The Arizona copper camp., 1917-11-17
EDITORIAL
THE BUTCHERS.


That British and Russian prisoners are butchered
by their Prussan captors Ito food to by
way of German soldiers who eye-witnesses to the
scenes Of and who compelled to take part
In them These revolving accounts of German heathenism
might be doubtedmight be considered overdrawn
invented it not for the open and artess in
which the military necessity of the central powers has
demonstrated it's barbarity in it's air raids and it's subma
rne attacks in it's treatment of the British captain
and the British nurse in it's dabohcal acquiescence the
murder of the Armenans by the Young Turks with it's
ecraton OF Belgian and young girls and with it's
proclamation of the temples of art and Christianity With
these things standing out and undened-with them ad
mtted by the criminals of Middle Europehe stories of
the horrors and teors of the captured soldiers the
British and Russian armies cannot be considered
drawn untrue
There few conscience-stricken participants in
this international crme and through them told the
stories with all their sordd and fiendish detailsof the
driving of masses Of human beings to distinctions of death
by suocaton and the mercess bullet of the shreks and
frantic cries for mercy from the doomed souls; of the
harsh heartess orders Of the officers; of the quverng
bodies the stony eye and final spngs as innocent after
innocent unarmed and unable to protect himself is
tOny aSsassinated
German kultur readers nvincibe soldiers of the
imperial king of Prussia and the pawns Of Hndenburg
and Ludendorff and Mackensen.
These the men and officers who, forward with
God are to bring the world under the ensign Of Posdam
These are the teachers of civilization.
These are to rule with their science and art and
literature.
These the who have constituted themselves
the cream of the earth and Of heaven we'll
These the forces which have overturned civiza-
ton and let loose the demons of hell
These are the powers which make you of America
squander your savings and compel you to sacrifice your
fathers and brothers and and sweehearts in the
blood-soaked trenches.
These the barbarians who boast of their impreg-
inability and their military grandeur and demonstrate it
in numbering the innocent and the unprotected. And
these the who constitute the foe against which
we are throwing strength and treasure
throwing them recklessly Of dire necessity that
may not meet similar fate.
1t only another narrowing chapter in the long story
of German carnage-that wholesale and promiscuous
butchery which has held deviish and diabocal carnival
since the day the pued and polished marauder
eashed his mps of greed and hatred upon the Belgian
martyrs.
And all this world misery-al this cold-blooded
slaughter of and if they beasts-that
William may emulate the cOnquerOrs of old and that the
prince and the military grandees may satisfy their
cravings for depraved sensual filthy and besal pastme
and Prussian sport.
There may be few of the soldiers who have revoted
at this awng spectacle and given to trembling and
torn conscences but the majority of them to enjoy
the CHASTITY novelty And the orders and must be
obeyed Somewhere there is head-a constituencies
entity with set jaws and beary eyes-whch cries. xiii
KILL Kill!' And the emperor Of Germany changes his
uniform and looks upon the pictures Of Alexander and
Nero and reads his volume Of st. Bartholomew.
And there in America and women who, bv
their pacs propaganda daily show their appreciation Of
this twenteth-century barbarian.