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IRISH PUBLICIST SAVS THAT PLAN TO PUNISH INDIVIDUAL GER
MANS IS "CHILDISH NONSENSE”
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Say- That War Is Not A (Time, ButDcdaies That It Ou^ht To Ha Made Sc
By GEORGE BE
It is only to be expected that the
Innocent, civilian who und.eflttamjs |
little of peace and lees of war should
continually cry out against the opera-,
tions of war as crimes demanding;
punishment. •
And. as it is necessary that those)
who write at first hand about the war)
should dwell on the worst features;
and incidents of the war as carried on I
by the enemy whilst passing lightyj
ore* everything harsh and shocking:
in our own proceedings, the inno
cent civilian is led to imagine his own
country must needs come spotless, out
of any subsequent judicial investiga
tion, whilst the enemy must emerge
covered with infamy, with many of;
his officers marked out for condign!
punishment.
It is kindness to a statesman to
let down ail his virtuous indignation:
as gently as possible, but it would j
7)0 treasonable to hold out the slight-,
«st hope that the conditions of peace |
can he hampered by any such investi
gation or include such punishment. I
Unfortunately, when tin? place as
statesman is taken by party, politi
cians, this sort of treason is likely to
b.e winked at. nevertheless.
As a matter of fact our politicians
are protesting in all direct oas that
the peace negotiations will consist]
largely in making police court cases]
of the incidents of the w :• and post
poning ‘he problenfs oi th ivsjttie
ment of Europe while sentences arei
passed on individual Germans for in-1
dividual assaults on members of the]
British Seamen's and Firemen’s!
Union. }
It, therefore, behooves those of us
who are not parliamentarians to
make our simpler fellow citizens
aware that this is ail childish non
sense and to break it to them that a
general raking up of the Incidents
of the fighting is even less possible
after the present war than It has
proved in former wars, when there
was not, notwithstanding the same
clamor, with much the same horrors
to provoke it.
A slimed Atrocities werc Committed
First, in order to head tho indig
nant citnzens off a hopelessly wrong
track, it must be understood that
the objection to bringing offenders
tt> account is not in the least that
the'r crimes are exaggerated or.
vvere not committed.
On the contrary, it.may be con
fidently assumed that for every atro
city yet recorded in the present war
hare are several hundreds that have
[neve bean mentioned and never will
be mentioned. x
.Even if not one complaint had been
trade, il would remain statistically
ertain that more foul play than the
mman heart could bear the narra
tion of must have formed part of the
Proceedings qf the last four years.
Ivtvn millions of men are in question.
Time—even horrible crime—may be
taaumed without any specific evidence
hatever. *
This applies to peace as well as to
•ar. When we say that any English
,an is Incapable of cruelty, treacli
■y, rapine, theft and murder, we are
[peaking of the respectable English
tNARD SHAW.
nan. We know quite well that we
’a.ve kept prisons and gallows to (leal
vith disreputable Englishmen amply
tapable of all these crimes.
We know, too, that the very judge
.vhc sentenced these disreputable, as
•i the case of Jeffries, is sometimes a
norecruel scoundrel than the people
re sends to the stake.
We know that we have had to sel
;p a Society for the Prevention ol
drueity to Children to deal with Eng
lishmen and English women whc
real their own children not simply
. ke Huns devastating their enemies
is Joshua devastated the tribes ol
i.he Promised hand, but like incar
nate fiends let loose on their owr
ilesh and blood.
They are not typical English liter
md Englishs women; but in every
million of English people there is
bound to be a certain percentage ol
thorn, just as th -re is in every millior
Tench. Italian. German, Austrian
"urkish and other peoples, belliger
nt or neutral.
A cynic might say that one man it
very hundred is a rascal. This
would give us a figure of 60,000 it
:.he British army alone. An optimis
> :i it as low as one in a thousand;
but even this would give us fi.OOC
rascals.
We must, therefore, make the Ger
mans an allowance of at least 10,not
rascals, including several hundrec
luite Infernal scoundrels, before wt
lure assume that we British shoult
•nnie out of any searching and itt
partial investigation any more cred
tably than they should.
For it mu3t not be forgotten—-the
ipparently it often is—that an inves
igation into war atrocities could noi
be confined to Gorman atrocities.
We must, however, beware of as
;anting that the criminal classes 01
Europe do more mischief in war thar
n peace. On the contrary, armies
live under conditions of discipline
uradeshlp, public opinion and ex
emption from poverty which make
many into honest men and good sol
liers.
When they return they do not im
irove; they relapse.
Already our magistrates, after try
r.g sentimentality for a while on
>ur d ^charged soldiers, have had tc
uinounce that not even ,a Victoria
“Toss will secure immunity for a sol
tier if he breaks the law, no matter
tow satisl'actorry his character may
tave been in tli8 army.
No one can lie as bad in a regiment
is lie can be in a slum, for bayonet
ightinng uses up the superfluous
mergy and irritability that might
rent itself at home in savage assaults.
The Other Side
But if criminals behave better as
loldiers than as civilians, honest men,
infortunately, after behaving much
vorse.
Many honest men serving in this
var are not highly civilized men. They
ire men who have formed part of
ynchlng mobs. In moipents of ex
dtement and inflamed imagination
hey have, perhaps, saturated live
lion's skins with kerosene ami com
lelled women to set them on fire.
Some of them are Afrteans and In
dian tribesmen.
Even among the white men there
ire backwoodsmen whb are not. to
jay the least, obsessed \yth a sense
if the right of a surrendered prisoner
if war to life and huina£ treatment
Even the highly civilized w'^lte
men whose early lives ^ere never
roughened by the backwoods, the
camp or the battlefield, have we not
had letters in the newspapers clamo^
ing for retaliatory cruelty with a
ferocity that would have revolted
Captain Kidd?
How would such people come out
of an impatial investigation of atro
cities? It is creditable tha^ any
commander, knowing what war is and
what must happen on all didos in a/l
wars, will consent to such an orgy of
recrimination and raking up of hor
rors as is demanded by the simpletons
who imagine that 20,000,000 English
men. Frenchmen. Australians, Amer
icans, Indians and Africans of all
■arts compose an army of angels and
hat Germany is a hell of uniformly
unredeemable fiends?
As to sentimentalities about women
and children, of which the English
ar.d Germans are so full, how, any
countenance, can they put forward
by the statement of the two powers
who have openly set themselves to
he task of starving one another out?
Starving Effects <'liildren
This starving out is the most di
rect fcrnvof war on women and child
dren; for the soldier must be fed at
all hazards; he is the last to starve,
vhilp the women and children are the
first.
I hype I am not an exceptionally
ferocious person, but I had rather
torpedo a baby or drown it than
starve it to death. Officially it has
been claimed by Parliament that for
!very bomb dropped by German aero
planes on our towns, one hundred
have been dropped by Allied aero
planes. From out own experience we
can guess the result.
The German raider aims, presum
ably. at Woolwlich arsenal and wrecks
a house in Maid-a-Vale. His best
shots, aimed apparently at the House
or Parliament, strike the Little Thea
ter and clip Cleopatra's needle.
Our airmen, I judge, have no bet
ter means of selecting the spots where
>ar bombs drop. This means that in
raining hundreds of bombs, as we
have, on the Rhine towns, we must
have killed many more women and
children than the Germans. In the
■ase of Bruges, several of the victims
must have been our own Allies.
The truth is, this war has literally
explcded the notion that civilians or
women and children can hope to es
cape from, the undiscriminat.ngn en
gines of death and destruction which
have come into Use.
The use *»f starvation as a means
of defeating the enemy invilves war
fare on ships as such without regard
to their living freight. Under its
principles any vessel capable of car
vying-provisions to the enemy must
go flown, no matter who is on board
The Next Trip.
x it is idle to plead that the ship car.
rie3 no food, no munitions, no sol
diers, or that it .is a hospital ship oi
i passenger ship, if it is spared, il
may carry food on its next trip, sc
down it goes.
The question whether the Leinster
had jtroop# on board, is, viewed in this
light of no importance. If she had
all thy better from the German point
of view, arid all the worse from ours;
but the real reason for sinking hei
was that she*v.as capable of carrying
food to England.
And whilst we kept up the blockade
against Germany and, thru every
means in our power, closed every
channel by which Germany could ob
♦a'n food for her starring population,
v'•! had no moral right to complain
the used every means in hers.
As a matter of fact, soldiers and
real statesmen do not complain; they
it least do not imagine that any tm
, partial tribunal could make a moral
or legal distinction between blockade
>y submarine and blockade by the
grand fleet.
There is only one respect in which
Germany is bound to come out of this
I war with a blacker record than her
opponents, so far. She has had to per
form two of the most horrible opera,
-ions of war. One of them is the es
’ablishment of a reign of terror as a
means of prtection of the invaders in
a country where every man's hand is
against them.
Tin: other is the stampeding of a
terrified civilian population across the
path of a military movement which
it is desired to impede to the utmost,
it they In themselves are recog
nized operations of war. And war is
not a crime.
Win Should lie Crime
It is silly to keep on abusively
flinging that epithat at it. War ought
to be made a crime, no doubt. But
it has not been made one. vOn the
contrary'- it has been glorified for cen
turies as the noblest of human ac
ivitios ,and not one of the bolllgeents
even yet renounced the right to make
it.
The Kaiser’s mailed fist and shin
ing armor were perfectly in order
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 puniished more severely or
contemptuously than they are them
selves now punishing their own
countrymen who have ventured, to ex
press and act on a conscientious 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 a nation which still boasts of
Agineourt and has since, to be frank,
grabbed every corner of the earth
it was strong enough and adventur
ous enough to lay its very heavily
mailed fist on, the outcry is worse
than nonsense; >it is a sort of treach
ery to our own past and an insuit to
oar dead (and living) * captains.
It is just such inconsiderately
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 substantial
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
:;ort of journals who invented that
“Nea'rer, 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
.Uonsi’.eur 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
oourt when we pretend to be vir
tuously indignant with the Germans
for actually doing just the thing that
wo ourselves imagined and suggest
'd.
f shall be asked whether England
is to be 'held responsible for the
fancies of all her ingorant idiots. I
.re(*iy simply, yes. We cannot help
ourselves.
What wo 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
scrijyon to console them for the
cessation of the accustomed daily
dose of blood and destruction.
The punishment of Germany wiill
be. and. indeed already has been,
terrible enough to satisfy all except
ihe little creatures who can under
stand some vindictive relation on a
single visible and conceivable person
with a name nad 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
j denly fallen out of Europe,
i Having knocked Germany off her
j feet, the most pressing thing we ha1/
to do for her is to set her on her legs
1 again; tor nobody, who is not. a poli
I t(fal lunatic, can face the prospect
I of European chaos.
When we break a German’s leg
} with a bullet and then take him pris
! oner, we .immediately set to work
to mend h;s leg. to the astonishment
| of our idiots, who cannot under
stand why we do not proceed to
I hr. :ik his other leg.
We shall have to act on the same
j principle with the German nation. We
j have broken its back, and now we
j have to get is tback mended again
! somehow. The alternative is to kill
t, and that is not a practical alter
native.
i Those who attempt to introduce
unnecessary complications into the
settlement should remember two
things.
The first thing is. now that we are
no longer under the spell of pressing
and deadly peuil, the vogue of panic
stricken fools is over. It has been
one of the worst tyrannies that war
nas brought dtt us, and the reaction
from it will put the l’ools in their
places pretty roughly.
The second is that Prussia is not
so completely down and out as she
was in the last year of the Seven
Years war. Frederick could not de '
feat he allies, but he could and did
wait until they quarreled and saved
him,
Now, If the alliance between Brit
ain, Franco and the United States
should by any chance be dominated
by fools, who are nothing if not
qua1^ ^lsome, it Will fly to pieces
and ennble the Germans to attach
themselves to one of the quarreling
udes and snatch the honors of war
>ut of the very jaws of defeat and
political dissolution.
MORAL*: Muzzle the fools and
snake clean work of the settlement
while all the circumstances are still
propitious.
COULD NOT FACE JURY
TACOMA, April 23—Orville Bill
ings, millionaire and Tormer Repub
lican candidate for governor of the
state of Washington shot and hilled
himself rin the presence of his wife
last night.
Billings was to be tried today in
the Seattle courts on a charge of
wronging Gladys Utter, a deaf mute
girl thirteen years old at the Savoy
hotel in Seattle two years ago.
The case had been postponed sev
eral times, Billings, rather than face
the court, charged with this heinous
crime, ended his own life.
W ANT PRINCE JAILED
Berlin, April 23—It was announced
today that the German government
has issued a warrant charging Prince
Henry, ex Kaiser Willian’s brother
with being implicated in a plot to
restore the Hohenzollern monarchy
in Germany.
Prince Henry is reported to be in
hiding in Holland and his extradi
tion will be asked for by the German
government.
JOIN ROUMANIANS
BUDAPEST, April 22—Thirty
thousand Szekler troops have gone
over to the Roumanians making the
'defeat of the Hungarian Soviet gov
ernment a certainty. The radicals
government in this event will very]
likely be replaced by the socialist de
mocratic regime headed by Sigmund
Kunff.
(The Szekler’s of Magyar blood
inhabit the comitates of the Udvar
hely and Maros Torda in the east and
Northeast of Transylvania.)
W ILL MEET GERMANS
PARIS, April 23—The French gov
ernment has appointed a military
commisd'on to meet the German
Peace Delegates at the frontier and
look after them while they are at Ver
sailles during the Peace negotiations.
WILL TRY TO FLY TO IRELAND
WASHINGTON. April 23—It has
been announced that three American
Natal seaplanes will make an at
tempt early next month to fly to Ire
land.
The start will be made at Rock
away beach and the names of the con
testants will be announced in the near
future.
THAT’S GOING SOME
LONDON, April 24—The "Pall
Mall Gazette” says that the wonder
ful advance in aeronautics has made
it possible that any place in the world
can now' be reached from London
within four days.
PERFECT TRANSPORT SEKVK »;
LONDON, Aprd 24—It has been
officially announced that the arranga
n.ants for the*home transport of the
American troops has been perfected
to such a point that all American
i troops will have left Franco by the
j first of August.
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BOLSHEVIKS LOSE KIEV
VIENNA. April 24—Russian dis‘
Ilatches state that Ukranian revolu
I tionaries under the leadership of
| Simeon Pethera have succeeded in
| driving the Bolsheviks out of Kiev
and have assumed full control of the
j local government.
WANT ARMISTICE
VIENNA. April 24—It is reported
here that the Hungarian Soviet gov
ernment is endeavoring lo arrange an
annistice with Rouman.a for the pur
pose of settling the Roumanion ter
ritorial claims by negotiation.
It is not known here whether Rou
nan.a lias agreed to accept this pro
position or not.
Letters received from Dime creek
jure of a rather pessimistic tenor re
: trading that camp. Only a few men
! are being employed at wages at pres
ent owing to the high operating ex
penses. Snow has boon very scarce
there this winter and there will con
sequently be a scarcity of
water for sluicing. The operators
are also not inclined to pay adequate
wages, four dollars per day would
seemingly suit them better than the
scale the miners at Dime creek de
mand.
MAY SETTLE DISPUTE
PARIS, April 25—It has been in
timated by members of the Italian
Headquarters that an amiicable solu
tion of the Flume Dalmatian qnestion
is in prospect.
The Italian delegates remaining
here will contiue their work, after
consultation with the Italian parlia
ment which may lie convoked next
Monday.
RECOGNIZE PROTECTRATE
LONDON, April 25—It has been
iffieiajly announced here that the
American government has formally
•ecognized the British protectorate
n Egypt.
WILL CONSIDER CONSTITUTION
PARIS April 25—It has been offi
cially announced that the Allied Pow
ers have finished the revision of the
constitution of the proposed League
of Nations and that the Peace confer
ence will meet next Monday in plenary
session to consider the same.
It is expected that the constitution
will be accepted as revised, as some
of the objectionable features have
been eliminated.
TO SETTLE BY PLEBISCITE
PARIS, April 2 5—It has been re
ported here that the Czecho Slovak
representatives to the Peace Confer
ence have suggested to President Wil
son today that a plebiscite he held
in the districts and towns in Dalmatia,
possession of which is demanded by
the Italian government.
The Czecho Slovak representatives
suggest this solution of a most vexSng
question as an eminently fair ono,
fully in consonance With !he express
ed principles of President Wilson.
TRY TO BLOCK INVADERS
BERLIN, AprCl 25—Advices re
ceived here state that the Hungarian
border has been closed in an effort
to block the Roumanian invasion.
Sixty thousand Transylvanian are re
ported to have joined the invading
Roumanian army. The people of
Budapest are panic s*ricken and
thousands of citizens, are reportod to
be fleeing the city.
COLD SNAP
WASHINGTON, April 25—All ex
tremely cold snap accompanied by
heavy snowstorms is prevailing thru
out the territory oast of the Missis
sippi. doing an immense amount of
damage to the growing crops.
Keep Posted, Read the WORKER.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Felix Brown, your heirs, legal
representatives, or assigns:
You are hereby notified that I have
expended in labor and improvements
during each of the years of 190S 1907,
1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913,
1914, 1915 and 1916 the sum of on
hundred dollars ($100) on Placer
claim No. 1 above on Newton Gulch
No. 1 a tributary to Dry Creek in the
Cape Nome Recording Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska: notice of location of
which is recorded in volume 105 pago
379 of the records of said Recording
Precinct. Said labor and improve- ,
monts having been done on said claim
for the purpose of holding same under
the provisions of Section 232 1 Revised
Statutes of the United States.
You are hereby required to con
tribute your proportion of said ex
penditure. as co-owner to the under
signed within ninety days from the
| final publication of this notice or your
| interest in said mining claim will bo
forfeited and become the property of
the undersigned, your co-owner, as
i provided by said section of the Re
vised Statutes.
Dated-at Nome, Alaska, February
15,-1919.
AUGUST HOMBURGER
Co-owner.
Published—Feb. 22. Mar. 1, 8. 12,
22, 29. Apr. 5. 12, 19, 26. May. 3. 10
1 17, 24, 1919.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Joseph Kramer, Herman Piper,
John Brennan Max Anger, C. N.
Brown and D. M. Brogan, your heirs,
legal representatives, or assigns:
You and each of you arc hereby no
tified that I have expended in labor
and mprovements during each of the
years of 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910,
1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, and
1916 the sum of one hundred dollars
($100) on the St Anthony Associa
tion Placer Mining Claim, situated
on the left limit of Newton Gulch No.
1 a tributary to Dry Creek in the
Cape Nome Recording Precihct, Ter
ritory of Alaska; notice of location of
which is recorded in volume 111 page
408 of the records of said Recording
Precinct. Said labor and improve
ments having been done on said claim
for the purpose of holding same under
♦he provisions of Section 2324 Revised
Statutes of the United States.
You and each of you are hereby
required to contribute your propci
tion of said expenditure as co-owner
t.<> the undersigned within ninety
days from the final publication of
this notice or your interest n said
mining claim will he forfeited and be
come the property of the untfers gned.
your co-owner, as provided by said
section of the Revised Statutes.
Dated at Nome, Alaska. February
15, 1919.
AUGUST HOMBURGER
Co-owacr.
Published—Feb. 15, 22. Mar. 1, 8, IS,
22, 29. Apr. 5, 12, 19, 26. May, 3, 10,
17, 1919.