Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-09-05

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Z Il is the Prussian system,--F. ).
I C. WaIcott. :
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No more graphic description of the
ravages of the German sOldiery upon
the civilian population of invaded
countries has been given than Is con-
tanned in the brief and simple state
ments of f. C. Walcott, now connected
with the United States food admins
tration. who was assistant to Mr..
Hoover while America was feeding
Belgium, Poland and northern France.
In one of these statements Mr.. Wal
colt says:
Even now I find 1t hard to describe
in comprehensive terms the mind of
official Germany, which dominates and
shapes all German thought and action.
Yet it is as hard, as clear-cut, as real
as any material thing. saw 1t In
Poland | saw the same thing in Bel
num, heard Of it in Serbia and Rou-
mania. For weeks it was always be-
fore me, always the same. officers
talked freely, frankly, directly. ALI
the staff officers have the same view.
Let me try to tell it. as General Won
Kries told me, in Poland, in the midst
of a dying nation. Germany is des-
tined to rule the world, or at least a
great part of it. The German people
are so much human material for build
ing the German state, other people do
not count. All is for the glory and
might of the German state. The lives
of human beings are to be conserved
only if it makes for the stat ,'s ad-
vancement their lives are to be sacri-
feed If it Is to the states advantage. |
The state Is all, the people are moth
ing.
Conquered people signify little in
the German account. Life, liberty, |
happiness, human sentiment, family |
ties, grace and generous impulse, these |
have no place beside the one concern, |
the greatness Of the German state.
Starvation must excite no pity SYM
pathy must not be allowed, if 1t ham,
pers the main design of promoting
Germany's ends.
Starvation is here" said General
Won Kries. "Candidly, we would like
to see it relieved; we fear our soldiers
things that they see. But since 1t is
here, starvation must serve our pur-
pose. So we set it to work for Ger
many. By starvation we can accom-
plish In two or three years in East
Poland more than we have in West
Poland which is East Prussia, in the
last hundred years. With that in
view, we propose to turn this force to
our advantage.
This country is meant for Ger
many" continued the keeper of starry
Ing Poland. "It is rich alluvial
country which Germany has needed
Tor some generations. We propose to
remove the able-bodied working Poles
from this country. 1t leaves it open
Tor the inflow Of German working peo-
pie as fast as we can spare them.
Ihey Will occupy it and work it."
WIN a Odh
you see how it works out? BY and by
we shall give back freedom to Poland.
when that happens Poland will appear
automatically as a German province"
In Belgium, General Won Kissing
told me exactly the same thing. eff
the relief of Belgium breaks down we
can force the industrial population in
10 Germany through starvation and
iOlOnlSe other Belgians in Mesopo-
anna where we have planned large
irrigation works; Germans will then
'Verrun Belgium. Then when the war
; over and freedom is given back to
oegium, it will be a German Belgium
nat is restored. Belgium will be a
Ierman province and we have Ant
'erp-which is what we are after"
nat is not all. Removing the men,
nat me land may be vacant for Ger
nan occupation, that German stock
nay replace Belgians, Poles, Serbians,
Arlnenlans, and now Roumanians, Ger
nany does more. Women left captive
Ire enslaved. Germany makes all
lanner of lust its instrumentality.
Inc other day friend of mine told
ne OF man just returned from north
IN france. 81 cannot tell you the de-
ans he said, imam to man, don't
want to repeat what / heard" Some
me things he did tell-shocking
lutilation and moral murder He told
women, by the score, in occupied
erritory of northern France, prisoned
! underground dungeons, tethered for
ne use of their bodies by officers and
Il this is not a piece of the Prussian
sspen' 1t is the logical product of dis
esard of the rights of others.