New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-01-11
HUN CANNOT AVOID
PAYING PENALTIES
FOR AWFUL CRIMES
4 GREAT AMERICAN SAYS
GERMANY MAY CONTINUE
TO EXPIATE CRIMES FOR
MANY YEARS AFTER THE
TREATY IS SIGNED
John Burroughs, in The New York
Tribune.

Tribune.
II this war was largely caused by
commercial and economic pressure
and rivalry, as so many persons
think it was, are the pressure and
rivalry to continue after the war is
over. especially il the Allies should
conclude peace without victory ?
Will it not be hard for us to resume
our old economic and social and
business relations with the arch
enemy of mankind as if nothing had
happened, swap goods and exchange
profess ors, condone Germany's sins
and help refill her Golfers? Shall
we at once get busy in trying to re-
imburse her for the losses she has
sustained in running amuck upon the
civilization of the world, help build
up her commerce for her desperate
efforts to destroy our own? Can
we forgive and forget and aid her
in restoring her shipping, and en-
able her to get ready for the next
war" about which she is already
talking, and reward her for having
paved the bottom Of the seas with
thousands of the ships and cargoes
and thousands of the bodies of in
nocent non-combatants of the nett
tral and Allied nations. for her send
ing women and children and un-
armed sailors to the bottom. or a
bandoning them in open boats in the
midst of the stormy seas at all sea-
sons?
No Crime Is Omitted
When one has run over in his
mind the things Germany has been
guilty of-long list OF her unspeak-
able atrocities and robbcries. the de-
portation of non-combatants the
wanton destruction of property in
Belgium and Northern France. tho
demolition Of centuries old architec-
ture and art treasures, the judicial
murder of Captain Fryatt the shoot
ing of Edith Cavell the bombardinp
of defenceleSs towns, the bombing
of hospitals and the torpedoing ot
hospital ships, the fiendish DIR owning
of the crew of the Belgian Prince
her sinkings, her ravishings, her
burnings, her stealings, her lying
her studied crueltics, her campaign
of frightfulness-when one remem-
bers all these things and more. does
ne feel like saying, "Never mind
let it all pass: business is business
and it will all be the same in a
hundred years.?
For my own part will never again
use an article made in modern Ger.
many If | know it. I will never look
into a modern German book. | will
favor the exclusion of the German
language and literature from our
schools and colleges. would drive
every unnaturalized German from
this country.
Seorn Their Methods
We do not want their ideas OF
their methods. Their ideas are sub
versive of our democratic ideals, and
their methods enslave the mind and
lead to efficiency chiefly in the fielt
of organized robbery. They are ef
. ficient as Krupp guns and asphyxiat.
ing gas and liquid fire are efficient
They invent nothing, but they ado
a. Satanic touch to the inventions
of others and turn them to inferna
uses. They are without sentiment OF
Imagination. They have broken com
/ DltttlN Will tIlC olh bOi VI
: Goethe, of Kant and Lessing, to
whom we all owe debt. They are
learned in the roots of things. bu
their learning is dusty and musty
with underground conditions. They
, know the Tree of Knowledge" a
the bottom, but not at the top il
the air and sun, where are its leave:
and flowers and fruit. They run tc
, erudition, but not to inspiration. They
are a heavy. materialistic. graspint
race, forceful but not creative, mill
tary but not humanistic. aggressive
, but not heroic. religious but no
, spiritual; brave it may be, but mo-
. chivalrous. utterly selfish. thorough
ly scientific and efficient on a low
plane, as organized force is Away
efficient Kant was great ph'loso
: pher, but he had Scottish mother
| None of the great musicians wer'
Prussians, Luther threw his ink bot
I tie at the devil but the devil go
even with him and made the Chris
, tian outlook blacker than il was be
fore.
Same Level For Women
From current reports which, know
5 ing the Germans. one readily credits
they are at this moment takin;
means to increase their birth rat,
e by methods identical with those o
:. stock men and dog breeders. Tha
, the German women do not defen,
themselves with liquid fire and as
}. phyxiating gas shows that their NOR
= ais are as low as those of the mel
and that they are the victims of TIL
$ same civic slavery.
v Not Chivalrous Foes
: The Germans have not fought thi
!. war like brave. cllivalrous men: the
{ have fought it like sneaks and cut
5 throats; they have respected nothin
human or divine. So far as the
a could make it so it has been an org
: of lust and destructiveness. Whe
their armies are forced to retrea
y so far as they can do it. they des
o troy the very earth behind then
e They have done their utmost t
: make the reconquered territory {
j. Northern France uninhabitable fo
generations. II they could poiso
t all the water. all the air. all the foo
J. Of their enemies. is there any dout
d that they would quickly do sos
they could have scuttled or torpedo
& ed the British Isles and sunk the
. like q ship. would they not ha,
done il long agos Of course the