Newport daily independent., 1918-08-16
(Continued from Wednesdays Daily-)
MIR. BUYER, IT'S UP TO YOU.
(By Roy F. Soule.l

sweep over that town of Sommeilles and give it's inhabitants the first just government they have had since shortly after the war began, what are they going to find? Why they will again hear verified the story of the two women and four children who
 ,ok refuge in Mir. Adnot's cellar from which they were dragged. Ger man soldiers raped both these women, assaulted them under most atrocious circumstances. The children shriek- ed, one had it's head cut off and two of the other little chaps had thtir right hands cut off.
 Are we going to cut off the inn port of German and Austrian wire goods? Are we going to cut off shipments of German-made pliers in to this country? Possibly we won't It may be that we don't quite under stand ourselves and some perverted unknown power to us will keep up that old business relation, but my candid belief is that great nation of men and women who won't forget are going to stand right squarely back of ! the fellow who is too busy even to see German or Austrian business rep resentative selling these lines. Yes, there's little doubt about it, MT. Buy
 
 CT It's up to you.
 A Bavalian soldier writing home from Belgium, said: T have bayo- netted seven women and four young girls in five minutes" Great, brave, herioic representative of his country, wasn't he?
 A woman over 90 years of age bayonetted in bed.
 At Senlis, France, a civilian tied to post and bayonetted His stomach torn open.
 I At Morelle, civilian shot for help I ing wounded French soldier. Across l the street little lame boy wantonly murdered It seems endless. There are so many scores of these outrages on record that the overwhelming evi- dence first sickens and then shocks us to the stern necessity of cleaning | this mess up for all time.
 Many Americans have motored over quaint, picturesque old France and through the busy, thrifty, inter- esting little kingdom of Belgium. l Many are motoring there now, driv- 1 ing or riding in conveyances brand l ed with the Red Cross, which is re- spected by all allied armies and dis 1 respected by those hell-hounds of the l Genital Powers. These motors roll on rubber tired wheels.
 l Give us another thing to think of rubber-made into hot-water bottles, hose, gloves, tires and a hundred common items of commerce. Before ] the war three and half million dol- lars of our money found it's way to l Germany each year to purchase rub Der goods. After the waf-well, we will ride over those battlefields on more rubber tires to pay our tribute to those brave men who fought and died there. We will visit those towns where Germany and Austria mocked l God and shook their mailed fists in the hands of civilization. But we won't ride on German made tires, l and here at home "Made in Germa-' ny" on a thing of rubber will rob it absolutely of any commercial value. Keep it out. We don't want it now, ! and we won't want it then. Mir. Buy CT, it's up to you.
 In a recent speech John Kendrick Bangs said: "I want to tell you what the Hun is doing-tell you what kind of an enemy we are up against at the end Of four years. Six weeks ago l held on my knee Q little boy who, only seven years old, was play ing in a little village that had not been bombarded Then the Huns dopped bombs from their airplanes and killed some of the old men and women in his town. After they had passed the child was allowed to run out and play. On the road he found a toy-one of these toys we used to get at our children's parties with { fancy caps and verses in them. He picked it up-as he was intended to do. He thought it was toy-as it was intended that he should. Then he tried to break it apart-as it was also intended that he should do. Five hours later, when that little fellow regained consciousness, there was on- ly one finger left on his left hand. All the rest had been blown to pieces.'
 Is there a man with good red blood