The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-19


L represent, and speak for, the men
Of the sea- These men are SO busy
Guarding our shores, bringing us food
and general supplies, and otherwise at
tending to our domestic and national
needs that they have only rare oppor-
tun1ties of expressing their opinions in
public
venture to hope that in the ensu-
ing articles case will be made against
the Germans which no pacif1sts and no
Labor party will attempt to answer.
1t may be said-it has been said
that there has been no opportunity for
the people to express their opinion
since war was declared, because there
has not been a general eIec,1on.
This argument cannot be maintained
for monument, because, although
there has been no general election,
there have been many by-elections
since war was declared, and on each
and every occasion the candidates that
supported the war aims of the Gov
trmeHt have been elected by over
Whelming majorities.
Now, what a pplies to the United
Kingdom in this matter applies with
equal force to France.
Moreover, the people of the United
states, surely, have some control over
their Government, and yet they have
| declared war on German, and are now
lighting for the cause of democracy.
The Whole German People
AT the Labor party conference held
on December %, the memorandum of
Labor war aims declared that we were
not at war with the people of Ger
many. stated at that conference if
that were true the sooner we made
up our minds to be at war with the
German people the better it would he
for all concerned.
We are at war not only with the
halser and the military class, but with
the whole German nation
There is not a pin to choose between
one German and another from the
highest to the lowest. They are all
Huns.
Have the paciffsts overlooked the
Iact that in the early stages of the
war the working people of Berlin
and other large German cities went
hilarious with joy on the outbreak of
hosdlities and have gone hilarious on
the news of every fresh. iendish bar
parity from the sinking of the I5ustafa
to the present time?
Are the pacifists aware that soma
days before the outbreak of war hun
dTeds of peaceful British merchant
men were practically detained as
prisoners although war had not been
actually declared?
Have the paciffsts overlooked tho
TACT that the Social Democrats of Gov
many claimed that they had five mil
non voters organized in their marty
and a hundred Socialist deputies were
returned to the Reichstag?
why didn't these Social Democrats
enter protest against the war? They
made no protest because, like theSr
nlhtaSy class, they were out for p1,,n-
DER andf conquest, and thought they
had an easy job on
Have our pacifists overlooked tho
treatment thatw as melted out to n,er0
chant seamen who were detained . .
prisoners? %
have they forgotten how crowds of
'erman men. women and. children
1eeren at them in the streets. and
now IN some cases those prisoners
were bullied and tortured by the
mob? '-Ao
Are our peace-at-any-price men
aware of the fact that even at tha
end of 1914 and the beginning of 1915
the German submarines fred on nm,
armed men who were escaping from
their sinking ships by aid of their
lifeboats?
In Cold Blood
There are hundreds of nrovad
charges of murder against the Ger
mans, when say Germans, I mean
the German people, because. re-
peat, there is not a scrap to choose
between.
The German U-boat commander
murders the British seamen, the Ger
man aviator murders British women
1and children, the German soldier raDes
and murders helpless French and Bel
gfan women, and in the course of
htese articles I shall give some all
thenic cases of deliberate murder on
the high seas.
All along since the commencement
OF the war the Huns have not been
satisfied with destroying British ships
no one with any sense would com
piatn about that if the crews were
given a chance-but
They have murdered in cold blood
the innocent men who were manning
them, and who were incapable of of
fering the slightest resistance. Thous-
ands of British seamen have been kill
ed and wounded in this way.
Heroic Seamen
What was the object of these cold
blooded murders? think there would
be no harm in reiterating it, so tina
those who would be squealers should
! get a fresh idea of what British pluck
really means.
These Germans had a belief that if
they only made their Submarine cam
paign frightful enough the British
sailor would do one of the two things.
, First, he wouE impose unreasona-
bic conditions with regard to his en-
, ployment, so that it would be impos-
sible to man ships. He would say.
This occupation is very dangerous,
: and I must be paid exhorbitant wages
/ to carry on
On the other hand, the Germans
: probably assumed the British seafar-
ing men had become decadent, and
were not quite good as their forbears
| and that probably hundreds, If not
J thousands, OF them would quit the sea,
l.