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

tBy Newell Dwight Hillis.)
'rerrorism Is a principle made
necessary by military considerations"
General Won Hartmann.
Strike him dead. The Day OF
Judgment will ask you no questions" !"
Inscription on the aluminium token
carried by the German soldier.
Every American who has passo a
through France and the edge of Rc!-
gium this year has returned home a
permanently saddened man. Ger.
man cruelty and French agony have
cut bloody cash In the heart, ami
there is no Dakin solution that can
heal the wound. Here upon this pull
pat rests a reproduction Of an iron
coin given as token to each Ger
man soldier. AT the top is a German
portrait OF Diety. and underneath are
these words: The good old German
God" To encourage the German
soldier TO cruelty and atrocity against
Belsians and French the Diety holds
aiweapon In his right hand. and to
duh his conscience and steel his
heart to murder the token holds these
words: "smite your enemy dead. The
day OF Judgment win not ask you for
reasons" To this native character
istic Goethe was referring when he
snid: The Prussian is naturally
cruel; civilization will intensity that
cruelty and make him savage"
The German atrocities OF the last
three years simply illustrate Goethe :
words. for we must confess that
German efficiency reached its highest
horrible devices for torturing old
men. helpless women and little chill
dren.
For three years German-Americans
have protested that the stories OF Cor
man atrocities were TO be disbeliey
ed as English inventions. Belgian lies
and French hypocrisies. but that day
has gone by forever. When the rep
resentatives OF the nations assemble
for the iinai settlement. there will be
laid before the representatives OF
Germany afiidavlts. photographs
with other legal proofs that make
NE German atrocities TO be far bet
ter established than the scalpings OF
the Sioux Indians on the Western
frontiers. the murders In the Black
hole o. Calcutta or the crimes of the
Spanish lnqufsltlon. On a battle line
200 miles In length. I'm whatsoever
syillage the retreating Germans pass
cd. the following morning accredited
men hurried To- the scene To- max,
fhc record against the day of judg.
ment. The photographs of dead and
hmutilated girls. children and old mer
tell no lies. Jurists rank high tive
forrns OF testimony--the testimony o
what mature men have seen ant
heard and the testimony OF children
too innocent to invent their state
ments. but old enough to tell wha
they saw.
Il. For the first time I'm history tn.
German has reduced savagery 20 ,
science; therefore, this great war 10
peace must go on until the Gcrma,
cancer Is cut clean out OF the body.
" The cold catalogue OF German afro
cities now documented and in tn
government archieves OF the difreren
nations makes up the most sickenin,
page In history. DAYS spent upon tn
records preserved I'm Southern Bel
n gium. Northern France or in an,
about Paris. days spent i'm the ruinc
villages OF Alsace and Lorraine. Ieav
y one nauseated. physically and mental
=. ly. IL is one long. black series @
s. legally -documented atrocities. Ever
y solemn spledge that Germany signed
year and a-half before at she IIagu