nt. They seem to have sold their consciences for place. Not a word
comes from them even of regret for the massacre of civilians on false
charges, for the wanton murder of children, for the wholesale rape of
women, the showering of bombs upon sleeping towns in sheer cruelty of
destruction. The intellectual energies of Kultur seem concentrated on
distorting the meaning of our dispatches and the speeches of our
statesmen, and in manufacturing for their people and neutrals venomous
falsehoods. German Geist today is a huge machine to cram lies upon their
own people, and to insinuate lies to the world around. Their system of
war is based upon lying at home and abroad, on treachery and terrorism.
They think that murdering a few civilians would terrify France into
surrender, and will drive England to betray the Allies. Their poor
conscripts are told that we kill and torture prisoners; their monuments
at home are bedizened with mock laurels; and neutrals are poisoned with
wild inventions.

For years past their public men, have

[Illustration: ADOLF VON HARNACK.

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[Illustration: THEODORE NIEMEYER.

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been tricking our politicians, journalists, and professors to accept
them as peaceful leaders of a higher civilization--- while all the while
their soldiers, diplomats, and spies (the three are really but one
class) were secretly courting our own royalties and society, studying
our naval and military defenses, filling our homes with tens of
thousands of reservists having secret orders to spy, to destroy our
arsenals and roads, and even planting out bogus industries and laying
concrete bases for cannon, to bombard the open towns of friendly
nations. We have been living unsuspectingly with a nation of assassins
plotting to destroy us. Did these professors of Kultur not know of this
elaborate conspiracy of Kaisertum, which unites the stealthy treachery
of a Mohawk or a thug to the miracles of modern science? For years past
the ideal of Kultur has been to lay down secret mines to destroy their
peaceful neighbors. Did these professors of the Fatheland not know this?
Then they are unable to grasp the most obvious facts--the life work of
their own masters under their own eyes. And, if they did know it, and
must at least know it now, and yet approve and glory in it, they must be
beneath contempt. Why argue with such hypocrites?

Not a few of us have known and watched this conspiracy for years. I have
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