The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-04-10
THE DAILY MlSSOUlIAN
GeTAellShEp 1879
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1918.
FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT
BELIEVE.

Some people in America, claim
ing to be good Americans, still
insist when their attention is
called to the barbarities which
the Hun has pcrpetrated against
helpless non-combatants, that
they do not believe. In shocked
tones, when told of what has been
done by the kaiser's armies in
Belgium and northern France,
they say, ''Oh, can't believe it''
No proof, however definite and
conclusive, seems to persuade
these persons, who appear to pre-
fer to take the attitude of doubt
ing Thomas than to ne open to
conviction. Now there has come
to Montana Will II. Hays, the
newly chosen chairman of the
Republican National committee.
Mr.. Hays, in a talk at Helena, re-
lated one or two incidents of Ger
man methods.
He was told by British army
officer Of an incident which had
occurred while the latter was in
northern France.
.'He told me-" said Mr.. Hays,
"that he had stopped at the home
OF a French peasant woman one
day to get drink of water By
looking at the woman, he said |
could tell that she had been in
trouble, and the officer said:
Madam, the Huns have been
here" She said: Eyes. Do you
see that spot on the floor?" The
captain said: II stepped back and
saw the spot on the floor. which |
knew was blood, which the poor
woman could not scour from the
pine board of her floor with her
brush, on her knees. / said: Yes,
madam, it Is blood She said:
YES, that is where German SOL
der stamped the head off my II
months old baby"
That was one of the things Mr..
Hays told. Here is another:
The other day on a train from
Chicago. rode a young woman, in
telligent and sweet, sitting with
her arms folded. Opposite in the
Pullman a friend saw her get off at
little town and heard much
cheering. A man got on the train
and took the seat where the girl
had been and my friend said to him
why the acclaim at the station?
What is the occasion?" This man
said: did you see the young
woman who sat IN here?' Yes
he said RED Cross nurse, just
sback from r,eYgftffn. ~.- Lives here.
All out to meet her" Fine" Did
you notice her hands?' 'No, did
not notice her hands She sat with
her arms folded" Yes" said the
man, "she has no hands; a German
soldier cut off her hands,
The Huns who committed these
unspeakablc things are the same
Huns perhaps now even more
cruel through desperation, whom
our sons and brothers have gone
forth to face. What is at stake
for these, our boys? What is at
stake for us? What if the cause
o. America and her allies should
be lost?
Suppose, as is sure to be the
case-indced, it is the case al
ready-sO some of our young men
clean-soulcd American boys are
taken prisoner by The Huns. What
may they expect from a foe who
will stamp the head off a little
babe, or chop the hands from i
sweet young woman who WoulC
aid them should they themselves
fall wounded in battle.
How much, yc doublcrs, must
ye know? How long before YOU
will believe that Germany knows
no mercy? How soon will No,
come to realize that neither Wifi
nor child, infancy nor age, weak
ness or strength matter to tn,
Hun SO long as he has chance iol
victory?
When comes back word to lis OF
our own boys who have suffered
fortunes at the hands Of The Hun
then perhaps, you will realize
fully at lasi that America is "a
war. Then perhaps, The ">rhlag
Inn tot of the Hun viii be apprr-
clated here in the United States
WHERE WAS MIR FORD