Cleveland County herald., 1919-05-08
GERMANY As HE
 LEPER IF HUMAN
 FAMILY STANDS BY
TOO EARLY TO FORGET WHAT THE HUN DID OR MIGHT
 HAVE DONE.
OUR DUTY IS NOT ENDED
We Must All Come In and Make the Future Safe and Whole
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Do you remember In the book Ben Hur" how the people shrank away from the iepers, crying "Unclean! Uncleani"
 That same cry rings irL the Bible, in the history of the Old East. The ieper must cry out "Unclean!" when he moved along the highways.
 Germany, tho proud and brutal Germany of year ago, finds herself now in something of the ieper's status The Hun orgy of blood and rapine, of fire and sword has ended. Germany sowed the wind ard she Is reaping the whirlwind. Decent men stand away from the German. It may be years before any German is permitted to forget that.
 When the first squadron of whipped sea-sh2rks, the submarine of Ger many, come into an English port, after the arnristice was signed, a cu- rious thing happoIed. After ell the formalities had been completed one of the German officers offered to shake hands with an Engl ish captain.
 The EnglishmaT. stepped back wards and turned his back on the Hun. He couldn't take the hand of a baby-l1iller, sea-assassin Decent men don't fight the way the Hun fought.
 Will Fay in Ostracism.
 How many generations will 1t be before the hand of civilization will again be extended to the German? A good many, possibly
 Germany will pay in ostracism, in hatred, and in distrust and she will pay in other ways as we'll as in a financial sense. But the Germans have only Germany to blame.
 It is not going to be easy for us to forget that she broke through all the That her soldier1 were turned loose to do their worst wherever they in- vaded country That they ran amuck at Louvain, that they plum dered in Liege, that they devastated all France, that they destroyed churches, that they plundered like savages.
 And no man has ever heard or read in the orders of the old German army of a single one Of these looters and murderers being punished for their crimes. We want to recall all these things. Just recall them and keep them in your mind while the drive for the Fifth Loan, the Victory Liberty Loan, is on.
 Too Early 10 Forget.
 They will help to remind you of some of the things that America has been spared, thanks to our getting into this war and coming up to the scratch in time to hold the Hun out of Paris and finally beat him to his knees.
 It won't hurt to remember that the other Liberty Loans helped to cage this wild beast.
 It is from tho perdition on earth that the Germans carried into Russia Belgium, France, Serbia and Ru- mania that this country has escaped No man can repress 8 shudder when he thinks what the land of the United States has escaped, when he thinks what would have inevitably come to pass in America if we had not beaten down the Hun.
 When the nation Is calling on Americans to take a part of the Fifth Loan, the Loan of Liberty and Vic tory, we can afford to remember all these things that we know came to pass in the Old World where the Bosche ragged uncaged for four years. There isn't an adult American any. where in the country who should feel free to ignore the call of this next loan.
 It isn't that we need fear Germany now But we ought to be willing to come in and help make the future as safe as the united wisdom of the free nations of the world can make it.