W. A. Rogers

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AMERICA'S
Black and White
BOOK

One Hundred Pictured Reasons
WHY WE ARE AT WAR

By
W. A. ROGERS

CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY
NEW YORK

Copyright, 1917, by

The New York Herald Company

All Rights Reserved

LIST OF CARTOONS

NUMBER

1. Verdict—“Carelessness on the part of the deceased.”

2. The first great German “U” Boat Victory.

3. Modern German Gothic Art.

4. The Announcement.

5. A SILENT COMPANY—Yet its voice is heard above the roar of Cannon.

6. Those “cannon on the forward deck.”

7. Here are “the facts.”

8. He had expected to find the President alone.

9. “We Germans love the Belgians, who were forced into the war.”
—Dr. Dernberg.

10. The Crushing of Belgium.

11. Invasion of Belgium by the “Uncultured.”

12. GERMAN RELIGIOUS ART—Intended for a Cathedral window.

13. Christmas Night.

14. A moving picture.

15. There is no American blood on John Bull's hands.

16. Going to “throw a scare” into Uncle Sam.

17. “THOSE FLIPPANT AMERICANS, who were drowned on the Lusitania.”—Cologne Gazette.

18. “Gott Mit Uns”—and Allah too!

19. Swarming.

20. “Here's a present from the Kaiser, my pretty maid.”

21. “Seized for Military purposes.”

22. Those who are decorated.

23. It was a glorious Victory.

24. One of those touching pictures of a German soldier feeding little Belgium.

25. “Don't you see the war is nearly over?—Forget the Lusitania!”

26. Activities of a German diplomatist in America.

27. Activities of an American diplomatist in Europe.

28. A good deal like the “Goose-Step.”

29. The sad case of Mr. Dumba.

30. Just whose pet snake is this?

31. Is God still with us?

32. Once more the Olive Branch.

33. Assurances by the waste-basket full.

34. “Yes, father, I remember you said the war would end in October.”

35. Spraddled.

36. The Austrians did it.

37. Recently on exhibition at Cooper Union.

38. The New Intensive Kultur.

39. “Watch your step!”

40. Whether to get angry or to laugh!

41. A message on preparedness—at the psychological moment.

42. A little May party interferes with the Christmas spirit.

43. The Ambulance Driver.

44. “For ways that are dark.”

45. “It's got to be uprooted.”

46. The Persia Torpedoed.

47. The Barbary Pirates:
We cleaned them out 110 years ago, and we may have to do it again.

48. Yes, of course, “Turkey did it.”

49. Washington's most industrious special correspondent.

50. A Silent Protest.

51. His Private graveyard.

52. Safety first.

53. Let the decoration fit the crime.

54. Like sheep to the slaughter.

55. Von Tirpitz.

56. On the sinking of a hospital ship.

57. “Pirates and Privateers no longer exist.”—Von Jagow.

58. “Well, Count, do you claim it?”

59. The Kaiser's Colonial Secretary for North America.

60. “Please observe, Mr. Ambassador, that you are pretty close to the edge yourself.”

61. “From now on we will make no forward movement.”

62. “Admiral of the Atlantic.”

63. Assorted cargo for the return trip of the Deutschland.

64. Triumph of the Hohenzollerns at Verdun.

65. Those disappointing German-Americans.

66. Preparing a few more answers to our protests.

67. Is anybody being fooled by this?

68. A Prussian offer of Peace.

69. No, this is not Eliza crossing on the ice!

70. Maybe somebody wants to buy a little suckling pig, eh?

71. Bringing the flag up to date!

72. A survival of the dark ages.

73. Germany.

74. Under their true flag.

75. Wrathful waiting.

76. THE ONLY ANSWER:
Kaiser: “One day in the week you may go to Falmouth.”
Uncle Sam: “Seven days in the week you may go to ----!”

77. I'm here, Mr. President, close behind you.

78. Another case of wiping hands on the American flag.

79. For homeless Belgium.

80. “Shame—only American sailors! Not a woman or child in the lot.”

81. Something to remember after the War.

82. The new recruit.

83. It is to laugh.

84. Not all is dark.

85. “We are now getting the enemy out of their trenches.”—German report.

86. “Papa, here comes the light that killed Uncle Nick.”

87. The Junker must go.

88. “Come avay; our music iss not for Barbarians.”

89. The Piffle steams under orders from Wilhelmstrasse.

90. THE HONEY-MOON IS OVER.
“He gave me a black eye at Carnegie Hall.”

91. A good recruiting sergeant for Uncle Sam.

92. Will it succeed?

93. “Your mother, your wife, your child may be next!”

94. Still “luring them on.”

95. Mobilized.

96. The way to do it.

97. Rehearsing their swan song.

98. Hold Fast, Everybody!

99. This is their emblem.

100. To France!

"Liberty" attacking the Kaiser

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INTRODUCTION

Each government engaged in the European War has issued a White, Green, Blue or Yellow Book, explaining the causes which led to its entry into the great conflict.

These books are all interesting, and are full of valuable documentary information; but, if the busy people of America are to understand the reasons for their own participation in the war, some shorter cut to the desired end must be devised.

We, therefore, offer a BLACK AND WHITE BOOK, in which our nation's reasons for going to war are set forth in pictures, a universal language which can be read at a glance by any one who has eyes to see.

On August 1st, 1914, we were at peace with all the world. We were bound by ties of blood to every race on earth.

Particularly close and intimate were our relations with the German people, whom we welcomed to our shores as among our most desirable citizens.

Then, far away from us, apart from our interests or concerns—like a tragedy being played on the other side of the footlights—broke the frightful war of 1914. We looked on fascinated, but not convinced of the reality of its cruelty.

For a little over eight months we watched it, when, on April 22nd, 1915, there appeared in the New York papers an advertisement stating that the great passenger ship “LUSITANIA” would sail on the 7th of May for Liverpool.

In the next column, in equally conspicuous type, appeared a sinister warning to Americans, telling them to keep off the seas at peril of their lives. This was signed, “IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY, Washington, D. C.”

On May 7th came the fulfilment of the threat, and we awoke to the fact that we were not an audience looking at a tragedy, but the victims of the tragedy itself.

Not until then was it brought home to us that our good German friends, whom we thought we knew so well, had been inoculated with the virus of a Junker madness, and that we were dealing with a people who had cast from them every restraint of fair fighting and had become the outlaw nation of the world.

In the following pictures the Artist has attempted to show “Why we are at war.”

—W. A. ROGERS.

Carelessness on the part of the deceased.

With Junker thoroughness, Dr. Bernhard Dernberg had been sent here to suggest excuses for the brutal assassination of Belgium.

Dr. Dernberg as coroner

Verdict—“Carelessness on the part of the deceased.”

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The first great German “U” boat Victory

The first woman to fall a victim to the “U” boat piracy was a stewardess on an English merchant ship sunk without warning in 1914.

Dead woman lying across a U boat

The first great German “U” boat Victory.

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Modern German Gothic Art.

The Rheims Cathedral belonged to the world. The product of hundreds of years of consecrated labor, its destruction by a nation devoted to “Kultur” is one of the primary reasons why we are at war.

German arms arranged to resemble a Gothic cathedral

Modern German Gothic Art.

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The Announcement.

The blackest count in the indictment against Germany is foreshadowed in the warning by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington to all Americans, of the crime which was to follow on May 7th, 1915.

Count Von Bernstorff wearing a death-head cloak standing next to the announcement

The Announcement.

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A SILENT COMPANY—Yet its voice is heard above the roar of Cannon.

On May 7th, 1915, by order of the Imperial German Government, a “U” boat torpedoed the great ship Lusitania without warning, drowning over 1,200 passengers. A sea crime unequaled by any pirate known to history.

The dead pouring out of the sinking Lusitania

A SILENT COMPANY—Yet its voice is heard above the roar of Cannon.

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Those "cannon on the forward deck."

Immediately after the sinking of the Lusitania, hired perjurers swore that the ship carried guns on her forward deck when she sailed from the port of New York.

Small children on the deck of the Lusitania; one with a cannon pull toy.

Those “cannon on the forward deck.”

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Here are "the facts."

Germany with brazen stupidity insisted on being told the facts—facts which she knew in far greater detail than did the Government of the United States.

Dead children under a U.S. flag

Here are “the facts.”

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He had expected to find the President alone.

A few days after the crime of May 7th, the Count Von Bernstorff requested an audience with the President.

He understood he was to see the President alone.

Von Bernstorff, Wilson, and the lost children of the Lusitania

He had expected to find the President alone.

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"We Germans love the Belgians, who were forced into the war." —Dr. Dernberg.

Dr. Bernhard Dernberg became exceedingly tiresome with his hypocritical professions of affection for the Belgians. His propaganda was effective but not in the way he intended.

Dr. Dernberg, playing a tuba

“We Germans love the Belgians, who were forced into the war.” —Dr. Dernberg.

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The Crushing of Belgium.

If the Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm really said what he is credited with: “This is the most stupid, senseless and unnecessary war of modern times,” he accurately described his father's masterpiece.

The Kaiser and Crown Prince using Belgian women and children as a work horse.

The Crushing of Belgium.

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Invasion of Belgium by the "Uncultured."

In the early months of the war the plain people of the United States invaded Belgium. This lack of “Kultur” was not criticised by the Belgians.

Uncle Sam bringing relief supplies to Belgian women and children.

Invasion of Belgium by the “Uncultured.”

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GERMAN RELIGIOUS ART—Intended for a Cathedral window.

In the autumn of 1914 the German Government issued a poster representing a 42 c. m. shell on which was piously inscribed, “Mit Gott fur Konig und Vaterland.”

The Kaiser painting an artillery shell.

GERMAN RELIGIOUS ART—Intended for a Cathedral window.

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Christmas Night.

It is a singular fact, attested by many photographs, that in the battered interiors of a number of Cathedrals within the war zone, figures of Christ, unharmed, still hold their places.

Nursing the wounded in a wrecked cathedral.

Christmas Night.

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A moving picture.

Official Germany has reported that the busy “U” boat Commander sometimes desists from firing on life boats long enough to reel off a moving picture of his drowning victims.

Officer on the deck of a U-boat filming sinking ship.

A moving picture.

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There is no American blood on John Bull's hands.

A strong effort was being made in May, 1915, to persuade the United States Government that England was equally guilty with Germany in ignoring our rights at sea.

"John Bull" and the Kaiser showing Uncle Sam their hands.

There is no American blood on John Bull's hands.

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Going to “throw a scare” into Uncle Sam.

The German dearly loves a masquerade. Mr. Bartholdt was parading the “German Vote” in Congress in January, 1915, with the idea of “Throwing a scare into Uncle Sam.”

Dressing as the Crown Prince.

Going to “throw a scare” into Uncle Sam.

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“THOSE FLIPPANT AMERICANS, who were drowned on the Lusitania.” —Cologne Gazette.

The semi-official Cologne Gazette added insult to injury when it characterized the one hundred and twenty-five American men, women and children lost on the “Lusitania,” as “Those Flippant Americans.”

Sunken lifeboat filled with women and children.

“THOSE FLIPPANT AMERICANS, who were drowned on the Lusitania.”—Cologne Gazette.

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"Gott Mit Uns"—and Allah too!

The Kaiser invited the “unspeakable Turk” to help subjugate the barbarians of England, France and Italy.

The Kaiser and a Turkish warrior

“Gott Mit Uns”—and Allah too!

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Swarming.

The United States was swarming with German spies and assassins whose activities seemed to have a center in the German Embassy at Washington.

Uncle Sam with a beehive.

Swarming.

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"Here's a present from the Kaiser, my pretty little maid."

Little children playing on the quiet greens of peaceful English villages seemed to be the favorite targets of the Zeppelin fleet.

Zeppelin officer giving a bomb to a small girl.

“Here's a present from the Kaiser, my pretty little maid.”

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"Seized for Military purposes."

The hosts of “Kultur” seemed to take particular delight in the destruction of the monuments of Gothic grandeur in Belgium and France.

Cathedral converted into an artillery piece.

“Seized for Military purposes.”

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Those who are decorated.

As the war went on, the heroism and devotion of the Red Cross nurse seemed to shine out with a lustre which quite eclipsed the glitter of military decorations.

German soldier and Red Cross nurse.

Those who are decorated.

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It was a glorious Victory.

Heroic Belgium, crushed beneath the gross bulk of bloated Junkerdom, still held his sword in hand, ready to strike again for freedom.

Bloated German soldier sitting on a tiny Belgian.

It was a glorious Victory.

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One of those touching pictures of a German soldier feeding little Belgium.

German soldiers whose hands were red with the blood of Belgian mothers, posed for official photographs to be used for American propaganda, showing them feeding little Belgian children.

German soldier feeding a Belgian child American food; while his comrades loot a Belgian bank.

One of those touching pictures of a German soldier feeding little Belgium.

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"Don't you see the war is nearly over?—Forget the Lusitania!"

After the campaigns of Lemberg and Przemysl, the Kaiser intimated to Washington that the War was about over; and it would be well, in the interests of peace, to FORGET THE “LUSITANIA.”

The Kaiser advising President Wilson.

“Don't you see the war is nearly over?—Forget the Lusitania!”

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Activities of a German diplomatist in America.

Count Von Bernstorff continued to “play horse” with Uncle Sam, while Dumba, Von Papen and Boy-Ed looked on with ill-concealed contempt at “the idiotic Yankees.”

Von Bernstorff controlling Uncle Sam as a horse.

Activities of a German diplomatist in America.

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Activities of an American diplomatist in Europe.

In contrast to the violation of our hospitality by Counts Von Bernstorff and Dumba in America, Brand Whitlock, our ambassador in Belgium, spent his time in relieving the distress in that distracted country.

Mr. Whitlock bringing food to Belgium

Activities of an American diplomatist in Europe.

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A good deal like the "Goose-Step."

Mr. Bryan, in the disguise of a pacifist, was consciously or unconsciously playing the role assigned him by the Imperial German Embassy at Washington.

William Jennings Bryan, dressed like a dove, 'goose-stepping' in front of the German Embassy

A good deal like the “Goose-Step.”

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The sad case of Mr. Dumba.

Ambassador Dumba, having accumulated sufficient rope, hanged himself at last. His hat as well as his passports were handed him by the President.

Mr. Dumba sitting on the pier with his luggage.

The sad case of Mr. Dumba.

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Just whose pet snake is this?

One bomb plot succeeded another; leaving a slimy trail that always led back to the German Embassy at Washington.

Uncle Sam attacked by a snake in front of the German Embassy.

Just whose pet snake is this?

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Is God still with us?

Before a wrecked Cathedral window in France, from which the Mother and Child still looked down in silent protest, a young German recruit might well ask, “Is God still with us?”

Young German soldier looking at a broken stained-glass window.

Is God still with us?

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Once more the Olive Branch.

In September, 1915, the Count Von Bernstorff extended the olive branch to the Government of the United States, while Von Tirpitz backed him up with a gun.

Count Von Bernstorff handing an olive branch to President Wilson, Admiral Von Tirpitz holds a revolver.

Once more the Olive Branch.

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Assurances by the waste-basket full.

Von Bethmann-Hollweg was urged by the German Embassy in Washington to patch up any old assurances and send them over as Uncle Sam was becoming extremely restless.

Von Bethmann-Hollweg with a full waste-basket.

Assurances by the waste-basket full.

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"Yes, father, I remember you said the war would end in October."

Certain that Verdun would fall, the Kaiser had predicted that the war would end in October, 1915. As September closed, the Crown Prince's army was being shot to pieces.

The German Crown Prince at a field telephone.

“Yes, father, I remember you said the war would end in October.”

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Spraddled.

It looked as though the German Army was spread over too much territory—faced too many fronts to be effective!

The Kaiser spread over Europe.

Spraddled.

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The Austrians did it.

The “Ancona” was sunk with great loss of life, and the German Government immediately claimed that an Austrian “U” boat was responsible, their attitude being that any story was good enough for “those idiotic Yankees.”

Uncle Sam, the Kaiser, Admiral Von Tirpitz and Count Von Bernstorff

The Austrians did it.

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Recently on exhibition at Cooper Union.

In the autumn of 1915, “The Friends of Peace” hung their white robes over plots of assassination, arson, piracy and the destruction of ships and munition plants.

German soldiers hiding behind the peace exhibition.

Recently on exhibition at Cooper Union.

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The New Intensive Kultur.

Under our feet the Prussian spy system was working day and night. It was hard to take a step in Washington without sticking your foot on a spiked helmet.

Uncle Sam in a German mine-field in front of the U.S. Capitol.

The New Intensive Kultur.

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"Watch your step!"

The people of the United States were beginning to think we had had enough of German aggression, and it was felt that a strong stand must be made for the national dignity and honor.

The Kaiser, ‘Liberty’ and Uncle Sam; the Kaiser stepping on Liberty's dress.

“Watch your step!”

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Whether to get angry or to laugh!

In November, 1915, Mr. Henry Ford had an idea “wished on him” by an Austrian lady who was lecturing in this country. She succeeded in making a spectacle of him, at which Uncle Sam was uncertain whether to laugh or weep.

Uncle Sam watching the 'peace ship' depart.

Whether to get angry or to laugh!

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A message on preparedness—at the psychological moment.

When the country, in December, 1915, was at the height of distraction, with plots against its peace and security being carried out in every direction, President Wilson came out with a message on Preparedness for War.

President Wilson and Uncle Sam

A message on preparedness—at the psychological moment.

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A little May party interferes with the Christmas spirit.

Immediately before Christmas the German Government once more sent us assurances of her high regard and friendship, meanwhile blowing up a few ships at sea and munition plants on land.

The Kaiser with a Christmas wreath and the lost children of the Lusitania

A little May party interferes with the Christmas spirit.

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The Ambulance Driver.

Many young Americans were at the front, driving their ambulances into the line of fire. Even Christmas night found them abroad on their errands of mercy.

Jesus as an ambulance driver.

The Ambulance Driver.

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"For ways that are dark."

With one hand passing out checks to Von Papen to pay for dynamite, and the other carrying assurances to the White House of Germany's good faith and friendship, Count Von Bernstorff was fairly busy.

Von Bernstorff passing money to Von Papen at the White House.

"For ways that are dark."

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"It's got to be uprooted."

Treasonable plots were becoming more and more unbearable. It was thought that the breaking point was very near.

Spiked plant with guns, bomb, pickelhaube (spiked helmet), and Pelzmütze (cavalry hat); nearby: Uncle Sam with a hoe.

“It's got to be uprooted.”

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The Persia Torpedoed.

The U. S. Consul to Aden, travelling on the business of his government, was the victim of a “U” boat attack in the Mediterranean. This occurred very near the spot where we drove the Barbary pirates from the seas a hundred and ten years ago.

U.S. Consul telling stories to the lost children of the Lusitania (under water).

The Persia Torpedoed.

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The Barbary Pirates—We cleaned them out 110 years ago and we may have to do it again.

The expedition in which the U. S. Marines distinguished themselves one hundred and ten years ago was brought to mind by the piracy of 1916.

Emperor Franz Joseph and Kaiser Wilhelm II as pirates.

The Barbary Pirates—We cleaned them out 110 years ago and we may have to do it again.

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Yes, of course, "Turkey did it."

With characteristic effrontery Germany and Austria disclaimed responsibility for the death of our consul to Aden, blaming it on the Turks.

Emperor Franz Joseph, Kaiser Wilhelm, and an Ottoman parrot viewing the body of the U.S. consul.

Yes, of course, “Turkey did it.”

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Washington's most industrious special correspondent.

In FeburaryFebruary, 1916, the newspaper offices were being bombarded with stories from “a source near the German Embassy.” —“What Mr. Lansing thinks,” “Washington agrees with Berlin,” “What the President believes,” etc., etc.

Count Von Bernstorff at a typewriter

Washington's most industrious special correspondent.

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A Silent Protest.

In the Place d'Iéna in Paris stands a statue of Washington. Within sight of this monument an old man and a little child were killed, the only victims of an air raid by German “Taubes.”

Statue of George Washington

A Silent Protest.

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His Private graveyard.

Von Bernstorff, hoping that the “Lusitania” was buried forever, was busy with assurances of regret. His principal hope being that she might “Rest in Peace.”

Von Bernstorff at the grave of the Lusitania

His Private graveyard.

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Safety first.

Mr. Bryan, to the disgust of all decent Americans, made a plea to his countrymen to bow to the will of Germany and keep off the seas entirely.

William Jennings Bryan, a monkey, and a parrot; groveling to the Kaiser

Safety first.

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Let the decoration fit the crime.

It was asserted and has never been denied, by the German Government, that the Kaiser decorated the commander of the “U” boat which sank the Lusitania.

The Kaiser decorating a naval officer

Let the decoration fit the crime.

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Like sheep to the slaughter.

Verdun had become a slaughter house. To save the tottering prestige of the Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm, whole German battalions were sacrificed in vain efforts to break down the French defense.

The Crown Prince and Kaiser herding sheep wearing pickelhaube to Verdun

Like sheep to the slaughter.

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Von Tirpitz

Von Tirpitz was said to have expressed deep sorrow for the women and children he had been compelled to kill. (As well, perhaps, as for those whom he was to kill on the morrow.)

“Oh, woe is me,” the Pirate cried,
“My duty's been full sore
And sorrow, like a rising tide,
Drowns all the joys of yore.”

“And jocular as you may deem
This drowning children by the score;
However droll the sport may seem,
It gets to be a horrid bore.”

“So let me sit and weep my fill,
Safe on the dismal banks of Kiel;
Weep for the babes who lie so still —
Only a Pirate's heart can feel.”

Then pity the Pirate, so old and gray,
As he sharpen his knife and tears fall fast,
He would cut your dear throat in a sort of a way
But his heart,—Oh, so tender, Is breaking at last.

Von Tirpitz weeping for the camera

Von Tirpitz

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On the sinking of a hospital ship.

The Junker Pirates, having filled the sea with little lost children, torpedoed a hospital ship and sent down into the deep a score of Red Cross nurses to keep them company.

Red Cross nurses with small children underwater.

On the sinking of a hospital ship.

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"Pirates and Privateers no longer exist."—Von Jagow.

In the face of a sea campaign of “Frightfulness,” Von Jagow came out with a statement that “Piracy no longer exists.” But something just as good was “made in Germany.”

A Turk, Von Tirpitz, Franz Joseph and Kaiser Wilhelm II sailing under a pirate flag.

“Pirates and Privateers no longer exist.”—Von Jagow.

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"Well, Count, do you claim it?"

In a safe of one Von Igel were found documents of the most incriminating nature. Count Von Bernstorff was given opportunity to claim them as official papers if he so desired.

Uncle Sam holding a snake addressing Count Von Bernstorff with Von Igel's safe beside him.

“Well, Count, do you claim it?”

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The Kaiser's Colonial Secretary for North America.

Junker impudence in the German Embassy at Washington had reached its highest point. Even Count Von Bernstorff realized that he had gone the very limit with our State Department.

Count Von Bernstorff with his feet on his desk under a sign reading Headquarters Germany's Colonial Possessions.

The Kaiser's Colonial Secretary for North America.

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"Please observe, Mr. Ambassador, that you are pretty close to the edge yourself."

When the German Ambassador protested against the deportation of his chief lieutenants for their activities in plots against our peace and safety, he was warned that his own position was none too secure.

Count Von Bernstorff at the edge of the sea with Uncle Sam holding two snakes marked: Boy-Ed and Von Papen.

“Please observe, Mr. Ambassador, that you are pretty close to the edge yourself.”

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"From now on we will make no forward movement."

Making a virtue, perhaps, of necessity, the German Government announced, in February, 1916, that “from now on it would make no forward movement.” Events since have proved how well it realized its true condition.

Germany as a wounded animal

“From now on we will make no forward movement.”

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"Admiral of the Atlantic."

In June, 1916, Wilhelm II, peering out from behind Heligoland, where his ships had rusted for two years, declared himself “Admiral of the Atlantic.”

The Kaiser hiding in Heligoland

“Admiral of the Atlantic.”

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Assorted cargo for the return trip of the Deutschland.

The “Deutschland,” a cargo submersible craft, sent over for reasons best known to the German Admiralty, was extremely mysterious as to her cargo for the return trip.

Count Von Bernstorff at the dock, sitting on a box of snakes, Von Igel's safe and other containers.

Assorted cargo for the return trip of the Deutschland.

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Triumph of the Hohenzollerns at Verdun.

It was stated in a cable from Amsterdam, that, by the Kaiser's direct personal order, issued about three weeks after the first attack on Verdun, to the Court painter, a great historical painting was to be made, called “The Triumph of the Hohenzollerns.” Accordingly the painter, with costumes, horses, models, and a corps of photographers and assistants, mobilized his forces on an eminence overlooking Verdun.

Empty uniforms posed on wooden horses.

Triumph of the Hohenzollerns at Verdun.

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Those disappointing German-Americans.

Junkerdom could never understand why all German-born American citizens, or American citizens of German blood did not immediately rally to the flag of Germany against the forces fighting for the liberty of the world.

The Kaiser with the spirits of American soldiers.

Those disappointing German-Americans.

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Preparing a few more answers to our protests.

Germany was ready to talk about restricting “U” boat activity as long as we would listen to her; but the sound of riveting machines in her shipyards was her real answer.

Tirpitz launching more “U” boats.

Preparing a few more answers to our protests.

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Is anybody being fooled by this?

While Von Bethmann-Hollweg was talking of Germany's desire for peace and a cessation of slaughter, Germany was making every preparation for a renewal, more ruthless than ever, of undersea warfare.

Von Bethmann-Hollweg as a mermaid, Tirpitz nearby with a trident.

Is anybody being fooled by this?

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A Prussian offer of Peace.

While her soldiers were driving Belgian civilians into slavery in Germany, Von Bethmann-Hollweg was issuing such beautiful sentiments as the following: “Conscious of their responsibility before God, before their own nations and before Humanity.”

Von Bethmann-Hollweg and the Kaiser in an airplane shaped like a dove.

A Prussian offer of Peace.

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No, this is not Eliza crossing on the ice!

An American-German (not a German-American) said in an interview in December, 1916, that Germany's Peace Proposals had broken the ice.

The Kaiser carrying the Crown Prince across ice floes.

No, this is not Eliza crossing on the ice!

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Maybe somebody wants to buy a little suckling pig, eh?

Everybody in the world had heard of the German Peace Proposals, supposed to have been sent out by the Kaiser, but nobody had been allowed to see them.

The Kaiser with a “pig in a poke”.

Maybe somebody wants to buy a little suckling pig, eh?

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Bringing the flag up to date!

The Kaiser and Von Tirpitz were much happier in announcing a new campaign of Intensive Frightfulness than when endorsing the hypocritical peace proposals of Von Bethmann-Hollweg.

Von Tirpitz and the Kaiser sewing a pirate flag.

Bringing the flag up to date!

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A survival of the dark ages.

The retreat of the German Army in northeastern France will be remembered as one of the blackest pages in Junker history.

It stirred the indignation of the whole world.

German militarism as a reptile crawling out of the swamp.

A survival of the dark ages.

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Germany.

Blinded by the glitter of fifty years of militarism, the German peasant now finds himself the bearer of a crushing burden.

His case is not helped by the diplomacy which guides him.

A peasant carrying a cannon on his back and following a goose on a string.

Germany.

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Under their true flag.

On February 1st the German Admiralty with the utmost deliberation raised the black flag of piracy against the entire world, declaring that all vessels of whatever description would be sunk on sight if they approached European waters.

Von Tirpitz and the Kaiser sailing under a pirate flag.

Under their true flag.

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Wrathful waiting.

By the end of February, 1917, the President and the people of the United States were in a state of indignation that could not much longer be controlled.

They had exchanged “watchful” for “wrathful” waiting.

A battered Uncle Sam in front of the U.S. Capitol.

Wrathful waiting.

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THE ONLY ANSWER: Kaiser: "One day in the week you may go to Falmouth." Uncle Sam: "Seven days in the week you may go to----!"

Junker impudence finally overreached itself. When the United States was informed that it could send one ship striped like a zebra to Falmouth each week, American patience suddenly came to an end.

The Kaiser and Uncle Sam.

THE ONLY ANSWER:
Kaiser: “One day in the week you may go to Falmouth.”
Uncle Sam: “Seven days in the week you may go to ----!”

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I'm here, Mr. President, close behind you.

The President addressed a request to Congress for power to arm merchant vessels for protection against German piracy.

President Wilson and Uncle Sam.

I'm here, Mr. President, close behind you.

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Another case of wiping hands on the American flag.

Two little children, born almost under the shadow of the Hall of Independence in Philadelphia, were murdered at sea in the new campaign of “Frightfulness.”

The Kaiser wiping the blood of children off of his hands with a U.S. flag.

Another case of wiping hands on the American flag.

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For homeless Belgium.

The feeling of America for devasteddevastated Belgium was shown in the action of the Rocky Mountain Club, which gave the million dollars collected for a club house in New York, to the Homeless Belgians.

Refugees entering the Rocky Mountain Club

For homeless Belgium.

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"Shame—only American sailors! Not a woman or child in the lot."

An American merchant ship was sunk, carrying down a score of American sailors. Not a single child in the lot. The price of “Frightfulness” seemed wasted.

The Kaiser and Tirpitz

“Shame—only American sailors! Not a woman or child in the lot.”

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Something to remember after the War.

Many things done by the Germans in the heat and frenzy of war will be forgiven, but in the days and years to come the murder of the sick and wounded and the devoted women of the Red Cross on Hospital ships will be beyond human forgiveness.

Killing Red Cross nurses.

Something to remember after the War.

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The new recruit.

Mr. Carranza showed signs of having fallen under strong German influence.

He seemed inclined to adopt the goose-step at Tampico.

The Kaiser and Mexican President Venustiano Carranza.

The new recruit.

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It is to laugh.

The tension in public feeling was suddenly relieved by the revelations of a plot in which Germany and Mexico were to offer a full partnership to Japan in return for an attack on our southwestern border. It caused a roar of laughter from Washington to Tokio and back.

The Kaiser, Venustiano Carranza and a Japanese soldier.

It is to laugh.

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Not all is dark.

Through all the hideousness of war shone the light of the Red Cross. A fund for this great enterprise of humanity of one hundred and fourteen million dollars was raised in the United States in a week.

Red Cross nurse aiding the wounded.

Not all is dark.

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"We are now getting the enemy out of their trenches."—German report.

The Kaiser's plan for “Getting the boys out of the Trenches” in Eastern France was almost as naive as Mr. Henry Ford's plan of two years ago, and much more effective.

French troops leaving trenches to chase the fleeing Kaiser and Crown Prince.

“We are now getting the enemy out of their trenches.”—German report.

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"Papa, here comes the light that killed Uncle Nick."

The fate of the Romanoffs must have been most disturbing to the peace of mind of the Hohenzollern family. The torch of Liberty arose “Like Thunder”" across the seas.

The Kaiser and Crown Prince with Lady Liberty coming over the horizon.

“Papa, here comes the light that killed Uncle Nick.”

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The Junker must go.

England, France, Russia, Italy and the United States recognized that the Junker menace to the world must be thoroughly crushed before Peace could ever return to the world.

The allies as a ancient Greek soldier; Germany as a coiled snake.

The Junker must go.

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"Come avay; our music iss not for Barbarians."

Prussia at last realized that the United States could no longer be cajoled. Austria was therefore advised to give up all pretense of friendliness and come out into the open as a foe to America.

Kaiser Wilhelm playing the tuba, Emperor Charles playing the trombone, and Uncle Sam pointing a rifle at them.

“Come avay; our music iss not for Barbarians.”

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The Piffle steams under orders from Wilhelmstrasse.

The “pacifists” were bending every endeavor to induce the American Government to bow down in craven acquiescence to the restrictions of Berlin on Ocean travel.

Striped ship with pacifists, Oswald Garrison Villard, William Jennings Bryan, Robert La Follette, and others.

The Piffle steams under orders from Wilhelmstrasse.

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THE HONEY-MOON IS OVER. "He gave me a black eye at Carnegie Hall."

It was discovered that German money was paying a great part of the expenses of the Pacifist Party.

The Pacifists were willing to take the money, but objected to being found out.

Pacifist Party as a battered wife, with a German soldier in Domestic Relations Court.

THE HONEY-MOON IS OVER. “He gave me a black eye at Carnegie Hall”

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A good recruiting sergeant for Uncle Sam.

A “U” boat was reported at work off the Port of New York. This proved of considerable value to the recruiting sergeants.

German pirates in New York harbor.

A good recruiting sergeant for Uncle Sam.

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Will it succeed?

Germany set a trap beautifully baited with honeyed words for the Russian bear.

It looked for a time as though the Bear would be caught.

The Kaiser setting a trap for the Russian bear.

Will it succeed?

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"Your mother, your wife, your child may be next!"

There seemed to be a lack of realization on the part of many Americans that war was actually coming our way and that in the German programme, “we were next.”

German with a bloody sword.

“Your mother, your wife, your child may be next!”

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Still "luring them on."

Perhaps Prussia builded better than she knew when she carved out a heroic wooden figure to represent her hero, Von Hindenburg.

The Von Hindenburg Line was constantly nearing Berlin.

Transporting a wooden statute of Hindenburg.

Still “luring them on.”

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Mobilized.

Uncle Sam took command of one of the most powerful branches of his Industrial Army—the Railroads. They swore allegiance to the Flag.

Uncle Sam commanding the railroads.

Mobilized.

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The way to do it.

Admiral Fiske advocated going after the submarines with hydro-aeroplanes armed with torpedoes and guns.

Congress was urged to provide a great fleet of the aero craft.

American eagle hunting U boats.

The way to do it.

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Rehearsing their swan song.

The Hohenzollern family were beginning to realize that the day of Divine Right was nearing its end. They were gathering at the feet of “Old Fritz” for their swan song.

Group of swans wearing pickelhaube at the base of a statue of Fredrick II.

Rehearsing their swan song.

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Hold Fast, Everybody!

When the Russian loosened his hold on the Junker Beast, a situation loomed up that called for all the resolution and resourcefulness of the remaining allies.

Germany as an out of control mammoth.

Hold Fast, Everybody!

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This is their emblem.

The United States Marine Corps, true to its traditions, was in the forefront of Uncle Sam's entry into the arena of the World's War.

U. S. Marine Corp emblem.

This is their emblem.

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To France!

When France presented the United States with the great Statue of Liberty, which stands at our gates, she little thought how powerful that symbol of her friendship would some day prove.

By its shining light we now march to her aid.

Lady Liberty leading American troops.

To France!

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Transcriber's Note

This table lists changes made by the transcriber.

Cartoon Number | As Printed | As Corrected
49 | Feburary | February
79 | devasted | devastated