F THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1919. A3 A DETESTATION OF GERMAN IS VOICED BY CARDINAL MERCIER "One of Your Officers Ordered Bayonet Charge on "Women," Baron von der Lancken Is Told; Spies Follow Belgian Primate. Cardinal Mercler'i atory. Including bis c-vrresDontlence with the German authori ties in Belgium durlnc the war, 1014 to IK 18, edited by Professor Fernand Mayence Uuvain university and translated by the Kenedictine Monks of St. Augustine's. Kiimssate, England. Explanatory Comni'iit by Professor iernand Slayence. Two German officials Von Woeller and Von Sandt. commandant at Mallnes were witnesses of the lonB and candid Inter view between the Cardinal and Von der j.ur.oken. The latter, whose full title was Tiaron von der Lancken-Wakenitz, was Admirably equipped for his post at the nead of the political department of the government of occupation. Ha was an adroit and experienced Oiplo 7iat and had served for ten years as counselor of the German embassy in Paris. His French was impeccable and he was a inaster of suveral other languages, al though he did not like to speak English. Personally .ho was a much more ingra tiating man than Von Hissing, and he took n ni-tlstin delleht in subtleties of argu ment, for which the governor-general had little taste. The keen, blue-eyed, well-groomed, hand some Von dor Lancken was, of course, thoroughly impregnated with Prussian standards of government and conduct- His rigidity of principles was unmodified by any sentimentality, but his acute mind was constantly prodding him to demon strate what he regarded as the logic of the German contentions. This penchant drew him into protracted discussions with the Cardinal, which some times widely departed from the immediate questions at issue. At one time the priest and the diplomat explored the pros and cons of Kantian philosophy. Mercier was on familiar ground here. As a professor in Louvain university he had given much intellectual attention to Kant and long before the war he squarely opposed the teachings of the German philosophers which reached their mad maximum in Nietszche's preposterous dic tum "Be hard!" In fairness to Von der Lancken, it should b said that he fully realized that his an tagonist was a master of dialects and pos nussor of ono of the most brilliant minds In Europe. In the presence of the Baron the Cardinal always stood erect and with folded arms and Von der Lancken, by the xules of courtesy, was thus prevented from Bitting- down. At their last session, just before the armistice, the diplomat came not as an argumentative commander, but as a hum ble suppliant. He urged the Cardinal to use his Influence to soften the treatment of the German stragglers by the Belgians. The primato promised help. Von der J.ancken's sense of dramatic values rose to the situation. The Cardinal extended a hand withheld from his clever foe for more than four years. The Baron knelt and kissed tho episcopal ring. "Now I know." h reported at head quarters shortly afterward, "that Merciet 9s a great man." A KD if I were a sedition mon ger, Baron, what a splendid game I might have played! !What a lovely subject for a sensa tional pamphlet to appear at Paris or London! In it I might have nar rated the antics at Malines and your DreDosteroua repression of the epis copal blessing and the mild gesture j of my private secretary. But I re frained: and just as you found me unbending in carrying out my pasto ral duties, so did I desire to pass over merely personal incidents. I deemed it prudent to retire for some days to l'Hermite in order to withdraw from any likely manifestations of public sympathy. "With your preconceived ideas regarding me, you imagined my retreat could have no other motive than revolutionary projects." "Oh! revolutionary, no." "The Belgian people are calm and patient, abiding their time. There were no f rancs-tireurs when your armies invaded our territory. Only lately I had occasion to address all the clergy of my diocese assembled at Ma lines for the clergy retreat and I urged them to say to the people: 'The defense of our country must be left to our army; it is not your task to make irregular assaults on the enemy. Do not by your rashness justify the re proach that slanderous tongues brought against you at the outbreak of hostilities." "Why, Baron, as to the heart of the Belgian people, know that you have not captured it, nor will you ever do so.- Let me say with all freedom and be not ruffled by the apparent rude ness of my words, the Belgians do you no evil and never will; but in their hearts they hold your rule in detestation. That is the truth, and after a whole year's experience, strange to say, you do not seem to grasp it. "But We Are Patient." "you imagine that your method of ruling, successful as it may be in Ger many, must needs succeed here. You grossly deceive yourselves. I have upent my life in teaching. In so do ing I have learned that in a young man's education you must first learn to know him before applying formu las. To make laws and to apply them are two different matters. You seem to be ignorant of these primary truths, hence your mistake. We keep our hearts unsubdued, but we are pa tient. And what I said in the month of January to those who came to com plain in the governor-general's name of my first pastoral I repeat to you today. It is by giving our people the assurance that Belgium is and will remain a free country that we are able to preach patience and to see that it is practiced in spite of you. "I believe I have thus met the first complaint drawn up against me by the governor-general andI have at the same time implicitly furnished an answer to tho second. "2. The governor finds there is a lack of agreement between the lan guage of my pastorals and the kind ly disposition of which I gave him an assurance when he promised on his part to do all in his power to heal all our wounds. Country First Thought. "Of course, I desire to spare my country fresh Bufferings; and when the governor-general declares to me that it is his ambition to heal our wounds rather than to embitter them, of course I am ready to second him. "But the governor - general's mis take, and yours, too, begins the mo ment you imagine that you can treat us as submissive children. This you cannot do: Belgium is not a conquered country which you have the right to treat as your own: it is a belligerent nation which has preserved and hopes still to preserve her independence and her king. "I know, baron, that in an interview with my secretary, Canon Loncin, you were good enough to acknowledge that not one of the priests shot by your armies at the time of Invasion had been proved guilty. I am pleased with this overdue recognition of our innocence. But what has been proved I in the case of our priests will be ! proved tomorrow, if yoi allow it, in the case of our massacred and Im prisoned civilians. It is Just this in vestigation we demand; and so -long as our rights and the sincerity of our attitude have not had due recogni tion, between you and us no under standing is possible. ."Allegiance Goes Eliewhen." "You would ,be quite wrong to doubt of the governor-general's kind ly Intentions. I, who am always near him and know him, I can assure you that he has the sincerest desire to do all he can for the Belgians. "I do not doubt he governor-general's eincerity. When I had the honor of seeing him, he spoke with an accent of sincerity which I be lieved then and believe still. But be tween him and trs there is a funda mental misunderstanding. He, would wish to see us submissive, and we claim the right to remain interiorlly, in heart and soul, unconquered. We respect your external regulations in so far as they are requisite for the maintenance of public order; but our allegiance goes elsewhere. "This is how we understand your position: You are a mighty power confronted with a very small country. You have trampled our soli under foot without any invitation from us; and your own heads have acted as spokesmen in declaring that you were sorry to have to invade our territory against your will, from necessity, and that you were desirous to repair as soon as possible the wrong done us. "Remembering the conditions under wnicn you- have taken possession of tne greater part of our soil, vou I ought logically to have said to your selves: 'We will make Belgium suffer as iittie as we can; we will show her an sucn consid ration as is consist ent with the needs entailed bv our oc. cupation of the country; for when we come to think of it, she was not our enemy, and after all it is we who have brought upon her the necessity of opposing our passage across her territory. Young Men Eager. "Why then bar the road so roughly against a few young men who are burning with a desire to fulfill their in.rioiic duty at their comrades' side?" "But they would all go!" Ana it tney did all go. where is the great evil? You boast of hav ing o.uuu.uuo soldiers! What can icvv nunareas, or let us say a few thousands, more or less, do against uui mat; oeneve me, we are xiu. airaia or them. vejy wen then, we are agreed. ucea not De afraid of them. In that case let them pass. They will be practicing a virtus Germans prize above all others, name- y, "mnarjr patriotism. it will, there fore, be a good thing. Then you will rm .Belgium Of VOUthM rikrnintUH ..unitleu ttiiu. WICnOUt Work", whn at luuuieiu x iook at it from your i""" oi view may become tur bulent and dangerous to public or v.iii;u you wish and oue-ht r preserve. Look, for examr,i those young men from our universi- ' w" are champing the bit in forced inaction. Would it not be a thousand times better for them to be -li jr at least, if you u iet mem go, if you think you ought to aDDlr vour j emulations in their case, let it h u. arrest ail you -may succeed in catching; prevent them from berln. i.B ineir pranks again, but I ha- v,- ...... iu ii cat mem as criminals. Names Are Withheld. . And if a brave Driest crivoa dear young fellows, of whnm ii, Belgium is legitimately proud. some xrienaiy advice, or puts them on ineir road, or in erenerai 9ffnrH them help, is this sufficient reason to imprison him, consign him to a dun geon, or deport htm? X could be more Drecise In whnr x am aDout to say by mentioning names, out discretion will not allnn me to reveal them to you. I rofer mm I rfmn i mi iiMiiiiiniiiiii inni H trmi imwi immwi mi iimi imm ii mumi ftw Mwnirr m itiiiKiii'" whmiiiuim me.iiui hi ill Ma-mwms. ' nfi-iiiii'--- - i-biiiiii ' " vmma. s fintrhrtmaWlin 1013 1919 M Three esN I 1 1 Regular, N. ll Same Pen J SeU-Filhng Same Price i I with a point and size. xsw c o H of holder to lit perfecdy xjl31116 SfCe 1 any particular handwriting v. $2.50 J 1 preference. axid. jj The Worlds Standard ,:k Up I for -vf- - v S.' II 1 Quality, Efficiency and Durability, - fv j At,best dealers everywhere. 1 1 L- E. Waterman Company J j 191 Broadway. 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