East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-09-21
You Won't Care If Germans
Overrun This Country; You
Will Be Dead, Says Author


tBy ellis Parker Butlcr.)
II the Germans win this war and
come TO America TO punish as. you
won't care. You may care a little nj
first. II mas. make your bl0od boil
tc see some shaved-head hog-herder
a. the kRlser's uniform strike your
wife across the face with the flat OF
! his hand. or TO hear the Hhrteks Of
yomr daughter as one OF the kaiser's
4 grinnIng under-offIcers drags her
away. but you won't care long. III
tell YOU why.
Youii be dead.
II There was cabled paragraph In
1 the newspapers a day or two ago thai
reported the Russians are feeling bet
ter inclined toward the allies. The
reason was that the German troopa
we're poison -Rasslng the civil popula-
tions OF the captured towns II Is an
easy way to get rid OF civil population.
and. now, that the Germans have hit
upon 1t. they viii probably use Il In
an cases where they wish TO make
room for German kuiture.
Folsom gassing the civilian popula-
tiOn is easier and quicker than shoot
ing IL. as was done In Belgium. II Is
easier and quicker than "aeporting
[ II, as was done with the ArmeDians.
although the Cerman-bossed Turks
found that a satisfactory way 90 lead
whole cliies to death. The Gsrmana
are especially apt 60 stick to poison
Easslng civilians beeause II Is their
own happy thought and ihs highest
exempiiflcatlon OF their own efficient
kultur.
In America. where there are great
sections given up 20 agriculture, II
viii probably be necessary for the
/ Germans to bayonet and shoot many
who are now living on the farms. al
I though they may be able to form
| county concentration camps and Eas
all who are gathered In those camps
In the cities the work would he cas-
/ Ter. on given day and at given
hour. the German troops would put
on their gas-maskks and thus pro-
tocted release great quantities Of t'oi-
son-Eas. The civil population woula
/ immediately die. Germany woula
have a free hand for colonization and
America would be thoroughly Ger
man from then on. There wouid be
no ono here TO interfere with tste Ger
man plans New Germany" woiid
/ be all German. You would not care
You would be dead.
If YOU think Germany is not ca
I aa BILE II Going this very thing II Is be-
cause you have not thought about
Germany lately. That cable message
saws Germany Is doing Il In eastern
/ Russia. To Germany we are more
troublesome aud less civilized Than
eastern Russia. We are toa naner-
Gus to deport. The easics. way
ssould be TO gas us In the bulk.
No decent nation does such thinga.
bat Germany Is not In the decent ma
t.n class. Think a minute
4 Germany Is murderer. she
threw civilized ways aside and began
slnking men, women and children In
+ the bulk long ago. Germany l. pi-
rate. and is using submarines con-
trary to all agreements and paets.
f Germany invented poison sas and
( Used II, when It's use in battle was
as forbidden and unoivilized as its use
10 kin civilian populations. We have
great country over here. and pop
uiatlon that would he endlesaiy trou-
btenome 10 Germany II she tried TO
rule us. II Germany comes 10 the
United states she viii wish to XIII
US off as II We were rats. Germany
wants TO make the world safe for
Germany.
don't know how you feel about
II. hut / don't want to be gased'
don't want any poison -gassing nation
left ON the face of the earth. l am
not even strong In nay friendship for
murderers and pirates. uon't sec
today anything good IN Germany, or
anything descent, or anything deserN-
lna respect / cant think Of anything
81 hldeouH or diagustig that she
would not do II she thought II woulr
profit her. She is not fighting as "a
civilized nation fights; she Is OUT
iawed and disgraoed. She must be
whipped, beaten into tho slime she
has created, her rulers punished for
their fiithy crimes and then. u the
world of decent men sees fll, haF
population may he put on bood be-
haglor for fifty years, a. the ena
or that ime. ~ civilization has taken
the place of the barbarian now eS-
listing IA uermanN. i may be possible
a. admit Germany 10 a place In the
councils of tbs nations once more
7ntil then look out for poison-gas'
Beat the nun into his own mud, or
he viii eme over here and depopulais
America hy his own heli-aoneelfed
method,
ant ntaest unNs WFann