Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-08

beast known as Pussian militarism
These awful stories have been constant
ly before us in the news dispatches
ever since the war began. A short time
ago there was published in the Teie-
gram an account of the investigation
Of the Lord Bryce commission OF their
friphtful work in Belgium. Lord Bryce
is a diplomat Of high standing who at
one time represented his government
at Washington and the findings OF his
tribunal should be accepted as being
of a truthful character. | read many
of the statements which were sworn to
before this court and they are of the
same nature as those being reported by
the newspapers every day almost. 1
would recommend that those who are
interested in this subject (and all
should beg should read in the April
number of the Delineator an article
written by a U. s. army officer OF some
things he knows about this subject.
Public school teachers should, in my
estimation, be very careful when dis
l~cussing such matters before their pu-
pils that they make their hearers I'M
derstand what they mean when they
say. eve should not SANDER the Ger
mans.v Different individuals have diff
ferent ways of handling this difficult
subject. Some are so unjust as to be-
mean everything German simply be-
cause many of the people Of that ma
~tionality have done the wrong. Remem-
Der, dear fellow citizens, "God is no
respecter of persons but in every ma
tion he that feareth God and worketh
Righteousness is accepted with Him. =
lGod deals with us as individuals. "Ev-
cry tub stands on it's own bottom, . IS
not a scripture statement as the old
woman asserted, but / wish to affirm
that it is a truth of Divine revelation
just the same.
In dealing with the people of the
countries with which we are at war we
should let our conduct be characterize
ed with magnanimity. A good rule 10
follow is to just put ourselves over IN
the other fellow IS place while we are
sitting in Judgment on his particular
case. Most of our newspapers snow
great wisdom in dealing with tins mat
/ ter. This indicates that they are cit
liens who study and think carefully
as God intended intelligent beings to
do. If you and ] had been born over
there we quite likely would be many
Of us doing as they are doing and pos
siblv many of us would be violating
our conscience under the most awful
pressure. / dare say many a poor crea-
ture in Germany and perhaps IN otheI
places is praying as Naaman prayet
lin his time. I'd Kings 5-lS. Many peo'
nile say they don't like the Bible be
cause there are such awful b~loodcurdi,
inc stories chronicled there. We admit
that there are many things told OF IN
the Book that are of a loathsome and
disgusting nature but pray why did an
allwise God have them put there u
was to show how ugly a thing SIN Isl
and what sinful course leads to. so IN
conclusion, I wish to say to the news
pauer men, continue to give us the un'
Vanished facts about what thus I'M.
clean Monster Of a beast that we cal
Prussian militarism, is doing, so We
will be so sick of it we won t wan,
any more of it at Least for a Thousand
years to come and maybe by That TINS
The warming influence of the sun OF
Righteousness will so tame man dowI
as tn make q recurrence of a horne
war. unless it be to help our great Goo
TO smash some other great foe non
we may not quite clearly understand
at the present for here and now we se'
more or less through a glass darkly II
some matters. "Let US love each Other
as He loved US, y and we need not TEA
though Germany use her submarines
aud long range guns to the limit.
w. r. PROCTOR.
Salem, Or, April 9TH, 1918,