simple principle which the Kaiser
proceeded to obey as soon as he reached Constantinople.

Every one knew that the Kaiser wanted to build a German railroad through
to Bagdad and the Persian Gulf; this would give him an outlet for
surplus goods to be sold in India. Serbia lay straight across the path,
and he had to work out some scheme to attack Serbia. Then he needed the
Sultan's friendship, and the end justified the means--and the end was
the Bagdad Railroad.

But the Turk tired of being the Kaiser's tool; he wanted more land; the
Armenian was in his way; the Turk was lazy, shiftless and a spendthrift.
The Armenian was industrious and hard-working. The Turk's method of
living made him poor. The 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 fa