The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-06-24

lie compelled the European Powers to
grant equal rights to American commerce,
and maintained the open door.
John Hay was utterly ncapable of doing
justice to Germany. was he?
| would like to hear Quiglev try and do
that
Who can do justice to Germany?
The Confederate cruiser, The alabama.
ranged all the seas, for years, sinking mer-
chant vessels of the enemy wherever they
could be found; and she was called q con-
0rdly pirate.
Her commander, Raphael J. Semmes,
when captured, was in great danger of be-
ING treated as all outlaw.
But he had nercr shcd a drop Of blood,
IN all of his daring raids against the com
merce Of has e7enay.
Never once did he attack a merchant ship
that belonged to any nation. except the one
he was fighting.
How stands. it with Germany?
Her cowardly cruiser attacked and sunk
grain ship, flying the tSars and Stripes;
and when the English gave chase to the
cowardly pirate, she skunk into orr port.
and begged protection. after having
sunk or grain ship!
And John Hay could not do justice to
Germany, Ell?
Who cen?
A nation that deliberately endorses the
killing of 100 non-combatant neutrals and
Americans men, women, and children-and
which says it had right to murder them
on the high seas, because it had warned them
not to do what the Law of Nations gave
them perfect right to do, is a nation that
other men, besides John Hay, may very
cordially detest, SO long as the Hohenzol-
le1n mllltarlsm of Prussia makes it
sanguina1y merciless outlaw.
To the New York Times, 6. NJ Trevelyan.
the historian, writes, May %, 1915:
l am prepared, as a historian to deny that Sher-
mans troops either burned women and children
alive or gouged peoples eyes out or murdered
civilians Wholesale as the Austro- Hungarian
troops did in Serbia in the middle days of August
last If college student and mtiamen do these
things today, or such things as are reported by
the Bryce Commission on Belgium I can only saw
that they are very studousy kept out of your
papers. But Sherman's troops at least did not do
them They "desolated' the land no doubt
though whether they desolated it as completely
as the part of Serbia through which I rode last
January am not sure But they did not commit
atrocities" on persons. The two things are in
different category and Professor Henderson con-
fuses the issue by putting them into the same
sentence as ii they and the same thing.
Here a few specimnS of what tn AustrO- Hun
garian troops did:
1915, Aug. 18.-Prnvoor Villag (near Los
nitza:) Slmana Mijatovitch, age rs; her daughter
Doniza, age 8, and her son Milan, age l. shut UP
in house and burned alive.
Zivana Samowrovitch age 27; Yveta Samowro=
witch, age years, and boy, not yet baptized, age
days, shut up in house and burned alive.
Nedeljika Village: Aniza Jesditch age 35, eyes
gouged out and killed; Mcosava Vasilijevitch,
age Fl, violated cut open, and murdered.
Multiply these things by several hundred and
you get two August days work Of the Austro-
Hungarian army last year. These facts do not
remind me, any more than the facts related in
the Bryce report remind me- either of Shermans
soldiers or Of your college students and militia
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