The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-08-16
The WAR" in Europe.

lis not all. In our Civil war,Mr. Lin
lcoln appointed a commission to pre-
pare rules of warfare. and II is said
that after the military officials had
prepared them he, II I may use a
somewhat barbaric phrase, english
ed" them. Those rules of warfare, pre-
pared by our government under Lin
coln,s beneficent administration, be-
came the basis of the Hague Tribu-
nal
| l would like to compare these sets
of rules of war, that of America, that
of the Hague Tribunal, and those es-
ltablished by the German YEARBOOK.
According to the rules of civilized
warfare. war as conducted against
the enemy. According to the German
YEARBOOK, it is conducted against the
cies require destruction. According to
the rules of civilized warfare, church
es. hospitals, libraries, public build
ings, are as far as possible to be
guarded from destruction. According
to the German YEARBOOK, they are to
be destroyed According to the laws
of civilized warfare, the property of
noncom batants is to be generally re-
garded as sacred, unless great exigen-
cies require distinction. According to
the German YEARBOOK, the property
of noncombatants is to be destroyed
for the purpose of producing terror.
According to the laws of civilized
warfare, the captives taken in war
may be used in peaceful industries,
but not for maintaining the armies
or manufacturing the munitions to
be used against their own kinsfolk.
According to the German YEARBOOK,
they may be so used.
The laws of war and the laws of |.
nations have been ruthlessly set a. !
side. Nor is that all. The crimes that |
have been committed by the band of |
brigands have been glorified. They |
have been proud of their booty. They |
have organized triumphant process
ions. they have struck off medals;
they have preached sermons in their
pulpits and addresses on the plat
forms in praise of the men who have
committed these unspeakable crimes.
1.-THE POtsdam Gang"
1t is simple, calm, historic, scien-
a. xNf fnn hnf in
Europe the allies are fighting to pro-
tect lands of peace from brigandry.
The question is-what is brigandry?
The definition in the Century DictiOn-
airy has only five words, Highway
by organized gangs" Was
there ever highway robbery conduct
ed on so enormous a scale by so ruth
less and INSCRIPTIONS gang as what
Henry Van Dyke has well called the
predatory Potsdam gang?"
The Archbishop of New York has
-old us that we must offer our en-
emies the prayer of Christ upon the ,
forgive them for ,
hey know not what they do" Christ !
offered that prayer for the soldiers :
Who did not know what they did, |
o whom Jesus was only a common 8
condemned by the courts I
If his own country, and condemned S
~ the Roman courts. For them He i
asked his Fathers forgiveness, but o
lie did not ask His Fathers for I
,iveness for Caiaphas, who declared, S
When he cOnspired Jesus's death.
1t is better that an innocent man l
hould die than that we should lose
ur faces" we will offer a prayer to
lis Father for the Germans in the
renches who have been deluded or
riven into this terrible war, q
ut we will not offer it for the Kaiser u
r his pals. l may be temped to lie c
0 my fellowmen, but | will never p
e to my god.
The great theme today is-De- =,
locracy or autocracy-which? "
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