Germany, whose newspaper the Cologne Volkszettung deplored the doings of her Kultur on land and sea thus: "Much as we detest it as human beings and as Christians, yet we exult in it as Germans." Agreeable Germany!--whose Kaiser, if his fleet had been larger, would have taken us by the scruff of the neck.
"Then Thou, Almighty One, send Thy lightnings! Let dwellings and cottages become ashes in the heat of fire.

Let the people in hordes burn and drown with wife and child.

May their seed be trampled under our feet; May we kill great and small in the lust of joy.
May we plunge our daggers into their bodies, May Poland reek in the glow of fire and ashes." That is another verse of Germany's hymn, hate for Poland; that is her way of taking people by the scruff of the neck; and that is what Senator Walsh's resolution of sympathy with Ireland, Germany's contemplated Heligoland, implies for the United States, if Germany's deferred day should come..