erfidy of the Germans has already failed. They entered Belgium to save
time. The time has gone. [Loud and continued applause.] They have not
gained time, but they have lost their good name. ["Hear, hear!"]

The Case of Servia.

But Belgium is not the only little nation that has been attacked in this
war, and I make no excuse for referring to the case of the other little
nation, the case of Servia. ["Hear, hear!"] The history of Servia is not
unblotted. Whose history, in the category of nations, is unblotted?
["Hear, hear!"] The first nation that is without sin, let her cast a
stone at Servia. She was a nation trained in a horrible school, but she
won her freedom with a tenacious valor, and she has maintained it by the
same courage. [Applause.] If any Servians were mixed up in the
assassination of the Grand Duke, they ought to be punished. ["Hear,
hear!"] Servia admits that. The Servian Government had nothing to do
with it. Not even Austria claims that. The Servian Prime Minister is one
of the most capable and honored men in Europe. ["Hear, hear!"] Servia
was willing to punish any one of her subjects who had been proved to
have any complicity in that assassination. What more could you expect?
What were the Austrian demands? Servia sympathized with her
fellow-countrymen in Bosnia--that was one of her crimes. She must do so
no more. Her newspapers were saying nasty things about Austria; they
must do so no longer. That is the German spirit; you had it in Zabern.
["Hear, hear!" and applause.] How dare you criticise a Prussian
official? [laughter,] and if you laugh, it is a capital offense--the
Colonel in Zabern threatened to shoot if it was repeated. In the same
way the Servian newspapers must not criticise Austria. I wonder what
would have happened if we had taken the same line about German
newspapers. ["Hear, hear!"] Servia said: "Very well, we will give orders
to the newspapers that they must in future criticise neither Austria,
nor Hungary, nor anything that is theirs." [Laughter.] Who can doubt the
valor of Servia, when she undertook to tackle her newspaper editors?
[Laughter and applause.] She promised not to sympathize with Bosnia, she
promised to write no critical articles about Austria; she would have no
public meetings in which anything unkind was said about Austria.

"Servia Faced the Situation with Dignity."

But that was not enough. She must dismiss from her army the officers
whom Austria should subsequently