There can be no doubting of the future. The Allied forces, who in
Raemaekers’ drawing stand for Liberty, are assuredly destined to wring
the neck of the Prussian eagle, which typifies the tyranny of brute
force.
“For freedom’s battle, once begun ...
Though baffled oft, is ever won.”
“There is only one master in this country,” the Kaiser has said of
Germany. “I am he, and I will not tolerate another.” He has also told
his people: “There is only one law--my law; the law which I myself
lay down.” It is supererogatory to dispute either of these imperial
pronouncements. The Future contents herself with the comment: “Out of
thine own mouth will I judge thee.”
The Kaiser and his counsellors have now translated words into deeds,
and every instrument of savagery has been since August, 1914, enlisted
by Tyranny in the attempt to overthrow Liberty. “A thousand years
ago,” the Kaiser once declared to his Army, “the Huns under their king
Attila made themselves a name which still lives in tradition.” The
Future replies to him that he and his fighting hordes will also live in
tradition. They will be remembered for their defiance of the conscience
of the world, which obeys no call but that of Liberty.