Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-22

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! realize that the incredible was q
i true. II is monstrous, II Is un- !
Z thlnkable, but 1t exists. 1t Is
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At conference of field men of the
United States food administration held
in Washington, +. G. Walcott pictured
conditions as he had found them In
the countries invaded by German
arms. Mr.. Walcott served with Mr..
Hoover on the Belgium relief commits
sion when this nation was attempt
ing to feed the starving civilian pop
ulation of Belgium, Poland and north
ern France. In his address he had
pictured such conditions as he said he
could not believe unless he had seen
the situation through and through, and
had lived with II for weeks. He
showed these terrible conditions to be
the result Of deliberate plans on the
part of official Germany, and in sum-
ming up he said:
"Such is the German mind as II
was disclosed to me in several weeks
contact with officers of the staff.
Treaties are scraps Of paper, If they
hinder German aims. Treachery Is
condoned and praised, If 1t falls in
with German interest. Men, lands,
countries are German prizes. Popula-
tions are to be destroyed or enslayed
so Germany may gain. Women are
Germany's prey, children are spoils Of
war. God gave Germany the Hohen-
zollern and together they are destined
to rule Europe and, eventually, the
world-thus reasons the kaiser.
"Coolly, deliberately, officers Of the
German staff, permeated by this mon
strous philosophy, discuss the dena-
tlonallzation Of peoples, the destruc-
ton of nations, the undoing of other
civilizations, for Germany's account.
"In all the world such a thing has
never been. The human mind has
never conceived the like. Even among
barbarians, the thing would be incred-
ible. The mind can scarcely grasp
the fact that these things are pro-
posed and done by modern govern
ment professedly a Christian govern
ment in the family of civilized ma
tions.
"Thls system has got to be rooted
out. II 1t takes everything In the
world, If It takes everyone of us, this
abomlnation must be overthrown. II
must be ended or the world is not
worth living in. No matter how long
Il takes, no matter how much 1t costs
, we must endure to the end with agon'
lied France, with imperlled Britain
with shattered Belgium, with shaken
Russia.
1--WE must hope that Germany will
r have new birth as Russia Is being re-
born. We must pray, as we hgh'
= against the evil that Is in Germany
, that the good which is in Germany
may somehow prevail. We must trust
that In the end Germany really great
with the strength of wonderful race
may find its place as one of the broth
. erhood of nations In the new world
that Is to be.
r "The responsibility Of success oi
: failure rests now upon our shoulders
' the eyes Of the world are anxiously
v watching us. Are we going to be able
to rise to the emergency throw off oul
inefIiciency, and prove that democracy
is safe for the world?"
r In the above statement Mr.. Wal
4 colt has described a condition thai
y must be changed If America, IL the
world, is to remain aft place tt
live in" And the only way by which
this change can be effected is the de
feat of German arms in this war
II Nothing good, nothing but evil, car
y come out of Germany, so long as thu
German people are controlled by
e military autocracy, and the German
~ people cannot be made to realize thi'
until this autocracy is crushed. Th'
spirit of militarism that has made o
y y the Germans rcbber and a murde
u nation must be utterly crushed If tn,
II world is to remain free, and to accom-
IS pllsh this those of us who cannot figh
l. in France must lend our support II
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