"HOLY WRATH."
GERMAN GENERAL'S CALL FOR' .- I PLENTY OE IT.
Lieutenant-General Keim, Military Governor of Limburg, publishes in 'the "Tagliehe Rundschau"- an article in Yihieh he says:— : ; .Steel is hardened in the fire. Fire is holy wrath and fury. But the genuine holy wrath which we want is a, wrath; that is not alarmed at itself, that is no* limited or restricted 'oj all possible scruples and considerations. Wrath, however, is only the transient appearance of an ebullition. It must be joined by hatred, because hatred fills the entire body and it continues to work in the sonl deeply and passionately until it is satisfied. It must act according to the Bible phrase, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." There is also a holy hatred which is completely justified in this fight for our existence, because this must politically be moulded in a'hard cast, because politics are a hard business. On lines of bourgeois morality, in a spirit of the sapience of the pedant, or by .whining pacifist ta*k a successful policy cannot be pursued, especially in these fateful times. We want the holy wraith t of free speech, the wrath of the free pen, in order to show a. front against the weaklings.. It is complftelv wrong, as the "Tagehlatt" recently xinsitlv expressed it, to believe one's self able to influence a "nng of scoundrels by being genteel. The • ' Trjrp'.-ilatt" demon-le the i*tr-k brtot: this is fully justified.) because slippers are now out of pine. P"t jack boi-.ls alone are not enough. We w nT it rrifii who can ns» the sword, men with a strong, iron will, who know how to hate f' - <im the bottom of their- hecrt. i«st *s Bismarck oheo said, "I hated i all night and to-day.''
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16235, 3 April 1917, Page 5
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