Semi-weekly herald., 1915-11-01
THE CAVILL TRAGEDY.

shooting of Miss Cavill by the Ger
mans which we republish in order to
give the difference of viewpoints. 1t /
must be admitted that this has been
a war of determination to large ex-
tent and women and children have
come in for treatment never before
accorded a civilized people. The
Chieftain says.
1T occurs to US that the ally govern
ments have failed to learn the lesson
If how to grin and bear things. 1t
seems that every time they are given
4 rude shock the English people at
east try their best to induce the
United States to help them bear their
burden of sorrow. On the other hand
hey are just as determined to inflici
stringent punishment on the Germans
rs the Germans are determined tc
punish them
just now the English press ano
cubic speakers are making much ado
'ver the fact that the Germans exc
,uted an English woman spy. Every
inc uttered by the English press
seems intended to excite the feeling OF
'ympathy of America toward England
md a feeling of hate and amino sity
.oward Germany.
The fact is America stands aghas,
at the inhumanity of both sides
Neither the English, the French, the
Russians nor the Germans have hao
.he least compunction toward either
Women OF children in this war. IL
aas not been merely a war between
lighting men, but it has been wal
on both sides of men killing ano
manning men, women and children.
first the Germans sent their fleets
20 the coast of England and bonn
oarded coast towns without notifying
ehe inhabitants or giving them the
customary "a hours to get the wo-
men and children out of the way. Then
| england and France sent their aerial
fleets over German towns and killeo
| and manned the German women and
children. One side is as much to
blame as the other. If either side has
murdered more women and children
than the other it is because that side
mad more weapons to do it with, but
ITS intentions We're no worse than
chose of the other.
| America stands aghast at this sort
Of warfare. But so long as they have
started 1t there seems to be no way of
putting an end to it until the whole
war is settled.
| However what the American peo-
| pie do notice is the different spirit
IN which the two warning factions
accept the cruelties of the other side.
When the allies lombard a German
town and kill women and children,
no one ever hears word Of complaint
from Germany. She may feel an
gered at the cruelties practiced upon
ncr women and children, but she does
not try to make believe that the Eng
Iish are worse than she is. On the
other hand when the Germans In a sea
or aerial raid lombard town and
XIII lot of women and children the
allies Immediately hold out to the
world picture OF atrocities and try
to leave the impression that they
would not follow such practices. Per-
haps the same papers where such an
impression is given out, but in anoth-
er column is a demand for an Eng
iish air raid over some German
Gown.
So far as the execution Of the wo-
man spy is concerned it is nothing
10 get excited over in times of war
The woman was guilty, admitted it
and gloried in the fact that she had
participated in the crime for which
she was tried and convicted. Many
woman has been executed in Ameri-
ca and the chances are many more will
executed. Mrs. Sturrat was hang
ed for completely in the assassination
Of President Lincoln. War is war.
Its object is to murder people. 1t
doesn't make much difference how
they are murdered just SO enough of
them are killed to defeat the other
side. In this war both sides are kill
ing as many women as possible,
whether there is any excuse for it or
not. In the execution of this wo-
man the Germans certainly had an
excuse. Neither side has had any ex-
cuse whatever for sending aerial or
ssa-going fleets agsinst towns sad