The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-12-11

The HUN GRIMES
Harry Evans Says That for Four
Years Foundations of Internal Law
{ Have ReeIed Before Savages
JUDGMENT DAY FOR, GERMANY
List Of Guilty Ones Long One
III Chief International Anarchist,
Heads List-The Kaiser
BY II. c. EVANS

BY Il. c. EVANS
ON THE PAVE FRONT, ITALY, Oct.
24-For four years the very founda.
lions of international law have reeled
before a savage and almost success
full assault. A great nation repudiat-
ed public law declared it void, and
the contracts and treaties sacredly
agreed to between nations scraps Of
paper. Where there is no law there
is anarchy, and for four years there
has been international anarchy. Ger
many. with drawn sword, has run
amuck among the nations of the world
The tragedy has been long and the
agony of the world has passed mag.
nation ~
The Judgment day for Germany is
near With terrifying inevitableness
the law. which she tried to destroy,
is closing about her, and there must
be in the minds of the guilty some
sense of their impending doom.
The guilty? Who are, they? The
list is long. Heading the list is the
chief international anarchist, the
kaiser. The future of civilization de-
mands that the authority OF public
law shall be reasserted with as much
notoriety as 1t was challenged, and
that its criminals be punished. The
punishment must be SO memorable
that the offense will not soon, il
ever, be repeated. international law
does not exclude, the punishment Of
guilty men, however highly placed
who criminally violate it.
In Flanders Field
!. Do you recall that cry OF the dead
from Flanders field?
In Flanders fields the peoples blow
Between the Dresses, row on row,
That mark our places. And in the sky
The larks, still brayely singing, fly
Scarce heard amidst the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived felt dawn; saw sunset glow.
And now we lie in Flanders fields. !;
Take up quarrel with the, foe
To you from falling handsswe throw
The torch. Be it yours to hold it high!
We shall not sleep in FLANDERS fields.
If we keep faith with those who
die, we shall punish. those who I'M
lawfully condemned them to death.
II we keep faith with those who live.
whose Drawn and brain and courage
glorified even the bloody trenches;
and who have delivered the GRIM
inals over to the Judgment OF, the
world--if we keep faith with them,
the conspirators against the peace OF
the world will be punished as surely,
as certainly, as completely .as their
hirelings were punished on the field
of: battle by our soldiers of freedom.
Hun Sabre Broken
For. fifty years the nations OF Flu.
rope have had reason to tremble
when Germany ratified her sabre.
That sabre is now being broken
across the knee OF the allied gov
ernments. For four years Germany
has broken the laws of God and
man. Now that she is about to be
called before world tribunal to
answer for her crimes, she is pro-
testing her Innocence and in the
same breath confessing her sins. Hin
denburg. has ordered that no more
towns be. burned; the war lords have
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ships be torpedoed; no more people
are to be sent out OF Belgium to slave
many; election reforms are promised
in the munitionS factories OF Ger
the voters of Germany; the prison
doors of the empire are to be thrown
open, and Liebnecht and his fellows
who are rotting in dungeons because
they dared express theA opinion that
men should be free, are to be liber-
ated.
And all this in the hope of saving
her army and military prestige. But
the world must be made secure, and
security can only be won by taking
away from Germany not merely the
desire, but the power. to renew the
war.
Whipped-Not Repentant
8 Let us not make the mistake Of con-
sidering the concessions the central
powers are making as repentance! for
their sins. Bulgaria has not repented.
She was Simply whipped. There be-
Ing no repentance, there can be no
forgetting or forgiving until she has
been punished for her sins. Austria
has promised autonomy to the various
peoples she has so long enslaved, and
offers to free Poland. Why? Not be
cause she has repented, but because
she is whipped. Austria must pay.
The chiefest criminal of them all,
Germany, must learn that the wages
of sin is death! And the military pow
ers of Germany. and her war chiefs
who began the war, and who have
prosecuted it in all it's frightfulness,
must die! If a man, with malice
aforethought, plans the death OF his
neighbor and takes his life, he is ar
raigned before the courts and must
take the consequences. That's the
law of states and nations. If a state
like Iowa may hang a man because
he has violated her laws, why should
not the nations of the world hang a
man for violating their laws? Every
killing by, submarine was in flag
rant violation OF the laws of nations,
which Germany herself helped make.
Shall the men who committed these
crimes or the officers who directed
them to be committed, or the kais-
or himself, who is responsible for all