The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-14
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Against the sickly sentimentalism
which seeks to save Germany from
punishment by claiming that the
German people are different from
the kaiser and his crowd, we would
put some statements in dispatch
to the New York Sun from the bat
tlefeld in France. This correspond
ent, Mr.. Thomas M. Johnson
cables:
Their experience in this battle
has taken away most Of the sottness
which the Americans ever had III
their hearts for the Germans. The
same men who last summer were
saying we have no quarrel with the
German people now realize that the
whole world has quarrel with the
Hun. and that until this is settled,
the world will not be decent place
in which to live. They know that
all this is aside from any academic
discussion of governments, OF Kali
sers, or reichstags, and that it Is
lust between the Hun and the Amer
lean soldier. And this is the rea-
son.
Gust outside of Mont St. Pere,
one of the first parties of Americans
who were coming in, saw body OF
Germans escaping over the high road
northward toward Barbillon. They
ran after them and called upon the to
stop. but the Germans cried, we
are members OF the hospital corps
and displayed red crosses on their
arm bands and stretchers which were
covered with blankets. We have
wounded men here they said, but
when the Americans lifted the blan-
kets and looked underneath they
found machine guns, the same guns
which a few minutes before had
killed some of their comrades, on
the streets OF Mont St. Pere. This
story is authentic and is well corrob-
Grated.
an Jaulgonne we found piles OF
crenades connected with wires so as
to explode when touched. German
watches were also left around ready
to explode.
The pitiful condition of some OF
our wounded men who had been
made prisoners by the Germans but
had been recaptured filled the Amer
lean soldiers with fury. One little
group had a paper about month old
from the United States in which 1t
told how we'll we were treating the
interned Germans. 1t made them
fairly grind their teeth.
"'The Germans are not human be-
ings at ALL said one OF the group,
Jerome Bender Of Mifflin, Pa, who
had lust returned from three days
and three nights fighting without
food or sleep. Another soldier, I'd
ward Holmes of New Castle, Pa,
chimed in: 4 had been reading about
it in the newspapers for three years
and I never believed it until now,
when I know
"These men have seen enough
with their own eyes to know what
they are fghing. Woe be to anyone:
who tells them that this is a kind OF
academic war in which we ought to
turn the other cheek. They are see
ing red, for they have seen the bodies
of their comrades and they know
how the Hun fights.
The men who are offering their
lives on the battlehelds OF civilia-
ton will never have much respect
for the namby pamby people back
at home who try to develop senti-
ment in favor OF the German people.
The man who takes that position,
whether from the pulpit or in the
editorial chair or in public lite VIII
get only the supreme contempt OF
the fighting men who live through
this fearful struggle, and they Will
never hold any power for good III
the wears to come. This is war; war
10 the hlt; war to the last ounce OF
our nations strength; and academ-
;c discussions OF love of our enemies
based on an entirely erroneous in
terpretation OF Christ's teachings
will only nauseate against true re-
lipion the men who do the fighting