The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-05-09
THE OWOSSO TIMES
EDMUND D. DE NEY. PROP.
OwOSSO, MICH. MAY 8, 1919.
WHAT ABOUT wILHEIMY

Washington-The Republican Publ
city Association, through it's Presi
dent, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., today
gave out the following statement from
its Washington Headquarters:
as Bill the Butcher to get off scot
free? Is the muddle which Mr.. Will
son is string up in Europe to screen
the escape of this arch-conspiratol
against mankind? Is this advance
agent of Antichrist, if not the apoca-
lyptic Beast himself, to find safe ref
uge beneath the academic skirts of a
man whose imperialism was repudia-
ted at the polls last November? 1t
is beginning to look that way.
"Of all the lame excuses ever SUBJ
mitted to a Disguised world, that of
the American commission to the Ell
feet that there is no precedent in in
ternational law for the trial and con-
viction of the head of State is the
most spineless. If precedent is
needed, now is the time to establish
it, or the fate meted out to Napoleon
should suggest one,
"Did Wilhelm look for a precedent
when he overran Belgium? Did he
find excuse in International law when
AIDED aud outraged Belgian and French
he crucified Canadian soldiers, stock
women, manned and disemboweled
little children, defiled and destroyed
churches, cut the threats of American
prisoners, sank unarmed ships with
out warning, made of Belgium and
Northern France barren waste, and
sent his agents by the thousands into
neutral states to carry on mis- internal
propaganda, which continues to this
day? Was there any precedent to be
found in history for this campaign of
frightfulness, other than supplied by
Attila the Hun? NapoIeon was a
clean fighter at least and they BAN
ished him. Is Wilhelm to be permit
ted to sojourn undisturbed in princely
ease at Amerongen Castle, there to
mature his plans for second trial
for world conquest? II so, Mr.. Will
son should be credited with remark
able victory as counsel for the defense
of this international criminal, to Judge
from reports.
"The patience which the President
of the United States mas exhibited
toward Germany, the Germans and
the Kaiser and his court, is of 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 !
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 one Democratic campaign |
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 writing contests
between 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.
eve 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 Kais- !
er's hosts and who witnessed his di-
abolical war methods demands his |
punishment, and so does every red
bloded American who contributed to
the defeat which apparently Mr.. Will
son seeks to minimize. If Mr.. Wilson's
Intervention saves the hide of Butcher
Bill, there is but one reply to make
to his unauthorized assertion on be-
half of the American people, namely,
"He had no quarrel with the German
Kaiser"