Document D: Bishop William A. Quayle Magazine Article; October 19, 1918 (excerpts) Note to students: This article was written by a prominent Methodist bishop and published in the Northwestern Christian Advocate in 1918. Consider the source and his biases as you read this account. Not all of the information presented by Bishop Quayle is factually accurate (i.e. – the Lusitania medal was struck after the sinking of the ship). Also keep in mind, that after the Germans invaded France through the neutral country of Belgium in 1915, a large number of sensational news stories flooded the United States, describing German atrocities of arson, rape, mayhem and murder perpetrated on the innocent Belgian people. Let us set down sternly that we are at war with the Germans. The German people is committing the unspeakable horrors which set the whole world aghast. The German people is not and has not been conducting war. It is and has been conducting murder. Hold fast to that... All decencies, honors, humanities, international agreement, and laws have been smashed by them day and night from the first rape of Belgium to now. The new atrocity which appeared this week was spraying prisoners with burning oil. Germany has ravished the women of Belgium, Servia, Romania, Poland and Armenia. Germany murdered the passengers of the Lusitania and struck a medal to celebrate that German triumph, dating it two days before the horrible occurrence. Germany has poisoned wells, crucified inhabitants and soldiers, burned people in their houses, and this by system. Germany has wantonly defaced the living and the dying and the dead. Germany has stolen things little and big: playthings from children, finery from women, pictures of incalculable worth, bank-deposits, railroads, and factories. Germany has sunk hospital- ships, has bombed hospitals and Red Cross camps. Document D – Bishop Quayle Article. 1. Make an argument for why this is the most important cause for WWI. Your argument should be at least 5 sentences. 2. How trustworthy do you think Bishop Quayle is? What could you do to verify any of this information?

Document D: Bishop William A. Quayle Magazine Article; October 19, 1918 (excerpts) Note to students: This article was written by a prominent Methodist bishop and published in the Northwestern Christian Advocate in 1918. Consider the source and his biases as you read this account. Not all of the information presented by Bishop Quayle is factually accurate (i.e. – the Lusitania medal was struck after the sinking of the ship). Also keep in mind, that after the Germans invaded France through the neutral country of Belgium in 1915, a large number of sensational news stories flooded the United States, describing German atrocities of arson, rape, mayhem and murder perpetrated on the innocent Belgian people. Let us set down sternly that we are at war with the Germans. The German people is committing the unspeakable horrors which set the whole world aghast. The German people is not and has not been conducting war. It is and has been conducting murder. Hold fast to that... All decencies, honors, humanities, international agreement, and laws have been smashed by them day and night from the first rape of Belgium to now. The new atrocity which appeared this week was spraying prisoners with burning oil. Germany has ravished the women of Belgium, Servia, Romania, Poland and Armenia. Germany murdered the passengers of the Lusitania and struck a medal to celebrate that German triumph, dating it two days before the horrible occurrence. Germany has poisoned wells, crucified inhabitants and soldiers, burned people in their houses, and this by system. Germany has wantonly defaced the living and the dying and the dead. Germany has stolen things little and big: playthings from children, finery from women, pictures of incalculable worth, bank-deposits, railroads, and factories. Germany has sunk hospital- ships, has bombed hospitals and Red Cross camps. Document D – Bishop Quayle Article. 1. Make an argument for why this is the most important cause for WWI. Your argument should be at least 5 sentences. 2. How trustworthy do you think Bishop Quayle is? What could you do to verify any of this information?