The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-21

temperament which bedecks the cells Of the rap
list with flowers and fills it with scented notes
dying babies OF Belgium and France, of the
women outraged through the long four years Of
war. OF the poisoned wells and Of all the other
horrible atrocities WHICH have marked the ac-
, cursed work of q nation of fiends which German
women never protested The man woman in
this country who is not willing to stand firmly
for eternal justice in the punishment Of the muir
derer or the rapst is morally and mentally
weak and Is without character worthy Of the
respect Of decent, honest people.
America, sentimentaly inclined and easily
msled by agtators in public as we'll as in pri-
vate life, Is always in danger of stopping over
This fact is often seen when some atrocious
criminal, having been sentenced to death, imme-
diately eVokes the maudlin sympathy Of neuro-
tics. who entirely forget the sufferngs of the
victim.
In thinking of Germany must think of that
nation of a whole people definitely for years
committed to the criminality of the last four
years. If we should count as of no avail the
deaths of millions of soldiers who have been
murdered by Germany If we should shut our
ears to the walls of the women and babies who
died on the Lusitania, if we should close our
eyes and our hearts to the sufferings Of the
mangled children and of the women in France
Belgium, Italy and elsewhere dishonored by and
the approval of the German Government and the
German people. would still be bound in duty
to all the civilization of the ages to come to
stand firm and unflinchingly for the punishment
Of Germany
A Baltimore business man of German descent
knowing Germany and the German people for
many years, has within the last few days saio
that the whole German people are laughing in
their sleeves they the effect which their
appeals for mercy are having in this country
cans do not. He is of German descent and in
timately in touch with German life, and he
voices the views Of intelligent men and women
everywhere who, knowing Germany know that
the entire German race upheld the war, gloated
in 1t so long success seemed certain, rejolced
in the hope Of looting the world, cared not that
the women and children of Belgium and France
and other invaded countries were treated as
never were women and children treated before
in human history. ,-.
Now these cringing hypocritical liars, these
looters and robbers and highwaymen, these deep
to Heaven and asking for sympathy, and yet
not one single word Of penitence has come out
Of Germany. Not single word has been uttered
by German men women which indicates any
sense of sin or shame nor have German women
expressed any regret for the horrors inflicted
upon the people of France and Belgium and
Italy and Serbia and Poland by their fathers and
husbands and sons .-s ...
These unrepentant criminals appeal for SYM
pathy-sympathy for themselves but not for
their victims. Such is the appeal Of the Ger
women who so long as Germany was VIC
torious on the battlefield made effort to stop
the war in order to relieve their suffering, but
now that they have ben forced to stop by the
allied police of civilization, and to be brought
before the bar of justice they are like hypo-
critics pleading for sympathy and mercy Sym
pathy for such a nation would be par with
sympathy for the Devil himself. The Devil
could not possibly surpass Germany in seeking
to use the livery of Heaven for the purpose of
doing the work Of hell
america Snould NOT STOP over. Let IT not
waste any neurotic sympathy upon a nation
which now seeks by hypocrisy and by lying to
win through maudlin sympathy the victory which
it lost on the battlefield.
Looking to the civilization of the future and
to the standard, of morality through the years
to come, the world is today in greater danger
than it was when the onrush of barbaFism was
stopped at the Marne in 1914, or when from the
Marne the German army was driven back in
1918.
The whole German race joyously adopted the
teachings OF their leaders and joyously entered
sible every crime committed Some Germans
and people of German descent living in America,
and even some dishonoring the name of Christ
as his professed followers, blatantly boasted Of
Germany's achievements when 1T fed to the
sharks the bodies OF the dying women and chill
dren on the Lustania.
Sha1lswe have naudlin sympathy for PLATE,
Il for Judas for Nero? Compared with their ops
portunity, their crimes were as nothing COM
pared with the crimes Of the whole German peo-
pie.
Christ said
Ye serpents We generation Of yipers how can
we escape tho damnatlcn of Hel?'
Shall we presume to be greater lovers OF hu-
rnanity than Christ Himself?