The effort to cleanse either would "the multitudinous
seas incarnadine."
ARTHUR POLLEN.
[Illustration: THE RAID
"Do you remember Black Mary of Hamburg?"
"Aye, well."
"She got six years for killing a child, whilst we get the Iron Cross for
killing twenty at Hartlepool."]
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BETTER A LIVING DOG THAN A DEAD LION
Here is the grim choice of alternatives presented to other nations by
the creed of _Deutschland ueber Alles_--the cost of resistance and the
reward of submission. On one side lies the man who has fought a good
fight "for Freedom." He has lost his life but won an immortal memory
inscribed upon the cross. The other has saved his life, and lo! it is a
"dog's life." He is not even a well-treated dog. Harnessed, muzzled,
chained, he crawls abjectly on hands and knees and drags painfully along
the road, not only the cart, but his heavy master too.
In the Netherlands and other parts of the Continent, where dogs are used
to pull little carts, the owner generally pulls too; it is a partnership
in which the dog is treated as a friend and visibly enjoys doing his
share. Partnership with Germany is another matter. The dog does all the
work, the German takes his ease with his great feet planted on the
submissive creature's back.
The belligerent nations have made their choice. Germany's partners have
chosen submission and are playing the dog's part, as they have
discovered.
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