It is not a pleasing task to set forth the details of revolting crimes, but it now has become very necessary that all Americans, of South America as well as North, should be shown the true character of the soldiers and civilians of Germany, and the men in high places who have =ordered= and =fostered= the high crimes of the past three years. This is no time to side-step the truth regarding the deadliest foes of human liberty and the rights of man. By way of illustration. Consider the character of the German crown prince,--the hero(?) of Verdun. When in Zabern the highborn German Captain Forstner beat a lame Alsatian shoemaker with his sword, for being "short" in love for his German masters. When a great outcry was raised outside of Germany, the precious crown-princeling telegraphed the brave and gallant Forstner, "=Fester d'rauf!=" which means "=Hit him again!=" Forstner was promoted, for gallantry on the field, of course. (New York _Times_, July 15.) In making up this all too brief exposition, I shall set down neither facts nor conclusions save those that are supported by an abundance of evidence such as might well be offered in any court of law. The most damaging evidences of German crimes and atrocities are =those that have been collected from German sources=! * * * * * The "peace resolutions" introduced in the German Reichstag say: "Germany took up arms in defense of its liberty and independence, and for the integrity of its territories." All the world now knows that both those statements are brazen lies, and that the people of Germany started the war as a war of conquest, and nothing else. But the lying leaders of Germany, including the 70 men of science who signed and sent out their now famous manifesto late in 1914, have for three long years been injecting that falsehood into the ignorant masses of Germany, to make them feel like fighting and going hungry. No. Germany's whining plea that she is "fighting for her very existence" is no excuse whatever for her diabolical crimes. No one is, or has been, seeking to "destroy" Germany, or anything German, save only her domineering, dangerous and thoroughly accursed military power. Even in the prize ring all such excuses as that are ruled out; and the fear of being beaten in a fight is no excuse for crime, nor even for brutality in method. One curious psychological fact is to be noted at the very outset. It is this: