Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-31

Slssome and That of MarcIias tfie rig
orous treatment with which you have
threatened them, / give my word Of
honor to remit to his majesty the
Emperor William, should the war
come to an end without intentional
damage being caused to my residence
or to these two communes, the neces-
sary sum to complete the amount of
100000 francs imposed by you upon
Sissonne.
"As sovereign prince, wish to
deal in this matter with the sovereign
who, during IS years, called me his
friend and has decorated me with the
Order Of the Knight Of the Black
Eagle.
my conscience and my dignity
place me above fear, as also my per-
sOnal will shall elevate me above re-
gret; but should you destroy the
Chateau de Marchais, which is one Of
the centers of universal science and
charity, should you reserve to this
archaeological and historical gem the
treatment you have given to the Ca
thedral of Reims-when no reprehen-
sible action has been committed there
the whole world will judge be-
tween you and myself.
81 tender to your excellency the ex-
preston of my high regard.
"ALBERT, Sovereign Prince of Mon
AGO."
Deportatlons and Forced Labor.
Until the present war the whole civ
illzed world has boasted of its advance
in humanity. This advance has been
marked in many fields, and in none
had greater progress been made than
in the protection to be given to the
private citizen in an invaded country.
AS far back as 1868, in the "Instruc-
tlons for the Government of Armies
of the United States in the Field"
the United States declared:
"23. Private citizens are no longer
enslaved, or carried off to
distant parts, and the inoffensive In
dividual is as little disturbed in his |
private relations as the commander |
Of the hostile troops can afford to
grant in the overruling demands of a
vigorous war.
"24. The almost universal rule in
remote times was, and continues to be
with barbarous armies that the prl-
vate individual of the hostile country
Is destined to suffer every privati0n
Of liberty and protection, and every
disruption of family ties. Protection
was, and still is with uncivilized peo-
Pile, the exception"
Reversion to Barbarism.
These declarations were made in the
midst Of our Civil war-one Of the
worlds fiercest conflicts. A half-cen- t
Jury later, after more than so years
If progress, the German government
has gone back to the methods used
by "barbarOus armies" and "unciv- =,
Ilized people" 1t has deliberately
adopted the policy of deporting men ,
md women, boys and girls, and Of
forcing them to work for their cap
.ors; 1t has even compelled them to
make arms and munitions for use
against their allies and their own flesh
md blood.
No other act of the German govern
nent has aroused such horror and de- t
estation throughout the civilized {
world. Thousands of helpless men Z
nd women, boys and girls, have been .
Families have been broken
Ip. Girls have been carried off to
vork-0r worse-in a strange land
nd their relatives have not known
yhere they have been taken, or what &
heir fate has been. c
This system of forced labor and de- .
ortation embraced the whole of Bel I
ium, Poland and the occupied lands
I France.
Whtock's Story of Horrors.
In less moving phrases but In dead
7 cOrrOb0ration, the continuation of
he report of Minister Whltlock says.
Urrha roUn tho fnrror onJ dacpoir |