Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-09-12

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Observation-Disclosures sp4.
Al a conference of field men of the
United States food administration held
IN Washington, r. G. Walcott pictured
conditions as he had found them in
tbe countries invaded by German
arms. Mr.. Walcott served with Mr..
Hoover on the Belgium relief commits
sion when this nation was attempt
ing to feed the starving civilian pop
uIation Of Belgium, Poland and north
ern France. In his address he had
pIctured such conditions as he said he
could not believe unless he bad seen
the situation through and through, and
had lived with it for weeks. He
showed these terrible conditions to be
the result of deliberate plans on the
mart of official Germany, and In sum-
ming up he said:
"Such is the German mind as Ii
was disclosed to me in several weeks
contact with officers Of the staff.
Treaties are scraps of paper, If they
] hinder German aims. Treachery is
condoned and praised, IL 1t falls In
with German interest. Men. lands,
countries are German prizes. Popula-
tons are to be destroyed or enslaved
70 Germany may gain. Women are
Germanys prey, children are spells of
war. God gave Germany the Hohen-
zollern and together they are destined
to rule Europe and, eventually, the |
worid-thus reasons the kaiser.
"Coolly, deliberately, officers Of the
German staff. permeated by this mon
rrous philosophy, discuss the dena-
tionallzation Of peoples, the destruc-
ton Of nations. the undoing of other
Civilizations. for Germany's account.
I'm all the world such a thing has
never been. The human mind has
never conceived the like. Even among
barbarians, the thing would be incred-
ible. The mind can scarcely grasp
the fact that these things are pro-
posed and done by modern govern
ment professedly a Christian govern
ment in the family of civilized ma
ions.
This system has got to be rooted
out II 1t takes everything In the
world, II II takes everyone of us, this
nomination must be overthrow. It
must be ended or the world is not
worth living In. No matter how long
II takes, no matter how much 1t costs,
We must endure to the end with agon-
ized France. with imperiled Britain,
with shattered Belgium, with shaken
Russia
we must hope that Germany will
nave new birth as Russia is being re-
porn We must pray, as we fight
against the evil that is in Germany,
mat the good which is in Germany
may somehow prevail. We must trust
mat In the end a Germany really great
with the strength of wonderful race
may find Its place as one of the broth
erhood Of nations in the new world
that is to be.
The responsibility of success or
failure rests now upon our shoulders;
NJSS VI tut WOTlu are d0AlOuSiy
watching us. Are we going to be able
% rise to the emergency, throw off our
nemciency, and prove that democracy
y safe for the world?"
III the above statement Mr.. Wall
'Ot has described condition that
must be changed if America, if the
'orio' is to remain aft place to
~ IN. And the only way by which
lis change can be effected is the de-
eat OF German arms in this war.
'ouning good, nothing but evil, can
vlne out of Germany, so long as the
'erinan people are controlled by a
4ntary autocracy. and the German
eople cannot be made to realize this
uul this autOcracy is crushed. The
prit OF militarism that has made Of
le Germans a rcbber and a murder
auon must be utterly crushed if the
W. is to remain free, and to accom-
]sn this those of us who cannot fight
france must lend our support to
y men who are fighting for us.