The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1918-11-06
must HANG OR SHOOT
GERMAN LEADERS
England Demands Murdersrs OF
Women and Children
Suffer Death +,

ment the tbcsin of peace sounds, 60
ing to throw up our hats, thank
Providence an international incon-
venience like the war is out of the
way; shake hands with the blood
smeared murderers of $4,000 men
in the mercantile marine; smile on
the fiends who befouled Belgium;
laugh and quaff and say prayers with
the despoilers of Louvain, Rheims,
Noyon and thousand other treasur-
ed places lent to our allies down the
ages for honored keeping?
Are we to forget the crimes of the
Lusitania and the Persia; pardon
the atrocities against our own kith
and kin held prisoners in foul dens;
treat the murders of Nurse Cavcll,
Captain Fryatt and others as roman
tic incidents of "a regrettable oc-
.casion?
Are we to fall on the necks of
the junkers and their military rid
den slaves while we wallow in a
Vi thuI
Thank Heavin, it's over; and so let
us forget?
That is one side. The other is:
Are we to punish these cowardiy
and murderous hordes for their or
ganized infamies against civilization?
Have we backbone enough left to
h, fn, thnp,9 Shall
we be so flabby as not to dare, in
righteous wrath, to punish where ev-
cry law of justice demands that we
should?
Methods of Punishment
/ often have been asked What ex-
actly do you mean? How do you
propose to punish the Hun?
Two factors rule in the long list of
German infamies-the actual crimi-
nails and the German people as a
whole.
Would punish each?e Certainly
I would We have to clean this job
up if we are to complete the over
throw of Prussianism, which is the
aim of President Wilson and the de-
clared aim of all our allies.
We have to let each of these fac
tors in this gigantic infamy know
there is a personal as well as ma
tional responsibility in these crimes.
The American and. French press
al fbic nnint
and much stronger than our own.
1t is the duty of the allies to make a
list of individuals who ordered and
committed atrocities. l have no
doubt our foreign Office has such a
list.
1t is all very well to talk airily
about furnishing Germany" We
must first see that we get at every
German-kaiser, prince, politician,
general, naval commander and naval
subordinate, aristocrat and bureau
crat-who has been directly re-
sponsible for hospital ship atroci-
ties, the murders of men Of our mer-
CdhbllC maj Inv anu VIC VI osoi siSSs
ment of our prisoners.
'Hang Or Shoot Them
We ought to make it downright
clear that the responsible atrocity
mongers will be tracked and hanged
or shot, and that we will confiscate
ship for ship sunk.
For willful spoliation, such as has
occurred recently at Noyon and many
other places, let it be clearly under
stood we have determined to exact
PREPARATION to the utmost farthing.
But, say the pacifists, Germany
will be too poor to pay, and you can
not get blood from stones.
Germany too poor?
What about her state railway prof
it's? Cannot we earmark them?
What about the Kiel Canal? Can
not we internationallze 1t and take
the dues?
What aboEt the coal mines, the
iron mines and the potash fields.
which, capitalized, represent the cost
of this war dozens of times over.
Cannot we exact tax per mined
ton?
Tame Hearts With Tariffs
Germany went to war primarily
for conquest and plumber. Never
Again." should be our motto. Let
the allies ring her with tariffs until
the German beast is tanned,
Let not other than the overplus OF
our gigantic production OF raw ma
terrials fall into her factories.
y We have to remember our allies.
We have to see that Belgiass. ssr-
bians. Italians, French, colonials and