The Brunswick news., 1917-05-31

their own women and children would
daunt the Hun more effectualIy than
the shame he must feel in the face
Of an attitude toward reprisal that
says I'VE can do these things, but
we will not-eyen against you," says
the Macon Telegraph.
Invariably a policy of reprisal has
fallen in the face of the calm declara-
ton that Britannia has never yet
warrad on women and children, has
never yet turned her guns ON civil
ians while there was a single sol
dier to fight. AS one Englishman
put it: "Our shield is untarnished.
The chivaIry of the seas as we'll as
its mastery is largely in our keeping.
Let the war come to an end without
stain on our escutcheon no matter
what the provocation-in is doing we
will but deeper dye the 1nTamy of the
record of German outrage in this
war"
That is to soberer people the only
view for a civilized, honorable people
to take. We would not withhold from
the women and children who sang
and exulted in holiday over the muir
der of hundreds of mothers and ba-
bies on the Lusitania any particular
measure of suffering that might come
their way 1t be true, perhaps, that
only by sterner reprisal may they be
made to feel the aWfulness of the
crimes they encourage, condone and
support. But we would withhold from
England and France the harm that
will come to them in the committing
Of reprisals Their own self-respect,
the plane of high idealism, the basis
of civilization on which they have
pitched their fight holds an iron hand
of their own closing against any such
project as those who feel more storm
lily on the German outrages would
have them carry into execution.
This war must end so that the judg-
ment of history will be an indictment
of the German nation that:
Only you murdered the mother and
child as they slept in fancied and de-
served security ON great ocean liners;
Only you rained down bombs on
housewives and children as they slept
in their beds far from the battle front
or as they stood in line to get their
food for dinner;
Only you drove men of belliger-
ent and conquered land though still
unconquered people into that most in
famous Of all slavery, the forced Ia
Dor across the lines from their own
embattled and unconquerable country
men;
Only you supplied the officers to
stand by and laugh while half-drunk-
en- soldiers ravished the homes of a
stricken country and lay in rape by
squads with victims from nine to
ninety years of age;
Only you took Off the comelier of
the girls of your occupied territory to
be the enslaved and enforced con-
sorts of your own british Huns;
Only you, of all Christian (God save
the markD stood by and allowed the
Moslem to murder half a million
Christians, not only stood by but, it
is now established. aided and abetted
the most monstrous crime of history.
Only you Germany. Alone of all
peoples you must remain. Let there
be no crime even against your un.
clean, sin-shot, cruelty-diseased per
son, committed by those against
whom you have sinned, if only that
your own crimes may stand out the
blacker, the more evil in that it is
yours alone thatsy complete ant
unbreakable ostracism may not bt
lightened by single Thou, too
from any German lip.
Outrage is your own peculiar pen
chant, murder and massacre your OK