The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-21

to the third Liberty loan, ask you to /
take IA look ut Malines and Campcn
bout.
II is all written in II book. Just II |
matter Of fact little book filled with !
official documents.
open it at the pages that deal with |
Malines. and read: s
an Malines itself they tthe GermansD |
destroyed 500 houses from first to last !
and revenged themselves atrociously on
the civil population. a Belgian soldier |
saw them bayonet an old woman In the |
back. and cut off "a young womans |
breasts.
Another saw them bayonet a woman |
and her son.
They shot "A police inspector in the !
stomach as he came out Of his door; |
and blew off the head Of an old woman
AT window.
"A child Of two came cut into the |
street as eight drunken soldiers were
marching by. a man In the second file
stepped aside and drove his bayonet
with both hands into the chld's stom-
ach He lifted the child into the air
on his bayonct and carried it away. he
and his companion still singing. The
| child screamed when the soldier struck
~ Will ms 1lItN, pit tcA dliei "eI
Another woman was found dead
with II bayonet wounds between her
| shoulders and her waist. ... f..
Another - between Is and 20 years
old-who had been killed by a bayonet
was kneeling, and her hands were
clasped, and the bayonet had pierced
both hands r...
| "A boy about Is had been killed by IA
I l,,,, !, t,tI
an the same house was an old wom-
an lying dead"
do not often ask YOU to read un-
pleasant paragraphs like these: do
It now because. wnen 1t comes to writ
ing about Liberty bonds. I feel like
throwing aside all the fine words and
telling you the whole truth as II up
lpcnls To me.
| Ard he truth is that ! am not bu =
ling d niekers worth of bonds to give
Trieste to Italy or one single added
colony to England or Alsace Lorraine
To France.
Other folks may rally around these
ton in them.
| buy Liberty bonds because there is
La two year old boy in my home--as
Maliues.
| And because-~so snail nas the world
lbecome-that Malnes is only just
across the street from where live.
Prices are high. II is hard these
DAYS for q mum with even u good in d.
: come 10 buy food and clothes i,r his
; folks.
But ask myself over and over again
! t.h .yu.,I ia "a r,l food
and Clothes If the spirit that fired
, Malincs comes out of this war Iarc-
s. i,ukea?
: What sort Of parents are You and !,
If we take care of the minor matters
: such as food and clothes, and send our
lchiiaren out into a world where chill
: idren may still be bayonetted and WON
p, len ruthlessly slain?
hate war. If we were at war VIII
, England or France. l would III this
I column go fun of cries for II peace con
% ference that they would put mc IL
Jail for doing it.
But this Is not Il war of nations
lit is a graph. IF ideals.
/ The ideal that respects pledges an,
f he lives t wamea and children, hat
ltiing with the ideal that counts pledge
land the lives of women and children
Il as mere paWns in the game of en- ',re
q AT Camenhout.' says the book
Y they rified the wine cellar and she
:, the mistress of the house Ia cold bloo'
as she entered the room where the.
It were drinking. The other officers con
i ttlnued to drink and sing"
: Only a woman being killed. 1t va
j., nothing. They did not even lool
laround They continued to drink ant
u sing.
Il SO long as they who bayonetted IN
q hid of Malines go singing through tn
Il streets of belgium, there must be Lib
rrty bonds.
II So long as the terror that stake
Il through Campeuhout continues 10 han
q over my house. there must be Libert
=. bonds.
= do not know hon IL may be Wit
u YOU: but with me, this third Libert
Is loan cuts down through tn" luxurie
into what We used To think were ne
cessities in our household.
Aud we make the sacrifice gladly f.
the sake Of the great necessity.
The necessity for establishing safet
- in the world for little children.
ia For making 1t clear once and for a
II that while women are being slain, II
~ men can ever again with impunity con
tinue to drink and sing.