The Dominion. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1916. LIARS AND HYPOCRITES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2893, 4 October 1916, Page 4

The Dominion. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1916. LIARS AND HYPOCRITES

As an exhibition of hypooriticar mendacity. Ihc lament of the German Crown Prince over the woo and waste of war could not bo surpassed. Tho crocodile tears of this Hohenzollern princeling aro k'dsolutely repulsive. They will be scorned and derided by every man and froma-n who knows the difference between truth and falsehood, nght and wrong. The journalist who recorded the inttvvic\y must have had great difficulty in'restraining;his lo laugh in the (Prince's face. The Germans' musfc- have, a very ijoor opinion , of the intelligence cf tbc ' rest of the-world think this crude shamming is going to win for ■ them anything but contempt. In some captured ,correspoiidence a German agent refers to the peoplo ?f the United States as- ''these ldiotio Yankees," and Americans would be idiotic indeed if they allowed themselves to be befooled by the hypocritical humbug which the Crown Prince-has been-talking for their benefit. "What a pity it is!" he exclaims. "All.ithis;terrible ex- - tinction ; of human, life." And yet' he knows, and all the world knows, that Germany planned: this war, willed it, spent years in preparing f for it, and has waged it with a ferocity unexampled in human his- ' tory. She' not only prepared for ; war on a vast scale, but, she also de- : liberately resolved to trample upon all the rules of civilised warfare in the hope of striking terror into : the hearts of her enemies. Not content with the slaughter of com- 1 batants, she .has been guilty of the 1 wholesale murder of. non-c6mba- 1 tants on sea and land, of bestial out- ; rages on innocent women, of' the shameful murder of honourable ' foes, has even exulted in the killing ' of infants, and under the cloak of ' warfare piled up a mass of wanton ! and needless horrors unparalleled in history. It is positively hateful 1 to listen to one of .these pitiless - Huns whining about j)ity. The na-' J ture of the CroWn Prince's appeal ' to American peace sentiment is a 1 striking illustration of that "moral \ insanity" which, as Peofessor Mor- ' can declares, has got possession of E the German authorities. In defending the Lusitania outrage, in- | volving the cold-blooded murder of J men, women, and little children, the German, Government wrote: J "The case of, tho Lusitania shows : with horrible clearness to what jeo- J pardising of human lives the man- j ner of war conducted by our ad- ; versaries leads."! This lie is so ob- 4 viously a lie that it is hard to im- " agine what the Germans hope to f gain by it. It is not even a clever falsehood. It merely adds the a crime of perjury to that of murder. v "This affectation of horror at the consequence of its own crimes and * the imputation of tho guilt of them f to others is surely," writes Profkssou Morgan, "ono of the most ? remarkable revelations of the ! moral obliquity _of the German 1 mind." Such a nation of liars de- r serves to be excluded from the fcl- * lowship of the family of nations. Tho Crown Prince now wants to ? make _thq world—and especially the 11 ■American' public—believe that all c ' Germans, from the master assassin 1 Kaiser on his throne to his instrument,, the Hun soldier in his trench, would prefer lo see tho itfental and 0 physical power which has been a . thrown into the war diverted from destructive to constructive work'. s What blatant hypocrisy! War and ? preparation for war has been tba ,•

chijef occupation of 1 the Grown Prince and his fellow junkers for years past. Tho German armies have wantonly smashed some of the finest architecture in the world, and have shown their estimation of the value of intellect and education by destroying the University of Loiivain. They have gloried in their shame. Yet now when they want to get help and sympathy from America they alter their tune and pose as, apostles of pcace and -shed sham tears over the bloodshed and devastation which have resulted from their own insatiable ambitions and hellish methods. Their masterstroke has failed, and now they are whining and wailing about tho loss of human lifo and seeking -with their, misorablo lies and shameless hypocrisy to save themselves from the consequences of their own dreadful crimes by gaining the'sympathy ot neutrals at tho cxpenso of tho Allnft. They havo proved . selves a nation of liars and hypocrites. Who to-day can believe tho woM of. Germany or put any trust in the professions of tho German nation as represented by" its . leaders J \Pkofessor Morgan, in his latest book on German atrocities, is, in,a position to quote chapter and. verse in support of his indictment of Germany for perjury and .tt , , as well as lawlessness. He declares that tho German Govern mbnt is so tainted with the infamy of indisputable mendacity that no sober and impartial man can credit- a single 'word of what it says. Borlin itself is one great factory of lies, and its official Press service a vast system of interna-, tional blackmail." Professor Morgan tells us that "all through the German utterances there runs an° infatuated obsession that 'tho Germans enjoy a kind of moral prerogative in .virtuo of which they aro entitled to violate all tHo laws ™ lch they rigidly prescribe for •2l i ? seem lio have turned the-moral code upside down. For them ovil has become good, and good lias become; evil. A German Piince is not ashamed to openly resprtto lying and hypoqrisv if ho thinks he can gain a .point : by such despicable "tricks. This is in accordance.with the German philosophy of war which justifies all sorts of treachery and the employment of •false pretexts for committing the vilest; atrocities.' Wo nnist never lose sight of this fact.-