Pillory and Witness-Box

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...of the United States. Upon this people, fighting for everything that is holy to them, you not only declared your personal and / cowardly war, but with a callousness of mind and heart almost beyond comprehension, you attempted to hound upon them all the rest of the world, made mad by the Anglo-Saxon lie. The little neutrals, still safe from blood and havoc, you sought to drive and bully into the carnage, without a thought for their own welfare. Should the back of the heroic German people break under this terrible pressure, with it would break the greatest stronghold of truth, civilization, family life, universal idealism, deep religious sense, free scholarship and scientific research of which the white race can boast. With it would fall the buttress of the highest and best that has been evolved in European civilization for Germany is today the defender of European culture and integrity, even though her neighbors, blind with suicidal rage, cannot at present perceive this great truth. Should this strong and enlightened nation succumb to sheer mass and numbers, there would be not a single glint of glory in such a victory for the mongrel armies of whites, blacks, yellows, reds and browns--nothing but a sea of shame. The only possible righteous course still left open to you, Woodrow Wilson, is to withdraw the American troops from European soil as quickly as possible, and to leave the Europeans to settle their own affairs. The great crime may be still made good, ere darker and deeper shame and infamy ensue. Here End These Painful Chapters. Hamburg, February 1918. TO WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT THE BOGUS PEACE PROPHET AND THE POLITICAL BILL SYKES ou too have failed in the greatest crisis that ever confronted our country, at a time when real American spirit and ...