[1] "In this village, from which the Germans had just retreated, I saw a proclamation by the German officer, saying that every Frenchman who refused to work should receive twenty blows of the whip; the women, fifteen blows, and the boys and girls under fifteen years of age, ten blows."--_Extract from letter of the American violinist, Albert Spalding, now a lieutenant serving in France._ [2] During last September and October, at the author's suggestion, the American etcher--Louis Orr--for eighteen days was in Rheims Cathedral while under bombardment. Mr. Orr is one of the most distinguished etchers now living. He has sent to Dr. Hillis 2,400 copies of his three etchings to be sold for the Red Cross work under official direction. II The Pan-German Empire Scheme, For Which Germany Lost Her Soul "Our motto is 'from Hamburg to the Persian gulf.'"--PROFESSOR TANNEMANN. "In this Pan-German Empire, Germans alone will govern; they alone will exercise political rights; they alone will serve in the army and navy; they alone will have the right to hold land; and they will thus be made to feel that they are a people of rulers, as they were in the Middle Ages. They will, however, allow inferior tasks to be carried out by the foreign subjects under their domination."--"_Gross Deutschland und Mitteleuropa um das Jahr 1950_," p. 48. "Why should we make paltry excuses? Yes, we brought on this war, and we are glad of it. We provoked it, because we were sure of winning." MAXIMILIAN HARDIN, In _Zukunft_, Aug. 20, 1914. "After this war is over, I will stand no nonsense from the United States."--_The Kaiser's threat to Ambassador Gerard._ II The Pan-German Empire Scheme, For Which Germany Lost Her Soul