The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-11-11
EDITORIAL PAGE Of
Grim Chickens of Their Own Matching, Now Come Home, Will
Mete Out Ample Punishment TO the German Military Caste.

rTHROGGIlOlT thc world has been growing and
spreading the feeling that civilization owes it
a. a duty 60 administer personal punishment
To- the master minds ot the German military ma
chine. who plotted in cold blood the destruction of
half the world. and who. IN the same cold blood,
marched their IRON shud millions across the bodies
of The women and children of Belgium and France.
The conviction had been growing ia the minds
Of men and women IN this and other lands that the
beings who brought on this war and who fought II
so terribly on land and sou. IN air and under sea,
must not be- permitted To escape without feeling. iu
u physical sense. the CHASTITY fortunes they have IN
fIlctcd upon many millions of their fellow men.
just how strong this conviction had become
can best be illustrated by the expressions of our
women, here IN America, the gentle Swcet. tempered,
kindly women IN our homes. Have YOU not heard
IN YOUR home during the recent days the soft voice
of q woman saying: Il shall not be satisfied until
our armies shoot aud burn a path across Germany
10 Berlin, so that the Germans may see and feel
the sutfcringN and horrors they have wrought ON
Belgium aud France 2
Such % course would have been an ugly duty.
But little doubt remains, had the German military
machine continued 10 resist. that that duty would
have been performed with the thoroughnesS that
has marked ours and oar allies course in this war.
Now, however, the civilized peoples OF the
earth have been relieved of the ugly duty of per-
sonal punishment by the Intervention of a provi-
dcncc which, after all, is always watchful for the
right.
Almost between two days the great Hun mill
tary machine breaks down. The grim chickens
hatched by the flint-soulcd kaiser and his brood fly
home 10 roost. Autocracy, efficiency. kultur blow
zap: Cannon firing is heard from Berlin: Soldiers,
sailors. and workmen : committees take charge of
the fragments of government that remain: The
frontiers Of Germany are closed not 10 keep out
an invading enemy, but 10 prevent the escape of
officers of the army, officials of the imperial gov
eminent, representatives of the military caste. Will
liam liohcnZollcrn fees over the border to seek
refuge in Holland. not from his victorious enemies
Of other lands, but from tha peoples he has tricked
and fooled and used for his horrid ends.
Thus one of the responsibilities of civilization
is taken from our shoulders. With the gruesome
pictures of revolutionary Russia fresh in our minds,
we need not doubt that the punishment of the
llohcuzollerns and their advocates and followers
viii be thorough and complete.
What will come out of the chaos that until a
few short weeks ago was the German empire? We
can only guess. We know that our responsibilities
are far from ended. We know that order and or
derby government must be restored not only ia Ger.
many and Austria but in Russia as well, and that
our duty is to aid in that restoration. We know that
the women and children Of the enemy countries,