Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-01-04

PITY THE POOR GERMANS!
THE miserable pro- German paci6cists
! here and in Europe, are rallying to
the cause of ''poor Germany. and de-
handing that she be kindly dealt with |!
Justice Clarke of the Supreme Bench
one of Mr.. Wilson's appointees-had the
audacity to declare before a national
convention of lawyers last summer that
Germany should be generously dealt
within And to their shame ibe it said,
that convention of American lawyers
did not Indignantly hiss the traitorous,
.Hun-loving justice off the platform.
Think 81 it: those murderous thugs,
iravishers of women, mutilaters of chill
dren, crucifers of prisoners, generous
ly dealt with p All this idiotic pity
for the wrong doors rather than for the
wronged, is on a par with that maudlin
sympathy which leads certain soft-head
ed fools to carpet the cell of some un-
usually brutal murderer with Brussels,
and load the villain down with bonbons
and flowers.
Many of our citizens fear that our
peace representatives now in Europe
will advocate a tender policy towards
the cruel, unrepentant Huns, sorry for
nothing but that they failed in tfeir
bloody scheme to enslave and murder
all Europe and our own country as well.
The impudent German brutes are
even now stoutly maintaining that we
must feed them Why certainly, feed
the pirates who for four years have
been turning Europe into bowling
desert and deliberately starving the
French, the Serbians. the Belgians. the
Poles, the Roumahi1ny and the RassiansL
Yes, indeed feed the cruel Huns an let
their starving victims 60 unfed Let
the hungry Huns-if they really are
l hungry-go feed on the millions of
bushels Of wheat and corn. and vast
shiploads Of food stuffs they sent to the
bottom of the sea with their cowardly
submarines.
These savage Huns who are now
begging for food. robbed all Poland of
food and thus caused the death by
starvation of every child in Poland under
seven years Of age-a record that out
Herods Herod' s cruel deed at B :thlehem.
They have again and again stolen all
The grains and other foods from all
these countries AMI purposely ruined
their machinery in mills and implements
OF farms so that the wretches whose
flod and other necessities they had al
ready stolen, would perish-all this
awful brutality done deliberately in
pursuance of their official policy of
''frightfulness."
A brace of these fendish Huns named
Baron Won der Lancken and DR.. Rietif
who in Belgium had thwarted Mr.,
Hoover's efforts to feed the starving
BelgiaRs four years ago, had the impu-
deLce the other day to request him to
dkeet them and arrange for the stuffing
of their now lean paunches Here is
Mr.. Hoover's reply, which every
American who is not fool pacifcist
applauds to the echo, including the high
ly proper profanity:
A message from Paris said those
two German officials, who were
prominent in the German admin
stration of Belgium, wired from
Berlin to Walter Lyman Brown,
director of the commission for relief
in Belgium, at Rotterdam, that they
had been appointed by the German
government to negotiate with Mr..
Hoover for food supplies, and that
they desired Mr.. Hoover toradvise
them when and where he would meet
them.
In answer to the request fora
conference Mr.. Hoover sent this
messags:
t'You can describe q years of
arrogance toward ourselves and
cruelty 70 the Belgians in any
! do have
{ will not