THE ONE RIGHTEOUS MAN

Taihape Daily Times, 29 August 1918, Page 3

THE ONE RIGHTEOUS MAN

"He who ill-treats an unarmed man, a prisoner or anyone suffering bodily pain, or insults and abuses him, is not worthy of the name of man; he is guilty of the great sin which shall never be forgiven in time or place. Shall we not still in the storm, the earthquake, and shame of this cruel time endCEfvour to keep the standard of clean manhood? It is strange to find this passage in a German periodical (says a writer in the Westminister Gazette). It is addressed by Maximilian Harden to the French Sociallists; who he believes will sympathise with him. The denunciation falls with crushing effect on Harden's own countrymen, who have ill-treated prisoners of war. He reminds his readers of the priest in Ehcims who at the risk of his life went to the help of the wounded German prisoners in the cathedral when it had been set on fire I by German shells. That, he declares, is a model for the world to follow. We can be glad that there is one righteous man in Germany who dares to say as , much.