The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-02-18
EDITORIALS
THE YELLOW STREAK"

w. R. Richardson, writing in the
New York Tribune for February IA,
says:
"Apropos of the question of the
PREPARATIONS and the loud squeal from
the defeated Germans because of the
bill which the Allies have agreed to
enforce, permit me to relate an Incl
dent which occurred in a Wisconsin
city a short time ago.
A group of pro-German pacifists
were bewailing the wickedness of the
blockade and the consequent starva-
ton of the old people and the chill
drep, when an old Kentucky colonel,
who had listened for some time in
silence to their whining, gave express
sion to these words
What ails the Germans is that they
are yellow. We Southerners fought
the North for four years. They never
defeated US in a pitched battle, but
their blockade of our ports was our
ruin. We could not sell pound of
cotton; we could not buy a barrel of
flour, nor an ounce of military sup
plies. We ate parched corn; we
dressed in rags; but damn it, we never
squealed!
Any sane-minded man can see the
truth in that. And where the South
fought most of its battles on South
ern territory having their homes and
cities ruined by war. THERE WAS
NEVER A BATTLE FOUGHT ON
GERMAN SOIL DURING THIS
LAST WAR!
Germany is better of today than
the French, the Belgians, the English,
the Italians and even the Americans!
Belgium suffered most of all Her
entire country was overrun by the
scourage of pea-green uniforms worn
by Hunnish vandals. Northern France
was left looking like a shambles
England, Italy and America incurred
greater debts in proportion to the men
in service than Germany did. There
were more American ships sunk on
the high seas than there were German
ships.
And yet Germany whines and
squeals and puts on poor face and
poor mouth in the most contemplate
deceit the world has ever seen.
In the Franco Prussian war the
Germans overrun France and ravaged
their land horribly. Then they made
the French pay war indemnity of
$1,000,000,000. Yet France was the
one beaten, and France was the ore
who suffered the ravages of war;
France was the one who had to re-
build and restore millions of dollars
Of homes and public buildings; AND
YET IN ADDITION TO THAT THE
GERMANS MADE THEM PAY ONE
COLD BILLION DOLLARS INDEM-
NIFTY.
Now the tables are changed. Ger
many wreaked destruction on every
land she touched; she wreaked de
struction on every unarmed and I'M
protected ship of the seas she could
reach-even sinking ships off our own
shores; Germany wrecked the peace of
the world and caused the sacrifice of
millions of men of every nationality
Of the world; Germany ruined bust
Hess anu progress ana manufacture
and commercei
And now that they are asked to pay
$21 ,000,000,000 for the universal havoc
they have brought to all nations (aIl
but themselves), they whine and
cringe and send their moneys into for
eign countries for banking, and cry
bankruptcy.
1t is an Internal lie! Germany is
better off today than Belgium and
France, and no worse off than England
and Italy and America!
And those maudlin fools who are
giving cows and money to feed Ger
man liars and blackguards should be
kicked out of this country and sent
to Germany where they can rub roses
with the filth Of their kind.
Germany must pay! And it is
contemplate reflection on the govern
ment Of this country that Germany
should not be made to pay for the
loss this country suffered Instead
of that, however, that hatchet-faced
President who went pirouting gayly
around Europe has promised that he
will use his influence to have the debts
of other nations owing the United
States cancelled.
And in the meantime we are pay
ing war taxes on half the things we
buy, and income taxes that are as
unjust as the tax on tea that caused
the revolution resulting in this coun-
try's independence"