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gifts of the Armenian tended towards
wealth. Once in twenty years the Turk found himself a pauper and
found the Armenian rich; the result was envy and covetousness on the
part of the Sultan and his people. It became necessary to bribe the Turk
to stand by the Kaiser and his Baghdad Railroad. The Kaiser's German
officers, therefore, furnished the bribe.
"Let us go to this Armenian village, or that, and kill the people. We
German officers will take the large houses of the rich merchants and
move into them, and your Turkish soldiers can kill the old men, use the
Armenian girls for the harem, and fling the little children's bodies into
pits dug in the garden behind the house. We will enter the village in the
morning as soldiers; when the night comes, as Germans and Turks, we
will be the only people living in the Armenian village, and we will
move into their stores and take possession of their houses and their
looms."
"You cannot hang an entire nation," said Edmund Burke. "You must
arrest the leaders and hang them." Burke was right as to the punishment
of criminals, but he was wrong when it comes to murdering industrious
and honest Armenians. You can murder an entire nation, for the
Germans and the Turks have practically done it. Ambassador
Morgenthau has just said that the Kaiser and the Sultan through their
forces have murdered nearly a million Armenians. But, soon or late,
remorse and conscience will take hold upon these two unspeakable
butchers with hands that drip with blood--the butcher Kaiser, the

butcher Sultan, that represent earth's two murderous twins.
3. Pershing's Charges versus the Kaiser
Nothing measures a man so accurately as the names he gives to his
favourite son. Most significant, therefore, is the fact that the Kaiser
named his second son Eitel, or Attila. Who was this Attila who has
captured the imagination of the Kaiser? He was a Hun who devastated
Italy fifteen hundred years ago. The motto of this black-hearted
murderer Attila the Hun was: "Where my feet fall, let grass not grow
for a hundred years." When the Kaiser read Attila's story he exclaimed:
"That is the man for me!" First, he named his favourite son for Attila
the Hun. Second, in sending his German soldiers out to China, and later
in 1914 to Belgium, he gave them this charge: "You will take no
prisoners; you will show no mercy; you will give no quarter; you will
make yourselves as terrible as the Huns under Attila." Plainly the
Kaiser knew his men. He knew that they were capable of outdoing even
that monster Attila the Hun. So he sent them forth to bayonet babes,
violate old women, murder old men, crucify officers, violate nuns, sink
Lusitanias, and turn solemn treaties into scraps of paper.
Now over against the Kaiser's charge, black as hell, and big with death,
witness Pershing's charge, reported loosely by a French boy, with his
imperfect knowledge of English, translated out of the French
newspapers on July 18, 1917. Pershing's brief address comes to this:
"Young soldiers of America, you are here in France to help expel an
invading enemy; but you are also here to lift a shield above the poor
and weak; you will safeguard all property; you will lift a shield above
the aged and oppressed; you will be most courteous to women, gentle
and kind to little children; guard against temptation of every kind; fear
God, fight bravely, defend Liberty, honour your native land. God have
you in His keeping." "Pershing."
The difference between yonder lowest hell in its uttermost abyss and
yonder highest heaven, where standeth the throne of a just God, is not
greater than the chasm that separates that unspeakable butcher, the
Kaiser, from General Pershing and the American soldier boys, who

have never betrayed in France, the noblest ideals of service cherished
by the people of the American Republic.
4. Who Taught the Kaiser That a Treaty Is a Scrap of Paper?
Each month of this war clears away some clouds and reveals Germany
as wholly given over to crime and treachery. At the beginning of the
invasion of Belgium, the Kaiser spoke of his treaty safeguarding the
neutrality of that little land as a "scrap of paper." At the moment no one
seems to have realized whence the Kaiser had that cynical expression.
Now the whole damnable story has been made clear. Twenty-five years
ago the Kaiser, in one of his addresses, used these words:
"From my childhood I have been under the influence of five
men--Alexander, Julius Cæsar, Theodoric II, Napoleon and Frederick
the Great. These five men dreamed their dream of a world empire; they
failed. I am dreaming my dream of a world empire, but I shall
succeed."