The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-05-09
WHAT ABOUT WILHELM?

ais Bill the Butcher to get off scot
free? Is the middle which MIR. Will
son is stirring up in Europe to screen
the escape of this arch-conspirator
against mankind? Is this advance
agent Of Antichrist, if not the apocal-
vptic beast himself, to find safe ref
uge beneath the academic skirts of a
man whose imperialism was repudiat-
ed at the polls last November? 1t is
beginning to look that way.
"Of all the lame ever sub
mitted to a disguised world, that of
the American commission to the effect
that there is no precedent in inter-
national law for the trial and c%onvic-
ton of the head Of a state is the most
%spineless. If a precedent is needed,
now is the time to establish it, or the
fate melted out to- Napoleon should
suggest one.
"Did Wilhelm look for a precedent
when he overran Belgium? Did he
find excuse in international law when
he crucified Canadian soldiers, stock
aked and outraged Belgian and French
women, manned and disemboweled lit
tie children, defiled and destroyed
churches, cut the threats Of American
prisoners, sank unarmed ships without
warning, made of Belgium and north
ern France a barren waste, and sent
his agents by the thousands into neu-
trail states to carry on his Internal
propaganda, which continues to this
day? Was there any precedent to
be found in history for this campaign
of frightfulness, other than that sup
piled by Attila the Hun? Napoleon
was a clean fighter, at least, and they
banished him. Is Wilhelm to be per-
mitted to %sojourn undisturbed in
princely ease at Amerongen Castle,
there to mature his plans for a sec
ond trial for world conquest? If so,
Mr.. Wilson should be credited with
a remarkable victory as counsel for
the defense of this international Grim
inal, to judge from reports.
"The patience which the president
of the United States has exhibited
toward Germany, the Germans, and
the kaiser and his court, is Of a quail
ity more vicious than %virtuous. So
far as is known the records fail to
show a single instance of the capital
punishment of an enemy spy in this
country, yet we have been infested
with them. Nominal confinement in
comfortable hotels at government eX-
pense, or in more fragrant cases, seq
regation in commodious stockades, fed
to repletion, and provided with pleas
ant recreations, have spelled the hard
lot of these villainous agents. A few
months before we got into the war at
least M democrat campaign manag-
err was hob-nobbing with those agents
in German beer-halls, and the "kept
US out of war" cutlery was planted
in those German stems. And then
we had the underwriting contests be-
tween the president and the kaiser,
with the democratic press deciding
the president the winner in each dip
lomatic victory. Finally, when the
American public would brook no fur
Their insult, we went to war and then
delayed six months getting in.
"We have no quarrel with the Ger
man people," said Mr.. Wilson. Ask
the soldiers of the American expedi-
tionary forces if that is true. Every
soldier who fought against the kaiser's
hosts and who witnessed his diabolical
war methods demands his punishment,
and so does every red-blooded Amer
lean who contributed to the defeat
which apparently Mr.. Wilson seeks
to minimize. If Mr.. Wilson's inter-
vention saves the hide of Butcher