The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-02-14
MAKE THE HUN PAY.

One more atrocity the Huns are in
flicting upon mankind, Arrogantly
they criticise the peace congress and
put forward swollen demands. Ac-
cording to our Associated Press tele-
graphic report yesterday President
Wilson has declared that the failure
of the Germans to execute the terms
of the armistice would justify the re-
sumption of the war.
The Hun newspapers denounce the
plans forming at the peace conference
to bring them to justice and they are
appealing with real or pretended con-
fidence to President Wilson.
A French army officer returning to
Paris declares that the German peo-
pie are far from realizing their true
situation. Putting faith in Chancellor
Ebert, who greeted the homecoming
Hun hosts as victors, because they
had protected the Fatherland from
INVASION" they are said to believe
that they have right to insist on be-
ing accorded terms which should be
granted only to the undefeated.
The French officer, while in Berlin,
saw Germans march past the head
quarters of the American command
and heard them cheer for President
Wilson and the United States.
Can America afford to succumb to
such flattery? Whether it be hypoc-
risy or that self-delusion which made
the Germans a nation of madmen, it
is an appeal to our sympathies which
we, as the arbiters of their fate, must
pass judgment upon at once If it be
hypocrisy the Germans are trying to
minimize their crimes by devices of
cunning and deceit If it be self-de-
fusion, the Germans are living in
FOOLS paradise.
A Belgian envoy to this country
gives us glimpse of those horrors
which the fleeing Huns left behind
Doctor Henry Anet, representative
in America on Christian relief in
France and Belgium, an organization
composed of Hugenots, declares that
the Huns not only stole the machin-
cry of the invaded regions but all the
trade secrets, that they attempted to
enslave Belgium so that never again
could it become commercial coun-
try in competition with Germany, that
the tradesmen of Belgium are ruined,
that twenty per cent of the people in
Belgium and northern France are suf-
fering from tuberculosis since the in
vasion,. that persons whose opinions
carry weight estimate that only a
small part Of the children between
one and ten years of age who under
went the severe suffering caused by
the war will live to manhood and
womanhood and that of those who do
hardly any will be normal men and
women.
After all that we have heard OF
Armenian massacres and of the rape
OF Belgium and northern France the
simple words of Doctor Anet Still
strike, fires in our horror-petrified
souls. The pitiless people who trod
upon the conquered masses, beat
them, starved them, infected them
with diseases SO that they are now but
walking hospitals, ravished their
women and murdered men who dared
to protest, these are the same people
who are, cheering Americans in Ber-
lin and demanding soft-handed justice.
They appeal to us because We are
noted for our mercy and our magnan-
unity, but the hands they hold out, for
mercy are black with crimes and red
with the blood Of victims.
Let US grant them justice. If there
be room for mercy, let us be merci-
full to those who deserve 1t. Let US
70 out Of our way, indeed, to find
those who merit mercy, but let US not
be 10 weak, 80 susceptible to fattery
that we will fail rs impose Justice
where justice is demanded by laws.
human and divine.
II we have any vision beyond that
OF mere material vision we can see
other hosts marching by the American