The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-09-07
REASONS WHY GERMANY SHOULD
NOT SIT At PEACE CONFERENCE
COL. JOHN w. FRAZIER TELLS SOME NARROWING STORIES OF
CRIMES PERPETRATED IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM AND LOOKED
UPON WITH FAVOR BY GERMAN "KULTuR"

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six weeks my wife and my little girl
not yet IA years of age-will both give
birth to babes by that fiendish officer
and the captain in his frenzy cursed
God, the Kaiser and Germany.
Pastor Hills also told this story:
"A young and beautiful French girl
not more than Is years of age was
made prisoner by the Germans. An
officer of high rank, whose German
Kultur was of the Kaiser order, raw
ished that girl, and she was sent back
to France to give birth to an infant.
That girl-mother turned from her bas-
tard babe with unutterable loathing,
refusing to nurse it, and ten days after
its birth, taking advantage of the alb
nurse clutched the infant by the
throat and strangled 1t to death. I'm
der the laws of France that was a
crime, and for which she was tried as
soon as she was able to appear in
court. The prosecuting officer, adj
dressing the court, said: The mother
admits killing the child; she admits
that its killing was deliberate, but I
shall call no witness; shall take no
further action than to ask the judge to
charge the jury The judge quickly
said: Gentlemen of the jury, | shall
make no charge in the case. l cannot;
l will not. / leave it entirely in your
hands. Your verdict must be either
conviction or acquittal,' and in one
moment the jury rose to their feet and
fairly shouted: Not guilty, and God
bless this girl for her exalted patriot
ism. She deserves to rank with Joan
of Are and it is said that such a wild
scene of acclaim was never before wit
messed in a court of France.
There isn't a home in France that
does not know the story of that
French heroine; there isn't a camp of
American soldiers that does not know
of it, and there is never a time when
u young American soldiers possess
ed of the highest sense of honor, go
into battle that they do not think of
that French girl, and fight accordingly
to avenge the honor of such woman
hood, a womanhood that would save
France from dishonor by strangling
such a child.
"And five million American soldiers
will join with five million soldiers of
France in saying to Germany, Thou
shalt not pass to any Conference in
which the Republics of America and
France are seated.
Il now call to my aid MIR. Rothwell,
the son of a German who hates Ger
many with implacable hatred; and the
President of the United States: Ger
many, you stand before the world con-
victed by your own testimony. No
vengeance of the Infatuated peoples
whom you have so wronged will wipe
away your crimes. Atonement must
be had from you for the old men and
and the children you have, in
wanton cruelty, murdered; for the
shame your soldiers have brought in
to the lives of pure, innocent young
girls by forcing them into unwelcome
motherhood, leaving the infants to
starve to death on the dry breasts of
their furnishing mothers. You have in
defiance of the rules of honorable war,
hnmhnH hncnitn1c hri11 oi1 N dnoth
gardlessly to your W wounded, a
well as to those with whom you con-
tended. You have slaughtered the nur-
ses whose lives were devoted to the
care of the sick and wounded and
whose spirit was the highest eXempli-
fication of the life of Christ. You have
poisoned wells or filled them with
corpses. You have scattered the germs
of disease to decimate the commune
ties your weapons failed to reach
You have, so far as possible, destroyed
the face of the country you were fore
ed to abandon to make it, if possible,
~unproductive and uninhabitable. If
there is any crime against God or man
of which, in your unholy career, you
have not been guilty it is because you
did not think Of it. For all of these
things and for others, sooner or later,
you must atone at the altar of human
fty-and what atonement is
surate with the crimes? None-except
when the people whom your leaders
have misruled and deluded shall be
made desperate by the hatred of man
kind and rise against the dynasty
whose unbridled ambition has been the
cause or their shame and sorrow.
THE great Powers of the world are
being forced into the conviction thai
there exists no safety or reasonable
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