Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-30
EVERY HUN MUST PAY
PENALTY OF HIS CRIME
Poignant Suffering and Sacrifices
Must be Imposed Upon Ger
man Monsters, Gerard Says.
The Public Ledger. Philadelphia.

New York, Aug 30.-Jamcs w. Gerard,
formerly ambassador to Germany, said
today there exists among the American
people feeling, none the less intense
because its expression is subdued by the
dominant will to win the war, that no
peace will be wholly satisfactory which
does not bring in its train poignant physl-
cal suffering and sacrifice to those who
hayr been the leaders and Instruments
of frightfulness.
MIR. Gerard said he would arraign before
the bar of that high international tribunal,
which should be constituted when the
Central Empires have been beaten into
submission, every Hun accused of crime
the Kaiser stripped of his royal trap
pings, of his prrprogatives OF rank, of
his imperial dignity pleading as an IN
divfdual IL may he, after aswInish Nest 4
phalian peasant accused OF torturing
a starving prisoner of war by snatchlng
back piece of bread from his outstretch-
ed hands.
President Wilson. then governor of
New Jersey, about eight years ago,
referring to certain corporations that had
been violating the law, said that guilt
is personal" said the former ambassador.
Zone object of this war is TO prevent
wars in the future. The most effective
way of preventing future wars is TO lnilict
personal punishment on those who have
been responsible for this war The
Germans have been guilty of viola ting the
laws of war They have killed women
and Children in defiance of international
law on the high seas; they introduced the
use of poison gas. they have visited out
rageous cruelties and horrors on towns
without number. Every individual who
shall be accused and convicted should be
punished.
cit matters little to me whether the
International court which shall sit IN
Judgment and assess penalties shall be
military or civil Once this court is
provided for by the Allied nations in their
hour of victory, | apprehend no insur-
mountable difficulties in relation 10 its
composition, its organization or its forms
of procedure.
The Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, per
hars the most versatile of American
publicists, author, formerly midship-
man IN the navy. captain IN the army IN
reserve and priest of the Episcopal church,
said today after reading Robert +
Smalls dispatch in the Public Ledger Of
Tuesday, which described the capitals
reaction to the countrys demand for
"hard peace" said:
Il thoroughly indorse the proposition
II il is possible to apportion the guilt
every person who can be convicted Of
crimes against humanity should be pun
ished precisely as in times of peace
Those who established the Prussian
policy of frightfuness and the agents.
great and small, who have carried this
policy out 50 horribly are equally guilty
No punishment can be too great for
the kaIser. He should not be allowed TO
plead IN extenuation that he did not
actually commit or countenancc the
commitment of atrocious acts and none
of bis agents should be allowed to plead
that they were simply acting under his
orders.
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