Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-15
WHAT FRANCE NOW
 ASKS FROM GERMANY
Reparation for Injuries Of hhe War and Also for Future Guarantees--.She Says to America:
 Don't Be Too Generous"

Eame of common fairness, should she be listened to?
 There is one thing France cannot do, and that is to distinguish between the German government and the Ger. man people. In 1914. it was undotbt- | edly the German government that ' hurled itself at the throats of France and Belgium, and humanity and de mocracy, but it was also the. German people And when, on the Sd of Au- gust, 1914, speaking before the reich stag, that is, before the people of Ger many, Bethmann-Hollweg made his abominable statement. "Yes, we have invaded Belgium and this is against international law, but we are in a state of necessity and necessity knows no law" not a shudder, not a tremor shook that people; not cry of indignation was raised. In 1915, it was undoubtedly the kaiser and Tir- pitz who ordered the sinking of the Lusitania, but when that crime be- came known, it was the people of Germany who howled with joy and shouted with enthusiasm in every corner of the empire. For four years, It was undoubtedly the military caste of Germany and the German general staff who allowed thieving and plum dering and authorized their men to re- move everything they could from Bel gium and France, but the robbery and plumber profited the German people.
 When in July, 1918, the American boys entered Chateau -Thierry. they found stacks of parcels ready for ship ment, containing all the linen, silver and jewelry of the unfortunate inhabi tants. To whom were those parcels addressed? Not to the kaiser but to the women of Germany, to the old men of Germany, to the people of and beneficiaries of all this syste- matic house-breaking.
 And here is an example of how the German people appreciated these rob berries. Here is a letter recently for warded to me and which was found on a German officer made prisoner by the French troops:
 Mansbach, July 3.
 I have safely received the 21 par cels and many thanks for them. wish you could have been there on Saturday at the unpacking of the five parcels, which I received together, to hear the remarks made at the sight of the pretty drawers, the petticoat, the shirt, the little bonnet, and the shirtwaist. One could see that they came from well-to-do people It would be best if you could go back to such places you might find more thing. Everything is useful to us.
 YOUR MOTHER.
 Such a letter, which no American woman, no French woman would have ever written or signed, gives a little ides of the character of the people we are dealing with.
 There must be reparation, or it would be enough to make one despair of justice on earth. There must be punishment, or it will all begin over again
 France must have guarantees, and in all organized societies guarantee against the repetition Of a crime is obtained by punishing the culprit. The German people have committed oOiASS OA NlimCoB AuC GCllldn pCODlc must pay the price. The lightest punishment that can be inflicted is to allow them to suffer some of the evils they have inflicted on others.
 And this is why. speaking America, for whom we have deep and abiding America to whom we are henceforth bound by ties of eternal friendship, America with whom We have twice fought side by side for the noblest of ideals, we say to her, For Gods sake don't be tooo gen. erous"
 What America wants we want as bady as she does. We want this hor- TOT to be the last, we want free people to live free under the flag of liberty, we want our children and the children of our children to live proudly and happily and to enjoy the fruits of this