The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-15
OUR ENEMIES.
What We Are Fighting Against in This
War.

| DAILY Articles During the Liberty Loan
Campaign by Newell Dwight Hillis)
German efficiency was chiefly manifest
in her plan of frightfulness and terror.
ism. Nineteen centuries of Christian
morals had developed conscience in Mar.
| tin Luthers descendants and instilled
certain moral principles in the minds of
young men. But the conquest of Bel
GUM, France, England and Russia was
not possible with soldiers who were EN-
barrassed by remorse or the Ten Com
mandments. Conquering Belgium and
France meant the breaking-dow of the
intellect and the will until the people
were cowed.
In his war manual given to every
German soldier, General Won Hartmann,
the author, distinctly says the soldier
must stamp out all humanitarianism
from his own heart and that considera-
tions OF pity for human life or property
must be wholly eradieated from the sol
dier's mind. The great problem, there
fore, was how TO release the soldier from
any bondage to conscience, from any for
mer fetter through the Ten Command
ments and from any fear Of future pun
ishment in connection with God and the
day of Judgment.
Finally the kaiser and his war staff
thought of '.the German token This is
OF aluminium, about the size Of silver
dollar. At the top is portrait OF the
kaiser's Coda monstrous being, hold
yt..l -, ioYtyt y,
are the words:
Strike him dead
The day OF judgment
Will ask you no questions.
The kaiser and his war staff believed |
that If any timid German shrank back I
from crime, this would encourage him to I
every form Of excess.
In advance for months. the German /
officers drilled the words on this token
into the minds Of the private soldiers
II the German boy said: Jesus teaches 1
woe unto him who offends one of my /
little ones; it were better for him If a
milestone were hanged about his neck
md he was drowned in the bottom of
he sea; by this token the kaiser an
wers: The day OF judgment will ask
you no questions The token also ex.
,lains the kaisers charge to his sol
liers, starting to China: you will take
10 prisoners You will give no quarter.
t is this that explains the devastated
egions OF Belgium, western and eastern
france.
in the face Of all their treaties with
rance, Great Britain and the United
tates, the Germans took this soldiers
oxen as their example and guide. From I
he moment they crossed the Belgian and i
he French line, the German advance be- /
amc an orgy Of crime, arson and lust. 4
either the ancient Huns, nor the Span Z
h Inqustors, nor the Sioux Indians i
18th their scalping knives, ever were h
ailty of such atrocities! This is evil y
enced by the inquests held after the !
arious German retreats by properly 4
instituted legal commissions, taking i
stimony, photographic the bodies and a
the affidavits. Il
As one out Of thousands, / mention
fidavits by Is witnesses establishing
lie atrocity eight drunken
erman soldiers marched out of a village
icy had ruined carrying naked baby
covered on a bayonet, with all the sol
ers singing drunken songs as they
arched The mere catalog of their
lines fills the heart with anguish A
Jung man crucified upon door,-Cap