containing as they did such elements as those whose
confessions we have just heard, incriminates still
more deeply their masters. From the depths of the
battlefield, these voices of a sacrificed minority rise
up as a vengeful condemnation of the oppressors.
To the accusations drawn up against predatory
Empires and their inhuman pride, in the name of
violated right, of outraged humanity by the victim
peoples and by the combatants, is added the cry of
pain of the nobler souls of their own people whom
the bad shepherds who let loose this war have led
and constrained into murder and madness. To
sacrifice one's body is not the worst suffering, but
also to sacrifice, to deny, to kill one's own soul!--
You who die at least for a just cause, and who, full
of sap and loaded with faith, fall like ripe fruit,
how sweet is your lot beside this torture! But we
shall so act that these sufferings shall not be vain.

Let the conscience of humanity hear and accept
their complaint! It will resound in the future
above the glory of battles; and whether she wills or
no, History will place it on her register. History
will do justice between the hangmen and their
peoples. And the peoples will learn how to deliver
themselves from their hangmen.

Journal de Genève, June 14, 1915.

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