ophied. The ordinary German
prisoner when shown the bodies left behind after the flight of the
German army simply looks blankly at the mutilated corpse and exclaims:
"Well, what of it? Why not? Why shouldn't we?" and shrugs his shoulders,
taking it as a matter of course. That is another reason why a great
number of American business men, bankers, merchants, manufacturers,
scholars, statesmen, have reluctantly been forced to the conviction that
the ten millions of German soldiers should be painlessly sterilized,
that the German people (saving only the remnant who accept Jesus' idea
of compassion and kindness towards God's poor and weak) should be
allowed to die out of the world. Re-read, therefore, what this German
has said about the teaching of his German parents and the German people
in praise of cruelty, and how for twenty years now, redeemed by life in
the United States, he has tried to make atonement by supporting the man
whom he had crippled, and also his mother. Who shall explain to us the
reason why German barbarism is not barbarism to the Germans? Why, this
German shall explain it, through his personal experience as a criminal.
But the day will come when the Potsdam gang and ten million German
soldiers will stand before the judgment seat of God. And what shall be
the verdict then pronounced? You will find it in the New Testament:
"'Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee,' thou wicked and cruel
German!"

2. The German "Science of Lying"

For the first time in history a nation has organized lying into a
science and taught deceit as an art.

At the very time when the diplomats of the world have refused any form
of secrecy and insist upon publishing all international treaties and
doing everything in the open, Germany has organized lying into a
national science. Even Maximilian Harden, editor of _Zukunft_, openly
acknowledges this in one of his editorials reproduced in the papers of
Denmark and Holland.

Harden comes right out in the open. He tells the German people that at
the beginning of the war it was necessary to say to the world that
Germany was fighting a defensive war, that her back was against the
wall, that those wicked enemies named England and France, Russia and
Belgium were leaping upon her like wolves.

Of course, says Harden, at first that was good diplomacy, but now that
we are successful, "Why say this any longer? Let the Kaiser and his
Chancellor tell the world plainly that we decided upon