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crrorism is principle made me-
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sary by military considerations"
eneral Won Hartmann.
Strike him dead The Day of
Judgment will asi; you no questions"
Inscription on the aluminium token
carried by the German soldier.
Every American who has passed
through France and the edge of Bel
GUM this year has returned home a
permanently sadoened man. German
cruelty and French agony have cut
bloody cash in the heart and there
is no Dakin solution that can heal
the wound. Here upon this pulpit
rests reproduction OF an iron coin
given as token to each German sol
der. At the top is a German por-
trait OF Diety, and underneath are
these words: The good. old German
God" To encourage the German sol
dier TO cruelty and atrocity against
Belgiars and French the Diety holds
a weapon in his right hand, and to
dull his conscience and steel his heart
to murder the token holds these
words: "Smite your enemy dead. The
day OF Judgment will not ask you
for your reasons" To this native
characteristic Goethe was referring
when he said The Prussian is nat
urally cruel; civilization will intensi-
fy that cruelty and make him saw
age" 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 tortur-
ing old men, helpless women and lit
tie children.
For three years Gerrnan-Ane-i
cans have protested that the stories
of German atrocities were to be dis
believed as English inventions. Bel
gian lies and French hypocrises, but
that day has gone by forever. When
the representatives OF the nations
assemble for the final settlement,
there will be laid before the repre-
sentatives of Germany affidavits,
photographs, with other legal proofs
that make the German atrocities to
ke far better established than the
scalping of the Sioux Indians on the
Western frontiers, the murder In the
Black Hole OF Calcutta or the crimes
Of the Spanish Inquisition. On the
battle line 800 miles in length, III
whatsoever village the retreating
Germans passed, the following morn
lUR tHS
scene to make the record against the
day OF Judgment. The. photographs
of dead and mutilated girls, chill
dren and old men tell no lies Jurists
rank high two forms of testimony
the testimony of what mature men
have seen and heard and the testi
mony OF children too innocent to in
vent their statements, but old enough
to tell what they saw.
For the first time in history the
: German has reduced savagery to
science; therefore, this great war for
peace must go on until the German
cancer is cut clean out of the body.
The cold catalogue of German afro
cities now documented and in the
government archives of the different
nations makes up the most sickening
page in history. Days spent upon the
records preserved in Southern Bel
gium, Northern France or in and
about Paris, days spent in the ruined
villages of Alsace and Lorraine, leave
one nauseated, physically and mental
". 1t is one long black series of leg
ally-documented atrocities Every
solemn pledge that Germany signed
a wear and a half before at the Ha-
que Convention as to safeguarding
the Red Cross, hospitals, cathedrals,
libraries, women and children and
unarmed citizens are scoffed at as a
"scrap Of paper" These atrocities al
so were committed not in mood of
drunkenness nor an hour of anger
brt were organized by a so-cai1ed
German efficiency and perpetrated on
a deliberate, cold, precise, scientific
poiiy of German irightfulness. 1t is
not imply that they looted facto-
ries, arried away machinery. robbed
houses. bombed every farm house
and gr.nary, left nc plough nor
reaper, hopped dowi every pear
tree and Aum tree with every grape
vine and pisoned all wells The Ger
mans slaughtered old men and mat
rons, multihted captives in ways
that can oni3 bespoken of by men
in whispers; siolted little girls un-
til they were ded; finding a calf
skin nailed uponl barn door to be
dried. they uaile a bahe hes;de Il