The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-29
What Have | Not Done?


What Have | Not Done?
What have not done to preserve the worl'
from these horrors?"
So asked the Kaiser few weeks ago as h
viewed one of the sanguinary battlefields of tn
western front.
Belgium, Poland, Serbia and Russia nigh
answer with profane directness. Thousands o
widows and orphans might shudder at the ruth
less brutality of the query.
A survey of the Kaiser's method of warfar
is the answer of civilization. A few of the "hor
rors" which the Kaiser introduced to the worlt
follow:
"Frightfulness" Explained by the War Cy
clopeda as "the German method of warfar
whereby they make war terrible in the hope o
winning victory through fear. Deliberate, sys
tematic and calculated terror conceived and or
dered for the purpose OF striking mortal 1ea
into the hearts of foemen"
"Kriegs-Raison"-In the words of the Ger
man War Book, What is permissible includes
every means of war without which tn
object of the war cannot be obtained" Or IL
other words, no rule of civilized warfare need b.
observed if military necessity requires the per
petration of barbaric acts.
Observation-Disclosures German word fol
necessity. Under the German Interpretation o.
the term, mercy, righteousness, civilization, Law
and order can be ruthlessly violated.
"Spurlos Versenkt'-A German phrase
meaning sunk without leaving trace" Count
Luxburg, the German minister at Buenos Aires
in secret telegram advised that Argentine
steamers be sunk without leaving trace Un
der this CODE the German submarine comman
ders shell small boats in which refugees of tor
pedoed steamers try to escape watery grave.
Family Honor and Right of Life and Proper
ty"-The Hague regulations provide: Family
honor and rights, the lives of persons and prop
erty, as well as religious convictions and practice
.onfiscated" What the German soldiers did tt
The inhabitants of Belgium is such shameful
page of history that decency prevents reprint
. ng the atrocities
Observation-Disclosures and French tell OF
wounded soldiers massacred, women outraged
children manned, villages plundered and burned
sacred places outraged, ministers and priests in
suited and massacred.
"Ruthlessness" - Pastor Baumgarten ir
Deutsche Reden in Schwerer Zeit says: 1--WE
are compelled to carry on this war with cruelty
ruthlessness employment of every imagin
able device, unknown in any previous war
Hence, the sinking of the Lusitania, liquid flame
mustard gas, poison gas, Zeppelin raids, Belgian
deportations, the destruction of Rheims, the
burning of Louvan dissemination of poisonous
germs, firing on hospitals and Red Cross units
sinking of hospital ships, employment of pris
oners of war in exposed trench construction
pillagng of villages and looting of churches, the
killing of prisoners of war, and other accompani
ments of the Kaiser's system of terrorization.
Only diseased mind or barbarian, un
touched by civilization and the gentle influence
of Christianity could ask: What have not
done to preserve the world from these horrors p
After ordering these atrocities, or connivine
at their preparation, the Kaiser, with mournfu
mien and sorrowing heart, tries to salve his con
science and deceive the world with question
that presupposes he is sorry for the conflict
Who could take him seriously? Who could be-
lieve that remorse was gnawing at his heart?
Perhaps his calloused conscience, aroused by
the moral consequences of his guilt momentar:
lily sounded an alarm that found expression in his
question: but led to no reformation.
Students of the Emperor's career in the last
four years see in him a personfication of a sent
ence in Poe's Purloined Letter-"He is that mon
Or Aq 9DtJr M Tns; IS to will ..y ne