The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-10-16
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The United States Demands
an Unconditional Surrender.
TIE SILL AGAINST GERMANY.

Former President Theodore Roosevelt. who by vir
tue Of having lost one hero son by death and another Grip
pied in the war with the Hun. rightly says that we
must refuse TO compound a felony by discussing peace
terms with felons. Theodore Roosevelt is right.
Whether it be HohenzolIern's autocracy or democracy.
the German people must pay the price. II the kaiser
devil and his crew Of fends were not supported to the last
drop of blood by the people Of Germany they could not
have turned this earth into a hell for four years.
This country and its brave French. British. Italian.
Belgian and Serbian allies have a staggering bill to pre-
sent to the Hun for settlement. The million Of rottins
corpses that lie awaiting the last trump in the devastated
fields of Europe cry out TO high heaven for vengeance,
the drowned thousands OF thousands whose bodies are
e~ncofhned in the hulks strewn on the bottom of the FIVE
seas are spectres TO haunt the Germans as long as the
earth reyolyes on its axis.
1t is an itemized bill Of horrors that the Hun must
settle for. What are some of the items that must never
be forgotten? The thousands of brave American boys
who will never come back from France; the Lusitania
and its hundreds of drowned American women and chill
dren; the fearful piracy on the high seas and the viola
ton of every convention of The Hague and almost every
rule Of international law; the shocking murder of the
sanity Edith Cayel without due process of law; the fate
worse than death of thousands of pure French. Belgian
and Serbian girls; the terrible mutilation of Belgian
women, girls and babes, the firing on freezing men and
women in lfeboats; the cruel bombing of Red Cross hos
pitfalls; the murder of 100 Red Cross nurses and attend
ants in a relief hospital; the zepplinizing of unfortifed
towns; the bombardment of helpless seacoast cities, the
ravishing of nuns and slaughter of priests; the c~rucihxion
Of aged Belgian men; the many nameless and unspeak-
able Belgian and Serbian trocities; the enslaving of con
Guered peoples; the poisoning Of wells and streams: the
Turing of strecher bearers to destruction by Hun soldiers
feigning death; the kamerads who threw their hands in
the air to surrender and then pumped machine guns
worked by their feet into oncoming American soldiers:
the hendish setting of bombs and explosives in surrend-
cred towns; the razing and burning of cities, property
and destruction of beautiful century-old forests: the level
ing of cathedrals; the wholesale laying waste of France.
Belgium and Serbia; the high-born German women who
spat on helpless prisoners and stoned them: the German
Red Cross nurses who offered starving prisoners water
and soup they had indescribably defled. the setting Of
vicious dogs on prisoners in vile German prison camps:
the robbery Of food from prisoners sent them BY rela-
tives; the celebration of the Lusitania's sinking by Ger
man school children chanting their hymns of hate; the
U-boat pirates; the foul deflement Of Belgian and French
homes; the stripping of American women leaving Ger.
many when the war broke out in 1914: the indignities
visited on our ambassadors and consular officers before
April, 1917; the thefts of the crown prince and his arro-
CANT officers from French chatteaux; the innumerable
lusts and orgies of high German officers and drunken
soldiers; our factories blown up; the country filed with
spies; the efforts made by sneaking German ambassa-
doris to involve US in war with Mexico and japan while
posing as our friends and accepting our hospitality. the
criminals whose hands run red with human blood. the
worlds greatest moral and mental prostitutes.
All these items on the bill to settle as we'll as many.
others unprintable, items so hellish that men do not even
discuss them except in whispers and with set teeth.
cIenched fists and red-seefng eyes.
And yet the disappearing Beast of Berlin and his