The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-10-22
.SEvENTY-FOUR THOUSAND,
SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS
IS MARION COUNTrS OVER SUBSCRIPTION To THE
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
BILL OF CIVILIZATION
AGAINST GERMANY
Manufacturers Record)


What staggering bill it will be!
1t will be bill for four years, up
to the present time-how much longer
no one yet knows-of the most fear
ful crimes which the world has ever
known.
1t viii be bill for the millions who
have died III defense OF civilization
and for the millions who have been
blinded and manned and permanently
invalided.
1t will be bill for all the agonies
which hundreds of millions have had
to endure.
1t will be bill for the tears which
have flowed from the eyes of mill
ions of mothers and wives, sisters
and sweethearts because their loved
ones have had to endure all of the
hardships which the vilest ingenuity
of hell could instigate as they fight
on the side of heaven in the battle
against hell.
1t will be a bill for such sorrows as
earth has never known by dishonored
womanhood which in shame and
deathless woe cries out to heaven
against the criminals.
1t will be bill for mangled chill
dren and for tens of thousands of
helpless babies done to death by Ger
many's crimes.
It will be bill not merely for the
tens of billions of money, not merely
for the ships that have been murder
ed, for the towns and the countries
that have been ravaged, for the cathe-
drals and churches that have been de-
stroyed; these are only a part of the
material things which must be charg-
fed against Germany in the bill of civ
ilization against barbarism.
1t will be a bill which no human
words can ever portray, and no audi
! Tor can ever state in figures.
These are some of the items in this
! bill against Germany, the magnitude
of which no expert accountant who
ever lived could measure by human
calculations.
Though the tears can never be wip
ed away, the broken hearts never be
mended, the millions of murdered
brought back to life, the dishonoreo
womanhood never be restored, the bill
must be summed up in the mos
graphic language known to mankind
| 1t must be written on the pages Of
human history with pen fed by The
blood of millions of broken, bleeding
hearts. There it will stand forevel
as an unpaid debt from which Ger
many can never through eternity b'
cleansed.
AS we'll might Judas have sought t,
blot out the reality of the betrayal 0.
his Lord and of the agony of tn,
cross as for Germany to hope ever t.
wipe out the record of its crimes. II
letters of fire, burned into the soul O
every man and women living now, o.
in the centuries to come, they vii
forever stand.
Germany will for ten thousan'
years be regarded as more typical o
n-heartedness than Judas AM
/ Nero. >
Though Germany can never wip
out this bill, there is bill for mater
ial things which should represent eve
ry dollar spent by America and on
allies in saving civilization from be
ing destroyed.
There is a bill for every ship tina
has been murdered, for every poun
of foodstuffs and raw materials o
which Germany has robbed others.
There is a bill for the disruption
and disorganization of every busines
on earth.
There is bill for every fruit ire
cut down, for every town looted an
burned, for every car and locomotiv
stolen. These things must be summe
up and Germany be made to pay t
the uttermost farthing.
To require anything less of Ger
many would be to condone its crimes
to become an apologist for them, an
a co-worker with Germany inssappinI
the worlds moral strength.
| There is also bill which can b
paid only b. TIE death upon the gal
lows of the leading criminals.
Stand by our soldiers in thei
march on to Berlin! where-this bil
must be collected if civilization is t
be saved.