The Washington herald., 1918-08-21

through which their tiny hearts were torn from
their baby bodies
This picture of murdered babies brutally
wrenched from the arms of French mothers in a
French town taken by the Huns, was sent to this
country by an American soldier fighting in the
trenches "over there" He and his American broth
ers-in-arms retook this town from the Huns. but
not before the unspeakable Hun had opened wide
the tloodgates OF his brutality upon the innocent
inhabitants. This American soldier saw with his
own eyes the bodies of these two babies, bodies
torn open in the most horrible manner and bodies
that no longer carried within them hearts which
had beaten with the gladsomeness of happy baby
hood until the Hun came upon them.
We have heard of jackals hyenas, rattlesnakes:
We have heard of all that is lowest in man and
beast, but not until this day have we looked into
such fearful depths of depravity and unhuman
beastliness. Why, fellow Americans we over here
in safe security have come to full realization
OF the awfulness of the Hun shadow darkening the
fields and villages OF Hun-conquered lands! We
have found it difficult to believe that human beings
Can be so degraded, debauched, so heartless as
these Huns have become. They have been found
guilty beyond the shadow of the slightest doubt of
sinking hospital ships, bombing wounded, Staying
prisoners violating women, numbering non-com-
batant citizens And now we have indisputable
evidence Of this the most horrible crime which has
ever been charged against human being.
In their fendish cruelty, angered at the oncom-
Ing allied troops and forced to give way the Huns
became beastial saughterers of babies. Into the
Sobbing, living bodies of these innocent children
they drove their blood-red swords and gouged out
the throbbing hearts. And then they threw the
-anublated bodies, running crimson with the ebbng
pf their Hfeblood, into heaps by the roadside.
Then that, there be nothing more evil, more
:ruel. more loathsome in all the annals of crime.
Their hearts-the hearts of these little babies
ire not dead; they cry aloud to you, to all the
world OF civilized human beings for revenge, for
Justice for the punishment of their murderers.
What will you do than you were
ioing before you this picture and heard this
Itory to bring to punishment the butchers who cut
,ut the hearts of babies?
Now come to the others in the picture above
the two men.
They the murderers. They are the personi-
5cation of all that is evil. They are father and son.
Emperor and crown prince of Germany, arch foes
IF civilization. humanity. democracy and OF little
,abes such these of the French village.
AT left top is Wilhelm, kaiser of the Huns His
Eardonic evil grin we'll portrays the desires running
lot within him. This is the man-monster who
quilted the world in war; and who sent his brutazed
sodiers to kill, kill, kill for Cott will forgive
IN his orders for wholesale slaughter this imperial
lend included at the bedside of the wounded
lick in hospitals cripples hospital ships prison.
rs in German camps-and the bleeding hearts Of
little babiea
That other man-the of the Kaiser-the one
With the death head" cap-clothes his face with
he same, heartless unhuman grin, for he too revels
n the slaughter of innocents and to whom the
ioisting of bruised and bleeding baby hearts upon
German bayonets is the symbol of power and con-
luest
What will you do more than you were do
ng to help those boys of ours "over there" and
he soldiers of allies punish this man-monster
nd his son?
There are just two ways of helping to punish
he Kaiser and his son. These are:
Go there and fight.
Stay home and serve, pay and lend
On the twenty-eighth day of September begins
he Fourth Liberty Loan campaign.
The hearts of these babies cry to you to help.
You help by starting right now-this minute
save that you may do your share-and more-to
nance the man who is going "over there" into the
ell of battle, the brink of death carry just
enlistment to this Kaiser and this crown prince,
nd to make it impossible for the baby killing Huns