St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-01-19

armed and shot down afterward? Is
that chivalry in battle? 1t is no longer
a secret among the people; one hears
everywhere that few prisoners are
taken; they are shot down in small
groups. They say naively: we don't
want any unnecessary mouths to feed.
Where there is no one to enter COM
plant, there is no judge Is there
then no power in the world which can
put an end to these murders and res
cue the victims? Where is Chris
tianity? Where Is rfght7 Might is
right.
"a SOLDIER AND "A MAN WHO IS
NO BARBARIAN"
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. The
Vorwaerts, the leading socialist paper,
which has a very wide circle Of read
ers, has opposed the policy of fright
fulness. All honor to its editors who
have so courageously opposed the pow
erfui military authority! It's editorial,
entitled "Our Foes" published August
%, 1914, reads as follows:
"What should one say when even
such an organ as the Deutsches Off
-Blatt expresses its sympathy with
a demand that the beasts who are
taken as francs-tireurs should not be
killed, but only wounded so that they
may then be left to fate which makes
any help impossibleY Or what should
we say when the Deutsches Oflizier-
Blatt states that a punitive destruc-
ton even of whole regions cannot 'af-
ford full recompeuse for the bones Of a
single murdered Pomeranian grena-
der? 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"
"earbarism," Declares VorWacrts.
On the following day, August "a,
1914, the Vorwaerts returned to the
attack in an editorial Against Bar
barism."
80. "One might, In the first
place, possibly believe that such de-
mand for bloody vengeance [against
| alleged Belgian outrages1 emanates
from a single disease-racked brain !;
but 1t appears that whole groups
among certain classes who represent
German kultur want to indulge In or
gies of barbarism and to devise a
whole system for the purpose Of or
ganizing a war Of revenge
"What of law and custom! Such
thoughts do not stir great nation
Thus in a leading article of the Ber-
liner Neueste Nachrichten, 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 bsen committed by the people.
They demand that the captured city
should Immediately pay fine of 5OO,-
100000 marks; that all stores Of the
conquered territory be reQutsitioned
without paying the inhabitants Z single
penny for them"
vorwasrts In Protest.
Three years later. August 20, 1917,
the Vorwaerts quoted the following
| passage from the Deutsche Tageszei-
tung:
1--WE have a ring of politicians who
| 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
to the right of moral method Of con-
sideration is ridiculed as delusion and
sentimentality."
The German officers We're provided
with the forms to be used In terror
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 II, 1917. writes:
1.-THE German soldiers were provid-
| ed with phrase books giving alternate
translation in German and French Of
such sentences as:
GLANDS. up ct Is the very first
sentence in the book.)
Garry, out all the furniture.
al am thirsty. Bring me some beer,
s6iQ. rum.
sYou have to supply barrel Of
wine and keg of beer.
LEAD me to the wealthiest inhabi
tants of this village. l have orders to
requisition several barrels Of wine.
SHOW Us lie way 70 --. T. goI
lead as astr"v, ven viii h7 efiot'f
Thomas NJ. Burns, a Notary Publ =.
duly commissioned and sworn u are
for the Parish of St. Tammany. stats
Of Louisiana, therein residing. per-
sanally came and appeared the per-
sons whose names are hefeunto SUD