Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-14
Punish the Warmakers

TO the Editor Of the Euening Public Ledger:
Sir-If world-detested German war lords
and would-be world rulers can commit thirty
crimes against humanity in one war,
how many new horrors, with this wonderful
experience, are they now planning and can
they plan for future use in their life work
Of warning? How much reparation and in
demnity will they pay? Have these leopards
changed their spots and do they control the
situation? OF dupes. pawns German cannon
fodder, many are dead and others still de-
ceived. How many Of German hordes would
ever have pillaged, raped, burned, desecrated
Belgium had 1t not been for these war in
famers and world-ruling planners?
The better German element have homes
and wives and children whom they left as
reluctantly our men who were forced to
protect their own hresides. They were fooled !;
deceived more thoroughly than England and
France were deceived, which says much
And all the same parties will be again de-
ceved in other new ways by the same
parties
Do the latter deserve punishment and is
the world safe from world war or safe for
democracy while the ringleaders run at
large? Is there more desirable and neces-
sary work for any tribunal of justice, any
league of nations than to bring to bay said
military war-leading parties? Is it imprac-
ticable and impossible for such tribunal Of
justice or league of nations to name the
crimes and the chefest criminals and keep
going after them till they get them. at least
some Of them, for both German and world
benefit?
Man-power. resources and markets of Rus
STA and central Europe in the hands of these
plotters make an enormously expensive police
force ludicrously ineffective in compa rison to
immediate punishment Of the ringleaders
is futile.
In the matter of highwaymen and thug
gerry long-term sentences deter others from
thinking the game profitable.
Ringleader punishment by a league of
nations Is the only sensible. secure measure
for future safety. Seven and one-half mil
lion deaths and S200, ,00C, 900 war debts
are part Of their crimes against civilization
Let these leaders and chefest culprits live
and travel amuck with new and original
methods Of deceit and propaganda, and soon
very soon, the world will have to deal with
an army or their dupes and hirelings in
fighting and killing instead of domestic
peace and the pursuit Of happiness for all
peoples Which it is automatic all people
desire.
German agents talk peace and spread
Bolshevist propaganda that the war was a
capitalist war; land belongs to the peasant +;
to take 1t and kill rightful owners means
bread for everybody.
To save civilization let a league of ma tions.
with Foch as generalissimo, name and get
the ringleaders of the war with tabulated
crimes, seek them and ultimately punish
them.
To preserve the world from universal Boil
shevism let Foch. at the head of a league
OF nations, get the rlngleaders and feed and
teach the dupes. For what other better MIR
pose can there be a tribunal of justice or
league Of nations than to catch and punish
the most guilty parties, the ringleaders?
Past justice deserves and owes it pres
ent safety commends it, and future security
demands II.
Order at home. and food and German in
demnity money, stable Germany and stable
Russia Will soon and inevitably follow in the
wake Of such sane and Just and effective
and imperative measure by league of ma
tions.
France and the world demand Foch as
leader Other than the Lusitania, facts which
set America aflame were known to Washing.
ton two years before. Were they withheld
to get votes? Is anything now withheld for
the same purpose? The world demands a
leader in whom they have the fullest conf
dence--Foch. e. q m
Philadelphia, March IS.