The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-24

Kill old men and little children, loot
merchants houses, violate women;
the Kaiser will see that the God of
Justice asks you no questions" The
result was logical and inevitable.
These horrible atrocities! On August
27 General Won Lieber gave out this
proclamation: 'The town of Waevre
will be set on fire and destroyed
without distinction of persons. The
innocent will suffer with the guilty"
After this town was destroyed and all
the inhabitants killed, from the body
CT q soldier slain on the retreat we
find this page in his diary: Eve lived
gorgeously; two or three bottles of
champagne at each meal; all the girls
we want. 1t is fine sport" Are we
surprised that many of the letters
and journals taken from, bodies OF
Germans quote Gen. Won Hartman's
sentence: Terrorism is a principle
made necessary by military consider
atiOns." German-American objections
that towns were destroyed because
the inhabitants had fired upon the in
vading army from the windows of
taeir houses is conclusively met and
answered by another letter, written
by a German officer to his wife: ION
approaching Il village soldier is
sent on in advance to insert a Bel
gian rifle in the cellar window or
stable, and, of course, when this
weapon is found we take it to the
Burgomaster, and then the sport be-
gins"
On little board in one ruined
village l read these words Marie;
aged 16; dead August "a, 1916. Ven
gcance is. mine; | will repay, saith
the Lord" The hundreds Of atroci-
ties personally Investigated only serve
to interpret Ambassador Morgen-
tbau's statement as to Armenia
that the Turkish soldiers and Ger
man officers massacred in Armenia
half million people, that they might
move into their farm houses and lit :.
tie shops and stores
German Philosophy OF MiIitarism
Has Dcbauched Gcrmany's Uni
vcrsity Professors. t.
The glory of every great CITY and
country is its sch ars, with their
love of truth and their stainless lives.
We have had our civilization at the
hands Of men who love the truth
suDremely, pursued the truth
eternally and cherished the truth
above their fear Of hell or hope
OF heaven. The world has it's liberty,
its science and its law at the hands Of
the heroes who preferred the truth
above life. Concerning the patriots,
the reformers and the statesmen, we
can only say they Were stoned, they
Fwere sawm- asunder,. they were cruel.
hei in Jerusalem, poisoned in Ath-
ems, tortured in Ephesus, exifed TN
Florence, burned at the stake in
oxford, assassjnated in Washington,
cruclhed in Jerusalem. But the iron
aurocracy and militarism of Germany
debauched her university men. Here
III my hand is an address to the civil
ized world, signed by 93 German pres
fcssors. They all receive their salaries
from state endowments. Any hour
the Kaiser or Bethmaan-H -Hollweg can
cut off their income. When the in
| dignaton of the civilized world
ilamed out against Germany in the
winter of 1915, the German govern
ment asked these professors to sign
Il document, and these men had been
! SO degraded by the German phil
osophy of militarism and autocraoy
that they obeyed-losing their souls
to save their salary. And consider
what they signed!. In the previous
August Bethmann-H -Hollweg issued n
statement TO the world, saying that
as the violation of Belgium's neu-
trality, the wrong--I speak openly
that we are committing" etc. \
These 93 professors signed a state
ment, saying: 1T us rot true that
we wronged Belgium" IN the KSs-
er's address that he himself has pub
lished, he says: Give no quarter,
take no prisoners. Let all who fall
into your hands be at your mercy.
Make yourself as terrible as the
Huns" Now, this ad lress was cir
culated in postal cards all over Ger
many. Realizing the mistake these
professors sign n statement, saying:
1T Is not true that our soldiers eyer
injured the life of 81 gle Belgian"