The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-07-25

srace ana tra a-taal ro.ser Of a vast
'tafy sstabi snmvut eortr0led by an
Vsp9a-ins seseruwe1t. ~1icn. having
2-.ls1y planned 70 dominate the world,
proceeded 20 carry C4t the plan without
re5ard either 10 the sacred obligations
cf treaty cr ire ioag estab sHsc prac-
ioes ard long cherished principles Of in-
ternat onsi action ana honor; .. This
po"er IS not the German people IL is
me ruthless master Of the German geo
PIE. IL Is our business 10 see 10
X tnst tie history = the rest OF ths
world Is no longer left to is handling"
President Wilson, August p, 1912.
GERMAN BrrULEsSNESS AN IN
ClLCATED BARBARISM
A government asserting its right to
conquer the world. denying any duty
except that of increasing its own
power and a people drilled in this
theory produce nation whose acts
horrifv humanity Yet those acts are
hut the logical result of ruthless.
ness in war deliberately planned. II
was at first said by Americans Yes
there are occasional German atrocities
mo doubt, but so there are in every
war. We now know thar cruelty and
larbarism are definite part Of the
German method OF making war
First the teachers and professors
Where German soldiers had to seize
the iuceudiary torch. or even to PRO.
coed 70 the slaughter Of citizens. it
was only in pursuance Of The rights
of war One single highly cultured
German warrior represents a higher
intellectual and moral life-value than
hundreds of the raw children of nature
whom England and France. Russia
and Italy oppose to them Even If
there We're no question of vengeance.
me crime Of opposing the dc-
re'9DmeHt of Germany is so great that
tine most trenchant m measures are
scarcely a sufficient punishment for
it' The more pitiless is the rae
tt'ttS, the greater is the security of
the ensuing peace In the DAYS Of old.
conquered peoples were completely an
nihilated Today that is physicaHv
impracticable but one can imagine
conditions which should approach very
closely to total destruction.
Next the army officers. "By steep.
ing himself in military history an
officer VIII be able to guard himself
against excessive humanitarian no
tions it will teach him that certain
seventies are Indispensable to war.
nay, more, that the only true humanity
very often lies in a ruthless applica-
ton of them The warrior has need
Of passion. 1t must not be
regarded as a necessary evil; nor con
demned as a regrettable consequence
Of physical contact; nor must we
seek to restrain it and curb 1t as
savage and brutal force
Last the clergy one incident, and
one quotation from an address on the
Sermon on the Mount is enough for
Americans Whoever can not prevail
upon himself to approve from the
bottom Of his heart the sinking Of the
L0Sitdaio and give himself
up 10 honest delight at this victorious
exploit Of German defensive power
liA III VIZ iUA@t ~ IF llO IL it NttIIldu.
German teaching has borne fruit and
the world is aghast Yet We have be
come SO accustomed to German
atrocities that some of our horror at
them has waned 1t IS tcjser to re.
member Volumes are needed to list.
merely. the prored cases Of barbarity
for Germany by refusing investga.
tion through a neutral jury proposed
by Cardinal MERCER, has confessed
guilt No rather she acknowledges
the acts charged against her and glo.
rifles them
But let as not forget that German
soldiers in 1914 uiH no restraint,
raped the women Of Belgium and
France in the first advance that they
placed screens Of children before
them that they executed, as a tc1rn-
ing against feared Belgian rising.
fifty innocent Catholic priests and
thousands of innocent citizens. that
they gave themselves up 'in hun.
dred different places, to plundering,
incendarism, Imprisonment, massacres,
and sacrileges Cardinal Mercier)
that in France they have deliberately
made a desert of territory in retreat,
with an object. not of this war but
of destroying productivity for at least
a generation to come. that Germany
openly applauded Turkey upon the
massacre Of nearly onehalf the popu-
lation of Armenia; that Germany, by
the cruel starvation and deportation
of conquered populations is attempt.
ing to 'Germanize the lands Of Pc
land and Russia that she torpedoes
hospital ships with "defenseless
beings, wounded or mutilated In war,
and women who are devoting them
selves to the work of relief and char
ity' Cprotest of the International Red
Cross Committee at Geneva that no
other government, in the worlds his
tory, ever ordered or approved a
LuSitaWd
rms Dodr is lost, and greater tetll
foll0U It, unless it is fought to the
point lchere Germday knopS for all
time tbat such acts are, IN the end,
fatal to the government that commits
them.
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