The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-05-31
German Nature Unchanged
Through Twenty Centuries

nurses, have subjected British prison.
ers to the grossest indignities, includ-
ing driving wounded officer naked
through the streets amid hilarious
crowd Of Germans who much enjoyed
the joke; splitting in the soup. before
handing it to the prisoners; and Of
fering food and drink to starving
prisoners with parched tongues, and
then, when they put forth their hands
to take it, throwing the food out of
reach and the water in the mems fac
eS.
"This, too, will pass" Lincoln used
to murmur to himself in times of
darkness. For another time civiliza-
ton will drive the barbarian back
across the Rhine, as it has done
hundred times before. A hundred
times the Germans have garroted their
neighbors. A hundred times they
have been defeated, routed, driven
within their borders beyond.
They will not learn. They cannot
be humanized. The law of nature
cannot be bent.
Since we have found religion, edu-
cation and bullets failure in chang
ing a british race into one which de-
cent natures can abide, we must put
an end to it. The rights of civiliza-
ton are paramount.
A resolution has been introduced in
the Senate of the United States call
ing for a boycott of Germany after
we have defeated her armies. If all
nations now pouring out their blood
and money to keep Germany from
ravishing freedom from them--if all
will declare a boycott on Germany,
German people. German language,
German ideas and German-made
goods for 100 years, there will be no
more German dash-outs for conquest
One hundred years of being unable to
trade with other nations of the world,
absolutely unable to buy or sell any
article, commodity or service, will OBJ
literate Prussianism and dsintegrate
the German Empire.
Inbred Them to ObliteratiOn.
But if We resume relations with the
German people after this war, no
matter though we annihilate the Ger
man armies, the grim determination
to conquer the world will lie nourished
and cherished in the German heart
until, through world trade, another
mountain of gold is built up to arm
and equip the new army that will de-
scend upon the next generation, or
even upon us 20 years or so from
now, loosen hellish methods of muir
der and devastation of which the world
is as yet in blissful ignorance.
Germany is now forming at Bre-
men a union to be known as the
"Europaische Handelsgesellschaft,"
of all exporters in Russia, Persia,
China, Turkestan, Roumania and Fin
land to boycott pro-Ententc neutrals;
to exclude them from commerce with
the Central Powers until year after
the close of the war, and for as long
thereafter as Germany chooses. The
duration of this boycott is indefinite,
just as the German Secretary was in
definite when he stated, ave don't
know yet the amount of indemnities
we shall win"
The plan offered here is a plea for
world freedom, unmenaced by the bale
full shadow of the German which how
ers like an avatar of beastliness over
the earth. Justice demands that ev-
cry round-head be killed. Mercy de-
mands that every round-head be i'm
prisoned within his own borders, there
to live his life as he chooses, among
his own kind, raising what crops he
pleases, but barred from selling to
or buying from any outside nation
which has been driven to taking up
arms to defend itself from German in
science and aggression.
Let the Germans seek war!
Let US give them war for 100 years
after the war!
Let us make them pay for the Bel
gian and French and English and
Italian and American blood their
greed has shed-make them pay by
inbreeding themselves into oblitera-
ton.