The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23

were ready, Wnlie OJhefS were not,
and thought you could satisfy your
Hohenzollers lust for territory and
world power.
as it peace?" What hast thou to do
with peace?"
EVERY second. of every minute, of
every hour of every day for three
years, the spirits of men, women, boys,
girls and babies, of mothers with child,
of violated maidens have passed to
the beyond. Never since the creatin
have such millions of shrieks risen
to Heaven for SO many hundreds of
battlefields from so many burned cot
tages, devasted farms, bombarded
cities. Never has blood been spilled
so feriously so recklessly. Never
has any so-called civilized nation de-
liberately adopted murder as policy.
You are responsible.
rs it peace?" What hast thou to
! do with peace?'
| you sank the Lustaina with moth.
: ers and their babes, you fired on life
boats of torpedoed ships, you took
provisions and water from refuge
afioat on stormy, seas, you turned
ships companies adrift in open boats
hundreds of miles from shore in win
ter and assured their death from ex'
posture, you sank hospital ships with
their wounded and nurses, you sank
food ships carrying life to the dying,
you dropped air bombs on school child
Iren. You treat your prisoners worse
than mad dogs, you steal their
clothes, you starve them till they are
skeletons, you let them die delirous
in their own filth on. sinking straw
Foul as it is, He'll has nothing fouler
. than the things done in your name.
us 1t peace?" What hast thou to
do with peace"
Your treachery dragged thousands
: of Belgians from their homes ond tried
to force them to make shells to fire
. at their brothers. When they refused
. and most of them were steadfast vol
!, broke their spirit and wore away theil
flesh by torture. You sent them home
T manned for life. You forced othel
, Belgians to march ahead of YOU
I, troops and to stop bullets intended fol
. them. You set French men and boy:
(. to digging your trenches and saw
I them killed by the unwilling fire O
i. their own countrymen. Your soldier!
, defiled the womanhood of France
, y GU have hacked, bayoneted, shot
dubbed, Drained and burned your wa!
through the worlds fairest scenes
You have made a desert and called i
;. victory. ..-
rs it peace?" What hast thou t.
do with peace?' A. ' hfat-
t Through your generals you frank,
avow the policy of letting conquered
e people die so that their lands may b.
more easily be possessed :. Millions
have died in Poland; hundreds o
4 thousands of babies persisted as thei
\ shelterless mothers hid in holes il
1.-THE ground under brushes. Million
:. are starving to death even now. Serbs
!. has ceased to exist, an ever-diminish
ing army of WORKOUT old men bein
+ all that is left. You allowed you
partner the Turk, to kill million an
: half of Armenians, to disembowel
|, bastinado, violate, strangle and de
!. tcaptiate The Armenian nation al
most is exterminated. You and thu
Turk work we'll together in the trad
of butchery.
rs it peace?" What hast thou t
g do with peace"
y You sank American ships withou
n warning, you killed American sailors
: you sent American women and thei
g children to the bottom of the sea
L You filled our country with spies AM
4 plotters. You conspired to blow VI
f factories, to foment strikers among
r our workmen to deceive our people b.
: a vicious and false propaganda. Yo1
g plotted to stir up our neighbor Mexict
, and our allie Japan to war against us
! All this while We were at peace will
you. .....
us it peace?" What hast thou tt
do with peace?s
: Sacred shrines spared ever by AT
tia, the scourge of God, have beer
RACED by our order. In their place you
have left piles of grinning skulls max
ing the pyramids built by Tamerlan'
look insignificant. All this in three
years. If you continue as long as HI
did you will depopulate the world anc
., plunge it back to prehistoric chaos.
rs it peace?" What hast thou t.
do with peace?"
You boldly adopt the policy" might
is Right" This brought you into di
rect conflict with the American re
public, founded on the ideal, Right
makes might: and with other reno
cracies which think as we do. The
issue is clear cut between these two
doctrines and tn eworld will not be
safe to live in till right enthrones it
self. Peace on the basis you seeH
would be to pardon you and allow you
to retain the offense. 1t would leave
you lord of life and death and the
L. III. n n.