The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
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Such is Germany and thus ha.
she deported herself at so many
times in the war which she is now
waeins for world dominance ano
thus has she been so often pictured
by eye witnesses and supporters OF
her wicked warfare aud atrocities
|uoon all who fall helpless in her
lway. They do not seem to hesitate
Ito destroy life and lay waste when ny
SO doing they neither add strength
to themselves or weakness to their
enemies.
/ There is no word or combination
of words in any language to express
adequately, according to reliable and
Eauthentic reports made by those
Ewho have seen and those who have
suffered at their hands, to express
fully the inhuman acts and atroci-
ties of the German government and
its equally guilty army. committed
upon all people of such territory
conquered and overrun by them in
this war. Whatever attempt may
be made to portray to the magma
ton the horrors and cruelties of
their wicked and inhuman acts upon
helpless and suffering people, made
victims of ruthless and marauding
warfare, has been made thousand
times and as many times has failed.
Not even the Imagination in its
widest flight can picture, we are
told, the horrible and repulsive IA
ture-cannot grasp in all its awful
significance, Only those who have
felt the oppressors' heel and the keen
thrust of her saber can understand
and know fully the meaning of the
assassin's presence and his merci-
less cruelties.
Great buildings, beautiful in archi-
lecture and rich in traditional and
historian interest, made the target
of deadly guns by vandals of Ger
many and ruthlessly demolished; a
prosperous country, the products of
which were carried to all parts of
the world, laid waste; fertile fields
trench torn and scared with bomb
craters, blood-soaked and transform
ed into charnel sWards; happy and
thrifty people made homeless and
compelled 10 flee for their lives,
whole villages destroyed and their
hapless and defenseless jewellers rem
dered destitute of food and shelter,
forced to seek safety in flight or re-
main behind and submit to cruel
and inhnman foe; the sanctity of
home violated by human fiends in
the form Of men who call them
selves soldiers but who are better
named savages: the sacredness of
person desecrated by the unholy
touch of the libertine; young women
fiendishly maltreated and made TO
suffer all the horrors of outraged wo-
manhood; the Adolescence of inno-
cent girlhood defiltd and robbed of
its chastity; virtue forced by the |
brutal passion of vile debauchery |
children separated from their par
eats and left to wander alone and
from the severity of the
the bare earth their bed at |
night. picking up bits of food wher
ever by chance it could be found;
destroyers of youth, wreckers of
happy, peaceful homes, despoilels of
murderers of the help
less, these are the fends we are
called upon to stop in their wild and
mad dash for world conquest.
The kaiser has dreams of world /
but kaiserism must and
will be crushed and destroyed. Mon
archy and despotism are making a
desperate effort to crush out demCc-
racy and freedom, but such an at
tempt cannot succeed at this day of
wide education and liberty-Ioving
period of the worlds history. With
The courage and strength that comes
10 the right We shall gain a decisive
and glorious victory over Germany
and her vassal allies, and joy, peace
and happiness will come again to
he hearts of the people and the
world shall be once more at rest
rom the bloody strife in which 1t is
today.
But shall we include unmodified
~ NO exceptions all people of that
;eething caldron of contemplate
.goism and damnable conceit in
me broad charge? We shall not for
We refuse to believe that the whole
people Of a nation could be so base
md bestial in national temperament
md individual character that there
;ould not be some, even many. who
10 not possess real humane feelings
md represent superior standard of
deals and high honor over the I'M
ZnoWn and despotic leaders of that
ubjueated and oppressed people