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

CONVENTION as TO safeguarding the
i'ed cross, hospitals. cathedrals. H.
Draries. women and children and nm
armed citizens are scofred ot nc ,
scrap of paper" These atrocities
also were committed not i'm n mood of
drunkenness nor an hour of anger
but were organized by a so-called
German efficiency and perpetrated ON
a deliberate. cold, precise, scientific
policy of German frightfulness. 1t il;
not simply that they looted factories,
carried away machinery, robbed
houses. bombed every farm house and
granary. left no plough nor reaper.
chopped down every pear tree and
plum tree with every grapevine and
poisoned all wells! The Germans
slaughtered iold men and matrons.
mutilated captives i'm ways that can
only he spoken of by men i'm whis-
pers; violated little girls until they
we're dead; finding "a calfskin- nailed
upon a barn door to be dried, they
nailed babe beside it and wrote be-
Meath the word "Zwei"; they thrust
women and children between them
selves and soldiers coming up to de-
fend their native land; bombed and
looted hospitals. Red Cross buil dings;
violated the white fag-while the
worst atrocities cannot even be named
i'm this mixed audience.
The Kaiser Branded His People AZ
'IIuns."
No one understands the German
people as well as the Kaiser. Our
president, in a spirit of magnanimity
patience and goodwill, distinguish
ed between the Kaiser and the Prus.
sian government, and over against
them put the German people. But
Germany's Chambers of Commerce
Hamburg's Board OF Trade and GER
tain popular assemblies would have
none of this, and in the fury of their
anger passed resolutions, saying:
What our government is we are
Their acts are our acts. Their deeds
and military plans are our plans. >
Knowing his people through and
through, the Kaiser called his sol
dicrs before him and gave them this
charge: MAKE yourselves more
frightful than the Huns under Atilla
See that for q thousand years no enc
my mentions the very name of Ger
many without shuddering" why dc
the German people say they feel SC
terribly because the authors OF the
world call them "Huns" and bar
barians?" Who named them "Huns?'
Their Kaiser. Who christehed then
barbarians? Their Kaiser Whc
likened the German soldiers tC
bloodhounds held upon the leash 10y
the Kaisers thong as they strained
upon the leash with bloody jaws
longing To tear their French and Bel
eian prey? With bloody fingers tn,
Kaiser said: III baptize thee Hun
and barbarian Let the Kaiser.
words stand--"For II thousand year,
no man shall speak the word Hun
without shuddering"
All wise men trace deeds. wicked o
good. back To the philosophic think
ing of the doer. just Us they trace bit
ter water back To "a poisoned spring
What the individual or the natloi
thinks i'm his heart. that he does II
life. Judas thinks i'm terms of avaric'
and greed. and his philosophy result
i'm treason and murder The Kaiser
Nietzsche. Non Bethman -HoIwei
Won Kissing and Plauss think an,
teach the theory of iron force. tn
right of big Germany To loot littl
Belgium or North France and drill
them i'm the belief that Germany
\ right is the right of the lion over tn
lamb. and that no questions viii ~