AMERICA'S VERDICT OF GUILTY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 30 January 1915, Page 8

AMERICA'S VERDICT OF GUILTY.

GERMANY'S COLOSSAL CKLME. (From tho Providence (RJ.) Journal). | 'The ..Uuiisterbcrgs, the Bemstoril's, Hie Riders, and all tha subsidised agents of the German Government are persist- , ing in their frantic appeals to tha Jonr- ) nal and many other newspaper* in tile , | attempt to curb tho honest and hearti j felt indignation of the American people. , ■ These represcntatirea of German "eul- , ture," together with tha Kuhn Loeb» I of the commercial world, in their fam-j •, ous "patriotism," or blindness, believe '! that the newspapers are responsible for' l ( the most spontaneous and universal I < protest that the American peopla ha»' ' | ever made in its history. I 1 William of Germany and his peopla | | havo an account to square with Godi that no sophistry oan wipe out. For! i they have wilfully, and j n their madi passion for conquest, turned a fair land! I into shambles, taken a peaceable little I nation by the throat, torn it into bleed-! ing fragments, and crushed its very I heart beneath its iron tread. The storI ics of individual German atrocities may not all be true, though there is proof • that many of them are. But whatever I is true and whatever is false, this one! j thing stands out, so overshadowing in j , its monstrous cruelty and barbarism,! that it forces the hoarse cry of "guilty" | from every man and woman in the' I world whose 1 eing throbs with a spark | of human love or the spirit of justice. The preservation of Germany's na- | tional power, her boasted military maf chine, her position in art, and' tho i sciences, and commerce, are no longer ( . dependent for preservation on her vie-1 j tories in the Held. Thev arc destroyed f , already, and she will toil on towards I , the light through many generations of) , hitter years before she rises from her I knees again. I Xot because great armaments will J have beaten her down, not because she ( has been hurled back in her crusade of butchery and invasion. No; but because purporting to b e a great civilised race, worthy of a "place in the sun, ; she has proclaimed to the world tha a treaty is only a scrap of paper, am liyabandof paranoiac who poses as the chosen of God Himself has dclugcc with the blood of murdered thousand: a land whose peace she has sworn t< protect and hold inviolate. lAII the tramping of Germany's legions, all the thunder of her bombs ant batteries, cannot drown out the cry oi one little Belgian child.