Author: Frank Urban

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-05

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781330733769

Excerpt from Mugging the Kaiser and His Pals: War! Why Not? To Safeguard American Capital, Industry, and the Right to Labor 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 governed, but by brutal force, will the world be free to move onward and attain the ideals of ultimate Democracy. But, ascending from this yawning hollow, shining above the horizon of this universal pestilence, there looms up the energetic, inextinguishable light of Democracy that radiates the path of moral rectitude, informing us that we can firmly and confidently proclaim that the breath of that divinely planted aspiration - the passion for freedom - will prove to be mightier than all the brutally, materialistic strength, and all the prodigious armaments which seem to have laid the world low. With the dawning of Democracy, great, stirring human emotions will vitalize every fibre of her glittering fabric, as the souls of men, women, and children are liberated from the dungeons of warfare's greed In which they have been heartlessly incarcerated by despicable autocracy, shocking their sensibilities and marbleizing their spiritual faculties. Then shall the human heart, pregnant with a desire for righteousness, and under a solemn consciousness of the sanctity of the flame of life, cry out in protest against a repetition of this most lamentable holacaust, and, by adopting pure and courageous democratic government, make an end of war forever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.