oland and Rumania? France will never be the same again. The scar of the
beast will abide. That is why no man of large mind and great heart will
ever make friends with a soldier from Germany, will ever buy an article
of German stamp, so long as he lives, will ever read another German
book, or support another German business. It is our duty to forgive the
transgressor who is repentant, but it is a crime to forget the
unspeakable atrocities, the devilish cruelties of the German Kaiser, the
German War Staff and the German army, with its 10,000,000 criminals.

8. "Why Are We Outmanned by the Germans?"

Many thoughtful men have lingered long over the despatches announcing
that Great Britain called thirty thousand farmers to the trenches, thus
threatening the loss of a part of her harvest. One of the British
editors and statesmen explains this event by the frank statement that
for the moment the Allies are outmanned, and will be until another
million Americans reach France. Many men are puzzled to understand what
this means, but the explanation is very simple. The combined population
of Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria is not far from 140,000,000.
To this must be added seventy millions of conquered and impressed
peoples of Belgium, Poland, Rumania, with the Baltic provinces of
Russia, Ukraine and other regions. Over against this population stands
the 125,000,000 living in Great Britain, France, Italy, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand and the English people of South Africa, and
India, and the Isles of the Sea. Concede, therefore, that the army of
six millions of Allies are over against six millions of Germans. Why are
we outmanned?

Back of that British editor-statesman's statement lies a most dramatic
fact. Our Allies keep their treaties, and will not use German prisoners
to fight against their brothers. Therefore the six million of Allies'
soldiers have no support behind them. But the Germans impress all
conquered peoples and lifted into the air if the observer had a glass
powerful enough, he would behold back of the German six millions another
six millions of impressed prisoners and conquered peoples, who support
the German army. These men, driven forward by an automatic pistol and
the rifle, work within half a mile of the rear German trench. They dig
ditches, fill shell holes, repair roads, bring up burdens, care for the
horses, scrub the mud from the wagons, and the slightest neglect of the
task means that they are