The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-09-20

Speaking OF the German Emperor
end German cruelty. he said:
For forty years he has deliberately
educated his people to believe that
all other peoples, whose governments
were not in alliance with him, are en-
emies of the German people. bent up
on their ruthless destruction This
Wis to make the German people will
ing to take up the sword. TO burn and
destroy and murder, as they have
burned and destroyed and murdered
sinse this war began.
sWhat could not be accomplished by
sheer force of numbers. by superior
ityy IL; arms, and in armies. was TO be
accomplished through methods of
savagery. SO ruthless that the people
sf-ainst whom they were directed
would flee affrighted :: the very men
tion Of the German power.
The Kaiser worked mis- magic hyp-
no,ism on his own people. through APP
peal 10 their vanity. their pride, their
avarice and their greed. BY this hyp-
motto spell. he added to the strength
OF a people every man OF which was a
drilled soldier. and the principal bust
ness of which was war. and ne pro
posed. by similar processes OF psy-
chology. TO weaken the resistance of
those whom he attacked.
He proposed to make them believe.
from awful example. that he who re-
sisted the Kaiscr's iegions was doom
cd 10 death: not death in any of its
ordinary forms, but death by tortures
as tcrrible as those inflicted by any
savage tribe known TO history; that
tos,Arc and death. FIRE and sword.
would be visited not only upon men.
nor age. nor condition. nor sex was
permitted TO save the hapless victim.
whose only fault was TO dwell in a
cSuntry which had been selected for
waste and ruin.
How well he has held to his pur-
pose. how well his soldiers have
learned their lesson. IL told in the re-
ports of official commissions. French.
british and Bclgium--is told by neu-
tral observers. and is told In letters
written BY the participants in these
awful crimes and found upon their
dead bodies. or taken from them.
when captured.
Colonel s. s, Mcclure. publisher OF
Mtclure's Magazine. and other pubii-
cations. recently spent several months
abroad. His standing rs an American
| pubiicist, commanded access to
sources of Information not permitted
20 everyone
Colonel Mcclure has selected. out
of thousands OF cases. large number.
showing the crimes against civiliza-
tion and humanity. committed by the
German armies. and the foul savagcry
of the German invasion.
He has published these in a book
entitled obstacles to Peace" and I
read a few. as Instances:
AZ touveisne.
* dozen men wer arrested:
they were told: Go now. but on
the run. or else. a. The un-
| fortunate men ran. and the Germans
amused themselves by bringing them
down with the rife" 2
: The Massacre Of saint-Hsdsiin
(oine).
m. WARMER was pushed along to-
wards tho little chapel close by. His
wife followed him, young child in
her arms. pleading and beseeching.
She was driven back by blows of the
Germans rife-butts. Her face cover
I'd with blood, she continued 10 plead.
but In vain.
'.Her husband was shot before her
| eyes: then. In the midst OF scene OF
unspeakable savagery. she Witnessed
the murder. OF. her chiicren. Her two
boys fell dead. her young daughters
were next 70 be shot down. Bertha
lay under the body OF Nelly. who was
mortally wounded; for fifteen min
utes she heard her dying struggle for
breath. and feit her die"
| Extract from the Notebook Of Pri~ste
Fritz krsin,s 81 the Fourth Sat
TALON ef.Iisht Horse (Reservs),
Corps, Concerning the Murder Of :
Young oiri. ses -
9Ouy first kivouac In France. When
4|1fwent to'fetchz water We encounter
F(<a- girl with u. revolver Shot her
80 and took her revolver"
wHeraet from the Notebook Of Max
esieh, Seventeenth Rssiment u In.