The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-05-21

The Germans received the news Of the
sinking of the Lusitana with cheers.
On the moment the workmen ieit the
shops. the children the schools. and with
shouts they gloatcd over the drowning
oP hundreds Of women and children.
Four years later. TO an hour. the Judge
pronounced the verdict OF doom upon
the murdcrcrS. Instead of cheers Berlin
has sobs. For the next hundred years
for Germany Lusitania Day will be the
day Of humiliation, grief. sackcloth and
ashes. The worlds black flood of scorn
and contempt. SO long damned UP. has
at last broken all barriers. The full
force of the contempt Of the. cirilizcdd
men has turned the German into pitt
able, shiyering terror-stricken criminal.
Judgement Day has come for Germany.
Her every sin was seed big with pen
atty. The whole world has been assem-
blcd In one vast court room. Germany
stood in the prison dock tn" Allied
Judged her! The sentence is "GuiIty!"
Today in their shame the Germans
could gladly fail upon tho mountains and
rocks to fall upon. them ond hide them
from tho face Of q just God and an out
ragged civilization.
Germany tried to steal four little
OF her territory.
She capped Moscllc Mcurthc; she 1851
Alsacc and Lorraine.
She stole five billions from Belgium;
forced to disgorgc the loot. she gives
Belgium Two provinces in addition.
She sank the Lusitania and four
4, o1 British ShinS. she has
to give NJ all her battle feet. five mill
ion tons Of shipping and must build
million tons a year before she can have
a merchant fleet of her own.
Having counted her treaties scraps
Of paper" now she has to support Tor
eign Armies rr Occupation. who win
hayonc, compel her citizens 10 Keep
every lot and little of her new treaty
Al poin, Of pistol there will 10 no moro
playing fast and loose with the written
work.
Having forced concessions and gotten
control Of the underclopcd resources OF
certain weak communities, now all those
concessions rs TO railways. ships. mines
specinl trade privileges, have reverted
as indemnity to those whom she has IN
jured.
Having sccfred at little nations. de-
nicd them their rights Of self-oeteTn'-
nation nr-v Germany is herself rcdnccu
IT, tho level Of n weaker point. and with
out army and navy Is in the conoitIoh
cf Z: criminal wearing stripes ana "orh-
inr as a convict n. the task prcscrlneu
by tn" Allied powers.
Ia August Of 1914 the Kaiser wrote 10
Irrrnx Joseph. Il mnSt cut the throats
of mon. women. the aged children alike
that | mny quickly win this war no"
The sheriff is To head III" kaiser 10 IN"
prisoners dock and he is to be tr'ed as
Il common criminal.
Once Germany had soul. but 'he
soul that sinnnth shall die" and Ger
many lost her own soul. The wise man
said. "hc who snneth against Coo
wrongeth his own soul. Germany
sins in retrospect seem sheer stupidity
Like a mummy she was sheathed ABOUT
with innumerahlc shcaths or HES
Greedy and ambitious for territory ana
world rule she tried 10 sFa'liy hcr
hunger through crimes. Germany WAS
like y man who was thirsty and drank
boiling water: like on" who was hungry
and a:c rod hot Goals. The result was
NATURALIZATION tho kaiser and his oacN-
crs-and that end was shame. contempt
and death.