The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-06-21

reported IN .CalSaIy dHo otdei St'AN-
simultaneously with the arrests mere
the royal northwest mounted ponce
raided the labor temple from Wnlch
the strike has been conducted. Con-
siderable literature said to he OF
Bolshevik nature was seized.
Though Germany was herself the
guaranty of Belgium Germany vlo-
lated the rules after solemn promise
to respect the neutrality os this un-
offending people.
Not content with this, they delib-
erately carried out a series of pro-
miscuous shootings and burnings with
the sole object of terrifying the in
habitants into submission by the very
frightfulness of their action. They
were the first to use poisonous gas
knowing the appalling suffering it en-
tailed. They began the bombing and
long distance she1ling Of towns, for
NJ military object. but solely for the
purpose of reducing the morale OF
their opponents by striking at their
women and children.
They commenced the submarine
campaign with it's piratical challenge
to international law and it's destruc-
ton Of great numbers Of innocent
passengers and sailors in midocean
far from succor, at the mercy of the
| winds and the waves and yet more
ruthless submarine crews. They drove
thousands of women and children with
| brutal saUagery into slavery in for
aign lands; they allowed barbaritles
| to be practiced against their prison
ers of war, from which the most uE-
civilized people would have recoiled.
sThe conduct Of Germany is almost
unexampled in human history. The
terrible responsibility which lies at
her doors can he seen by the fact that
mot less than 1000, 600 dead lie buried
jn Europe while more than 20,000,oO0
others carry upon them the evidence
! of wounds and suffering. because Ger
many saw fit to crafty her lust for
tyranny by resort to war.
..,The allied and associated powers
believe that they will be false 20 those
who have given their all to save the
freedom of the world, if they consent
to treat the war on any other basis
than as crime against humanity and
right.
This attitude Of the allied and as
sociated powers was made perfectly
clear 20 Germany during the war by
their principal statesmen. 1t was de-
fined by President Wilson in a speech
Of April 6, 1917, and explicitly and
eategerically accepted by the German
people as a principle covering the
peace-1et everything that we say, my
fellow countrymen, everything that
we henceforth plan and accomplish,
ring true to this response, till the
majesty and might Of our concerted
power shah fill the thought and ut
terly defeat the force Of those who
dout and mispriZe what we honor and
hold dear. Germany has once more
said that force and force alone, shall
decide whether Justice and peace
shall reign in the affairs of men,
whether right, as America conceives
it, or dominion as she. conceives it,
shall determine the destinies of man.
kind. There is therefore, but one
response possible from us: Force,
force to the utmost; force without
stint or limit. the righteous and tri-
umphant force which shall make the
law Of the world and cast every sell
fish dominion down in the dust
n. Clemenceau in the letter also
quotes from speeches delivered by
Io1y1 Conroo nf Croot D,;f
ain, himself as premier of France,
and Premier Orlando Of Italy, in
which 1t was specifically declared that
when victory was won, compromise Is
to peace terms was impossible and
Just punishment should be meted out
and continues:
Justice, wherefore, is the only pos
sible basis for the settlements Of the
accounts Of this terrible war. Justice
is just what the German delegation
asks for and says that Germany has
been promised. But it must be justice
for all. There must be justice for the
dead and wounded and for those who
have been orphans and bereaved that
Europe might be free from Prussian
despotism. There must be justice for
the peoples who now stagger under
war debts which exceed thirty billions
whose homes and lands, ships and
property, German savagery has
spoilated and destroyed.
THAT is why the allied and asso-
ciated powers have insisted as car
dinal feature Of the treaty that Ger
many must undertake TO make repa-
ration to the very uttermost Of her
power, for reparation for wrongs in
f1icted is Of the essence Of justice"
That is why they insist that these
individuals who are most clearly re-
sponsible for German aggression and
for those acts Of barbarisn and inhu-
nlanity which have disgraced the Ger
man conduct of the war must be
handed over to justice, which has not
been meted out TO them at home.
.'That. too. is why Germany must
submit for a few years to certain
special disabilities and arrangements. !
Germany has ruined the industries,
the mines and the machinery of neigh
boring countries, not during battle !