Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-10

will set him to work that q German
workman may be released to fight
against his own land and people. He
shall be lodged in barracks, behind
barbedwire entanglements, under an
armed guard. He shall sleep on the
bare ground with a single thin blan-
ket. He shall be scantily fed, and his
earnings shall be taken from him to
pay for his food.
That is the choice which the Ger
man government offers to a proud,
sensitive. high strung people. Death
or slavery.
When a Pole gave me that procla-
mtian. was boiling. But | had to
restrain myself. / was practically the
only foreign civilian in the country,
and l wanted to get food to the peo-
pie That was what | was there for,
and must not for any cause jeop
ardize the undertaking. l asked Gov
ernor General Won BeseIer. Can this
be true?"
Really, can not say" he replied.
Il have signed so many proclama-
tons; ask General Won Kries."
! So asked General Won Kries Gen.
eral this is a civilized people. Can
this be true?"
coolly Admitted by German officer
Yes" he said; 1T is true"-with
an air of adding. Why not?
Il dared not trust myself to speak;
turned to go. Wait" he said. And
he explained to me how Germany,
official Germany, regards the state of
subject peoples.
Even now | find it hard to describe
in comprehensive terms the mind OF
official Germany, which dominates
and shapes all German drought and
action. Yet it is as hard, as clear cut.
a5 real as any material thing. saw
1t in Poland; | saw the same thing
n Belgium; hear Of II in Serbia and
EOumania. For weeks it was always
before me. always the same. Officers
talked freely. frankly. directly All
the staff officers have the same view.
Let me try TO tell it. as General
Won Kries told me, in Poland, in the
midst of a dying nation Germany Is
destined to rule the world. or A. least
q 4 great part of it. The German people
Are so much human material for
building the German state: other pco-
pie do not count. All is for the glory
and might OF the German state. The
lives OF human beings are to be CON
served only il it makes for the states
advancement, their lives are to be sac
rifced If it is to the states advantage
The state is all: the people are nath
ing.
Conquered people signify little in
Inc German account. Life, libcr,y
happiness. human sentiment, family
ties, Ira'c end generous impulse
ta"se have no place beside III on,
concern, the greatness of the German
state.
Starvation Working for Germany"
Starvation must excite no pity
sympathy must not be allowed, IL I
hampers the main design of promoting
}. Gcrmanys ends.
i. Starvation is here" said Genera
I Won Kr.cs. "Candidly, we would lik
s to see it ieI.c.,CM W" fer ,ur sal
$ diers may be unCaNorabiy affected b,
n the things they sec. But since il Il
T here starvation must serve our pur
& pose. So we set 1t to work for Gel
o many. by starvation we can accom-
a plish in two or three years in east Pc
r. land more than we have In west Pc
d land. Is east Prussia, in the last hur
It dred years. with that in view. W
II propose to turn this force to our a,
e vantage.
e This coun..y Is meant for &c
q many" continued the keeper OF star,
. na Poland. 1T Is rich alluyif
n country which Germany has needle
y for some generations. We propose I
r. remove the ablo.boded working Pole
10 from this country. II leaves It ope
80 for the inflow OF German workin
Of people as fast as We can spare then
They will occupy It and work IT,"
v. Then with n cunning smile. Can
b. you see how It works out2 By an
v. by we shall give back freedom
ie Poland. When that happens Tolan
We VIII appear automatically as n Ge
to man province"
e Same Mathod in Belgium
re In Belgium General Won Bissipg tol
me exactly the same thing. "if N
relief Of Belgium breaks down We ca
I'd force tho industrial population in,
nd Germany through starvation and ca
he onize other Belgians in Mcsopo,amI
70 where We have planned large irrIg
I'M ton works, Germans will then oyerru