The courier-index., 1917-12-07

front-is increasing. The morale Of her soldiers and people are trembl. ing in the balance. Starvation for both armies and people is ever star ing them in the face and creeping nearer. Financial ruin rises like a grim spectre and stares her boldly in the face. Her mark--face value and coin value of 23S cents passed for only 10.5 cents in Switzerland and Sweden a few days ago
 Japan will be strong somewhere before long. Italy isn't licked and isn't going to be. Russia will never make separate peace and may pos sibly come back strong in the finish --as surprise to everyone. Turkey is getting cleaned up in great shape Austria fears and hates German dom ination. Soon vast fleets of aircraft will be overrunning Germany.
 The combined fleets of the allies are gripping tighter and tighter at the throats of Germany and surely choking her to death. And the boys on the west front are shooting and pounding h-l out of Germany's best Germany is going up stream against the strong current of human pro- gress. No people ever has or ever will succeed in breasting that cur rent. Whoever tries it Is lost surely and irrevocabiy.
 Darwin. in his origin of Species" has several chapters on 'Reversion of Type" A pigeon of today. on very rare occasions. has the same feather markings and other charac- teristics that typified it's ancient an cestors or progenitors. Such birds revert back through a thousand gen erations to the markings of it's orig hal parents So it is with the kais- CT and his people. He is fanatic and religious bigot Whatever aids Germany toward her goal. WI ch is world domination. Is right and jnstifiable. She judges for herself what will help her. hence what is right and justifiable
 Barbaric Acts
 In one case it may be the de- struction of an ancient temple. price less painting. an irreplaceable piece of sculpture or hundreds of other things such as the raping of women, burning of children, cutting the breasts Of women off, crucifying prisoners of war, using flags of truce or surrender as decoys, at tacking and bombing hospitals, ann balances. Red Cross attendants. kill ing wounded. innoculation of disease among plants. animals and people in neutral countries.
 have read the story of the rise | of man Here is a nation that has rolled back the scroll of time: it has reverted back through thous- ands. perhaps. millions. of genera. tions. It Is the man--most primitive man-appearing in the world again. Man without moral sense. heart, sym pathy. desire to consider others: the German of today makes the same use of modern knowledge and modern appliances that primitive man would if he had possessed them. The In- dians. cannibals the head hunters of Maori. the bush man of Australia the lowest known type of man. for he had not discovered the bow and arrow any and all of these were mere nOvices. just pikers. in their methods of inflicting punishment and torture on their enemies There are no words in any language words. slang vulgar or vicious that can adequately describe it. The outraged people of the world must and will rise mp in righteous wrath and wipe out this last and worst of all the scourges of the world.
 If America were overrun by these monsters. as Belgium. Serbia and Roumania have been overrun. before l would permit any of my relations q mean women or childrenl to fall into the hands of these German dogs. l would take their lives in the most painless available method and as long as l could pull trigger each pressure of my finger would mean one more monster sent to h.
 l am willing to back the American soldiers at the front until h--l freezes over and fl necessary walk over on the ice.
 VISITING NURSE SPOILED