Middletown transcript., 1917-06-16

MORE GERMAN MURDERS
A BARBAROUS brutality that spares
"A neither age nor sex has become an
article of faith with the German "Chris-
tian'' so called. A leading German Doc
tor of Divinity recently in his sermon
declared that any person who did not
s.iustify and applaud the sinking Of the
Lusitania, was no good German !' The
massacre of women and children is thus
made part of their religion So it is
with the North American Indian, an I'M
tutored savage who scalps the mother
and brains her infant.
Can any one doubt nations insanity
when its ministers of the Gospel utter
such sentiments of revolving cruelty
Last April the second anniversary OF
that cowardly infamy was again cele-
brated in Berlin with jubilations and
Joy, and poem recited in honor Of the
s'great victory"
"Frightfulness" has thus been ele-
waited to the dignity and reverence OF
religious cult, and its universal and con-
slant observance by Germany's army
and navy proves that what the pulpit
breaches they practice. Only the other
day submarine shelled boat-load OF
American sailors, fleeing for their lives
from their sunken merchant ship, and
killed them all. A French crew saw the
cruel act and gave it to the newspapers.
Again. A few days ago, after the ex-
plosion' of that million pounds OF dyna-
mite under the German trenches, some
of the prisoners angrily warned the Eng
lish that if they ever caught the men
who engineered it they would cruelty
them ~ Crucifxion! Yes. indeed
this is one of Germany's proudest pieces
OF savagery to nail children and soldiers
to boards and barn doors. Frequently
this was done in Belgium.
tits to the eternal credit of Belgium
Trance and England that, tho sorely
tempted by deeds like these, and Zeppe
lin bomb murders Of helpless womer
and children, brutal Smelling of sailors
escaping in open boats from submarines
AID other like infamies, they have re
FUSED by retaliating to descend to Ger
many's low barbaric level. The worl'
refuses to accept her heathenish "Kul
tur!'
In the Cosmopolitan for March, 1914
Mrs. Pickett began her admirable &C
count Of the Gettysburg battle. and
the famous charge of her husband, Gen
eral G. E. Pickett.
Among other thrilling incidents sh
tells the charming story of little gil
in Greencastle, Pa. who as the Confee
crates were passing her home "defian
~. waved U. S. flag, crying traitors
traitors, traitors Come and take tn
aap. the man of you who dares !! II
l.ader hating took off his cap, bowed
The girl and reverently saluted her fiaI
Then turning to the long line, he waive
his hand and every cap was lifted al
every head bowed in Difference iwii
had rebel flag I'd waive that to
cried the delighted little girl"
Gen. Pickett, brave hero that ne wa
said. II saluted the womanhood in Il
heart Of the brave little girl.
Now imagine little French or En-
lisb maid doing the like before divisi'
Of German troops. say the vaunt
deaths Head Hussars" with e
Crown Prince as their leader, what won
have happened Teutonic chival
would have filled her little body SO II
Of German lead her mother would n
have been able to recognize the NUT
ated form
The graceful act of Gen. Pickett W
that of an American who even in "
does not cease to be gentleman; t
German deed would be quite characte
istic of a nation that glories in
shameful savagery.