The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-09-30
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1918.
AMERICAS ANSWER TO PEACE PROPO
SAL FROM MJFRDERERS, OUTRAGERS
AND LOOTERS.

Science prostituted to wholesale murder is
the diabolcal scheme with which Germany has
sought to destroy civilization in order that on
the ruins it might build world-eontrollng, au-
tocratic, athestic power.
All that German scientists have been able to
achieve has been by the German government
and the German people, prostituted to the kill
ing and the manning of millions in order that
Germany might conquer and loot the world.
In the air, on the land and under the sea
every device which the chemist and the engineer
have been able to devise for bringing suffering
and sorrow upon the world has been put into
effect by German experts. All that the whole
German nation has accomplished in the past in
the development of science has been prostituted
10 the destruction of moral forces at home and
10 the murder of millions of people ON the bat
tlefied
It has been said that this is war of science
but, broadly speaking, we are not engaged in
war, for the fight to which this nation and our
Allies have dedicated their lives is not war
such as the world has ever known
This is a campaign by Germany of deliber-
ately, definitely planned, long-gloried in murder
This is a campaign of frightfuness which
finds expression in ruthless detructon of every
country over which the rotten-souled armies of
Germany have marched
This is a campaign in which Germany has
gioried in its power to infiict suffering untold
upon women and children, in which it has ruth
lessly shot the aged and infirm in which it has
destroyed churches and cathedrals with the
same gloating glee of the demon with which
Germans have destroyed womanhood and child
hood
inns IS not, therefore, a war of science; it is
night IN which science as expressed through
chemistry and engineering is being used to the
utmost power of human ingenuity aided by
every influence which the devil himself can put
into effect to enable Germany to make more
trlghtful its hell-devised and hell-begotten plan
Of murder
We have been compelled to meet German
science with greater science. We have been
forced to find way to master its work in the
ar on the land and under the sea: and the
science OF Americans and of our Allies will vet
prove as far superior to the science of Germany
III It's campaign of murder as American honor
exceeds the black dishonor of Germany.
AS every Geographic click across the Atlantic
brings new toll of death and of suffering orr
hearts should be steeled to an unbending and
unbendable determination that GERMANY and
the German people shall pay to the utmost ex
tent OF human power the penalty of their
crimes, net only because they deserve punish
ment as the blacklist criminals in human his
tory but In order that civilization may be safe
guarded for the future
Every word of peace. spoken in America or in
the countries Of our<Alies is uttered by some
enc who is pro-German at heart, whatever
may be the disguise under which he seeks,
clothed IN the livery of Heaven to do the devils
work.
False to the teachings Of God Himself, false
70 the history Of all humanity, false to every