Arizona republican., 1918-04-25
Atrocities By Germany
 Described By Hills
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stood at the crowning of Charles is quite gone. The great library, the bishops palace, all the art treasures are in ruins. Ancient and noble build ings do not belong to a race, they be- long to the world Sacred forever the threshold of the Parthenon, once pressed by the feet of Socrates and Plato: thrice sacred that aisle of Santa Croce in Florence, dear 10 Dante and Savonarola, to be treasured forever the solemn beauty of Westminster Abbey, holding the dust of the men of supreme genius. In front of the wreck of the Cathedral of Rheims all blackened with German fire broken with the German hammer, is the statue of Jeanne d'Arc. There she stands, immortal forever, guiding the steed of the sun with the left hand lifting the banners of peace and liberty with the right. By some strange chance, no bomb injured that bronze. Oh. beautiful emblem of the day when the spirit of liberty, riding in a chariot of the sun, shall guide a greater host made up of all the peoples who revere the treasures of art and architecture, and law and liberty, and Christ's poor, and will ride on to victory that will be the sublimest con-
 
 over against the greatest military machine that was ever forged, and controlled by merciless and cruel men, who have given up all faith in God, who practice the Ten Commandments with the Not left out who have stamped out of the souls of their soldiers every instinct of pity and sympathy, are our Allies. Here is Belgium after all her agony, ready to die to the last man. rather than submit to a cruel master, the Kaiser. And here is England, and all her colonies. How glorious this land! "The land of such dear souls, this dear dear land," as Shakespeare said. She has already sacrificed one third of her total wealth, million of her sons--and here in France, not bled white, but tired after three years of grevious toil Her bankers are tired, her business men arc tired, the women and the little children are tired for they have struggled unto blood striving against a cruel militarism for which they were unprepared.
 France is Tired
 The French boy is like unto one who carried food and drink long way unto perishing men, until the heavy burden forces his fingers to relaX-but give y up his task afresh and bring water to the thirsty soldier. The coming of the American troops has been a tonic to France and rested her weariness. Said the French wife as she sent away her young husband with smiles and words of pride T give him gladly. I am only his wife-France is his mother And here is Great Britain, whose fleet today holds the German battleships be- hind the Kiel canal and safeguards our republic, New York and Boston. On one side of the silver dollar write these words, Tn God we trust" and pn the other side Of the dollar write Inc words, And in Englands navy.'' Every force that makes toward justice humanity and liberty is on our side Soon or late, an unseen Providence VIII take off the wheels from the char lot Of the Enemies of Truth and Jus lice. That dying German officer in Royce packed the genius of a mortal universe into a few words. Wounded last winter through the spinal cord unable to move the lower part of his body, for weeks he waited for death Two aged French women cared for the dying man. Little by little wings of the Angel of Death famed away
 
 German officer sent for the village priest and told him that the von Hin. denburg line was nearly complete thai the order to retreat had been given that the home of these aged womer who had cared for him so tenderly would be burned; that not one church house, barn, vineyard or orchard would be left The news crushed the olC priest. In his dying hour righteou. wrath filled the heart of the German prisoner. These are his last words, a. ! transcribed them from the lips O that man of God. standing one day ir Noyon, Curses upon this army Curses upon our Kaiser and his wal staff, Ten thousand curses upon my country! Either God is dead or Ger. many is doomed!" The officer haC come to understand that soon or lat, the wheels of God will grind to noth tngness those who wrong Gods chil