CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH
The Fighters And The Talkers Ernest Poole In Mc Clure's Magazine Tells Of The Difference Between The Calmness And Spirit Of Men In The Trenches And Those Who Spread Gospel Of Hate By Ernest Poole...
...to bind up the nation's wounds...
...I?or ihey will not be bo ccdd-spicuous as the Self-advertisers and Haters Who "will arise on every band...
...And you will go steadily on with your work, which is to wage such a war to tho end as will destroy root and branch all autocracy everywhere, all arrogant pretensions to world domination by German Kullur, all ruthless oppression of the weak, and will end in a peace that shall at least be another milestone passed in the long weary march or hui.Tanity up the great road of progress which leads to the brotherhood of mankind...
...The Fighters And The Talkers Ernest Poole In Mc Clure's Magazine Tells Of The Difference Between The Calmness And Spirit Of Men In The Trenches And Those Who Spread Gospel Of Hate By Ernest Poole in MCtare's Magazine IF :you "believe that on this 'war depends the strength of democracy in tim world for generation to come...
...all over Europe...
...and you come upon the Fighters, the quiet men who are working hard at the business of war, enduring privations, exhausting toil, and suffering and disease and death, and taking it all as a matter of course...
...hie hatred of the people of England was to endure to the end of time...
...They are Hue ones who -will help .you most, for they will hs the real Fighters here...
...And from all the corre-spondents I know I have hoard it Is the same in the French and English trenchies They are too busy killing Germans to hate them...
...Von will need all your strength and all your time, you will give yourself heart and soul to this cause, you will do your share in that hard, clear laborious thinking and planning and working without rrtiich this war will be of little or no avail to mankind...
...song3 and games...
...I remember, one evening in Beethoven Saal looking down from the low gallery upon a throng of weIl<Lressed people listening to an actor wbn was reciting the "Hymn of Hate...
...How clear up our minds ail over the land, East and West and North and South, and unite on a few great purposes, simple, honest and sincere...
...And so over here as we enter the straggle, if you engage in any one of the numberless tasks that are needed to back up our allies abroad and later our own armies in France, you will have no time for hatred...
...Tho Haters are interested in revenge and all the resulting bitterness that can lead to other wars and fill tins worm lor generations with distrust and wholesale death...
...Meanwhile, so far as 1 could find, she was dolus nothing fc-t the wax...
...Fighters have no time to hate...
...But in Europe it has not been so...
...In the training camps and out with the fleet and on our destroyers over the sea, it mil he easy to find such men, for they will be the predominant type...
...The Haters do not especially care to see a new Germany on the earth, with its Kaiser and its Junkers and its Militarists deposed, its menace destroyed and its good retained...
...The little man was hysterical;-, he tore his rage to tatters...
...There was once a big American whoso attitude toward an enemy land was expressed in these words: "With malico toward none...
...Paris, Petrograd...
...Home, and travel toward the battle-lines, the shrill, hysterical cries of the Haters die away...
...with charity for all: with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work wo are in...
...She told me in a voice quivering with bitterness that even when tbs war was over she w-anled nothing but evil to come to every "man and woman and child in the German empire...
...As you leave Berlin ox Vienna, London...
...They fill in their leisure hours with jolly little...
...Shall it he a useless slaughter or a great blood sacrifice, out of which shall emerge a world more brotherly and tolerant, more liberal to everyone, more safe for democracy...
...The Haters, as one of them said to me, want "the whole damned . German nation wiped right off the planet...
...ft you •want to Bee America go in bard "with all iter resources...
...But if you are to he one of those whn render Bervice in this war in tire thousand and one activities which are so vitally needed here, bath to back irp tlie men at the front and to make this struggle in very truth count for democracy everywhere, then tt^will jirJt hs bo easy to find the man and women whom you .need, tire ones who are billing to work day and night...
...To hear such folk inveigh against Germany, you might (hint they were tie fighters here...
...To such thinking hatred is no ally but an inveterate enemy...
...They will say it so loudly and insistently that you will grow used to the din of their voices and will come in time to treat such noise like the shrill wrangling notes of sparrows...
...to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations...
...Bnt in Berlin there were thousands...
...She took it out in talking...
...Thjry had no time fur bating...
...Ton win hear the 'Hymn of Hate' sung by the boys in the trenches all along the Western front...
...They have something different to say...
...I remember a woman in London who was like many now in Jvew York...
...What peace terms arc we to ask...
...And so it is...
...The Haters have little use for such talk...
...I was told by one of them that night: "We Germans now all feel like that...
...if yon want to do your utmost .yourself and git others to Ad the -same—Jack about you for the quiet men...
...la London there were Dot many Tike ber„ for the English are not .good Haters...
...How make the strength of America tell to the very utmost to bring the war to such an end as will mean a real victory for our principles...
...And those people rose and cheered him until the great han seemed to rock with the noise...
...But I went to the boys In the tranches and found them big stolid German youths, standing out there in the drenching rain and quietly fighting for Germany...
...How rid ourselves of the shams and lies that are bound to creep in...
...How avoid waste and blunders...
Vol. 9 • September 1917 • No. 9
