Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-26

gave thousands 10 tho "eauae" of paoi-
fism-in other words to keep the United
States from settling the fate OF Ger
many. Now their new pose with them
high cncomilims tho average citizen
not realizing that any one who remained
pro-G German after tho sinking of the
L,Isitania (charitably assuming TINT
they did not know NIL the circumstances
during the early months of the war il
hoprloasly detective or crooked. Pro-
Germans thoy must remain until tho
end of their days. They have inherited
nll the vilest mental attitudes of f'flissan-
ism, and God himself would not take the
trouble To change them. However, lie
permits MS TO match our wits with theirs.
rAcrrlsrs TEARS NOW READY
Now. the moment the prussian hicr-
archv realizes that it ia in it's Inst pre-
carious hole, and makes the Allies n
reasonable offer these women not
only will make a passionate sobbing pro-
test against any moro useless slnugh-
ter Of our bows in Europe" but, what
will Toe even more difficult for the soft
hearted Americans to resist, n plea in
their sweet. reasonable voices (it is a
curious fact that the German woman 3
voice il often ma sweet as her eyes are
small and crafty for tho poor little
children of suffering Germany Listen,
q YOU mothers. To the walls of those
starving little ones, dying hy inches,
when peace with conquered country
could save millions of theni Oh. If you
only knew what hundreds of thousands
of them have suffered already Tens Of
thousands have died of malnutrltion
They are walking shadows They arc
tuhercilar. They lie, living skeletons
gasping for a drop Of milk. o We mothers
of American, think of Your own children
in similar plight and have mercy
SAVED ny U-BoAr FAILURE
Well. our children would he in sini-
lar plight II Germany had her way
Such was the plight Of the children Of
invade d france from August. f0lt. until
the battle of the Solnme III 1916 rescued
few Of these animated little Skeletons.
living like gnomcs underground, aud few
with either lungs or mental faculties I'M
impaired Such would have been the
fate Of the children IF all France and
of the British Isles II the ti-hoats had
not been the ridiculous failure they
were in other words II our wis had
not been better thnn tcrmauY.s
If the children of the Fcufonic fmriras
are starving TO-DAY and Il = quito true
that many thousands have died If NAL
nutrition the crime lrs entirely with
the Kaiser and hls crew. Who havc sue
ri(icrd them mcrcieaslf They viii 90
on sacrificing them rather than lase
throne and power " matter what
happens. the CRIME will be theirs. nnt
ours Moreover il Is Tho fault of tie
German eiplr themselves Whom thoy
havr the smrt ~ throw 81 the YOKE,
declare republic, surrender ihe Cor
man Navy rs a guarantee If good taith
then We shall bc deighteI - peHr food
and money INTO Germany - saye the
starving babies NcanWhle indpr com
mand If their causernceless Govern
mcnt thcv arc producing NOR thnnsa ods
Of namoless babies WHO starve Il, thor
turn
NrvFR roRarr utrNs mi stlrHr
Il i not 10 hc forgotten. When tins
lueilio,ls appeal II uadc t. orr sViu-
rathlcs. that German bablcs grow NJ
into German men and Wencn Who. n
the present system of government PER
vl@ts. will lac taught ~ thcir millions
of dead and ma,mcd brothers we're
taught that thelr only object ~ life =
to follow tho kulscr INTO n war for con
quest 81 .ho world Better eyirrpated
| the whole irccd root aud tranel tpd
! this unless the German reopl1 eopse :