ot changed its spots.
The rattlesnake is larger and has more poison in the sac; the German
wolf has increased in size, and where once he tore the throat of two
sheep, now he can rend ten lambs in half the time. In utter despair,
therefore, statesmen, generals, diplomats, editors are now talking about
the duty of simply exterminating the German people. There will shortly
be held a meeting of surgeons in this country. A copy of the preliminary
call lies before me. The plan to be discussed is based upon the Indiana
State law. That law authorizes a State Board of Surgeons to use upon the
person of confirmed criminals and hopeless idiots the new painless
method of sterilizing the men. These surgeons are preparing to advocate
the calling of a world conference to consider the sterilization of the
ten million German soldiers, and the segregation of their women, that
when this generation of German goes, civilized cities, states and races
may be rid of this awful cancer that must be cut clean out of the body
of society.

THE BLACK SOUL OF THE HUN

III

1. German Barbarism Not Barbarism to the German

Strictly speaking, the only man who thoroughly understands the cruelty
of the Germans is the German himself. No American or Englishman, no
Belgian or Frenchman has the gift of telepathy that enables him to know
what is going on in the German mind that guides the German's hand in
committing his horrible atrocities. Now and then, in a moment when he is
off guard, an occasional German reveals the explanation, and we look in,
just as John Bunyan's pilgrim saw the door into Hades opened by a little
crack, through which he looked upon the flames. Not otherwise was it
with that German in Baltimore, who recently exposed the German mind, and
from the German view-point explained the Germans in their hour of
brutality.

During a most intimate and personal conversation with a banker, this
German, the other day, explained his people's atrocities by saying that
what is barbarism and atrocities to England, France or the United States
is not barbarism at all to the Germans. In proof of this astounding
statement the German gave this personal incident of his boyhood. He said
that in his gymnasium there was another boy who had something that he
wanted. When the opportunity came, being the stronger, he jumped upon
the other boy, beat him up terribly and made him a cripple for life. On
reaching his home he showed his parents what he had sto