,this has been the use made of science by the ,germans4 ,they have abolished the distinction between the knight and the brute1 between the man and the snake1 between pure science and foul practice4 ,this damns the ,german race4 ,our grandchildren will say to their grandchildren3 8,you murdered people in open boats1 you bombarded audiences kneeling in churches1 you torpedoed hospital ships in plain ocean1 you sent young girls into immoral slavery1 you tortured prisoners1 you poisoned the wells used by civilian populations1 you did a hundred treacherous things that our fathers and mothers shuddered to recall4 ,you ,germans did it40 ,to future generations this will damn the ,german race4 ,no theory of the super-man1 of the chosen state1 of the alliance with ,god will ever gloss it over4 ,their science may have honored the ,germans1 but the ,germans have dishonored science4 ,german science has always had the credit of making happy application and practical use of abstract laws and formulas1 chemical1 physical1 biological4 ,in applying science in war1 however1 it has disallowed the moral laws which underlie all sound science and healthy life4 ,here ,german 8applied science0 will remain1 let us hope1 for all time unrivalled4 ,j4 ,,mark ,,baldwin4 ,illustration ,humanity and ,her ,german ,lovers ,it is not possible to judge ,louis ,raemaekers as an artist4 ,he is a voice1 a sword1 a flame4 ,his cartoons are the tears of women1 the battle-shout of indomitable defenders1 the indignation of humanity1 the sob of civilization4 ,they will go down into history4 ,they are history4 ,to take them1 to turn page after page1 is to know the ,european ,war1 to see it face to face1 as a child sees1 and not through a glass darkly4 ,it is one of the great works of the world which he has done4 ,perhaps genius was only dormant1 waiting for the cry of general catastrophe to bring it forth into vivid1 terrific life4 ,and yet--for who shall say that all things in heaven and earth are understood8--it may be that those same voices that called through the orchard of ,domremy called to the cartoonist in the office of the ,amsterdam 8,telegraaf10 that into his simple soul1 recommended to ,god by its love of flowers1 there fell a tear from on high4 ,george ,creel in 8,the ,century ,magazine10 ,june1 #aiag4 ,illustration ,the ,strikers ,striker to ,agitator3 8,you speak very well1 but when ,i see these fellows ,i'm ashamed ,i ever listened to you40 ,raemaekers' cartoons will prove an immortal comment on the great world war4 ,he makes the world see that war does not create atrocities but that war itself is the supremest of all atrocities4 ,when the names of battles have been forgotten the name of ,raemaekers will be spoken with gratitude and reverence by coming generations4 ,,carrie ,,chapman ,,catt4 ,illustration #aggf-aiag ,men1 nations1 and movements are symbolized by their moments of crisis4 ,the long1 tedious1 humdrum years of life never get into picture1 never fire human imagination2 even though those years are the necessary foundations upon which great events rise4 ,so ,america for nearly a century and a half has been symbolized--at least in ,european eyes--by that great moment when she rose in the world and asserted her independent status 8among the nations of the earth40 ,the men of '#gf have stood for ,american valor1 ,american military skill1 ,american statesmanship4 ,now has come a time when 8a decent respect for the nations of mankind requires0 that ,americans shall again stand for their portrait in history4 ,this time we are standing among the civilized nations not for independence1 but for interdependence6 ,where once we stood for a nation consecrated to freedom1 now we stand for a community of nations consecrated to justice4 ,perhaps when the new portraits are painted in this great hour of crisis all the nations of the world will appear in history with new faces4 ,the soldier of the revolution of '#gf2 the red-capped liberty girl of ,france1 the conventional ,john ,bull1 the ,german war lord--all will 8suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange40 ,and the old portraits that glimpsed the old truth about the old world shall in the new world have but an archaic interest6 ,,william ,,allen ,,white4 ,illustration 8,now1 ,hindenburg1 ,bring on the ,rest of ,my ,people0 ,all of us who love the ,old ,germany we knew1 who have dear friends there1 and who have rejoiced in the happiness honest industrialism and widespread commerce were bringing to a great people before this terrible slaughter began feel a deep pang of sorrow as we look upon ,raemaekers' terrible picture of what the war has brought to ,germania4 ,the dreadful pity of it is that ,germania should have brought this upon herself by appealing to the ,sword when the ,temple of ,peace stood open and all her present enemies were pleading that there should be no shedding of blood4 ,,david ,,jayne ,,hill4 ,illustration ,the ,master of the ,hounds 8,remember1 ,michaelis1 every dog has his day60 ,illustration ,processional ,not for a flaunted flag1 ,o ,god1 ,not for affronted power1 ,not for a scurrile hope of gain1 ,not for the pride of an hour1 ,not for vengeance1 hot in the heart1 ,now have we swung to war6 ,not for a weak mistrust lest peace ,is a shame strong men abhor4 ,not for glory--for oh1 to kill ,should be a sacred wrath3 ,not for these6 but to war on war ,and sweep it from earth's path6 ,patient has been our creed1 till now1 ,patient1 too1 our hope1 ,patient for long our loathful deed1 ,for the just in doubt must grope4 ,but with a foe at last arrayed ,against the whole world's right1 ,you1 ,o soul of the universe1 ,your very self must fight4 ,you yourself2 so but one prayer ,need we to lift--but one1 ,that by our battle shall all war ,be utterly undone4 ,,cale ,,young ,,rice4 ,illustration ,transcriber's ,notes3 ,due to space constraints some lines of the poem #8,,the ,,captain ,,of ,,the ,,submersible' on page #ahj have been split4 ,italics are shown thus3 sloping4 ,small capitals have been capitalised4 ,variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained4 ,an exception is #8,raemaekers' for #8,raemakers' on page #agd4 ,punctuation has been retained as published4