Synopsis
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Présentation de l'éditeur
First Secretary othe National Executive Committee of the AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL ALLIANCE In the shadows of progress the world is engaged in a cruel and sanguinary war. A universal, reckless sweep of unreason, inspired by German autocracy, is breaking down all the living forces of the soul, leaving it inert, trembling and terrified. The human mind stands bewildered in the presence of its formidable creations, as this ineffable conflict is relentlessly plucking from the garden of life the flowers of youth and virginity. Titanic in her destructive power, haughty in her dealings, wondrous in her accomplishments of devastation, she would leave the world, which bore the torturous windings of this conquest with the most unpretending valor, a helpless, degenerating ruin. Atrociously criminal, she alone stands upon the pinnacle of depravity. She only in the supremacy of crime hath told us that she has forgotten the obligation to be virtuous; and when we gaze upon brave little Belgium, and war-stricken Europe in general and behold her smitten fields, her ruined cities and desolate homes, we are instantly confronted by these dreadful truths. Tones of thunder, tongues of flame, are surprisingly impotent in descriptive power when called upon to delineate the horrible activities of this cognate slaughter, which is de-humanizing and deflouring part of the human family. Germany has transformed prescious altruistic instinct for the preservation of others to an uncontrollable mania for revenge, and has wrung unquenchable tears from countless millions of wives, mothers and sweethearts, as the blossom of manly youth is being ruthlessly murdered upon the human abattoir. She loudly applauds all the vice that a degrading slavery engenders by the principles of war. And until the world overthrows this treacherous bond of war-lords, who derive power not (from the consent of the gove
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