The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-12-07
The AssAssINs.

THE ASSAsSINs.
Within few days it may be expected that contro-
versy will arise over the disposition of the Hohenzoern
and the military and naval agents of Germany who are
guilty of wholesale robbery destruction ad murder The
allied premers at their meeting in London agreed
upon plan of action in dealing with these assassns and
it reported that President Wilson made acquainted
with the plans and agreed to them. If he has not al
ready done So it is foregone conclusion that he will
acquesce in whatever the allies have found to be wise
and just
When it is announced that the allies intend to take
possession of the worlds assaans for the purpose of
trying them and Furnishing them upon conviction there
will be objections from portion of the German people,
ard they will quickly enlist their side the individuals
in allied and neutral countries whose heads as soft
their hearts and who invariably eager sacrifice
justice for the sake of mercy No doubt multitudes of
these individuals lately shocked beyond expression
by the atrocities of the Germans but they forget the
suerngs Of the victims and become excited over the
possible execution of the criminals. These sensitive
souls will surely attempt the grotesque feat of trans
figuring William Hohenzoern and his son into martyrs
"suerngs" of the two archcrmnas will be dwet upon
by effemnate men and masculine women and the allied
governments and America will be denounced as revenge
full and bloodhirsty in their prosecution of the Hohen
zollerns and their accompices.
Nevertheless the mills Of God must grind The blood
of the guilty atone for shedding the blood of the
innocent Justice carries sword as well as pair Of
scales Mankind has not found any method of dealing
with crime except by forewarnng and punishment The
allied nations having checked, curbed and beaten back
the force that numbering all that part of the world
which it could not ensave and debauch required
TO destroy the spirits that animated that force These
spirits in the bodies of certain men, They can be
ngushed permanently mmured the world will not be
safe justice will have been cheated by her defenders
and liberty will have been betrayed
William Hohenzoilern is a murdered He refused to
the life of Edith Cave when single humane i'm
pulse from his heart, single word from his lips would
have stopped the shedding of innocent blood He refused
to save the life of Capt Fryat man who das done to
death in cold blood by Hohenzollerns knowledge and
He refused to stop the midnight air murders of
London and Paris He had knowledge that his staff
officers numbering Belgian and French persons He
approved orders which nothing but of
civilian Russians and Roumanians. He connved at Bull
garas treachery, which resulted directly in the murder
of thousands of Serbians He was party to the
derous reachery of Caporeto He authorized thousands
of submarine murders. On land, on sea and in the air
William Hohenzoern is a murderer of thousands Of
human beings His acts of murder direct and indirect
acts outside of the conduct of war and beyond the
pale of any human or divine law.
The very enormity Of Hohenzollerns crimes and his
audacious defiance of God and apt to transform
him into heroic figure if the allies should make him
the scapegoat of the German nation and center upon his
head the wrath of civilization The allies must not make
this mistake. Hohenzollerns ignominous fight and de-
seron of his people made him contemplate and aroused
the of Germans. Let him be shown always
in his true light coward impostor and assassin
Let him be tried for his dastardly and infamous crimes
not for the Lucifer-ke crime of defying God and
Let his end be infamous like his life. Let quicklime do
its work, and let the day be forgotten when he died.
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