Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-25
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puted, they make themselves redicu-
lous before the world" said Dr..
Hills.
Slaughter of Babes
So intently did the audience fol-
low Dr. Hills every word that there
was little applause. The moments
were too precious for mere hand
,lapping. After bleeding France and
devastated Belgium comes England
and then America! To many per-
sons the last vestige of the veil has
been torn away, and to-day Germany
stands revealed as the arch traitor
of the ages, convicted of the viola
tion OF maidens, the razing of cities,
the destroyer Of peace, hope ana
happiness in valley that once flow
ed with milk and honey, the desola-
tion of villages, the murder oil old
men and the slaughter or innocent
babes.
~ But when the people of Harris
burg did applaud! Quietly, and
speaking rapidly, that the people OF
this city might know as much as
possible about the real conditions IN
Europe, DIR. Hills came to the state
ment:
Gentlemen, there is only one
word to be answered to the Kaiser S
peace proposal-uncondit sur
2 fender!" The applause was deafen-
ing. DIR. Hills waited, made an et-
fort to raise his voice above the ain,
and again waited. Then someone
sprang to his feet and the vast audi
ence rose as man to echo ana noteu
minister's sentiments.
The Rt. Rev. James Henry Dar-
lington opened the meeting with
prayer. William Jennings, chairman
of the Second Liberty Loan commit
tee, introduced Governor Martin u:
Brumbaugh, o boyhood friend OF
Brookiyn's famous lecturer. Fol-
lowing the address by DR.. Hills, Her
bert A. Emerson, associate with Her
bert Hoover and the Liberty Loan
campaign, urged Harrisburg people
to back up the government by the
liberal purchase of bonds to-day
DIR. Hills discovered when he ar
rived in this city that he had le1t
many of his Photographic RECORDS IN
Reading, through mistake. For TINS
reason the address as originally pre-
pared was not given here, numerous
changes being made in the illustra-
tions employed to form vivid word
picture of German frightfulness.
terrorism is n principle made
necessary by military considera-
TtDrS --tScncrni 0n Hartman.
''Strike him dead. The Day OF
Judgment will ask you no ques-
tions." Inscription on the alumni
mum token carried by the Ger
man soldier.
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills address
follows in full:
Every American who has passed
through France and the edge OF Bel
GUM this year has returned home Il
permanently saddened man. German
cruelty and French agony have cut
n bloody cash in the heart and there
is no Dakin solution that can heal
the wound. Here upon this pulpit
rests a reproduction of an iron coin
given as a token to each German SOL
der. At the top is German por-
trait of Deity, and underneath are
these words: The good old German
Cod To encourage the German
soldier to cruelty and atrocity against
Belgians and French, the Deity holds
n weapon in his right hand, and to
dull his conscience and steel his
heart to murder, the token holds
these words: 'Snite your enemy
dead. The day of judgment will not
ask YOU for YOUR reasons To this
native characteristic Goethe was re-
ferring when he said. The Prussian
is naturally cruel, civilization will in
tensify that cruelty and make him
savage The German atrocities of
the last three years simply illustrate
Goethe's words, for we must confess
that German efficiency reached its
highest point in the discovery of new
and horrible devices for torturing old
men, helpless women and little chill
dren.
r,housand Atrocities "DocIImcnted''
For three years German-Ameri-
cans have protested that the stories
of German atrocities were to be dis
believed as English inventions, Bel
pian lies and French hypocrisies,
but that day has gone by forever.
When the representatives of the ma
tions assemble for the final settle
ment, there will be laid before the
representatives of Germany affida-
Wits, photographs, with other legal
proofs that mHFe the German afro
cities to be far better established
than the scalpings of the Sioux In
dams on the western frontiers, the
murders in the Black Hole of CAL
cutta, or the crimes of the Spanish
1nquiSition. On q battle line three
hundred miles in length, in whatso-
ever village the retreating Germans
passed, the following morning ac-
credited men hurried to the scene to
make the record against the day of
judgment. The photographs of dead
and mutilated girls, children and old
men tell no lies. Jurists rank high
two forms of testimony: The testi-
mony of what mature men have seen
and heard, and the testimony of chill
dren too innocent to invent their
statements but old enough to tell
what they saw. For the first time
in history the German has reduced
savagery to a science, therefore this
great war for peace must go on until
the German cancer is cut clean out
of the body.
The Catalogue of Grimes.
"The cold catalogue of German
atrocities now documented and in
the government archives of the diff
ferent nations makes up the most
sickening page in history. Days
spent upon the records preserved in
Southern Belgium, Northern France,
or in and about Paris, days spent in
the ruined villages of Alsace and
Lorraine, leave one nauseated-
physically and mentally. 1t is one
long, black series of legally docu-
mented atrocities. Every solemn
pledge that Germany signed a year
and a half before at the Hague Con-
vention, as to safeguarding the Red
Cross, hospitals, cathedrals, libraries.
women and children, and unarmed
citizens, are scoffed at as scrap of
paper
"TheSe atrocities also were
committed, not in a mood of
drunkenness. nor an hour of an
ger, but were organized by a So
called German efficiency, and
and perpetrated on a deliberate,
cold, precise, scientific policy of