Weekly Nome industrial worker., 1919-04-26

Had he been victorious, he would, no doubt, have taken a place in honor in history besides Alexander the Great
 The very Englishmen who now clamor for his punishment as a crim- inal have not yet proposed that he shall be punished more severely or contemptuously than they are them selves now punishing their own countrymen who have ventured to ex- press and act on consaentious ob- jection to war.
 Take our own conquests away and what remains of the British Empire?
 Outcry Against Germany
 The outcry about the crime of Ger many might have some meaning if it came from a community of Quakers From nation which still boasts ofI Agincourt and has since, to be frank, grabbed every corner of the earth it was strong enough and adventur- ous enough to lay it's very heavily mailed fist on, the outcry is worse than nonsense; it is a sort of treach- cry to our own past and an insult to our dead (and liying) captains.
 It is just such inconsiderateiy spiteful cackling and raving that has already robbed us of some of the moral advantage we might justly have claimed on the bare facts of the case.
 For example, there is no substantiaI evidence that the French used pois- on gas in the war before the Germans. But the Germans are able to allege that they did, and do it on authority of the English press!
 At the beginning of the war the sort of journals who invented that "Nea'Ter, My God, to Thee" fable about the Titanic set to work to write descriptions of trenches full of dead German soldiers standing stiffly to their arms just as they had stood when "a deadly gas invented by a Monsieur Turpin" struck them Our papers published these tales and exulted in them. And now the tales and exultations, idle romance and blitherings as they are, never theless put us effectually out of the court when we pretend to be vir- tuously indignant with the Germans for actually doing just the thing that we ourselves imagined and suggest l 2d.
 l shall be asked whether England is to be held responsible for the fancies of all her ingorant idiots. .reFHy simply, yes. We cannot help ourselves.
 What we can do, however, is to take care that these same ignorant idols shall not wreck the settlement of the war by screaming for a pre- scripA'on to console them for the cessation of the accustomed daily dose of blood and destruction.
 The punishment of Germany will be, and, indeed already has been, terrible enough to satisfy all except the little creatures who can under stand some vindlctive relation on a single visible and conceivable person with a name mad addresss, but to whom the downfall and failure of a great power means nothing.
 In truth, the consequences of the war must be so appalling for the central empires that our business is not to rub them in, but rather to plan how civilization itself can be saved now that the bottom has sud l. denly fallen out of Europe.
 Having knocked Germany off her feet, the most pressing thing we haY 10 do for her is to set her on her legs again for nobody, who is not poll tjcal lunatic, can face the prospect of European chaos.
 When we break a Germans leg with bullet and then take him pris- oner, we immediately set to work to mend bis leg, to the astonishment of our idiots. who cannot under stand why we do not proceed to | break his other leg.
 l We shall have to act on the same principle with the German nation. We have broken it's back, and now we have to get is tback mended again somehow. The alternative is to kill t, and that is not practical alter native.
 ! Those who attempt to introduce unnecessary complications into the settlement should remember two things