Newport daily independent., 1918-10-21

United States with the French high commission,- and should be read by every citizen of the United States:
 When we say in France, No pity for Germany; we must at all costs enter the country; we must go through it, occupy it's towns and march through it's streets; we must make it feel the brunt of foreign domination n"-when we say this, our best friends look to us somewhat re- proachfully. They think, even if they do not say so, that the French are bloodthirsty and that hatred and re- venge inspire their words.
 Such is not the case. Since the first day, the first hour of the trag- edy, France has had but one thought, one feeling: "This war must be the last" The Poilus, who have been credited with saying so many fine and noble things, have really said that, and nothing else, but they have said it with forcefulness that increased with the unspeakable horrors they saw and all the privations they have had to bear.
 I shall never forget the fellow sol dier who had taken part iii partic- ularly horrible engagement in the course of the assault in Champagne, and who, with his own hand, knifed three Germans. He was married, the father of two children, and man of refinement and charm. One evening in a trench, I questioned him, and asked him what he had felt when he performed that butchers task.
 "Just one thing" was the answer. q did not wish my son to have to do it one day."
 You will find that same feeling eX- pressed by millions of Frenchmen; it is written on the torn and bleeding heart of all France. And it is be- cause we do not wish to relieve the same horrors that we want to inflict such a bitter lesson on the Germans as to forever destroy any inclination they may have to begin again. So far only the German stomach has suffered; and they will only have suffered in their pride if, when they surrender, their territory remains ln- violate, and they do not have to bear the hardship of invasion and foreign occupation.
 Now the bangs of hunger can be alleviated by good food and the wounds sustained by pride close up with few kind words. But the wound that never heals, the suffering that never ceases is that caused by the enemy when he tramples on the soil one loves, by the stranger when he is master in your home or by the soldier when he brutally destroys cherished family treasures under your eyes.
 When the women of Germany are compelled to walk the high roads with their children on their arms be- cause of the approach of the enemy; when they have to polish the shoes ot British officers or wait on Belgian and French soldiers; when banks are ransacked of their gold; wher German manufacturers see their fac tories stripped; when junkers wit ness the destruction of family heir looms; when German priests trem ble for their churches; when the statutes of the German Tiergarter and Inter den Linden are used to dry the soiled linen of the humblest Tom my or Poilu, ah, then, and only then will Germany understand fully wha1 war means and all the abomination il stands for.
 Then, when bad shepherds ReX1 seek to draw the people of Germany once again into the vortex of war that people will stand up and say "No, we suffered too much last time We do not wish it to begin all ove1 again." Otherwise the people vii merely remember that, from 1914 t' 1918, they became acquainted witt hunger, and they will say, "Let us be gin again, but this time, let us lay Il a good stock of supplies"
 We French people only lay claim tt one superiority over our allies, bu we insist upon it; we claim we knoy the boche better than anyone know him. We have had to stand him 10 50 years, and for 50 years we hay lived side by side. We know al about him, all that he is worth; hoN
 he should be spoken to and how h
 should be treated. Ten years ago, N Delcasse, French Minister of Foreig