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The present English administration, which partakes
in this war under the blaspliemic pretense of the pro-
tector of warranted rights, thus proclaims that it does"
not stand back from any corruption of law.
No country, which claims to be a civilized nation
may proclaim laws in open contrast with the general
conception of right.
If it does, in spite of this, it places itself outside of I
the rights of a nation and proves the collapse of all
national organization.
This is what has developed in the Iiiiglish colonies
of the crown. The English administration has placed
itself outside the international rights of law and there-
by proves that the England of today has already col-
lapsed, as it'has stooped so low as to sanction by
law vulgar robbery, contrary to its national obligations
of trust .and faith.
When VVarren Hastings, the infamous director of
the “East Indian Trading Company,” by his levies of
tribute ‘to increase the revenue of this company at
the end of the eighteenth century, caused an unheard-
of increase of cruelty and barbarism by the Indian
princes towards their people; cruelties, which remain
an eternal stain for the conception of humanity, Burke
in 1785 appeared before the “House of Lords” and ac-
cused Hastings in the name gf eternal justice.
Burke’s last appeal before the Lords on the 23d
of April, 1795, before their decision was rendered,
concluded:
“My Lords, if you close your eyes to these out-
rages, then you make us English a nation of fakers,
a nation of hypocrites, a national of liars, a nation
of crooks.
“The character of England, which has made us a
great nation, more than our arms and more than our
commerce, the character of England will be doomed,
will be lost forever,”
Warren Hastings was acquitted because he had.
increased the revenue of England from India from
three million pounds sterling to five millions.
There and then started the collapse of England.
It was stayed in theNapoleonic war by Germans-Hes-
sians, Hanoveranians and Brunswigians, who brought
to victory the battles of Vllellington in Spain and Bel-
gium. -
Like India, thus was Ireland treated. Millions of
Irish have been driven to America.
What happens now in India and the colonies and
in the German-African colonies cannot be called but
“highway robbery.”
We are not face to face with the procedure of a
civilized nation, but with that of a horde of robbers,
who are digging the grave of their own nation.
England has been judged, will remain condemned
no matter how this war ends.
To Manage a. Good Cheer.
.(From the London “TimeI.")
“I have’ justcome from Sloane square, A regi- I
ment was passing. A white haired man stood at
attention, his hat’off. Our magnificent .soldiers
. and their officers" saw and smiled with evident
pleasure. I he rest of the crowd stood as though
they were going to E.f6'C1ll101l. VVhen soldiers in
such numbers pass, there is time for the people
to group themselves together and encourage each
other in a good cheer. Cannot this be managed?”
THE VITAL ISSUE 7‘ A
“The Distinguished Neutral.”
“English people do not understand the extent
to which Germany is ruled by newspapers-not
merely by the suppression of ugly facts, which
is not, in my opinion, so severely exercised as
it is with you, but by the continual suggestion of
better things to come . . . . ”
“It is said that the Allies have suffered much
more severely than you have admitted ofiicially
in Paris and in London. And, indeed, the ac-
counts I have read in English and German news-
papers disagree in toto. Which is remarkable,
inasmuch as the official German information is
not, asorule, inaccurate. . . . .
“One noticeable fact, which is difficult to un-
derstand, is the increasing sale of English news-
papers in Prussia. Agencies at Amsterdam seem
able to circulate copies of the Times quite freely
in Germany. One German friend at Chemnitz
has every day the Times, the Daily Chronicle,
' and the Daily Mail. LFrankly, he does not be-
lieve a word in any of them.”
This “distinguished neutral,” who has written for
the London Times many lucid reports on the condi-
tions in Germany and Austria, is really’ distinguished
by his courage to tell from time to time a small bit of
truth to his English friends. So he finds that the sup-
pression of ugly facts is not so severely.exercised in
Germany as it is in England, that “the official German
information is not, as a rule, inaccurate,” ‘and that all
the English newspapers are being freely circulated
all over Germany. The London Times, knowing the
absolute reliability of her correspondent, did’ not even
try to color or to reduce his pungent observations.
The New York Times on the other hand, which is, as
a matter of course, far more British than the London
Times, is still babbling about the Germans being de-
ceived by their government, not knowing the real truth
and so on and so on. All the newspapers of the world
. are being freely circulated in Germany and the aver-
age German is in the unparalleled position to look out
for the “real truth” in his club, cafe or verein with
the help of all the French, Russian, English, Amer-
ican and German editors. Where is he to find that
real truth if not in his absolutely unrestricted use of
all the news and comments of his enemies. The‘
Englishman, the Frenchman and the Russian are de-
nied the privilege of using their critical capacity.
Heavy penalties prevent the circulation of German
or Austrian newspapers in those glorious democracies
Yet, -of course, the German is a hopeless creature.
Knowing that his armies are still fighting in France
and Russia and not in Germany, he is reading all
those gospels of truth, even the New York Times
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but like the man in Chemnitz, “he does not believe
a word in any of them.”
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A True Christian Reverend.
“ (From the London “Times.”
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has offered his services. which have been ‘ac...
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