Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-28
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
FOR GERMANY'S CRIMES
British Writer Declares Enemy
Should Pay Every Cen.
Of Damage.
CoNFIsCATE SHIP FOR SHIP
Ton for Ton for Every Craft Sent
Down and Complete Indemnity
for Devastated Towns-Murder-
crs Should Be Exccutcd.
by }. HANELOCK WILSON, G.. Is. T..
President of british Scaman's Union.

by }. HANEfOCK WILSON, G.. Is. t.,
President of british Scaman's Union.
are We, the moment the tocsin OF
peace sounds, going 10 throw up our
hats; thank Providence an in,erna-
tionai Inconvenience like the war is
out OF the way; shake hands with the
blood -smeared murderers OF 1900 men
IN me mercantile marine: smile on the
TENDS who befouled Belgium; laugh
and uuah and say prayers with the
despoilcrs of Louvain. Nhcims Noyun
and a thousand other treasured places
honored Keeping: forget the cranes of
the l.usitania and the Persia; pardon
the atrocities against our own kith
ana KIN held prisoners in foul dens:
treat the murders of Nurse Cavell, Cap
tain Fryatt and others as romantic in =
cclden's VI iesretaoie OCCASION. ami
their military ridden slaves, while we
wallow in maelstrom of satisfaction
shan Thank heaven it's over" and
That. is one side. The other is are
we 10 punish these cowardly and MUIR
derous hordes for their organized In
fainies against civilization?
Have NC backbone enough TO register
punishment for them? Shall We be
SO nabby as not 10 dare. in righteous
justice demands that we should?
nave often been asked: what exactly
90 YOU mean; How do you propose 10
Two factors rule in the long list of
German infamies-the actual Criminals
and The German people rs whole.
would | punish each? Certainly I
would We have got to clean this job
UP II We are 10 complste the overthrow
OIL irussianiSm, which is the aim OF
PRESIDENT Wilson and the declared aim
OF ii our allies.
personal As WELL AS
NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
We have got 10 lot. each Of these fac
tors in this gigantic inramy know that
there Is personal as we'll as "a national
responsibility in these crimes
The American and French press has
m nne1 VERY ser1r clear on TINS point. and
the duty Of the allies TO make list
, o, nd who ordered and COM
initteu atrocities. ] have no doubt our
Foreign Office has such list
|, is ali very we'll to talk airly about
publishing Germany" We must frs:
T sis sha p %e get n at e,yssy
naval commander and naval suborJi-
bate, arist,ncrat and bureaucrat-wh o
pitai ship atrocities. tho murders of
men OF our mercantile marine and the
brutal treatment of our prisoners
We ought TO make il downright clear
viii be tracked and hung or shot. and
hr, we will confiscate ship for ship
ror wllful spoliation such as has
recently occurred at Noyon and many
other places let j., he clearly under
stood that we have determined TO ey-
act rcparatio.i 10 the utmost farthinc
hut. say the pacifists. Germany will
Re too poor 10 pay. and you cannot get
blood from stones
Germany too poor?
What about her state railway profits ?
Cannot we earmark them?
Wha; about the KEEL Canal?
cannot We intcrnationalizc II and
take the dues
What about tho coal mines the iron
mines and the potash fields. which cap
italiZed represent the cost of this war
dozens ~ times over? Cannot we ex-
"c' tax per mined ton?
Germany wen, to wai primarily 70,
conquest and plumber. Never again"
her with tariffs until the German beast
Is tanned
Let not other than the overplus o.;
Cur gigantic production of raw mate
iials fail into her factories
We have TO remember our allies. We
have TO see that Belgians Serbians
Italians. French, Colonials and Amer
leans are satisfied that justice has been
done and due punishment inflicted on
the Hun.
Il may take years. but when it is
lett Of Germany. for warrant her pco-
pie will be changed people then.
over all. would pursue the sea-
mems boycott TO the fun. no Gcrman
goods in our ships: no British ships for
the Hun in any shape or form.
These are practical proposals. They
are severe; but ] venture TO assert they
are rot more than fit the crime and
not one whit more than is necessary 10
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