The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-02
"A SOLDIER AND A MAN WHO IS
 NO BARBARIAN"
Socialists Oppose System

"A SOLDIER AND A MAN WHO IS
 NO BARBARIAN"
 ~@-sp~-ns~-- Socialists Oppose System Many of the Germans. as has been already indicated. do not believe the reports Of the atrocities committed by the Belgian civilians and refuse to ac- cept the system of frightfulness. Tie 1 Norwaerts. the leading socialist paper, which has very wide circle of read CTS. has opposed the policy of fright fitness. All honor to it's editors who l have so courageOusly opposed the pow erful military authority, It's editorial, entitled Our Foes" published August 8, 1914, reads as follows
 "What should one SaF when even such an organ as the Deutsches Off zier-Blatt expresses its sympathy with a demand that the beasts who are | taken as francS-tireurS should not he l killed. but only wounded so that they may then be left to a fate which makes any help impOSsibleP Or what should We say when the Deutsches Oftizier- Blatt states that a punitive destruc- ton even of whole regions cannot 'af- ford full recompense for the bones of a single murdered Pomeranian grena. dier| Those are the desires of blood thirsty fanatics and We are thoroughly ashamed of ourselves because it is possible that there are people among us who urge such things
 "Barbarism," Declares Vorwaerts.
 On the following day. August 24 1914, the Vorwaerts returned to the attack in an editorial Against Bar. barism."
 "One might in the first place, possibly believe that such a de mand for q bloody vengeance Tagainst alleged Belgian outrages1 emanates from a single dlsease-racked brain i; but it appears that whole groups among certain classes who represent German kultur want to indulge in or gies of barbarism and to devise q whole system for the purpose of 0r ganizing a war of revenge
 What of law and custom! Such thoughts do not stir great nation. Thus In leading article of the Der. liner Neueste Nachrchten. the de- mand is made that all the authorities In Brussels-one, the second burgomas- ter, is generously excepted-shOuld be immediately seized and subjected to trial in order to expIate the wrongs which, according to fragmentary and highly uncertain reports, were said to have been committed by the people. They demand that the captured city should immediately pay fine of 800. 100000 marks; that all stores of the conquered territory be requisitioned without paying the inhabitants single penny for them"
 Vorwaerts in Protest. Three years later, August 26, 1917, the Vorwaerts quoted the following passage from the Deutsche Tageszei. tung:
 We have a ring of politicians whG hold that might makes right (Macht- politiker), who despise the forces of the inner life and believe that they must eliminate all ethical points of view from foreign and social politics. For them, Germany of the | present and of the future is the coun- try of the Krupps and Borsigs, of the Zeppelins and the U-boats. Any idea | of connection between politics and morals is rejected and any reference 1 to the right of a moral method of con- | SideratiOn Is ridiculed as deluSiOn and Sentimentality."
 The German officers were provided with the forms to be used in terror 1 izing the conquered people. The com mon soldiers were provided with phrase books which would enable them to impose their will upon the terrified people. Minister Brand Whitlock in his report to the state department on | September 12 1917. writes:
 "The German soldiers were provid- ed with phrase books giving alternate l translation in German and French of such sentences as:
 "'Hands up.' Cit is the very first | sentence In the boOk,)
 "tCarry out all the furniture.
 "'I am thirsty. Bring me some beer, gin, rum.
 "You have to supply barrel of wine and keg of beer.
 "Lead ne to the wealthiest inhabi- tants of this village. I have orders to reauisition several barrels of wine.
 "'Show us the way to -. If yon lead us astray, you will be shot,"