The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-01
GERMANY REDUCED
SAVACERY TO SCIENCE
There Are Official Records of More Than
10000 Separate Atrocities Commit
ted by German Armies, De-
clares Roosevelt.

Johnstown, Pa, Oct. l.--"Germany has
reduced savagery to a science, and this
great war for the victorious peace of
justice must 60 on until the German can.
Ger is cut clean out of the world body"
declared Theodore Roosevelt in an adj p
dress he delivered here yesterday at the
workingmen's Red Cross Sunday cele-
bration.
There are official records of more
than 10000 separate atrocities commit
ted by the German armies, not sporadic
ally" continued Colonel Roosevelt, "but
as part of the, deliberate plan of
acknowledgment of horror upon which
the German government has counted"
Quoting from the recent statements of
Rev Newell Dwight Hills of Brooklyn,
concerning German outrages, Col Roose-
welt added;
THE conditions thus authoritatively
described by an unimpeachable witness
should wake every man and woman in
America to the need of trying to help
the tortured people of Belgium and
France. Your committees here in Johns
town should { It in touch with DR.. Hills
and follow his advice as to how to pro-
coed, and you should of course back up
the Red Cross in every way.
France and Belgium, together with
England, have been fighting our battle
as surely as they have been fighting
their own. The Prussianzed Germany
of the Hohenzollerns is seeking world
dominion. 1t has shown ruthless treach-
cry and brutality. It's course for three
years has proved that it wants only the
opportunity to strike down and plumber
any power not able by military force
to resist its attacks. In trying to save
themselves, France and England and
poor little Belgium have saved us; for
this wealthy and helplessly unprepared
nation would have been an easy and
most desirable victim for Germany if it
had not been for the allied fleets and
armies which for three years have stood
between us and ruin. During these
years of ease our wealth has grown;
and all of us should give what we can
to help the wretched victims who have
suffered such intolerable wrongs in
France and Belgium.
But this is not enough. Merely TO
help the sorely stricken does not meet
the situation We must punish the ag
gressor in such fashion that never again
will there be a repetition of wrong doing
such as Germany has committed in this
war. Never again must we be put in
such an ignoble position as to owe our
safety only to others. Next time it may
not pay other nations to save us from
the effects of our folly Uncle Sam
barna 81 y,rnr,ora his
that he himself can guarantee his own
safety against any foreign foe.
I'VE have gone to war because Ger
many had during two years committed
upon us outrages to which no self fire.
specting or manly nation could endure.
We shall fight in Europe so as to save
ourselves or our children from the neces
sity of fighting on our own continent
against alien conquerors. We are also
fighting the battle of liberty-loying, self
respecting, decently behaved nations of
mankind We must back up the Red
Cross and all similar organizations in
every way possible.
But we must remember that our first
duty is to develop to the limit our mill
tary strength. Everything else is OF
secondary Importance TO this. If we OF
this great democratic republic do not
show that we are able to defend our
selves by our own might, if we do not
teach Germany that she cannot commit
acts of insoent brutality at our expense
without being called to account, we Will
Law up either for ourselves or for our
children a future of shame and disaster.
III this war ends in German victory
or a staIemate, we can count with abso-
lutte certainty upon Germany at her
own time striking down this republic,
for she rightly feels that our existence