tree, and then I lifted up my eyes, and, behold! he was not."
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
Hindenburg flourish as the green bay tree, and I lifted up mine eyes,
and, behold! they were not. For the breath of His nostrils had slain
them."

6. Germans Who Hide Behind the Screen

Two thousand years are a long time in terms of history.

Many damnable tools have been invented during these twenty centuries.
The rack, the thumbscrew, the tomahawk, the fagot belong among these
devilish instruments.

Cruelties so terrible have been devised that old scholars often felt
unwilling to believe that men were so low in the scale as to have been
the authors of these methods of fiendishness.

In the hope, therefore, of keeping respect for man many scholars
transferred all responsibility unto devils. They called in Satan and
made him to be the father of hate and cruelty. They could not believe
that Nero, Judas or Torquemada could conceive such wickedness. They
therefore made the devil with his cloven feet and his long tail to
whisper these cunning suggestions in the ear of the traitor. Thus the
responsibility for unwonted cruelty was divided between the murderer and
the devil who counselled the black crime.

Perhaps the most damnable thing that was ever suggested by the devil in
two thousand years is this little object called the German soldier's
token. Never did an object so small send forth cruelties so large and
manifold.

The little disc is stamped out on thick paper for German privates and
upon aluminum for the officers. At the top of this cardboard is the
portrait of that awful being called by the Kaiser "our good old German
God."

Look at his white hair, the long beard and the great sword in the right
hand, with the suggestion that since God uses the sword the German
soldier must cut men to pieces also.

Beneath you see flames gushing up, suggesting to the German soldier that
he is quite right in burning the houses of France and Belgium after he
has looted them, and for flinging the dead bodies into the blazing
rafters. Now read the words written beneath the face of the being the
Germans call God.

"Strike them all dead. The Day of Judgment shall ask you no questions."

Strike dead old men and women! Dash the children's brains out against
the stone wall! Violate young girls! Mutilate their fair bodies so that
the