The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-08-24


=. c. wafcuft, ! member a the
Omitted States fooA szfminAoseNsion, ana
during the ttuD America wa lssding
the civilian populations q Helg1um,
Sssoaa and noFthesn pSsnct = ssalse.
Hn& Of M. Hoover h thos nsaAsd
countries. has pictured h sFapAie
way the cOnditioos ~ foond amone
the people q wss bis Duty - hsap.
After describing The >ssrihDs eondt
0cos in Poland h 10a6 the millions
nat were dying Of starvation. xhe
hundreds Of Thousands Of defsnselsso
people that had been ruthlessly cut
dewn blythe sword Of the 0srno6feoh-
INusror. he says: 30 'sa a'atrt .
In that situation. the 0erman com
rnander Issued proclamation. Every
nbte-bOdled Pole waes hidden TO Ger.
many to work. II any refused. let. no
other Pole give him to eat, not 80
much MS n mouthful. under penalty Of
German military law. . d9'i}mJi ~
II This. IS the choice the German gov
| eminent gives to the conquered Pole.
to the husband and father Of starv-
Ing family: Leave your family or die
or survive as the case may be. Leave
your country which Is destroyed, to
| work In Germany for Its further de-
structlon. If you are obstinate, we
shall see that you surely starve.
! Staying with his folk, he Is doomed
and they are not saved the father and
husband can do nothing for them. he
only adds TO their risk and suffering.
leaving them, he will be cut Off from
his family, they may never hear from
i HIM again nor he from them. Ger
many will set him to work that Ger
man workman may be released to fight
against his own land and people. He
shall be lodged In barracks, behind
bnrbed wire entnnglements, under
armed guard. He shall sleep on the
bare ground with single thin blan'
ket. He shall be scantily fed and his
earnings shall be taken from him to
pay for his food.
That Is the choice which the Ger.
man government offers to a proud
sensitive, higll-strung people. Death
or slavery. . A
| When Pole gave me that proclama'
ton, I was boiling. But had to re
strain myself. I was practically the
only foreign civilian In the country
and I wanted to get food to the people
That was what was there for and
must not for any cause jeopardize the
undertaking. asked Governor Gen
eral Won Beseler. "Can this be true"
Really, I cannot say" he replied
" have signed 30 many proclamations
ask General Won Kries." on gs oot.
4 So I asked General Won Kries. "Gen
eral, this Is civilized people. CaI
this be trusY f3 ,t II,
EYES," he said. ut Is true"--with al
air OF adding. Why not7
I dared not trust myself to speak
I turned to 60. "Walt," he said. Ant
j he explained to me how Germany
oficidl Germany. regards the state O
subject peoples. 5. "y' 9P
i 1t IL hard for US to imagine st1cn
condition In America as, Mr.. Wa)cot
has described as existing In Hun-rid
den Poland, and yet that Is just wha
would exist should our boys, and TIN
boys of our allies, now lighting II
, France fail to defeat the soldiers o.
this murder empire. This fair coun
try Of ours would be made into Ger
man province; our people would b.
the slaves of the Junkers Of Germany
subject to the beaslly whlms of tn
officers Of the German army. In u
war In which America, has ever en-
gaged have the stakes been so grea
as in this present conflict Should We
by any chance, lose; should the HUI
by any chance, win; our liberties, OF
happiness, everything Americans hol
dear, would be lost. 10