The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-10-30

quite enough of detail to blanch the
face, curdle the blood and cause
each particular hair to stand on end
like quilts upon the fretful porcupine."
Speaking first of the spoilation of
Belgium, he quoted from official and
complacent German reports the record
of over two billions of dollars worth
of money, machinery, raw material
and other private property looted and
carried into Germany during the first
eighteen months. The outrages to the
person, terrible as they were in Bel
GUM, he declared yet more horrible in
occupied France and worst of all in
Serbia In support, detailed accounts,
in every case from unquestioned au
thOrity-that of participants or eye
witnesses, were adduced. These in
cluded the wholesale shooting of the
burghers-''n in revenge" said the
German Chroniclus, but to deter
others the burning and looting of
towns; the violation of women of all
ages, actually followed in some cases,
after every possible indignity had been
exhausted, by burning alive In one
fine French mansion, the gentle ladies
as well as the servants were compell-
ed to wait upon a dinner party of
German officers, absolutely nude. be-
fore suffering the supreme outraged
The concluding portion of the time
was devoted to the wonderful spirit of
the French people, who both individ-
ually and collectively have dedicated
their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honor to the service of their
country in this its great hour OF peril
Entire self-abenegation is the rule.
Letters were read written by young
French soldiers in the trenches to De
given wives or parents only in case
the writer's made the last sacrifice,
that would melt a heart of adamant;
and all through last year and the first
months of this year those fine French
faces were turned to America, land of
promise and of freedom, whose first
great struggle was won by the French
blood, and paid lips were saying
What Will America do?" Pausing a
moment, the speaker added And we
stood OUT"
But the United States is no longer
out" and the feeling and spirit with
which Pershing's men were greeted in
France was graphically sketched Mr.
Mcclure makes no pretensions to
OratOry. He does not even strive for
clima2 Us. nor striking peroration
But when ne said. in his quiet way:
81 have seven sons and nephews now
in France, and / would rather not one
of them come back than than none of
them had gone" there was first a
hush and then burst of spontaneous
applause which testified the heart of
that audience to be in the right place.
1T was in the same quiet way after
nearly two hours during which he re-
ceived the closest possible attention, |
that he followed a moments pause by
saying: That's all; I'm done" He
confessed that it was by
no means "all"; but that he was afraid |
Of firing his audience and stopped |
right where he found himself when he |
looked at his his watch.
The mass of material from which !.
he selected his many authorities Will !
soon appear in book form, for which I
purpose it was labOriously collected; |
and when this is the case, the Ameri |
can reading public will know more |
of the true inwardness of the situa-
ton, and of past events, both in the |
orient and at the seat of war, than
can otherwise be learned from the |
whole library of war literature.