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DETROIT, MICH., JULY 21, 1916

Vol. I. No. 21

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An Appeal To Humanity

By GEORGE BRANDES

ACH one of the Great Powers
that are at war claims self-
defense as the reason. All have
been attacked unawares ; all fight
for their existence. They all mur-
der in self-defense, as all liars lie—
in self-defense. Since not one of
these powers has desired war, let
them make peace !
lowever, after well nigh
twenty-two months of warfare,
peace seems farther off than ever.
All the warring powers must
needs first lead civilization to vic-
tory. This civilization is dubbed
either intellectual superiority, or
justice, or liberty, or civic spirit as
opposed to militarism.
Civilization! The first fruit of
this civilization has been the expan-
sion of the truth-murdering Russian
censorship over the earth. The
next is a return to the age of human
sacrifice. Only that in barbarous
antiquity four or five prisoners of
war were slaughtered annually in
honor of a dreaded deity, while at
present four or five million human
beings are sacrificed to adored idols.
Lamennais expressed it thus :
"S a tan suggested a diabolical
thought to the oppressors of na-
tions. He said to them : 'Pick
from every family the strongest
men and give them weapons! I
shall give them two idols whom
they will call honor and loy-
alty, and a law which they will call
dutiful obedience. They shall
adore these idols and blindly sub-
mit to this law.'"
We watch this fight against mili-
tarism during which the compulsion
of militarism has spread even to the
sole state which heretofore had kept
free from it, and during which
verywhere the civil power has re-
signed—this civil power and spirit
for the superiority of which man-
kind has fought for a century.
We watch this fight for liberty
during which both the spokesmen
of liberty and the devotees of force
confiscate every cargo and open
every letter, even every private let-
ter between neutrals.
We watch this fight for a higher
culture during which Germany has
trampled Belgium under foot. Aus-
tria-Hungary, Serbia, England,
Greece, Russia, East Prussia and
Poland—this fight for justice dur-
ing which everywhere justice and

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that in doing harm for the sake of
self-preservation. Torpedoes are
used with success. Bombardments
produce gratifying results. One
man brings down his twentieth fly-
ing machine and there is great re-
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which hypocritically has •been
GREAT LEADER WHOSE MEMORY IS HONORED THIS WEEK branded as jesuitical, as diabolical :
the end justifies the means.
Cruelty has become duty, compas-
'sion—high treason.
The Germans suffer hunger and
want. The Allies enjoy, it. The
Belgians and the Serbians are cowed
and enslaved. The Germans and
the Austrians enjoy it.
The Poles starve, the Jews have
stink down into boundless misery.
The fighters are unable to remedy
these sufferings.
All of those at war are proud of
the daring and tenacity of their
men. Both sides maintain that
among their enemies the lowest pas-
sions are rampant. And, unfortu-
nately, both are right.
The 'Central Powers declare that
they wish peace. But one fails to
perceive that they are willing to sac-
rifice anything for peace sake.
The Allies desire no peace before
"the decisive victory" shall have
been won—something that for
nearly two years they have in vain
wHied for and to which they seem
no nearer now than before.
Whatsoever may come to pass,
whatsoever battles . may be won or
lost, however valuable the ships tb:.t
may be sunk, whatever airships may
THEODORE HERZL
be brought down, however great the
number of men on either side that
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one, and one thing alone, is certain :
pendence on both sides is violated, together. Do the United States pre- it all must end with armistice and
negotiations.
fer to make money on the war in-
neglected, abolished.
One thing we know. We shall
In the warring countries victory stead of working for peace ? Is, to
wait
for the crushing blow. But
is, of course, the aim paramount put it briefly, nobody for peace save
that blow will not fall. Only mur-
before the armies, but their strong- sound sense and sound sentiment
der
en masse continues. Neither one
That cry for peace which soon
est desire is for peace. Everywhere
nor
the other of the two warring
the civil population groans for will be raised in all states, is called
peace. The governments, prOudly cowardly. But if men remain silent, groups may be crushed.
And if one says that it isn't Ger-
mounted, strike their spurs into the the stones will speak. The stones
of the ruins clamor for peace, not many, but only its militarism, one
sides of the tired horse.
The wish for peace dares no- for revenge. And where the stories would crush, this declaration is
are silent, ,the fields and the equivalent to one of wishing to pre-
where to speak out.
In the neutral countries public meadows cry, watered as they arc serve the porcupine while tearing
opinion does not feel justified in with blood, fertilized with corpses. out its quills.
The entire earth stands now in
demanding peace. Public opinion
Both sides will keep on to "the
dotes, school-girl fashion, on one or the sign of malice. The sole joy is bitter end." With every day its

right have been relegated to ob-
scurity, and considerations of state
substituted in their place—this fight
for the independence of the small
states during which this very inde-

the other of the warring parties and
so forgets to throw its weight into
the balance for peace.
Among the neutral powers one
signifies more than all the rest put

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