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IF NOT HATE LOATHE Soon however the Knglish and the French learned that there was no treachery no barbarity on breach of the rules of civilized warfare the Ger ¬ mans would not commit in their lust for world dominion Women and children slain in the streets of London and Paris by bombs dropinxl by German airmen constituted their first lesson in why to hate Others were not long in coming comingBut But Americans had learned their lesson Injfore they went over Kvery civilian man and above all every woman and every child slain sank deep into American consciousness and stayed there No greater wave of horror swept over Kngland at the shooting of Nurse Cavell than over America Hate the Huns AVe surely do and as surely despise them themFor For hatred is the moral basis of war A people and a government is a people lias done something so monstrous either in deliberately launching a war or in conducting it so savagely and inhumanly as to place itself outside the civilization and Germany has done both that those who are obliged to de ¬ fend themselves by attacking the Ieast are moved by a hatred so intense that like the wrath of God it sweeps a destructive blast over the hosts of evil evilThe The Hymn of Hate was written in Germany to be sung there But today it is being written in flashes in the sky on the western front and sung by the guns on the Marne Those guns are American New York Herald
