The first incident that shocked the American people into a realization of the true character of "the German people" was the sinking of the _Lusitania_, and the drowning of its great company of women, children and other non-combatants. And then, while England and America were laying their streaming dead in long rows on the dock at Queenstown, "the people" of Germany were literally dancing with joy! The German people called it a glorious "victory"! "Were some women and children lost? Well, they should not have sailed on the _Lusitania_. They were warned,--=by the German Ambassador himself=!" And the beautiful city of Frankfort-on-the-Main gave all its school children A HOLIDAY, in which to indulge in unrestrained rejoicing over the sinking of the _Lusitania_! In Frankfort, if you were to throw a banana peel on the street, or in the Palm Garden, you would fiercely be arrested, and savagely fined 5 marks for the atrocity. And some of "the people" of Germany struck a joy medal in celebration of the _Lusitania_ victory. A reproduction shows that it was a charming and soulful work of German art. And the submarine reptile who sank the _Lusitania_ =was decorated (with the "Order Pour la Merite"), and promoted=, by the man whom young Hagenbeck of Hamburg characterized as "our dear, good, kind Emperor." Faugh! "Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, To sweeten mine imagination!" Last week it was reported by wounded British prisoners, exchanged and sent from Germany via Switzerland, that "as we lay in the train, crowded and helpless, many German women came up to the cars and spit upon us." I have already cited the story of a Canadian prisoner. During the past three years I have read every scrap of eye-witness information that has come before me in print recording observations in Germany, by war correspondents and others. My reading covers many newspapers, magazines, books and official publications of various kinds. Through all this mass I have looked in vain for expressions from the common people of Germany of some disapproval of German cruelties and atrocities on land or sea, or of sympathy for the victims of German cruelty. Find just one, if you can. I can not. Not once have I seen an expression or sentiment of that kind reported from Germany. The callousness of the women of Germany toward the ravishment, wounding, torture and ghastly mutilation of their sisters in Belgium, France, England, Servia, Poland and Armenia is astounding, beyond belief. But we are learning a lot these days.