by England, have
violated the real neutrality of China from pure lust for robbery. For
the three great powers allied against Germany and Austria have not been
satisfied with their own nominal superiority of 220 millions against 110
millions! In addition to this they have urged on into war against us a
Mongolian people, the most dangerous enemy of the white race and its
culture. They have supplemented their armies by a motley collection of
all the African negro tribes. They lead into battle against us Indian
troops, and the Christian Germanic King of England prays to God for the
victory of the heathen Hindus over his coreligionists and blood
relatives. Americans, does your racial feeling, at other times so
sensitive, remain silent in view of this unexampled shame? Do you accord
to the English and the French, who are attacking us in co-operation with
the Russians, the Servians, and the Montenegrins, who are dirtying
themselves with a brotherhood in arms with the yellow skins, the brown
skins, and the blacks, the right to declare themselves the
representatives of civilization and us to be barbarians?

In order to drive home such evident absurdities, they were, of course,
obliged to carry on the poisoning of the spring of information to the
utmost, they had to suppress the news of the vile deeds of guerrillas
and "snipers" in Belgium and of the Russian ghouls in East Prussia, that
were crying to heaven, and to send out into the world instead fables of
German brutality. Our national army, permeated with ethical seriousness
and iron discipline, the scientist standing beside the farmer, the
workman beside the artist, should be guilty of unnecessary severity,
uncontrollable brutality, brutality against people unable to defend
themselves? Do you believe that, Americans?

*The Charge of Vandalism.*

The climax of absurdity, however, is reached when the Germans, who in
their love and appreciation of art are not surpassed by any people in
the world, are accused of having raged as vandals against works of art.
Even now these accusations, which the French Government itself had the
pitiful courage to support, have proved totally groundless. The City
Hall at Louvain stands uninjured; while the populace fired at them, our
soldiers had, risking their own lives, saved it from the flames. An
imperial art commission followed at the heels of our victorious troops
in Belgium, in order to take charge of the guarding and administration
of