The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-16
THE SENTENCE OF DEATH.

Humanity cannot fail to applaud the decision taken
by President Wilson in behalf of the United States and
the allies and conveyed to the German government in
that gains terrible significance and fnaty BY
the restraint Of the language employed The note is
nothing less than sentence Of death upon the HOhen-
zOern military SYSTEM pronounced by the spokesman
Of the civilized world now in arms and actually exc
cutting the sentence.
There is avenue of escape for the German people
With patience which some of the allies do not pretend
to share President Wilson again leaves the door open
to the people Of Germany if they still wish to avoid the
mseres of invasion and compulsory obedience to foreign
nations which will set the German nation in order if the
people do not do it themselves President Wilson calls
upon the Germans thrust aside the criminals who have
conducted their government and their atrocious war
fare to reconstute their government in accordance
with the command Of civilizations and to give proof of
this actual reform evidence of their desire obtain
peace.
If the German people do not seize this opportunity
to themselves if they rally around their war lord
and attempt to stay the hand Of civilization by continu
ing the abomnable crimes that have aroused the world
then they must bite the dust They will see their armies
gashed and decmated, and they win suffer fire, sword
and invasion until they are overpowered dsarmed and
compelled to submit to the dictates of the nations acting
as the trustees of civilization.
President Wilson holds the military masters of Ger
many responsible 70 rthe crimes they have committed
m
their The people Of Germany know them, every
one. The indispensable condition of any peace which
will relieve the German people of completely in these
crimes and share in the swiftly approaching punish
ment prompt and complete reputation and overthrow
Of those authorities and the establishment of govern
ment of the people The time is Short the command is
mperious. 1t is made at the lannon's mouth
Regarding the German request for an armstice Pres-
dent Wilson relieves the apprehensions of those jealous
individuals who thought they foresaw weakening on his
part. No could have used this German request to
better advantage in hammerng home to the boche intel
ec the fact that inhuman practices and land
stitute fatal policy the part of Germany. The
brualzed lords Of Germany committed no act of folly
that was more surely destined to work their own
doing than when they gave orders to kill women and
children by submarine torpedo and aerial bombs and
to devastate and destroy the homes and lands Of
combatants Now when the German armies are Keeling
under the killing blows of Marshal Foch, an armisce
lis badly needed and peace for Germany will soon be
necessity of life ITSELF yet there is armisce and
peace, and there will be neither armistce nor peace
through anything that these war lords may do rsay
President Wilson has pregnant clause in his note stat
ing that the overthrow of mtarism is condition pre-
cedent to peace "f peace is to come by the action of
the German people themselves" This applies to an
armstce Also for it is perfectly evident that the allies
will not grant any armisce that is not safeguarded by
guarantees that will bind the German people The mere
abdication of Hohenzoern in favor of another will
not stop the working of single allied machine gun.
The monstrous living weapon of the Germans recoils
from French and Belgian SOIL The head of the monster
battered and bleeding its coils sashed here and
there, and its vtals exposed If it does not reach
the Rhine it will be cut to pieces It's retreat is
almost dangerous its delay The allied armies are
leaping upon it wolves leap upon stag
Germany, you have heard from America. Do you like
the answer? Do you feel that you have outwitted the
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