lets thicker than rain can fall. And the automaton licks its lips hungrily and sweeps from right to left. It is pointed on the middle of the body and sprays the whole firing line with one sweep. It is as though Death had scrapped his scythe for old iron; as if nowadays he had graduated as an expert mechanic."

God in Heaven! what a way to decide who shall govern Alsace and Lorraine, or to whom Bosnia shall belong! Why not let the inhabitants of those countries decide for themselves? Or throw dice?

And what a way to appease offended national dignity!

Sooner or later the nations must come to it; that the only way to forefend the abysmal waste and woe of war is to QUIT MAKING GUNS.

Wednesday, August 19, 1914

THE CREED OF THE WAR MAKERS

We believe in God, but not in a God of love, truth, and justice; we believe in that God who is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

We reject entirely the teachings of Jesus Christ. He was a good man, but His principles are wholly impractical.

We believe that for a nation to follow Christ's teachings would be national suicide. It is good policy to let the common people worship Christ, but we know better.

We believe it is wrong for one man to kill another in a brawl, but that for a thousand men to murder another thousand men in a national brawl is glorious.

We believe that the best way to settle differences between political states is to destroy commerce, devastate fields, burn cities, slaughter men, invite famine and pestilence, and altogether plunge into crimes which in an individual would be unspeakably inhuman.

We believe the only practical way of main

taining national honor is to keep the main portion of the men of the nation in arms and idleness, and to expend the chief part of the nation's income in buying cannon and ships, so as to be ready to destroy any other nation that insults our own.

We do not believe in getting together and adjudicating our disputes by law.

We have no confidence in right and justice, nor in any spiritual forces, but only in brute force.

We believe that the common people should be ready at a moment's notice to go out and butcher the common people of another race with whom they have no quarrel whatever. This we call PATRIOTISM. The men ought to sing and prance, and their widows and orphans ought to be happy.

We believe that a few kings and diplomats ought to say when universal slaughter is to begin, and that the common people should not be consulted.

We do not believe that nations should federate together for the benefit of their workers, but that they should stand apart in hostile rivalry for the benefit of their dynasties.

We believe in the devil and all his works, such as race hate, distrust, prejudice, vanity, brutality, and destruction. It is always wiser

to rely on these than on the visionary ideas of Jesus.

Our Te Deum is the roar of artillery, the cries of battle-mad men, and the antiphonal shrieks of women and children.

Our sacrament is the blood of eviscerated and decapitated men mingled with the tears. of wives heartbroken.

We believe that all persons who prate of reason, federation, forbearance, and rational ways of international transaction are silly, absurd, and sickly mollycoddles.

To go to church on Sunday and worship Christ according to the ritual is to be commended, but to take seriously what your God says and to try to practise it is unpatriotic, is anarchy and treason.

So mote it be!

Approved August, 1914. Beelzebub, Rex. Thursday, August 20, 1914.

THE PENALTY OF BEING FEARED

IN many respects the German people are the most remarkable among the races of men. They have been world-leaders in the realm of thought. Their powers of research are amazing. Their position in science and art has been at the front. They have shown themselves to be a first-class people in every field of human endeavor. The best students from every land have gone to Germany to learn. Even in manufacture and commerce they have bid fair during the last generation to lead all nations.

Their one colossal mistake has been their war machine. Overspreading the magnificent edifice of German achievement has hung the fateful thundercloud of militarism.

If Germany had been content with the peaceful conquests of the world's schools and markets no power could have stayed her progress.

But the leaders in German politics undertook to make Germany FEARED. The enor