According to a newspaper report, the esteemed President Eliot of Harvard has written that the fear of the Muscovites could not explain our action, and that an alliance with the Western powers would have offered better protection against a Russian attack.  Yes; if such a thing had been possible!  As a matter of fact, however, the Western powers did not ally themselves with us against Russia, but with Russia against us; and not the fear of the Muscovites, but their mobilization, encouraged and aided by the very same Western powers, drove us to war.  I wonder what President Eliot himself would have done under these circumstances had he been the guardian responsible for Germany’s fate?

Belgium’s Alleged Neutrality.

But then the violation of Belgian neutrality!  How with the aid of this bugaboo the entire neutral world has been stirred up against us, after England made it the hypocritical excuse for her declaration of war!  We knew very well that England and France were determined to violate this neutrality; but, then, we ought to have been very good; we ought to have waited until they did so.  Waited until their armies would break into our country across our unprotected Belgian frontier!  In other words, we ought to have committed national suicide.  Whoever, even up until now, has doubted the German assertion that Belgium was under one roof with England and France, and had herself thrown away her neutrality, must have his eyes opened by the latest official developments.  The documents of the Belgian General Staff which have fallen into our hands contain an agreement according to which the march through Belgium of British troops in the case of a Franco-German war was provided for in every detail.  Whosoever in the face of these documents repeats the assertion that we have committed a violation of innocent Belgium gives aid to a historical forgery.

We have violated the alleged neutrality of Belgium in self-defense.  On the other hand, the Japanese, egged on and supported by England, have violated the real neutrality of China from pure lust for robbery.  For the three great powers allied against Germany and Austria have not been satisfied with their own nominal superiority of 220 millions against 110 millions!  In addition to this they have urged on into war against us a Mongolian people, the most dangerous enemy of the white race and its culture.  They have supplemented their armies by a motley collection of all the African negro tribes.  They lead into battle against us Indian troops, and the Christian Germanic King of England prays to God for the victory of the heathen Hindus over his coreligionists and blood relatives.  Americans, does your racial feeling, at other times so sensitive, remain silent in view of this unexampled shame?  Do you accord to the English and the French, who are attacking us in co-operation with the Russians, the Servians, and the Montenegrins, who are dirtying themselves with a brotherhood in arms with the yellow skins, the brown skins, and the blacks, the right to declare themselves the representatives of civilization and us to be barbarians?