Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-03
THE
.BLUNDERS|
OF
GER MAN Y
BY WILLIAM T. HoRNADAY.
! LREADY in America there ar

nan1mlLy toward the great
Of the present world war,
and Of a movement for a whitewashed
peace with no annexations and no in
There is danger that
within six months Americans who do
not know Germany will seek to snatch
the boon Of durable peace and human
freedom from the allied nations who
have given their bravest and best men,
literally by millions. and their wealth
by billions. to protect the rights OF
man. A German peace means a Ger
man triumph, and the certainty of an
other war in the near future. As an
approach toward settlement, it is
now very necessary that every Ameri-
can should know Germany exactly as
that bloody military dragon really is.
AS means to that eSI, these three
chapters have been written.
The plumbers, crimes and punish
ment of Germany are inseparably
linked together.
The plumbers of Germany constitute
a spectacle of very much more than
passing interest. The questions they
logic Of them is as memorable as death.
They are Of vital interest to every
freeman, and to every state and ma
ton that sincerely undertakes to con-
serve the rights of its people. To
unhappy Austria, showed into the war
by Germany, they are of life or death
Interest. A CORRECT VIEW OF
GERMANY IS NOW ABSOLUTELY
ESSENTIAL TO THE FUTURE
FREEDOM OF MAN!
Germany now resembles rat in
pit. furious from countless defeats, in
sane with baffled hate and rage, and
wild with a fearful certainty of her
finish. All her fine plans. and 20
years of active preparation. have gone
awry. Her vast naval and military
have brought her only
death, poverty, ruin and hatred. Even
her own allies now thoroughly hate
and detest her and one and all would
break away from her If they dared.
All her long years of lying and spy
ing and plotting have been revealed
in their naked and hideous ugliness
She stands before the world as a
murderer Of defenseles women, chill
dren and old men, and the Wholesale
ravisher of helpless women. The
skull-cracker" spiked club of Ger
many. and the deadly "murderer's
mace" of Austria, now abundantly
shown in Italy's war museum. are
used for the numbering Of wounded
prisoners in the trenches and on the
battlefields.
And now Germany, like q MORALLY
wounded wolf with the hounds at his
throat, undertakes to propose terms of
peace to the allies! With a great
show of large heartedness, the reich
stag now talks very magnanimously
Of peace with mo annexations and no
indemnities." Yes, indeed! A peace
on that basis would suit Germany
well. Tricky and shifty to the last
gasp, she seeks thus to catch the
swell headed soldiers and workmen"
Of Russia, the large-mouthed and blat-
ant anarchists and radical socialists
Of America. and the traitorous paci-
fists of the world at large. BUT ALL
HONEST MEN WHO ARE WIDE
AWAKE KNOW FULL WELL THAT
A PEACE OF THAT NATURE
WOULD SPELL VICTORY" FOR
GERMANY, AND AS CERTAIN AS
DEATH AND TAXES ANOTHER
WAR WITH HER LATER ONi
The entente allies presently will fix
the terms of peace. as they should be
fixed. and Germany will accept them:
but first there will be another IS
months Of war.
With new German made peace talk
streaming out of Berlin. 1t Is now time
to post the books for the past three
years. and see how the German ac-
ducive to peace and prosperity than a
true sense Of proportion. and correct
point of view. In all times OF danger
it is best to know the worst.
The debit side of Germany's ac-
count quickly resolves ITSELF first Of
all, into a catalogue of Germany's
plumbers, as the reasons for her crimes
and her present state of impotent rage.
1t is highly necessary that Americans
should study this list, in order to judge
the case fairly. and to be able to act
intelligently when the time comes for
the allies to discuss the peace terms
that Germany, Austria and Turkey
must accept.
1t is the natural impulse Of high
minded and humane people to be over
magnanimous to beaten enemies. TO
CONDONE CRIME ALTOGETHER
TOO OFTEN. and to help the down.
and out criminal to get back upon his
feet. 1t il also q sadly common thing
for q confirmed criminal to turn. cur
like, and bite the hand that helps him;
and many q criminal has murdered the
generous man or woman who gave
him a place to lay his head.
There are criminals and criminals.
Some deserve succor; others mere
quick determination. The confirmed
criminal is in class by himself. He
10 unfit to live; but az the very small
est measure of self society
II g. A~lvr ND