Williams news., 1918-01-10

c1tleS committed by the Belgian
 civilians and refuse to accept
 the system of frightfulness. The
 Vorwarts, the leading socialist
 paper, which has a very wide
 circle of readers, has opposed the policy of frightfulness. All
 honor to it's editors who have so
 courageously opposed the pow erful military authority! It's
 editorial, entitled Our Foes" published August 23, 1914, reads as follows:
 "We wish to show ourselves humane and friendly toward those whom the fortune of war has played into our hands as prisoners. But we wish also to
 be humane towards our foes in the field. We must fight them. * But fighting does not mean murdering. It does not mean being barbarous.
 What shall one say when even such an organ as the Deut- sches Omzier-Blatt expresses it's sympathy with a demand that the beasts who are taken as francstireurs should not be killed but only wounded so that then they may be left to a fate which makes any help inn possible?' Oh what should we say when the Deutsches Of fizier-Blatt states that a puni- tive destruction even of whole regions cannot afford full re- compense for the bones of a single murdered Prussian gren- adier?' Those are the desires of blood-thirsty fanatics and we are thoroughly ashamed of ourselves because it is possible that there are people among us who urge such things. Such disclosures in themselves, even if they are not followed out are likely to place our fighting quite in the wrong before the world. Let us show knightliness even though we are of the proletariat. Let us take such pains that when the fight has finally been fought it will also not be so difficult again to work in common as brothers with our class associ- ates on the other side of the border"
 On the following day, Aug. 24, 1914, the Vorwarts return ed to the attack in an editorial Against Barbarian"
 "One might, in the first place, possibly believe that such a demand for a bloody vengeance (against alleged Belgian outrages) emanates from a single disease-racked brain; but it appears that whole groups among certain classes who represent German kultur want to indulge in or gies of barbarism and to devise a whole system for the purpose of organizing a war of re- venge."
 What of law and custom Such thoughts do not stir a great nation Thus in a lead ing article of the Berliner Neu- este Nachrichten, the demand 1 is made that all the authorities l in Brussels-one, the second Burgomaster, is generally ex- cepted-should be immediate ly seized and subjected to a trial in order to expiate the which, according to fragmentary and highly un- certain reports, were said to have been committed by the people. They demand that the city should immedi- ately pay fine of 50O,0OO,OOO marks; that all stores of the territory be requisi- tioned without paying the in- a single penny for them."
 Three years later, August 26 1917, the Vorwarts quoted the following passage from the Oeutsche Tageszeitung:
 "We have a ring of politi- clans who hold that might makes right (Machtpolitiker) who despise the forces of the nner life and believe that they must eliminate all ethical points )f view from foreign ! and social politics. For them, Germany of the present and the future is the country of the { Krupps and Borsigs, of the ; and the TI-hoatc Anv