Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-09-05

to believe that it is solely the kaiser,
and not at all the German people,
who are to blame.
Never was there a hlacker lie, nor
one more assiduously circulated by
German agents. The German people
men, women and children-are
squarely back of the kaiser in every
thing horrible he has done, from the
sinking of the Lusitania to the carry
/ ing off of French and Belgian girls for
his soldiers, and the sale of Rouman-
ian girls into Turkish harems.
Innumerable proofs, which would
convict in any court in the land, have
been given of German frightfulness.
The sinking of hospital ships, the de-
liberate bombing of hospitals, the cru
cifixion of prisoners, the mutilation OF
boys, the enslavement of girls, the
poisoning of wells, cutting down OF
fruit trees, the deliberate infection OF
prisoners with sickness, the exhibit
ton of war prisoners in glass cages,
and their public revilement-all these
and hundred other things, are
known to be true. Yet there are some
who pretend to think it exaggeration
or invention.
Those boys of ours know it. have
seen the deformed wrist of ROssiter,
from which a German surgeon cut
five bones when there was no need of
an operation-and did it without CIV
ing chloroform, saying that anaesthet-
les were for brave German soldiers
and not for schweinhunde." l have
heard the story, from the lips of
man who was near by, of the German
! officer who called British surgeon
to come and dress his woun d in No
Mans land; and who, when the sur
geon had dressed him and turned his
back, drew pistol and shot the sur
geon dead.
And those boys of our will know a
thousand things that were done to
them, or to their comrades who will
sleep beneath the peoples, or to the
women and children Of that desolate
land they have sworn to redeem. And
, what will they sa y to us if we con-
done them? .......
There is another thing which / pre-
dict will interest those boys of ours
when they come home; the DISPOSE
ton of the German prisoners who will
then be in this country. Have you
ever thought what will be done with
them? Not one should remain here.
The favorite method of the kaiser in
spreading German kultur is to send,
in time of peace, his men into peace
full lands. to breed-and they breed
like flies. Wherever the German has
bred, there have treachery and deceit
and cunning and violence bred in Sc
cret, waiting the day when it might
serve Germany. AS certainly as flies
breed and spread disease and death
so have the Germans bred and spread
corruption in the Argentine. in the
United States, in Russia-wherever
they are tolerated.
This war will be won. Though
America was nearly three years learn
ing that it is our fight, and more than
four years getting into it on scale
anywhere near commensurate with
our power and our interest at stake,
the war will be won. 1t will be won.
not by diplomacy" nor agreement
nor by any means except killing Ger
man soldiers until that dear. kind,
loving, gentle German people" is con-
WINGED that it cannot conquer the
world and collect indemnities. Our
boys are over there to DO the killing
Just as much Of it as is needed. 1t
is not pleasant They are not in it
for fun, but they will do as much of
it as they have to do.
Then they are coming home-most
Of them. And they are going to pass
a cold and unbiased Judgment on
what we are doing and saying and
thinking while they are away. want
to hear what they say to the mushy-
minded who thinks that "the German
aren't bad-they've been misled by
their ruler" And ! want to know
what they say if we have not, by that
time, passed an iron-clad law that ev-
cry war prisoner, and every enemy
alien who has had to be interned, shall
be deported just as soon as the fight
ing stops Think it over bit. What
Will be the boys verdict in your case?