Pages oo Vol. III, No. 14—November 10th, 1915 Price 5 Cents ’ Fatherland : A Weekly — ENGLAND’S PUNCH AND JUDY SHOW’ « 1S WALL STREET USING SAVINGS BANK DEPOSITS FOR SECRET RUSSIAN, FRENCH AND ENGLISH WAR LOANS? READ CHARLES A. COLLMAN’S ARTICLE FOR THE ANSWERTHE FATHERLAND 25 HERMAN RIDDER ERMAN RIDDER will not be forgotin He was in the vanguard of those Ameri can citizens who believe in America first, frst fover Germany, but first also over England. He i tras a good fghier and he loved a good fight. Nevertheless the abuse heaped upon the German name and the betrayal of the interests of the United. States by the pro-Ally press hastened his fend. ‘The torch that has fallen from his hand has teen taken up by his son Bernard Ridder. His reat work will continue, even though death has called him away. THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR FOUND GUILTY OW indisereet of that jury in San Francisco to say in effect that the British Ambassador is guilty of the offense charged against him by George Sylvester Viereck! The British Ambassa- dor anticipated George Sylvester Viereck by telling the State Department how guilty his foreknowledge of accertain steamship disaster must be. Mr. Viereck. retorted to the State Department that the British ‘Ambassador had guilty foreknowledge regarding en= listments, These enlistments are effected on the soil of the United States at British expense with the connivance of his Britannic Majesty's Ambassador. ‘A prosecution in San Francisco has now led a jury to find a verdict which iu effect confirms ‘what Mc. ‘Viereck said to the State Department about the British Am- bassador. Not that the State Department is at all discon- THE CARTOON OF THE WEEK 4 REMINDER TO THE WORLD certed, Its official head affirms, without a grin, that Ameri- can neutrality must be preserved, and for this reason the law under which this conviction was had will be repealed. SKELETONS IN THE CABINET By an Englishman Mr. Asquith—A clever, plodding lawyer, driven by his wife to ambition and alcohol Mr. Bonar Lew—A merchant, with no talents of the statesman or even of the parliamentarian. Put into the leadership of the Op- porition because the wolves who had pulled down Balfour would Seherwise have sprung at each other's throats and completed the tin of the Tori Mr. Belfowr—"Bloody Balfour,” weak, amiable diletante; toyed with philosophy "ao far as 2 gentleman could” Without 3 ‘park of sympathy or imagination; tried to govern Ireland by & dystem of organized murder: hence his nickname. An admirable parliamentarian, he got too old for his job, and was superseded Tome years ago, His appointment to the Admiralty must be due to jealousy of Ameria's record in that direction! ‘Mr. Lloyd George—Demagogue and attorney. The object of the bitterest hatred of any man in England; but knows so much of the graft of his colleagues that he cannot be shelved ‘Sir G. Buchmaiter-—An honest man of talent and ability, who cower his advancement to the quarrels of his colleagues ‘Sir Ighn Simon—A clever nonentiy Air. Long—Typieal of the old-fashioned stupid obstinate Tory. Mr, Chamberlain Like Herbert Gladstone, the insignificant som of a brillant father, Weare his father's eyeglass and orchid: but the resemblance stops there rthur Henderson—A nonentity made leader of the Labour Party to compose the violences of the real leaders. tno one in England knows his name Lord Lansdowne —Ancther pig-headed fossil fhuence hat kept him adrift on calm waters Lord Curzon—The buffoon who made himself the taughing-stock of India, and lost (as will shordy appear) for England Lord Kitchener-—Would be allright if left alone. The only man who fs thoroughly srusted by the great mass of the people. Lord Selbourne=A cigher. Career due entirely to nepotism, Mr. Birrlt-A “inerary gent” with a turn of quiet humor. Taras awkward questions with a good-natared jest. Will be killed one day by somebody in earnest. Mrs MfeKenno.—The most incompetent minister that ever held a portfolio. A’ ereature of weak violence 3s osu ‘Sir E, Grey—One of the cleverest and least scrupuous diplomat- ints that ever lived. May have overreached himself “ifr. McKinnon Wond-—A mere ofc Me. Churchllo—A theatrical genius shelf “Mr, Ruuciman weight Lord Creae—A good enough minister where no initiative i re- ulted Mr. Harcourt.—AMl collars and cuffs. A conceited puppy. A. ritifel continuation of the great Harcourt serial Outside Parliament, His family ine Owes position to Felatves, ainstaking enough ‘Will not remain tong on the LA mediocrity, wseful as a sound, steady make- s Ce4 Vol I No. 21—December 29th, 1915 Price 5 Cents - Fatherland ; , AWeekly ™™™ } : fl y Qs a eee et in [XMAS 1919 \§ 5 — eT t Drown for The Fatherland by M. Sannenechnide THE GERMAN PEOPLE’S CHRISTMAS TREE * } A WORD WITH THE REPUBLICANS By GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECKTHE FATHERLAND 365 other newspaper in the country is so unequivocally on the side of England. The Providence Journal boasts on its bulletin boards that ithas achieved most of the work accomplished leading to the prose- cutions of enemies of England ia this country. An example of its attitude may be gained from an extract from 2 typical editorial, printed November 24, 1915, entitled "The Great Conspiracy.” in which it says: “When the history of the war comes to be written, not the leat seqrational chapter will be the one that deals with the Great Cont ipiracythe AustosGerman crusade of fright ines seams Arc tex thins German ‘eiaengy” raved tothe huhew degree Bi it will amount to nothing in the end beyond multipying Germany's enemies and strengthening the common resolve that Power 20 ‘nserupulous, so diaholieal in ity ingenuity and thoroughness, must fot be allowed to rule the world” So writes the British editor of the Providence Journal, a man of the type that President Wilson deplores, when he says: "It would seem that every man who was truly an American would instine- tively make it his duty and his pride to keep the sales of judgment even and prove hinself a partisan of no nation but his own.” ‘This then is John R, Rathom, a man eho has the confidence of the President and the members of his Cabinet; a man who com ‘mands sources of news that not even the highest and most powerful depariments of our Government can obtain, and which ask him to sid them i their operations ‘Questions arise here that certainly wil not down, If there are inthis country representatives of foreign nations who are conspir ing against the United States Government, why is the existing ma chinery of the Government incapable of handling the matter? Why are not investigations quiey set afoot, and steps taken in con” fonance with the dignity of the nation to bring these persons t0 book? Why must our Government depend on the evidence gath- cred by a former subject of Great Britain, whose motives are cer= tainly not disinterested, whois using vast and secret funds, oper ating hosts of agents and conducting a propaganda on behalf of the country of his birth? No, this matter will not down. Congress must probe it to lee bottom. How Is it p th English members in his ‘tool auch as this in the pros of diplomatic representatives of countries with whom ‘we are at peace? Mr. Wilson, elected by a minority vote, still represents the people of thia country. And the American people refuse to be shamed and humiliated by proceedings such as these Crane A. Cotman, . BEHIND THE FRONT Impressions of @ Tourist in Western Europe, By Aleister Crowley [7 would serve no useful purpose so tell just How T reached France. The interest begins on one's arrival. ‘The France one knew of old is not so changed until one ap- proaches Paris, except for the immense numbers of English raw recruits. The government has very sensibly-turned over empty bar- racks to the British military authorities, There everything is in order—not lodging only, but garade-grounds and all other neces saries; ia addition many non-commissioned oficers of the French army past fighting age are being used to instruct the young English oficers in their uti, There are also. many bilingual English Civilians employed in various capacities. The new Tommy Adkins ig being taught a fair amount of elementary French, and especially the principles of theit drill He is also learning to know the gen eral characteristics of the countryside. Evidently the British ex- pect to be Fighting on French soil for the next year or two. This being granted, one must admit that the arrangement is intelligent. Twas told that when these troops are comparatively in shape, they are drafted back to England for regimentation, equipment and drafte ing to various points. With the exception of the few old sergeants, fof whom mention is made above, there are practically no French troops visible in any of the country through which I passed, and even the unft have been called up, unless actually disabled, and are being employed on work of secondary importance such a¢ guard ing railroads and bridges ‘The feeling among the people of all lasses is distinaly good. ‘There is, of course the most intense hatred for the enemy-—which in England hardly exists, as will be explained later—but with it goes a certain smiling confidence, like a prize-fighter in the 19th Found of a winning mill. Their heads are bloody, but unbowed, a Henley might have said. Every one believes that the un ddoubsed fact of the check on the charming instance of the Gallic spirit. Pére Boncier, who had kept a "gargotte” for forty years, just of the Fashourg Montmartre, wat sent a piece of German war bread by his son. ‘There must have been enchantment in the loaf the old man had the idea of his life. He bundled off to the Govern= ment and contracted for the whole supply of German bread that right be captured. Now “tout Paris” goes to feed at the horrible Tite restaurant in order to gloat over the misery of the wicked Bosche! It i very childich and very Parisian T only remained in Paris tong enough to see a few old friends, and inquire how fate was treating them and theirs. My real goal ‘was England: the contradictory accounts of the sprit of the people, and of what had actualy happened in the Zeppelin raids, had ex: Cited my curiosity to the highest point So I took the long odds, and went over to Londoa, As fuck would have it, T missed a big raid by twenty-four hours. The moment vas ideal; every one was full of the subject. British insularity, by the way, is completely abrogated; one talks to one's fellow: passenger in a railroad ear as if he were one's long-lost brother. Everyone is madly eager for every scrap of news, false or true; it is one of several unexpected results of the censorship. Nobody knows what is happening; oficial reports may of may not be true; they are certainly doctored. When one thinks of the great outery that was made in the beginning of the war against Wolff's Bureau, Which was supposed to be disseminating false news the joke in ap- parent. The Germansshave acquired a reputation for trath-tlling, if for nothing else. All their claims have proved true in the long fn And though even now the average Englishman will not admit it except im his most sceret chamber, he has a aubeonscions feeling that iC is so, which manifeste itelf in intense disquiet and dis: ‘The Londoner is not realy 40 concerned with the results of the raids on London as he might reasonably be, He is haunted by the fear of something worse which he does not know. He is afraid about the Navy. For all he knows, the big dockyards may have been destroyed, and half the ships put out of action However, the damage in London itself is bad enough. Liverpool Street Station was wrecked in one raid; an attempt on Ludgate HI Station resulted in the gutting of a Block just south of St Paul's and one high explosive bomb misted the station by a few yards only, and destroyed dozens of small shops. The attack on Charing Cross was not very successful; indeed, a bomb missed Bernard Shaw's house by about fifty yards; too eruel had they hit FAL But the worst damage was in the Hoxton district. I did not seit myself, but my secretary happens to live quite cose, and had been up all sight watching the assault and the retulting fires when she came to meet me. There appears to have been a high wind Dlowing; the houses—it i a district of mean-strete—caught fre and the brigade wad\unable to cope with the conflagration. ‘There i a gutted patch of london five or six blocks wide, and the best part of half @ mile in Yogth. Hundreds, protably thousands, must hhave perished. It is not clear why this district should have been selected for attack; it seems probable that the Zeppelins had lost ‘hele bearings. ‘The effect on London was not great; Hoxton was a place which it was the truest kindness to destroy!EF a | Fatherland A We ekly vores hoes | | Vol. Ill, No, 22—January 5th, 1916 Price 5 Cents I i CHARLES A. COLLM. ENGLAND'S CRACK OF DOOM. LyTHE FATHERLAND Cary, like his associate member Stafford, reads Te Farwantax He is looked upon a8 a reliable newiral and a sound American, for the voted against the repeal of the clause in the Panama Canal’ Act, exempting American ships and stood up gallantly for American ine terest His seat is now ving contested by a Social Democrat named Gaylord. Speaking of the Canal Act, he sai “This humiliating act together with the proposition for this eoun- ry t0 join im the celebration of a hundred years of peace with En land, I always thought were the fst efforts of the Anglomaniacs in this country, aided by the big trusts and their subsidized press to bring about an understanding with Great Britain, and I think the events of the lam year have proved that T was right ia my con- tention. There are quite a number of us in the House here that fre not controlled by the Money Trust, the criminal Ammunition Trust nor the English coterie and their Tory American syeophants. and I shall always be fealy to do anything in my power bY voice and vote to keep America fom entangling foreign alliances and honesty and faily neutral” ‘Tories Approve of England's Shutdown on Humanity About the worst thing the Administration has to face at this wri ing is the refusal of England to admit Red Cross supplies of medi cines to Germany. I doubt whether this inhuman policy Is making 1 deep impression on the Tory and stand-pat element. Most of them are perfectly pleased to see the German wounded, and the women and children exterminated, if thereby England wins the war. The New England contingent and Wilson's immediate followers are not roved by the death of Miss Emma Duensing, of the American Red Coss, who died from the effect of septic infection at the hospital 383 at Oppein, Silesia, November Sth, becaute prevented by the British Geder in Council from obtaining rubber gloves, When the case was taplained to Lodge, of Massachusetts he turned away with one of ‘hose eynial smiles for whieh he ie noted. at the order stopping the shipment of medicines and medial supplies to the American Red Croat is ery likely to start trouble throughout the country among people who are not yet body and soul 2 part of Great Britain, Whenever there is an outburst of public Sentiment it i nipped ia the bud by a note of protest to Englund ‘There the matter rests peacefully for all times. It is tragie to find how few members of Congress take the trouble to inform themselves on the way the Administration is aiding Eng land in making war on women. children and wounded. They ex- press astonishment when told that there is a milk famine and that the Administration is doing nothing to make England let parcel-post packages with condensed milk for German infants pass unhindered. rothing to admit cotton for the making of bandages and absorbent Cotton for the maimed. As near as any one can judge, the Admin~ jntration is more concerned in sending a peremptory and insulting note to one of the Central Powers for torpedoing the Yazoba Marx because one of the reseued parsengers elsims to be an American. although born in China and a resident of London for many years, than to aid the Red Cross in obtaining medicines for their charges in Germany. It is anything to beat Germany, and Wilson regards himself the hheavenvordained American President to poll England out of her degradation and to go down in English history, which is the only History be knows, a one of England's greatest sons. Fagpenc F. Scumanen BEHIND THE FRONT Impressions of a Tourist in Western Europe, By Aleister Crowley Part I FOR tome reson oor in thir fst Zeutin eid om London the Germans appear to have decided to make the damage as widespread a5 possible, instead of concentrating it in one quarter. TK'house elose to my lawyer's ofice in Chancery Lane was entirely destroyed, and the Morning Post Building and several banks were Seriously damaged. There 1s good hope that a cerain building was Sesroyed which contains the only evidence of my owing somebody ‘3000 pounds. Further alld there was a great deal of damage t0 the docks. and still more to Woolwich Arsenal Owing to the capital Importance of the position the greatest secrecy was abserved about iT took special pains to inquire on this point, and though, of course, it was imporsble to gain access to the arsenal itself, the immense amount of mouraing in the districts where the workmen te indicated that many men must have been killed. An ant-sir~ craft battery at Enfield was destroyed, and it was rumored that the Sivall arms factory there had been hit. A great deal of damage was fone at Croydon, especially at its suburb Addiseombe, where my Sunt lives, Unfortunately, her house was not hit; otherwise T should hot have to trouble to write this article. Count Zeppelin is respect- fully requested 10 try again, The exact address is Eton Lodge, ‘Outram Road. ‘Much more important than any material damage is the general effet of the war upon the morale of the people. As a professional paychologist I regarded it as my special tak to investigate this. T Em compelled to say that Lfound a good deal of diieulty in dealing wvith my friends, who completely failed to understand my attitude Inthe war. It wil hardy be believed, but T was actualy called upon to prove that I was the only patriotic Englishman alive. I had to fquote the Bible to them, “Whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth:” 1 had been at the Foreign Ofice, as T ought to have been, there swoutd have beeen no war at all England vould have stayed out, Zed insisted on France staying out. Germany would have been Teft a'free hand to deal with Rusia, This policy would have been in Record with that of every English statesman since 1890. England Sacked the wrong horse. Similarly, most of my subsequent remarks, Which have excited soch disapproval, were said (subsequently, but hnatt9 well) by Lloyd George and other responsible people. Strong Ip. however, as T-urged these pointe, T eannot pretend that T con- winced my friends, It a the stupidity of England which is losing this war for her. However, they ware too busy hating the govern” Inent 0 care much what I'aid. 1 do not think that I have ever teen such inensty of blac, imotent. speechless rage, a" one ahd Bl daplayed. ‘There was a subconscious fecling that the whole thing was a ghastly blunder, and that the details matched the en femme, None of the known politicians was trusted; such hope a8 xisted was based on outsiders like Lord Derby. The eteral squab- tes of the cabinet and the press aroused infrite disgust.” Daring the whole of my visit the Doily Mil was attacking the goveroment with ap animus which went altogether beyond the bounds of rit iim. It was evidently based on personal hatred and ambition Every one felt this, loathed the situation, and was redlced to 2 remous weeck by the fling tht it was impossible to. do anything. "There was also a terrible quarrel about the rerating, Turiows campaigns were being waged shoot the sex problem: "Shosld mar- Fed men be called out?” “Fhare was also a deadly fear thatthe imposible would happen, that England was really being beaten. Unies one has lived in Eng Tand for a long tie, its impossible to realize how the conviction that England is iavinibe is part of the national conaciousnes. It is for this reason thatthe alarmists have never obtained hearing Even people like Lord Roberts, who were respected as experts on every other point, and who would have been Vsened to attentively Ti'they had {aid down the lw in any other fashion. were reviled tnd contermed inthe mont decided manner whenever they suggested itat England might bein danger ‘The Bocr war self ae alas ought of as a lite war. The inswe war never doubt in the trind of any one in England. Even nom, such confidence a6 exist iB targely doe to the systematic way in which disasters have Been ‘minimized. Mons, Antwerp, Loot, Neuve Chapelle. the Dardanelle ven, are looked upon with the same sort of annoyance av would Secor ia America, ifthe trusted third baseman of the Red) Sox ropped a catch. It isl not coneivable that England may relly he smashed. And yet thee lurks in the mind of every man the wnspoken fear that “der Tag” may relly have arvived. There is something of Belsharra’'s Feast about every dinner party Thine the slow-riding dogged courage of the English was sapped384 rik by victorianiom. Ie osists, It ely fa eosin bated alana, Too Sacre ight tars Ssation sl be mare effet sore Lire ly et isc, welt Degins. te cho wnt Th rest lesioel ment? What ait the workin Aol sso scatisinge are Rocked away fro gine the vot sye Ves vanim bad made every one fed. 80 ogre sta tlre ows not ASEM #0 such to Right for. Nv ch fre eot creas wore made fn the original averting cutiesin wo ss nung and ite ingle I rubbed the Enelishntan up i est) “sig way Advertise, ing is @ tralesma's sl Festus! ting a sata of shop eepers, every one have that it as ss ewing government in the country Heat there been at the tesineng nf the War to seize the Whose stortling article on Sir Edsaard Grey in “The Inter jonal” far Junuars hae ersated scnsation, Cupice of fe Internatio” nay be procured thvsngh Te Baten asa, Fifcon vente cach, ane dollar fit for the Sor reins of power, dev lunhesitatinydy say ome tiv trouble. Every wie wohl conscription inmmestinely and host down wld have heen 80 the spirit of Crom well and of Wellington. Bat ll fein power were tome Dorizers. men nf wera, vswatels rly all nf hem lagers by Drofession. In any eriis the vy wr wiv a bean thing fs some ough, practical perovnatiy. The svg vais which bring a man to the front in wrinary tines are an emergency. The istry and, of course, fron the satare oi ff peace to arrange for an Ast the tealing elena they expe fof a rathcr rear hiss Ut Bac erm immense ser ad hey hie vl) ake hie wees ove Fells eh examples, + inyporile in times Ta ont Ihe utrwost pate tam, but sir ai fenneluled ine all cmpete tee eins for a Syhe to a fink, They sul 0 bags in the meswtie sil well that a peace i gialece hey ere mot inline with the working chaser for wat ping be I= fact, the need is no onger men oF wey ar msi’ i ie mwrate. The Brith Tommy vill omy flow a gestesmts nd spit nf sheee have Been used up. or ebing to the stageioor vies, "Theiler trade has been tn Hing espe sn Piste: i ae fn ne to he 3 fem Dat to know ansthing wt slicing Se seraeia Those who took tir prufansin see stty Tage tov Lagu i he mesges Result: plenty to fallow ad sone oo sean wake 8 tery ATHERLAND fair private in six months; but a non-com. oF a subaltern cannot he turned ut in two years, especially with no elder men to instruct them. So the new armies are composed of keen eager men, maddled ‘over umtl they are perfectly sick of the incompetence oftheir sue periors. They are ali disgusted to death at the utter hopelessness f the strategists. The Flanders’ proposition was ineligible: bat the Dardanelles’ folly has made much discontent. Wounded men are full of grstly tales of that disaster; no f00d, no ammunition, nd shelter, no hospitals, “no ruddy nothing,” as one Sergeant told me. They were Bung out, like shooting 0 much rubbish, of the shore, Further, they are annoyed at the limitations of the Reet. The average man seems to have thought that the whole peninsula could he blown away by a few hours’ bombardment. ‘The working classes as a whole are far more really patriotic chan the bourgeois. But socialism and self-interest have rotted them far ‘more than in Germany, where the party is om paper far stronger. ‘The murmur of the English slave is silent. T talked with many of the revolution. Ail would welcome any change, but none had any idea of constructive revolt.” And at heart T think nobody eared ‘They were too doll with sulfering. Many, however, were whining personal woes, usually something about three and eightpence farth= ing which they would have if there were a God in heaven or justice fon earth. ‘Thousands have enlisted because it seemed at least & ‘guick way out, or offered a sort of chance, But there is nowhere 4 particle of real enthusiasm in the soul; how can there be, when poverty and puritanism have whittled away the soul for three gen cerations? Can you imagine a British workman going to the Nibel- tungering, as the German does in his millions? ‘And the wretched treatment that he has been getting all these years of peace and “prosperity” is only accentuated by the war. The big promises are not being kept; he is too ready to find it outs and if anybody would suggest a real remedy, however mad, he would try it. While waiting, he is glad, on the whole, to get peppered. THOUGHTS OF A “GENTLY HAZED” AMERICAN WVISON may be a Virginian, bat is rst note to Auiria-Hun- wary lacked politeness. Asquith has postponed the boycott of German commerce until after the war; but is less considerate of American commerce which is being destroyed every day: ‘There is considerably more Srrnest in the famous notes of the Administration 10 France over the stopping of American ships in American waters than in the notes to England over the destruction of our commerce. ‘The price of coal om the seaboard rises steadily while the railways are monopolized with ammunition shipments for the Alin. Even the Turks will refuse to vote the Democratic ticket November. Roosevelt's big stick never looked to big to the President as now. A lot of statesmen are performing marvels on the political stack wire these days trying to be both pro-German and pro-Ally and looking for a soft spot to land on without Breaking their necks, ‘The venerable Joseph H. Choate, ex-Ambassador to London, de- livered another speech at a Pilgrim hincheon, last week, in which he suggested that we get ready to stand manfully by Canada in her ‘roubles. The ancient postprandial toast master has never for: sotten that he was permitted to appear at the Court of St. James in ‘ilk stockings and knee-breeches and to catch a smile of royalty He is valiant champion of liberty and civilization which, he says, is threatened by Germany, but his autobiography docs not inform us that he set his fellow-ctizens a good example during the Civil War by shouldering a musket when his own country was in danger, al- though he was 29 years of age at the outbreak of the war and 34 when it ended,HUMAN SHIELDS OF THE ALLIES BEHIND THE SCLNES AT THE CAPITAL By Frederic Franklin SchraderTHE FAT HERLAND LIFTING THE MASK FROM ENGLAND By Aleia HINGS are by ny means pleasant, cither between the All themicives or even between the heterogeneous components of “Kitchener's Kippers” The Enalish despise and distrust the French; the eld story about the rout of Mons being caused by the none appearance of two French is various mies is ail current. The reason of it sive as treachery resulting im the shooting of two French generals, failure 4 receive orders, and various other eaten, But the feeling remaina that the Freich did fait to support thems, however it may have happened. And x8 the British expedition was Dretiy well wiped out, one ean understand the soreness of ‘the feeling, On the French side is the deep-seated, inherited distrust of “perfdiows Albion." Every Frenchman knows instinctively that if 4 moment shoul ever arrive when it woul be to Englan' interest {o quit oF chane sides, she would not hesitate fur a moment. ‘There is also infinite jealony between British and Colnniat troops. ‘The Colonials are contemptuous of diecpline and “boiled collars” and each man fancies himeelf 4 hero. ‘The British retaliate by contempt of the provincialisms of the Columials. But worse thay all this isthe absolute conviction of Seotch, Irish and Welsh troops, 48 well as ofall the Colonial troops, that they are deliberately sacri ficed in battle, in order to spare the English regiments. History, of course, ahounds in instances where this haw Been done. In some cases Celtic regiments have been deliberately shelled by their own aritery. You cannot expect men to fight if they suspect this sort of thing, The feeling in South Wales among the miners against conscription is almost entirely due to the idea that the Government would be very pleased if their numbers were reduced by 50 per cent, fof #9, The feeling in Ireland is, of course, well known. fe is this absence of solidarity in the nation, or rather nations, which has heen the eternal stumbling-block. This more than any other is the reason that conscription has become necessary. Another reason for the unpopularity of the service was the come plete incompetence and even carciesaness shown by the Governonent in the early days of the war, with regard to providing ereature com: forts for the men. The usual red tape has also heen employed to a devastating extent in the drawing of allowances. Women who tan hardly read and write have been bombarded with forms which would purrle a college professor, and expected to fil them out satisfactorily. “The restrictions on drink have caused even prester trouble. Similar remarks apply to the questions of sexual morality Ik ia no good to appeal to people on the ground that they are hig spirited patriots, possessing all the virtues, when at the same time you are treating them as if they were the lowest criminal, wallow: ing in every possible vee During my stay T war naturally the centre of a great deat of inerest, as having spent so long in America. Every one wat anxious to know the real attitude of the American public foward the war. explained that the national characteristicy had. not in any way Yveen altered by the Atlantic. The Anglo-Saxon was all volubily, sentimentality, and slop. Srobbishness, hypocrisy. and. mney bags were the three persons in his trinity. The Irish were jubilant, feel. ing that the hour of revenge for their lang martyrdom had struc at ast; hut were content to wait and work in the dark for a file longer. The Teatons (I continued) ssid Tittle, If one judged from the volumes of talk one would imagine that nine Americans in tem hated Germany. But the Teuton, realizing that acrimonious com veraation does no particular damaue, keeps his breath to cool his porridge. I said I regarded it ae certain that America could not ‘openly enter the war without political disruption, possibly of a very Violent character. The more dhoughtfal of those who discussed the matter with me seemed to regard these considerations as an ‘excuse for President Wile, There was also the argument that America was helping the Allies more by staying out, than she could do by going’in. But everywhere I met the same ingrained assume tion that there were no two sides 10 the quettion; and those who, being incapable of anything but the most superficial thought, re. acted simply to facts without consideration of what they tight imply, merely overflowed with vulgar sluse + Crowley 1 found one man, however, who appeared fairly well acquenied with the real situation in America, “The whole afain.” he sad te ie, “is evidently politics and graft. Wilton does not mean to get jn trouble at any price, Because he knows that t would mean his boltcal cui, He sends these idiotic notes to us and the Germans, merely in the hope of catching votes. The fatuity of his whole proceeding is obvious. Neither we nor Germany are foolish enous ‘0 take any notice of him. The old dog hat no teeth; and if he had, hhe would not dare bite. Why do not the Teutona. avotd these tedious diplomatic exchanges by painting their torpedoes in plain letters: “Peace on Earth, Good: will towards Men, ‘I showld hate to be misunderstood’ “With the compliments of the season’ ‘To show (ur affection for America” and re-christen the U-hoats Otear TI ‘IV! and so on? “What the Vankees Jo nut understand is that this Title serap with Germany is only a family quarrel. We are mostly of the same blood, our royalties are costly related, our languages are cognate. our interests are not particularly conficting. We shall very soon kiss and make friends and proceed to recoup ourselves— by ‘taking over North and South America as going concerns. Wilson's hundering diplomacy has given both of gs every excuse for making war when i suits our convenience. The Brith and German Navy are both entirely unimpaired, nether of us have lost 8 single capital ship, and if necessary we could send over an ine vading force, not of a few hundred thourand men, as their alarmista Alifidently suggest, but of just as many million as might be neces: sary to reduce the whole continent t0 the states of a conquered province. In any ease, that is the only natural state for them ‘They have lost all idea of liberty. Look at their Blue Laws and thelr Liesie Laws. Look at how they permit themselves to be ex~ Ploited by people with no moral or tocial superiority, but merely ‘eater skill i robbery. Look at the way ia which they endufe out impudence, which is far greater than any Germany has given them, Trust me, we'll make another India of the U.S. A” The ignorance and bad taste of these remarks are positively alarming. when one considers that the man who uttered them has an international rep tation as a thinker. Evidently the war has beea too much for bis Poor mind. 1 had only been about ten days in London when my psychological ‘studies were definitely interrupted in a manner wholly unexpected. {asked an old friend named Carruthers to join me in'a chop athe Clad, and we had reached the cofee (Fortunately) before the waiter appeared and informed me that a gentleman was waiting to tee Te fon business. I guessed that the blow had fallen, and went out ay 3 sheep to slaughter. I was right. A very polite individoal intro- duced himself as Inspector Simpson; bat instead of placing gyves ‘pon my wrists, he merely hoped that T was well, and could he have the pleawure of a few minutes! conversation with me? I was, of ‘sourse, only too delighted. He then said that the Government was fot at all angry with me they did mot with to proweeute me, of dear, no, far from ws be any sich thought! T realised) tor the ffteen-hundred-andcforty-frst time in my life the inestimable value of family connections and close friends in high places, told him, however, as in duty bound, that I should glory in suffering for the ‘rath, He reminded me that this was England, and that the trth would never appear. Thad no further remarks to make, Well I ‘aid, “What can T do for you? If you dont want to prosecute me what ict? Do you want to make me Forcign Secretary? You right do worse. I would have the boys out of the trenches by ‘Easter. It only needs a litle give and take, litte common sense.” No, he said, the position was this: Averse a8 they were to any public teandal, the prest would certainly get wind of my presence in London, and embarrass the Government. by ‘pon making a fuss. He therefore proposed to call for me in hic avtombile at eight o'elock the following morning and wish: me Godspeed 1 asked him whether he could not postpone the journey for twenty-four hours, as I had some very important business to sete86 with my lawyer the following morning. His paws retracted for a ‘moment, exhibiting the claws beneath, still ina half hidden way. He was very sorry, he said, but his orders were formal. He was sure that I would not put him to the inconvenience of getting them changed, ‘There was such a fot of red tape about these tifles. « T knew what he meant, and agreed. So I excused myself to ny fest, took taxi down to my lawyer's home in the country. and sent the night siting up my business. Tn the morning Simpson took me down to Tilbury in his ear. and put me on to a transport, fone of tix. There must have teen Sfteen to twenty thousand men aboard. Our litle fotilla steamed out of the Thames, and the fol- Towing morning Twas pat of on to a Fishing smack which took me ino Flushing. was terribly puzzled at the time, to know what on arth there ships were doing sailing north. But the mystery is now clear, from information received. Ie appears that there are sill 0 THE FATHERLAND many spies in such places as Calais and Dover, that they do. aot fare to send transports through the Chanel, as their presence it sute to be reported to the enemy ; they therefore send them around the north of Scotland into the Atlantic where their destiration could not be spied upon As for me, T went to stay with a good friend of mine near Amsterdam. where I was joined by someone from Berlin who had a special desire to hear my news, and communicate his own. A. Small and selected part of the very interesting conversation which Thad with him may form the subject of another paper. He went ‘back after three days, and as for me, once more I concealed myself and sailed for the Land of the Free by the Ryndam, where my knowledge of English was increased by the personal instruction of Father Neptune as to the meaning of the term seasickness WILSON WANTS WAR ‘Why Henry Ford Was Snubbed by the President By George E. Miller, Staff Correspondent of the Detroit Vews (AI the imps of hell never devised « more infamous lie thon the declaration that has been made thot President Witson Sa negttsclantve’ Pow inthe course of a recat debate on the McLemore resolution in Congress. We feel justified in pou-pouing the stetement of Mr, Pou. For it appears now on corroborative evidence thot Mr. Wilson made his bellicoge statement not only to nu vrous meniers of Congress but to Afr, Flenry Ford before the latter embarked on his pilgrimage for peace. The author of the following “rticle is one of the ablect newspaper correspondents in Washi ‘E. Miller 02 UST what was said by the President to throw Congress into a lot of apprehension, and to keep it in a turmoil of doubt ever Since, representatives and senators in their rage are reveatiog right and left. They charge the President with saying: ft would be a good thing for humanity for the United States to get into this war, By doing so the war would be ended in 2 few months” Practically everybody who attempts to quote the President's language uses these words or their equivalent. Tt was the circular tion of this statement among the members of Congress which caused the excessive excitement of last week and led to the introduction fof the resolutions notifying American citizens to Keep off armed beligerent merchant ships. Discovery a Shock Te Is this same statement which fills members of Congress with distress and doubt over the President's demand for a vote of con fidence. The discovery that the President is fervently on the side of the Allies came as a shock to many of the statesmen, although it was not news to some other people One man to make the discovery as Tong ago 23 last November is Henry Ford, of Detroit. On the twenty-third of that month be called at the White House to enlist the President in the cause of peace. The President was the fest ‘man to whom Me. Ford re- Yealed his purpose of sending a peace shin to Europe. He hoped to make it the official ship of the United States operating under the direction of the President, as he had reasons to believe the other ‘neutral nations would join willingly ifthe United States led the way’ Ford Tells of Conference Me. Ford related the conference with the President to me as soon as it was over, and [immediately set it down with the understanding that Twas not to cripple the peace ship project by printing it at shat time. “The interview between the President and Me. Ford revealed two ‘things on which these men agree, but differ wholly as to the method fof accomplishing the same. They agree that this war is the most {ghastly horror ofall the ages and that to end it would be the grea fst blessing that could now be conferred upon mankind. That is fone thing. The other is that all ations should disarm, Differ on Methods In discussing methods they were in total disagreement. Mr. Ford insisted that the quickest method is the best; that the disinterested reutral nations ought to set up a high court of arbitration in the om Is Mr, Pow wiling to brand both Mr. Henry Ford and Mr. George ramos imps of hell” im order to save the President's repunstion?) shage of an international peace congress and that body to work without ceasing until peace is secured. President Wilson saw no chance to stop the war by that method at this time, and did not believe the moment would arrive until the Iniltarism of the German Empire had been crushed. Mr. Ford was Startled by this unexpected revelation of the President's sympathy for the cause of the Allies. He held stoutly to the opinion that 10 disarm the Germans would be #0 much better than to crush them that the entire civilization of the world ought to be marshaled to that end. He was bitterly disappointed that the President could not see this in the same light Pay No Attention ‘While the President agreed fully with Me. Ford that all nations cought to disarm, he held to the opinion that the Unised States was fat in a postion to propose such a thing and would not be until it also was armed to the teeth. At present, with the limited forces at the command of this republic, the President appeared to believe that the heavily armed nations would not pay attention to a dis- armament proposal from the United States Me. Ford tried to ienpress upon him that the negotiations of a peace at thie time necessarily must involve a disarmament agree tment to which all nations on earth would become a party. He pointed out that the nations at war are killing and maiming at Feast 20000 men a day. perhaps more; that this formed the most potent disarmament argument ever offered for the wre of civlizar ‘Hon; and that he saw no hope of world disarmament if this slaugh- ter were to be continued deliberately, under the patronage of the frestest neutral nation, until one of the belligerents was crushed Me. Ford and the President spit hopelessly on this point. Financial Ruin Mr. Ford tried to tell the President that if it was to be regarded a necessary for the United States to spend half a billion dollars fat once for armament to force the world ultimately to disarm, it ‘would accomplish more in the direction of world peace to offer the Toney as-a part of the peace proporal by agreeing to spend it in the Construction of homes for the people made homeless by the war. ‘Also that to continue to spend money in this country for armament luni the United States would s0 preponderate in arms a5 10 be ble to overame all other nations and thas compel disarmament Simply meant fnancial ruin for some tations, if not for all, For Sof course they would try to keep peace with the United States as far as humanly possible. But he could not perceive that he shook the President ia his position,— oo CS / em I PRICE cENE Cee me Fe Fatherland ” AWeeldy Vol. . H ov JANUARY 3, 1917 a No 22 on en YOUR MOVE” * GENTLEMEN: STATE YOUR TERMS—By George Sylvester Viereck \ DAA TTT KY}The Fatherland |i FAIRPIAY4@-GERMANY _ &titedy and AUSTRIA-HUNGARY Seow S}tvesterVieredk 5 CENTS A COPY ENTERED Ar THE CLASS MATTER } VOLUME V. NEW YORK, JANUARY 3, 1917 DELENDA EST BRITANNIA (Being a prologue and epilogue to “The Vampire of the Continent”) By Aleister Crowley (In previous issues of THE FATHERLAND we have commented upon Count Ernst zu Reventlow's masterpiece, “The Vampire of the Continent.” Our comments represented the opinion of Americans on this remarkable work. We herewith publish Aleis- ter Crowley's analysis of the book. Mr. Crowley is an Irishman, a member of Cambridge University and a port of fine distinction, Frederic Harrison, Editor of the “English Review,” stated some time ago that Mr. Crowley was the frst metrical artist in the Eng. SPER YEAR NUMBER 2 (COUNT ERNST ZU REVENTLOW'S extraordinarily lncd and ‘cogent work on historic English policy has one fault from the point of view of the philosopher—he does not begin his history carly enough, or derive the piracy of England from necessity. Will the distinguished publicist pardon us if we attempt to fil the gap? It js notorious that mountaineers are necessarily brigands. In their rocky fastnesses wheat wil not'grow, sheep will not grow fat ‘They are condemned to rough cereals like oat, to small and stringy sheep and goats. The dwellers of the plain care nothing for the products of the mountain, and will not surrender their goods except by force. The highlander consequently becomes a cateran or bri= and. The mountain districts of every country in the world—Scot- land, Spain, India, China, or America~prove the correctness of the theory. ‘A similar proposition may be made with regard to islanders, as dsrT conn powers The stra et indy of nds f ! \ become hardy and desperate through the necessity of battling with the elemental forces of nature, so do Bshermen. And when conti rental settlements begia to ship their merchandise by sea, they e000 excite the envy of the fishermen, whose hurdihood and desperate poverty emboldens them to become pirates N course of time the continental powers find it necessary to build ‘a navy, to wreck these nests of pirates in self-protection, and the ‘usual result is; thatthe island is annexed to the continent, and its people properly policed, become tranquil, they may even be turned ‘nto excellent citizens, since they possess the material of courage land energy in that degree which originally started them on their Ditatical career. But where the island, while retaining in the full its insular char- acteristics, is large enough and strong enough to develop into a sovereign state, the sporadic piracies ofits aborigines become incor porated in the policy of the nation. A nucleus is formed, usually "upon the banks of some great river, and the central authority is not slow to perceive that the welfare of its increasing population de- pends upon sea-power. The history of all island nations illstrates this view. Islands form the natural stronghold of every lawless race.” However extended a sea coast may be, it may yet be turned if a hinterland exist, the pirates can be suppressed by overland attack, Thus we see that the Vikings soon lost their power, the Danish ships of war were ultimately conquered, not upon the sea, tout by attacks upon their base. Venice was destroyed from the rear. ‘The sea power of Holland fell, not so much because of Brit= ish vietoriew on the North Seo, but because the country iielf was tprable to fesst internal pressure. We know how easily England hrerself was turned out of France; and to this day she has never ‘een able 19 make good her footing in any country requiring an army to defend it, India is practieally an island, owing to the impossi- Uitity of invasion from the north. Yet India has always been une ish language since Swinburne) derstood by England as her weak point Egypt, by reason of des- ts, is almost an island, yet there again is a weak point. Canada is politically am island, owing to the inveterate pacfcism of the ine habitants of the United States. Gibraltar is only joined to the main land by a bare and narrow neck, which can easly be swept by the gunfire from the rocks. But since the range of modera artillery ‘nus increased so greatly that Gibraltar can be shelled from the hill beyond Algeciras it has been recognized by military authorities that the fortress is indefensible, and proposals have actually been made to abandon it. We can sce England's new fear of Spain in her policy towards that country in her haste to place an English princess in the arms of the successor of Charles V. Further east we hod Malta, an island—Aden, insulated by many miles of the most ie hospitable desert ia the world—Ceylon, the maval base of India un island—Penang, an islané—Singapore, an island—Hongkong. 2 island, When England obtained possession of Wei-hai-wei-she was ‘compelled to abandon it without a struggle after a few years. Sim- ilarly the English outposts in the Pacihc and in the West Tadiea are all islands. British Honduras ean hardly be called 2 British colony at all, the conditions there are very exceptional. T0107 to ther island powers, history shows us the same pic ture. Al successful Corsars have been invulnerable by land ‘The islands of the Mediterranean have always been strongholds of pirates, The situation of Japan in the east is singularly like that fof England in the west. Rome only beat Carthage after the dee struction of her sea-power, by dint of using her command of the ‘Mediterranean to land an army in Africa and attack Carthage by land. The power of Spain was not destroved by the dispersion of the Armada, but by her disasters in the Netherlands. From all this we perceive easly that England is not at all to be blamed for her piracies, Her situation compelled it. We sunt further remember that not only were the original iohabitante of Great Britain of a predatory disposition, bat the invaders who eon ‘quered England in part and mingled with the inhabitants were all searrovers: the Norsemen, the Danes, the so~alled Saxons and the ‘Normans, were all brigands who were being pushed off the cone tinent because their ravages had become intolerable to civilised people. It is therefore criminally unthinking in us to blame Enae land for her policy of piracy. She is of necessity a pirate, by situse tion and by heredity. Tt would be equally absurd to blame the crocodile oF the tiger. Even England's hypocrisy must not shock ts Tt must be regarded in the light of a tribute paid to continental virtue... Perhaps we might even be optimistic enough to susgest that it represents the beginning of a conscience. This much being conceded, we must no longer-regard England with detestation and contempt. "To do so is unreasonable, and therefore immoral, We ‘must not shed erocodile tears over the crocodile. But on the other hhand, we cannot tolerate the crocodile. We need to erors the river in the pursuit of our peaceful avoeations, and we must Bnd. thea * 356 a SN weak spot in the armor of the crocodile and give him to our hand= maidens for a play! This weak spot is evidently to be found in Ireland. When Ireland becomes 2 sovereign, independent state, = good deal will hve been done. But thi is not nearly enough TT HOSE potitcans who are so softhearted, or sttheaded, that they talk of peace with England must be utterly blind to the les- sons of history and geography. “Britannia est delenda” should be the fone motto of every continental politician. Does not France under- stand that the strangle hold of 1814 has only become the embrace of 1914 that it may turn again into a strangle hold in 2014? Count ra Reventlow is admirable beyond words in his demonstration that England has never been bound by blood or sentiment or honor, Bat only by business considerations. England is already considering at this moment whether it would not be better to throw over France and come to am agreement with Germany, ‘The only thing that re- strains her is her fear of the German fcet. Such political insight as Tam proud to share with Count tu Reventiow de peace coscluded between England and any other nation iss ‘There is only one solution to the problem of English piracy: the sovereignty of England must be destroyed once and for all England herself has understood this with admirable, if devilish, clarity. Tt is for this reason that she has not only destroyed the sovereignty of Ireland, but deliberately ravaged and depopolated it ‘She must be made to swallow a dose of her own medicine. Eng- and must be divided up between the continental powers. She must be a mere province, of, better ail, colony of her neighbors, France sand Germany. Peace with England, at this time would be a crime against hu- sanity. The British fleet is unassailable; in spite of German valor ithas remained practically intact. While this is 20, England, at any moment, without giving any other reaton bat moral indignation (which ‘is her principal industry and never likely to ran short), — lll oN. THE FATHERLAND can throttle the whole world, Those who talk of peace at this time ‘must therefore be unhesitatingly suppressed, No matter what may be our sufferings and sacrifices, we must go on to the, end We mutt ie, that humanity may live, NOW: there it only one way to destroy tie power of England: the country must BE conquered. And before it i conquered fe must be invaded, or starved into surrender, such surrender to involve the destruction, or handing over, of her whole flet. Now, before England can either be starved or invaded, her eet must be either destroyed or rendered impotent. There is only one way to do this: itis by ruthless prosecution of submarine warfare, While England's eet exists, trade with America could always be stopped, when it suited British policy to do so. The only thing for Germany to dois to concentrate the whole of her intelligence and power upon the building and manning of submarines in such numbers, and of such excellence, that England is starved, and her feet destroyed. If ic takes ten years—or a hundred years—it must be done. From the broadest sfandpoine of humanity, nothing else is really worth doing, ‘Let Germany make peace with France and Rutsia—if we mut tall peace. Let her give up, if necessary the territory which it has cost 40 much Blood and treasure to take and hold, Let her do this, that she may be able to concentrate her whole power against the vampis Count 24 Reventlow has found the word of the situation: that word “vampire” Let him look therefore to tradition. It is not enough to Bill a vampire in the ordinary way. Holy water most be used, and holy herbs. Tt must be severed, mb from limb, its eart torn out, and a charred stake thrust through it. If one precaution i omitted, the vampire ives again, to prey upon the innocent. and the just Britannia eat delenda. (CThe Vampire of the Continent” moy be procured through The Fatherland, price $135 postpaid, per copy) To the Editor of Tax Farseaans, Tn the issue of October 18th in ‘an article written by Mr.C. A. Coll” ‘man Tur Fatusmano drew attention to the seandalous robbery g0- ing on in Nigeria where German property, real entate, warehouses, factories, wharves, residential sites, etc, ete, are to be forcibly sold by auction ‘The immorality of this transaction has been amply pointed out by Mr. Coliman. Its typically English. In Europe Great Britain pre- sents to the world the mask of angelic purity suited to her réle of ‘upholder of international law and defender of international treaties. But in Africa, where nobody gives much thought or attention to what she is doing, England pursues her old historical course. What she is doing in Nigeria is not necessitated by any vital interest. Tt is not fan att of self-defense a8 was, for instance, Germany's invasion of Belgium for which England professes 10 much moral indignation. leis an act of wanton fobbery and as such contemptible. But it it more than that, i is a direct breach of England's pledged word, one Tink more in the endless chain of British broken promises. Ie is a violation of solemn international treaty ‘There is a treaty called the Act of Berlin, a solemn covenant of some ten powers, the United States among them, signed on February 26,1885. Tes Afth chapter treats of the navigation of the river Niger and here, in Article 30, par. 4, Great Britain pledged her word a3 follows "Great Britain undertakes to protect foreign merchants of all the ‘trading nationalities on all those portions of the Niger which are or may be under her sovereignty of protection as if they were her own subjects, provided always that such merchants conform to the rules ‘which are or shall be made in virtue of the foregoing” ‘And further in Article 33: “The arrangements of the present Act of Navigation will remain in force in time of war: ‘Thus in 1885 England promised to treat all foreign merchatits even fn time of war on a par with her own subjects. And in 1916 she ENGLAND BREAKS ANOTHER PACT tears up that scrap of paper and robs the German subjects of the fruit of many years of Tabor and industry ‘What is almost worse than this act ise is her impudence in ad- vertsing the sale in the United States of America, When reading that advertisement I was at Grst at a loss whether it denoted he brazenness of the inured criminal or the cowardice common to thieves and which makes them erave for accomplices. I now incline to take the latter view. ‘That any decent American who knew what this “sale” means would bid to secure any property stolen from German subjects even England cannot assume. Her advertisement in the American papers fof the sale aims to entrap the unwary; it is designed with the pur- pose, through the improvident action of some individual American, to entangle the United States in this dirty business so as to have us fon her side when the day of reckoning comes. I is to be hoped that “American investors have been too busy placing theie money in decent ‘American undertakings to even give Nigeria a thought. [At the same time itis to be deplored that. as far a8 T have seen, with the exception of Tae Farieazano, not one single newspaper oF periodical in the United States has had a word of comment such as England wruld have deserved for her dark doings in the dark ‘continent, Kenwern M. Maar, Brooiva, No Ys, Dee. 16, 1916, HICAGO'S Health Commissioner, John Dill Roberton, has dis: covered how to eat on 40 cents 2 Jay and stay thin EVERY sine an American ship is sunk by a German submarine somebody in England experiences that sinking feeling. TT HE EATHERLAND cover of this weck,was inspired by a Donclar nest card printed in Germany and sent to thro cluncrs af ile. Simon E- Kocdel, ‘The only difference belweta the cuver and. the posal consists ia the genetale, For ance the twhlicstton of the German cartoon practcaly al the Extente chitt Ecmmanders have heen removed.” But Hindenburg is sill om the ohApril 18, 1917 ¥ | “AMERICA FIRST AND AMERICA ONLY” Price Five Cents we The AmericanWeekly A PLEA TO THE PRESS : » ie Special Attention of City Desks ENTLEMEN of the Press: There has ben a diference of opinion among newspaper Ger recaring the ees ofthe workd-war, The majesty cf paper ve, horerer race te eslangscapoaed the case of the’ Allee a agatet tat of the Cental Powers wiles soll migodty took the oppsie view his was before the cary of our country in the capecty ofa beligeent. 3 the expressed, plain duty of all loyal citizens to consider the interests of America solely. Up to this point our fellow editors will unanimously agree with us. . Now, however, the time has come for publishers, as well as citizens, to prove the depth of their sincerity as patriots. Viereck’s Weekly is one of the small minority group which vigor- ously opposed the entry of America into the international conflict. When an adverse decision . was rendered by the high tribunal of national demand, we completely withdrew our opposition BECAUSE WE CONSIDER IT TO BE THE OBLIGATION AND DUTY OF A PAPER TO : AVOID ADDING TO THE DIFFICULTIES OF OUR GOVERNMENT at a time when that ~ Government needs the undivided support of all its sons. Some of you, for reasons of prejudice, some from conviction, have taken, throughout the progress of the war, an anti-German standpoint. We are at last finally at war with Germany and wwe shall obtain, by force of arms, redress for the indignities we have suffered at her hands. ‘This should be sufficient to satisfy the bitterest enemies among us of the German Government. We think that now all newspapers should unite in aiding our country to cope with the situation ahead ; and this aid is badly rendered when a newspaper wastes its valuable space in seeking to keep open old wounds, or in trying to sow prejudice, dissension and distrust at home, here, against our German American citizens and neighbors. The newspaper which pursues this policy is doing our country and the fair name of American justice an irreparable injury. ‘We honestly believe that the majority of our fellow publishers who have been—and are still— guilty of this conduct, are actuated by the most patriotic of motives. But if, to-day, an individual or newspaper editor, professes to believe in the principles of true Americanism and undivided patriotism, then we think that these words, proclaimed only a few days ago by our President, should go to his heart and guide, in the future, his tongue and pen with more fairness: “We are, 3 let me say, the sincere friends of the German people . . . we shall happily still have an opportunity to prove that friendship in our duily attitude and actions towards the millions of men and women of German birth who live among us . « . they are most of them as true and loyal Americans as if they had never known any other felity cr allegiance.” | When President Wilson sets such an example we think that none need be ashamed to follow it182 The mae sty whch ctarscied the situation on he foe sn err atic he eran he meses Apes St ee Re rt arn ew ate bern were in crs ned ded sed wre ih et ssleity"Kihin, ttre dling hi eng ware hal apm chou cosa sith pepe td epee etheed deed tose the rho aly at eB Shey eich sr ‘The on emer fam enas who voted gut war was Rep scene McLemore the sue of te Iaweas McLemore re itn hoe adap was nnd to Yveal the pany wort Gears The Howe te oeingtcech aunt the session wa deine Reprnenine Carper of Wir the wade Staves a ttl of i etenton tate Une Suc stoi poce apt ngand se wel ap ae Cet ob Bot Bad eased egy ant odes fe wing ‘Soeran Sahn ite adctse for war sp ove, we hd VIERECK’S as just cause against the other offender, Mr. Cooper is the rank: jing Republican member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the House. The only vote against war from Ohio, out of a total of 24 in both Houses, including Nicholas Longworth, the son-in-law of ‘Theodore Roosevelt, was cast by Representative Sherwood of Toledo. He enlisted in the Union Army April 16, 1861, a8 a vate and was mustered out as Brigadier-General October 8, 186 ‘was in 43 battles arti 123 days under fire, and was six times com= plimented in special orders by commanding generals for gallant conduct in battle; commanded his regiment in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign, and after the battles of Franklin and Nash- ville, Tenn, upon the recommendation of the officers of his brigade and divisions, he was made brevet brigadier general by President Lincoln for long and faithful service and conspicuous gallantry at the battles of Resaca, Atlanta, Franklin and Nash- ville. He is a member of the Loyal Legion and the G. A. R. He is no slacker. England’s Blind Spot By ALEISTER CROWLEY RIVE years ago any Englishman who felt in need of indulging the more diabolical type of national pride had only to cross 1 strip of water, very choppy most of the time, but well worth ‘crossing. He could then hear the most sincere of fulsome fattery about the' Machiavelianism of “perfide Albion.” Any travelling Germans, Russians, or Italians who happened to overhear could relied upon to swell the chorus of approval; growl as it was, it sounded like divinest music in British ears. For ite refrain ‘was that the Englishman was the most devilishly clever diplomat jin the world. He was the Mephistopheles of politics. If the continent had had the Anglo-Saxon trick of following its oppo- nents in fiction, the British spy would have been to it what the German spy, the Japanese spy, the Mexican spy are to our modern ‘This estimate was a good one. England, with minuscule re- sources, has always managed to outmancuver the cleverest enemies, edible odds. ‘The policies of Elizabeth, of Cromwell stood as the David-Goliath victories of all time. There is no parallel in history. Greece resisted Persia by superior valour; Rome grew by conquest and assimilation; England's Empire, alone inthe creation of sheer stateraft. ‘But just as Herod in his pride was doomed to be slain by the smallest of all God's creatures, s0 England. Infernally clever a8 the isin all other respects in one point she fs more stupid than one “could think possible. That nation is Ireland. Tt is not a story fof one foolish minister; it is a tale of seven hundred years of consistent imbecility. King after king broke his shins by stumbling fgsinst the Irish bog-oale; Richard Il. lost his crown, and plunged England into a century of civil war, over his Irish wars, States- ‘man after statesman lost bis reputation and his head, over Ireland; eneral after general buried his fame there. The Stuarts foundered there, even they; but (or Straford and the Trish tangle, Charles 1. would have been be "Beloved"; and Cromwell, astute and unscrupulous a8 he was, could do nothing in the Green Isle but massacre. Since his time the British policy has been one of rank extermination, 125 years ago the population of Ireland was Qe scter sr tar of te Orie Sates; the ral ie now ae 4 10, THE Enatish deliberately tn Ireland waste by land laws which made agriculture economically impossible, 20 a8 to force an ‘emigration; in the Black Year the relief ships were held upon technicalities that the people might starve. One can buy an estate fof many thousand acres with a fine house in Ireland for five 10 ten thousand dollars. It was a commonplace of my boyhood to say that the Irish question could be settled easily by putting the island under water for 24 hours, ‘The official English apologist of these best years; Gilbert Keith Chesterton, has shown up an indictment of British rule in Ireland which makes the alleged German atrocities in Belgium read like hharmless practical jokes, and he excuses England by taying that it was not “England, but only England's hired Prussian soldiers” that were responsible. The British are sometimes almost too ine genious! Now all this trouble is only a trouble of temperament. It is a profound misunderstanding. I—moi qui vous parle—can trace back my Irish blood on the father’s side to the Egyptians, my English blood on the mother's side to the Phoenicians; 0 I under- stand where the mischief lies, Vigoroutly pro-Ally as T am in the present juncture, I cannot place the whole blame of the recent revolution in Ireland upon the Irish, ON, 383.1915, 1 proclaimed the Independence of Ireland at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. But I did not intend to terpret that “independence” asX'dependence on Germany!” The German temperament is surely the one thing more antagonistic 12 the Irish than the English temperament. There is no sense of what 4 German would call order in the Trish mind; all Trishmen have genius in its worst form! Hence it was utterly ridiculous of the English to try to prove that the martyrs of last Easter were “bribed by the Germans.” For one thing, you can’t bribe people whose action, if successful, gives them control of the wealth of a whole country, whose failure dooms them to the gallows. But British stupidity never hesitated. While all America, even violently pro= Ally America, was vomiting with horror and’ disgust at the mur- ders of Pearse, Conolly, Skefington and the rest, she calmly pro- ceeded to vilify her victims. She did not even have the sense to fee that the mere date of the Revolution—Haly Week—would inevitably link Pearse in the Catholic mind with the hero of the “World's Tragedy,” and so make hie name a pallying-cry of antic English sentiment for the lifetime of Christianity. Not content with hanging Casement in cold blood, though every fone even in England knew him for’ a harmless idealist with aVIERECK'S touch of the crank in him, she branded him by secret slander—not daring to publish the alleged evidence against him—as “immoral” na particular sense which to all informed memories merely re- led the theft of the Crown Jewels of Dublin Castle by the fervants of the crown, ‘TO attribute what the French call “le vice anglais" to Casement as too funny. If they had laughed, it would not have been 80 bad; but they Kept the veil of hyproctisy upon their faces, fot knowing whiat word some rude little boy had written there. For an Englishman not only “never knows when he is beaten"; hie also never knows when he is found out. It is dificult to say hhow far this may be an advantage; but he has lied 20 long that hhe now lies in all sincerity; he has lost the sense of what tnith is Therefore I do not say that the English were not sincere in their denunciation of those lofty souls who heard the clarion call of ‘my Declaration of Independence, and sprang to arms. The trayedy of it is that they were. They had not imagination enough to put themselves in the place of any Home Rule Irishman Let ua give 4 sketch of the history of the movement 1. Tt goes on rather hopelessly for SO years or so after the ‘treacherous destruction of Graham's Parliamest, 103 2, Parnell takes hold, and forces the government to offer = ma sure. The government split rather than past it ‘3 Parnell renews his efforts. This time, despite his own fill, ‘the Bill goes through the Commons. ‘The Lords throw it out. 4. Another rally. ‘The veto of the Lords is destroyed, principally in order to pass Home Rule : 5. The bill paises. Sir Edward Carson revolts, drills men, runs ‘guns, with the Government and the army for his accomplices, England, even the anti-Home-Rale section, is aghast.” 6. The King signs the bill. General relief; “Oh well, that's done with, thank God! Iv's tw now; but we needw' wer” enforce it, need But now? Yes: even now a frank acceptance of the Law of England might save England. Let Dublin Caslie be abolished; perhaps no'other act would be necessary. Ulster and Rebel Corle hhave learnt to understand each other in the last two years, to some extent, Home Rule is now possible as never before. At least & fair trial would be evidence of England's good intentions, Or is her Blind Spot “a spot that is always barred”? Oh William Schwenck Gilbert , Major John Bigelow’s Remarkable “Study in History and Diplomacy” M42. JOHN BIGELOW, U. S.A. retired, has made a spe cialty of the study of phases of American history often buried in State papers and documents of anything but easy access. Av a ‘now added to the obligation under which we rest to his industry in intelligent research work, by an [admirable volume of timely interest and permanent value, entled “Breaches of Anglo-American Treaties.” Major Bigelow’s work is indeed “an important contribution to the evidence entering into the ground work and the frame work of ' correct answer to the vital question of the day.” The pity is that it did not appear upon the market a year ago. It is a sin erely patriotic effort, backed by exhaustive proof, to defend the United States from the aspersions of being a treaty-bresking Power so often leveled against us by English statesmen and Only a few years ago, incidentally to the public discussion of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, the United States was arraigned by the British press as lacking in the sense of honor that holds. a nation to its promise. The Saturday Resize could not expect "to find President Taft acting like a gentleman.” "To imagine,” it said, “that American politicians would be bound hy any feeling of honor oF respect for treaties, if it would pay to violate there ‘was to delude ourselves, The whole course of history. proves this, The London Morning Post charged the United States with various infractions of the Treaty and said: "This is surely a ‘ecord even in American foreign policy; but the whole treatment of this matter serves to remind us that we had 2 long series of similar incidents in our relations with the United States. Ameri- cans might ask themselves if it is really a good foreign policy to lower the value of their written word in such a way as to make negotiations with other powers difficult or impossible. The ultimate loss may be greater than the immediate gain. ‘There might come a time when the United States might desire to estab lish a certain position by treaty, and might find her past conduct 4 serious difficulty in the way." More recently, and presumably with more deliberation, a British author (Sir Harry Johnston “Common Sense in Foreign Policy.” p. 89), says: fact, only bind the United States as long as they are convenient. ‘They are not really worth the labor they ental or the paper they are written on, It is well that this position should be realized, tay save a great deal of fuss and disappointment in the ‘The most remarkable chapter in the book deals with the Clay- tomBulwer Treaty. Major Bigelow shows how che British Ambassador spirited a spurious document into the Sles of the State Department. This spurious document has had an impor: fant bearing on the interpretation of our treaty with England affecting the Panama Canal, Major Bigelow has devoted his study to determining the rela tive trustworthiness of two great nations as indicated in their conventional intercourse with each other, Beginning with the treaty of peace as the end of our war of independence. it cons siders all the treaties, conventions and similar agreements. nego: tiated between the United States and Great Britain that may be regarded as broken by either of the contracting parties, sets forth and discusses the infraction in each case, and ends with a sum marizing of the records on both sides and a balancing of the agreements The work is not a “war book"; is was not written with a view to forming public opinion on any phase or feature of the prevent world war. 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