The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon

he has won. In the long calendar the reader finds that eight States-Belgium,

ndary cities and towns; they add that they have destroyed seventy-three cathedrals and looted th

ngs, so much treasure of diamonds and jewels, so many paintings from rich men's houses, and the long boast ends with the statement that they "ob

rman frontier to permanently hold a city. But let no man think that Germany has succeeded because

d Macbeth succeed? Was not his palace a brief halting place in his journey to

es went to the jail to drink a cup of poison. But who succeeded? The judges whose names are written low down

ing Paul to his rags, crusts and the dungeon preparatory to the headman's a

succeeded in crucifying Jesus; but after nineteen centuries the murderers are unkn

let us concede his claim. Not otherwise two hundred years ago the Indian, with his scalping knife, his war-whoop and his tomahawk, was "a super

rge. But because the Kaiser can publish a long list of wealth gained-by breaking

awned for them, just as the Kaiser and von Hindenburg never sleep at night without a vision of an oak tree, a long bough and a he

Russia or the United States, forget that ou

Paul and Demosthenes; the martyrs who were burned with S

n and Marston Moor, Gettysburg

and the brigand dissolves

." And when a little time has passed all lovers of liberty and humanity will exclaim: "During four years I have seen the Kaiser and von Hind