Gunnison news-champion., 1918-09-13

entitled Our Foes.- puDIisAed Anguse
=. 1914. reads ~ follow:
"what ahould one say whea evea
such an organ a. the DeutscAes o.
ner-Blatt expresses tn sympathy With
Q demand Tat the beastn' VITO aro
taken ~ francs-tireurs should not b.
killed. but only wounded 20 that they
may thsn Be left to fate which makes
any help impossibler Or what should
We ny when the Deutsches Odlxler.
Blatt states that = punitive destruc.
tion even Of whole regions' cannot .af-
ford full recompense for the bones a .
single murdered Pomeranian gre1a-
dierr Those are the desires Of blood
thirsty fanatics and We are thoroughly
ashamed Of ourselves because It II
POSSIBLE that there are people among
us who urge such things"
"Barbarls'm," Declares versasrts.
On the following day. August -.
1914. the vorwaerts returned to the
attack in IN editorial Against Bar.
barism."
Zone might, In the frst
place, possibly believe that such q de-
mand for bloody vengeance tagalnst
alleged Belgian outrages1 emanates
from single disense-racked brain;
but It appears that whole groups
among certain classes who represent
German kultur want to indulge In Or
gies Of barbarism and to devise q
whole system for the purpose Of or.
gnnixing d war Of revenge
"what Of law and customi Such
thoughts do not stir a great nation
Thus in leading article Of the Ber-
liner Neueste Nachrichten. the de-
mand II made that all the authorities
in Brussels-one. the second burg0mas-
ter, Is generously excepted--shoul be
Immediately seized and subjected to
trial In order to expiate the wrongs
which, according to fragmentary and
highly uncertain reports. were said to
have been committed by the people.
They demand that the captured city
should immediately pay fine Of 50O.-
100000 marks; that all stores Of the
conquered territory be requisitioned
without paying the Inhabitants singia
penny for them"
verwaerts In Protest.
Three years later. August a. 1917,
the vorwaerts quoted the following
passage from the Deutsche TaSesse3-
tung:
I'VE have q ring Of politicians who
hold that might makes right (Macht-
politiker). who desplse the forces a
the inner life and believe that they
must elimipate al ethical points q
view :. from foreign and social
politics. For them, Germany of the
present and Of ths future q ths coun-
try Of the Krupps and Borsiss. a tAs
Zeppeiins and the U-boats. Any idea
Of q connection between politics and
morals 10 rejected and any reference
to the right Of Q moral method Of con
sideration 10 ridiculed a. .delusion and
sentimentality."
The German oHlcers were provided
with the forms to be used In terror.
lzins the conquered people. The con-
mon soldiers were provided WITH
phrase books which would enable than
to impose their win upon the terrified
people. Minister Brand Whitlock In
his report TO the state department. %
September II, 1917. writes:
The German soldiers were pruvlo-
ed with phrase books Giving alt9nate
translation In German and TrsncA ok
such sentences ~:
Hands up.' ut 10 the vsry Arse
Gentence In tho hook.)
Cary out al the furniture.
II am thirsty. Bring me soms besf.
DIN. rum.
sxou have to supply Q barfel q
vine and q keg Of beer.
Lead me to the wealthiest inhaha-
~illage. I have orders %
barrels Of wine