The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-01

large extent have refrained from
printing for their women and children
reports of the true facts of the atroci-
ties that have been committed by the
Germans in Belgium, northern France,
Serbia and elsewhere.
It is necessary for us to take count
of the killed. am not going into
the question-no, not the question; 1t
is not a questionable subject Of Ger
man atrocities. You know that just
as we'll as do, and some Of you know
it better. The American people will
know it better when they, like the
troops of Canada, "have seen their
dead" The American people are not
fully awakened yet, but they will be
when the mortality lists came back and
those men at the front write letters
back home, the same as your troops
wrote letters back, Of their expert
ences on, the German front. We will
see a different feeling in the news
paper offices six months from now.
The time is practically here now
when there is going to be in this
country a great pressure for mag
unanimous terms to Germany, German
peace terms, and for the robbing OF
the Allies of the proper fruits of the
victory that they are soon going to
achieve.
It is time that the American people
should make up their minds what the
peace terms shall be, and what the
punishment Of Germany shall be.
They cannot lay down their terms too
| soon, and now is the time to take ac-
ton and determine those terms. In
the light Of the logic of the situation
any Of you can measure the facts be-
fore you, and you will all come to
the same conclusion. There are GER
tain things that stand out of this sit,1-
alton SO prominently that they cam
! not be escaped.
In the first place, we must agree to
this fact-to this proposition-that a
great nation can be punished. There
are people who will say and who have
said: "You cannot punish a nation
You cannot punish the people Of
Germany What is the answer ia
that? The answer is, "You bet your
! life we can punish the people Of Ger
many!"
Ever since the days of sodom and
Gomorrah, peoples, states and nations
have been punished and soundly pun
ished for their crimes against hui
mainly. Even if it hadn't been done
we will say, "In Gods name, it is
time to begin now
In the first place.. let us say this:
Belgium shall have cash indemnity
/ of $4,000. 100000, paid by Germany.
In the second place, France shall
! have the, return of Alsace and Lor-
raine and another. $4,000, 100000,
In the third place, England shall
receive from Germany Heligoland as
| a pledge Of Germanys good behavior
in the future.
In the fourth place, not a single
| square mile. not single square foot,
of the late lamented German colonies
in Africa or anywhere else shall ever
be returned to Germany.
1t is absolutely necessary for the
future peace and good order of Africa
| that the recent German colonies shall
be divided between Great Britain,
France and Belgium according to
/, their respective needs.
| And I can tell you this thing to be
an absolute and fixed certainty. which
! I have known directly from the Afri-
can jungles for long time The flu
ture of British East Africa is just as
\ fixed today as the foundation of the
| Rocky mountains British East Af-
RIGA has been given over to the Union
of South Africa, and that is. why the
Beers are finishing taking it today.
| If there is any German on the earth
! who thinks that Germany will ever
get back any portion of British East
Africa then he will have a surprise
| coming to him at the end of the war
In view of all that has transpired
| it would be a great shame for any OF
| the German colonies to be returned
| to Germany; and furthermore, in the
Orient, Japan and Australia will
! never yield a single foot of what they
have taken frem Germany. ~
| AS to the United States. we have
nothing to say at present. It is little
beside the mark: The United States
doesn't wish any more real estate. She
wish fer any of Germany's wealth, OF
which we hear SO much from Berlin
We can do without it,
The United States should seaues-
trate all the property or Germans that
is in America. I mean the Germans
of Germany only, and not the people
of German descent who, are now
American citizens, If that isn't right,
why not?
Finally it is desirable that these
peace terms should be spread abroad
and fixed in the minds of every one
of the 106,oo0,60o people in the
United States. The time will come
| when the people of the United States
will need to back up the President
and his cabinet and Congress against
| the drag which will be made by the
traitors, the siackers and pacifists-
/ that is to say, the militant paeifsts,
who will seek by every means in their
power to rob the Allies of the fruits
of their victory. For the future I can
think only of the exhertation OF
Marco Bozzaris to his Greeks when
they were doing up certain Turkish
army very brown. He said;
Strike, still the last armed foe ex-
pires!
Strike, for yeur affairs and yeur fires!
Strike, for the green graves of your
sires,
| God, and your native land!"
] Lets of these young fellows who