The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1919-05-21
GERMANY AS THE
LEPER Of HUMAN
FAMILY STANDS BY
TOO EARLY TO FORGET WHAT
THE HUN DID OR MIGHT
HAVE DONE.
OUR DUTY IS NOT ENDED
We Must All Come in and Make the
Future Safe and Whole
some.

Do you remember in the book ben
Hur" how the people shrank away
from the lepers. crying "Unclean!
Unclean!"
That same cry rings in the Bible,
in the history of the Old East The
leper must cry out "Unclean!" when
he moved along the highways.
Germany, the proud and brutal
Germany of year ago, finds herself
now in something of the leper's status.
The Hun orgy of blood and rapine, of
fire and sword has ended. Germany
sowed the wind and she is reaping
the whirlwind. Decent men stand
away from the German. It may be
years before any German is permitted
to forget that.
When the first squadron of whipped
sea-sharks, the submarine of Ger
many, come into an English port,
after the armistice was signed, a Gu
rious thing happened. After all the
formalities had been completed one Of
the German officers offered to shake
hands with an English captain.
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wards and turned his back on the
Hun. He couldn't take the hand of a
baby-killer, a sea-assassin. Decent
men don't fight the way the Hun
| fought.
viii Pay In Ostraclsm.
How many generations will 1t be
before the hand of civilization will
again be extended to the German? A
good many, possibly.
Germany will pay in ostracism, in
hatred, and in distrust and she will
pay in other ways as well as in a
financial sense. But the Germans
have only Germany to blame.
1t is not going to be easy for US to
forget that she broke through all the
conventions of civilized warfare.
That her soldiers were turned loose
to do their worst wherever they in
vaded a country. That they ran
amuck at Louvain, that they plum
dered in Liege, that they devastated
all France, that they destroyed
churches, that they plundered like
savages.
And no man has ever heard or read
in the orders Of the old German army
Of single one Of these hooters and
murderers being punished for their
crimes. We want to recall all these
things. Just recall them and keep
them in your mind while the drive for
the Fifth Loan, the Victory Liberty
Loan, is on.
Too Early to Forget.
They will help Ito remind you Of
some Of the things that America has
been spared, thanks to our getting
into this war and coming up to the
scratch in time to hold the Hun out
of Paris and finally beat him to his
knees.
1t won't hurt to remember that the
other Liberty Loans helped to cage
this wild beast
1t is from the perdition on earth
that the Germans carried into Russia,
Belgium, France, Serbia and Ru-
mania that this country has escaped.
No man can repress a shudder when
he thinks what the land of the United
States has escaped, when he thinks
what would have inevitably come to
pass in America if we had not beaten
down the Hun
| When the nation is calling on
Americans to take a part of the Fifth
Loan, the Loan of Liberty and Vic
tory, we can afford to remember all
these things that we know came to
pass in the Old World where the
Bosche ragged uncaged for four years.
There isn't an adult American any
where in the country who should feel
free to ignore the call of this next
loan.
1t isn't that we need fear Germany
now But we ought to be willing to
come in and help make the future as
safe as the united wisdom of the free
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