The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1918-04-25
MORE GERMAN HORRORS

During the Civil War the voice of
Henry Ward Beecher sent tears
gushing to the eyes, prayers to heav-
en- and millions to the treasury, men
to the trenches, as he described the
horrors of slavery as he saw them.
Henry Ward Beecher is dead, but
his mighty spirit lives in the soul of
the man who is now in his famous old
pulpit at Plymouth church, Brooklyn.
Millions have quivered and tingled
and responded to the vivid eloquence
of the Rev. DR.. Newell Dwight, one
of Americas greatest of living
preachers.
Before an audience exceeding 1000,
at the Odeon, in st. Louis, DR.. Hills
lectured on German atrocities" and
if any pro-German heard it their very
souls must have burned with shame,
for it was the greatest Indictment of
German savagery ever heard from a
st. Louis platform.
DR.. Hills showed Photographic
proofs of every assertion he made, re-
marking, as he did so, that photo
graphs cannot lie. However, he
showed only such photographs as he
could before a mixed audience of men
and women. There were some he
showed privately to ministers and
others that were too horrible to be
limited at here. These showed beyond
any doubt that German soldiers under
the kaiser in wartime live up to the
reputation of their ancestors, the
Huns.
Among other atrocities which DR..
Hills said he witnessed while in
France was the sight of 12O women
and young girls lying dead in an or
chard, after having been ravished by
German soldiers. The victims, he
said, had been strapped to the ground
with stakes and their outstretched
hands tied to sapplings on either side,
leaving them helpless.
Every American who has passed
through France and the edge of
Belgium this year has returned home
a permanently saddened man." DR..
Hills said. German cruelty and
French agony has cut a bloody cash
in the heart, and there is no Dakin
solution that can heal the wound.
81 have here a reproduction of an
iron disk given as a token to each
German soldier. At the top is a Ger
man portrait of the Deity, and under
meath are the words, "The Good Old
German God To encourage the Ger
man soldier to cruelty and atrocity
against Belgians and French, the
Deity hoods a weapon in his right
hand, and, to dull his conscience and
steel his heart to murder the token
holds these words: 'Smite your enemy
dead. The day of judgment will not
ask you for your reasons
"For three years German-Americans
have protested that stories of German
atrocities were to be disbelieved as
English inventions, Belgian lies and
French hypocricies, but that day has
gone forever. When the representa-
tives of the nations assemble for the
final settlement there will be laid be-
fore the representative of Germany af-
fidavits, photographs, with other le-
gal proofs, that make the German
atrocities to be far better established
than the scalping by Sioux Indians
on the western frontiers, the murders
in the Black Hole of Calcutta, or the
crimes of the Spanish Irquisition.
"For the first time in history the
German has reduced savagery to a
science, therefore the great war for
peace must go on until the German
cancer is cut clean out of the body.
"Back of our boys bayonets let us
put our hands. Let our subscriptions
to this Liberty loan be so vast that
we will have the right to say to our
enemy: You shall not crush the hopes
of Abraham Lincoln. You shall not
make government of the people, for
the people, by the people, now or ever,
to perish from the earth" memphis
Commercial Appeal.