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Prices are as low as our quality can be sold. i {guiding thought [jf #8. honourably as in philosophy and . knowledged, is to make Germany the 'jreets upon a rigidly established On the German side we have a faultless organization, a long prepar- ation, every possible detail foreseen, s¥stematized and embodied into a set of regulations; the latest scienti- fic discoveries are put to some practi- cl use, peace and war represent go much cash or trade, with a view to- wards supremacy; addition of teFris tory, booty and spoils; destruction is but a means 10 cenquer, with the that might takes {Precedence of right, truth, treaties, pledges, the freedom of other men, respect for their persons and works, even though these treasures, for which humanity struggled and suffer- ed. be the proud "heirlooms of the world. Spying and trickery are ex- act sciences; they have Spel? masters and text books, like aviation and scouting; Germans graduate in them gunnery. V The Prussiin dream, boldly ae: centfe of the earth, to rule it like a regiment where everything is done with method, regularity and care finder the watchful eye of a powerful ~ PROF. J. M. LANOR. and pitiless government enthroned in Berlin; the other nations, both of the old and the new. world, would be allowed to live in meek tutelage and prosperity, but without dignity and honour. This mechanical conception of gov ernment from which the intelligence and feelings of others are éxeluded go cial hierarchy; at the top, the officer of noble birth or recently "vonned", solely devoted to thoughts and works of war and' lording it dver tne whois nation; then, the industrial and com- mercial leaders, the great landlords 1. W. Lanas, of the Royal the German and the French and Mitr College Bigs *rance play again the part in which they have always appeared when they unsheath their swords, it Is not to domineer over people but to free them. One of the pastimes of German in- tellectuals is to draw a comparison between Christ and Napoleon, the man of dreams and the man of deeds, and their admiration mvari- ably goes to the Corsican, the Galil- ean is out of date, his teachings were never meant for our times and tlimes. Theologians and moralists can prove as they misunderstand Christ, as for Napoleon, ther whole pelicy shows that they have failed to grasp his idea of government and world-dominion alike. To classify the civil servants, the clergy, the teaching staffs after the pattern of the army and navy would naturally appeal to the systematic mind of the Germans, but to liken 2 prefect, a bishop, a high universi dignitary to a general or admiral, pay them, discipline them likewise according to rank, and other officials to colonels, captains and privates is but.a small application of Napoleon's constructive genius; his "concept of the universe," to speak like the last ¢chool-bay in the land of the kaiser, was loftier. He explained once that his great wish had been to establizh a confederacy of the states or Eu- rope, in which all tongues ana creeds and national aspirations would have been respected, the same laws a -~ tariffs enforced from Moscow to Lis- bonne, all rivers, seas, canmis auq harbours free within the union, The kings of the confederate states would have made up a Grand Council under the chairmanship of Napoleon him- self; armies and navies would have been reduced to a mere police on land and water, finally the emperor and the empress would have travell- ed, most of the time, from capital to capital and town to town, smoothing of their subjects, extending to the populations the blessing of peace, and brightening their lives with la- vish hands. We may think what we please of such a plan; its object, at any rate, was not to crush and annihiliate in order to reign supreme. France went to war with Austria to liberate Northern Italy, and when she was offered Savoy( 1860) as a re- the people. They freely threw their lot with France, The allied nations are fighting for oppressed races, they ever did. Not to be outdone even Russia has granted equal rights to the Jews in her dominions and promised Home Rule to all the Polish provinces whether under Ferman, Austrian or Russian yoke at the pre- sent time. The policy of Great Bri- tain, as exemplified in Quebee, South Africa, Wales, Jersey or Scotland, will spread yet and be hailed in Al- sace-Lorraine, Schleswig - Holstein, Trentino and Trieste, Bosnia, Herze- govina and Transylvania, as well as in Poland, the professors, the scientists, the school-masters, and, finally the mas | ses-- all securely formed into regi- | ments ---- everything and eompel other men to} be her slavish clients, nay, even tlie blasphemous- claim that God himself | acted in partnership with the apos-| tolie Uhlans of the German emperor | has been flaunted in the faces of all! Admits Of Atrocities. The German conception further admits of all the committed by her armies their ob ject js to terrorize the enemy and make easier the task of the generals Arson, rape, plunder the murder of of war acts of 3 drunken and mad soldiery, but part of a system; some of their men - carry small bags of a peculiar powder, other torches or cans filled with a composition to set on fire fac- tortes and public buildings, We call this Vandalism, they term it Thor- oughness. The shooting of civil- fans, two out of three, is a regula- tion. Baron von Bissing, command- ing the VII Corps issued lately this order:. "When civilians fire upon us, the innocent must suffér with the guilty. The military authorities have often stated that human lives are not to he spared. It is a pity, no doubt, that houses, villages, even towns, should be wiped out, but feellngs of this sort are fill-timea. and must not be yielded to. All this is not worth the life of a single German soldier." In one of the towers of the cathe- dral of Rheims heaps of straw and tins of petroleum, were found which had been placed. there by the Ger- mans before they withdréw oi the approach of the allies. Shabby Treatment Of Prisoners I know from a trustworthy corres- pondent how shabbly and ungener- their prisoners. Listen to this story: "Amongst some French wounded, three Englishmen, severely crippled, were lylngoon straw, Their condl- Before the open door of a cattle-wa- gon stood more than two hundred German soldiers, some slightly wound ed and able to walk, the others on unforiunate English wounded who Were starving and lay 'helpless on showing them bowls of steaming soup, and sneered at them: "Do yeu es? We will kill you! That's all you'll get!" Of course we hear of ie ideal of war, , two w it Justice, and all with but one bent off, mind and aim: put Germany above After The Allies Win. When our victory is complete, hu- 1anity must be allowed to develop the union of various races, na- tions must be free to pursue their special destiny, enjoy their inherit 0 he Compares Jofire's Advance Is Near -- England difficulties, listening to the'requests : ward for her services, she consulted! asi -- ® : THE WAR'S END 18 NOW SET BY JUNE. in No Mood to Tmpose Severe Terms to End Destructive Mili- tarism. London, Dec. 1--A very optimistic prediction as to the comparatively short duration of the war was made today by a personage who cannot be desighated with any greater Precision j than as an officer of high position in General French's army. He is back in Jondon from Fhe front on a few days" eave, most of whic Jere, Ao h he passed at the | "The war," he said, before Ascot." (June.) n View of the of a long strugg this stat ¥ reads like a joke. It is made a Seriousness, however, and is justified according to its author; by what be 'describes as the facts of the situation. These are in brief that the German efforts in ibe weltern theatre of the war are practically exhausted; that the pressure on the eastern frontier will soon becomé severe; that the psychological moment for a general offensive movement for which General Jofire has been Jooking, is rapidly approaching, and "that when it does arrive the allies' combined movements in the east and west will preve irre sistible. "Early in officer, make obtain This prediction is a purely one, and leaves out of consideration the question of what terms Germans will be able to obtain and be willin Lo accept. ' Though talk of crushing Germany there can be little months more of "an appalling and ruinous war will have made the world's desire for peace a potent fac tor in the consideration of terms the gospel of hatred of Germany which is being preached by some apos tles here, does: not really spem : having more than "will be over al expectation *in the summer," sdid this Germany will be ready to peace on the best terms she can militar, . the necessity of is indulged in now, doubt that six to be : superficial success. Fhe more responsible papers through out the country. show no evidence of + patriotic determination to the war through to a successful issue generating into a blind fury only to be assuaged by the destruction of Germany. 3 It is obvious that the in Great Britain which does not in tend to prosecute the war without relenting until an enduring peace is established, and Prussian militarism A8 a menace to the world, has. been extirpated, but there is ample | dence that when these objects attained British feeling will tisfied, The Archbishop of York has aken to task by some of the jingo press for condemning "'the gross and | vulgar way in which the German em i peror has been treated in the news. papers, and particularly in some com- ic papers," but his statement that we can still} "with admiration and charity af $he great German : people" has been in many, in fact in most responsible quar. ters, I Dr. Aleehy gained the applause of | @ representative audience last night when he said it was essential that I'nglishmen should not imitate Cer many in her hymn of hate against Iingland, and that it was Eng- land's duty, hard though it might be, to remember the noble Germans of the past, of which there was so see © is no party evi- are be sa- been and one persons have been convicted {ance and add to it; longer be any downtr { any violence, any military caste. All {the world's might cught to be used to insure « little sign at the moment, If this country desired the complete truction of Germany, he added, she would place herself ou exactly the there should ro ien peoples, | des Germany must give peoples indifferently. | atrocities | harmless peasants are not merely the | want to eat, you swine, these cabbag- allies op- tup her dream | man {ing haughty her spurs in all the { capitals of Europe and abroad; if she Wik hive . one of 1 {a freed more mote. alli {ses by si; | bid that by { murderer: INCENCIAT IE | ravishers, thie e dishonour our- | selves by coming 1 to their level. {In this colossal =try the allies are the champi ht and ju tice; let them not their forms and abare their mission; mosl lasting victory will be to adhered faithfully, even under greatest provocation, to the aw war, humanity, and civilization General Gallieni, governor of is, addressing lately the attendants and nurses in a hospital 6: Belgian, British, French aud man wounded, said in concluding his speech: "Remember that wounded have no nationality." This is the spirit that heaps coals of fire on the heads of our enemies. Gne hundred and twenty-five years ago, France proclaimed the Rights of Man; to-day the allies assert the Rights of Humanity: after overcom- ing the Germans on the battlefield, we will vanquish them on moral ground, 'and that victory wiir over- stadow that of Miltiades at Marithon that of Charles Martel at Poitiers, the blow dealt to the Turks at Le- of moulding the hu- il thelr have the Par ously the Germans, as a rule, treat panto and the day of Waterloo, all of soldiers and officers on the firing rolled into one, ~-J. M. LANOS tion seemed desperate. I was told, HAVE INVITED BOURASSA. that they had not eaten for five days. !' Ottawa Want to Hear Him, Ottawa, Dec. 1---Defl was reached yesterday afte tion to Henri alist leader, |New Eugland States. Mr. will. be named later. » - | Crumbs of comfort never from eating erackers in bed. Small practice can lead to perfection in the art of If a woman's credit Store che | ia never soul after her image, and clank-! » directed against The mute millions Some French and English Citizens of a eision | rather than by oh v fatigue duty, serving out soup. and [3 nixed committee of French and now for the work of war, these men in turn insulted the three English citizens to extend an fnvita-! Compeieni Ghee state that of the the Nation-| m. arious and often vague to deliver an address not their litter of filthy straw. They Were | here on his return from a tour of the of vorrecer tible fe condgious wrote he 'would be glad to come if or the Germans the people of Ottawa still wanted to! ! hear him; aud ie committee Bas ony a | gaged a t occasion. The ' Tastances | 1380 a theatre for the ion man who t her when generosity and chivalry have heen shown; they are, however, the conie | cha great | looked" upon ¥ as & is good at a} Prom Yer 'argung same parallel as Bismarck and Bern- { hardi, whose sole ambition was to obliterate France from the records of the earth. Referring to Romain Rolland's cent article on the war, the says : "There is in our hearts no mean vindictiveness, Wo malignity of malice re- Star of the German democracy, who have been driven like sheep to the slaugh- ter hy the organized terrorism the Prussian Odin, "When Romain Rolland urges us to banish words of vengeance and rotali ation from our heats, he forces an open door. We are in no mood to unto German. cities and German civil inns what German militarism has done to Delgian cities and Belgian civil ans. Our task is higher and holier We are summoned by a sad destiny to the dreadful duty of saving western civilization from falling into an abyss of military hate, oe Rotinnd puts it "A great nation does not revenge itse. It re-establishes justice, and the destruction of Prussian militarism |is the only way we can discern by i which justice can be re-established | among the nations of Europe. We can- not fight this evil power with spiritu | al weapons alone, but we must wield the sword with hands, made strong by faith in us. Sooner or later the German democracy will divine the | truth that the Prussian ereed of mili | tarism is their enemy, as well as ours, and that they must join us in the hu man duty of overthrowing it." Another significant indication of th | spirit in which England is. fighting this war is to be found in the letters of line. The: evidence of personal vindic- tiveness or' national animosity is rare tin the extreme, and there are on the other hand Bumberless examples, going to show that when pot actually en gaged in trying to kill one another, | as in duty bound, the men at the | front are animated by good-fellow ship hostility. A million men who are mong She w caused the enlistm : the of Germany A wopian's idea of & net suff Ane 5 w ideal condition. insures is reflected in wonderful arrays of attractive merchandise and fine Christmas novelties. BEST AND LARGEST STOCKS IN KINGSTON FOR YOUR : CHOOSING. GREATEST VARIETIES -- AND WONDER: FUL PRICE ADVANTAGES. * " Steacy Discount Stamps Steacy's merchandise discount stamps mean a distinct saving of 5 per cent. on all cash purchases. Our prices--low- est in the city, with this extra advantage, should make this store the logical shopping center. ow! Think a moment on the advantages of early shopping--early in the month and early in the day !! 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