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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1919
MAKE THE HUN PAY.
One more atrocity the Huns are in
flicting upon mankind^ Arrogantly
they criticise the peace congress and
put forward swollen demands. Ac
cording to our Associated Press tele
graphic report yesterday President
Wilson has declared that the failure
of the Germans to execute the terms
of the armistice would justify the re
sumption of the war.
The Hun newspapers denounce the
plans forming at the peace conference
to bring them to justice and they are
appealing with real or pretended con
fidence to President Wilson.
A French army officer returning to
Paris declares that the German peo
ple are far from realizing their true
situation. Putting faith in Chancellor
Ebert, who greeted the homecoming
Hun hosts as victors, because they
had “protected the Fatherland from
invasion,” they are said to believe
that they have a right to insist on be
ing accorded terms which should be
granted only to the undefeated,
j The French officer, while in Berlin,
saw Germans march past the head
quarters of the American command
and heard them cheer for President
Wilson and the United States.
Can America afford to succumb to
such flattery? Whether it be hypoc
risy or that self-delusion which made
the Germans a nation of madmen, it
is an appeal to our sympathies which
we, as the arbiters of their fate, must
pass judgment upon at once. If it be
hycocrisy the Germans are trying to
minimize their crimes by devices of
cunning and deceit. If it be self-de
lusion, the Germans are living in a
fool’s paradise.
A Belgian envoy to this country
gives us a glimpse of those hdrrors
which the fleeing Huns left behind.
Doctor Henry Anet, representative
in America on Christian relief in
France and Belgium, an organization
composed of Hugenots, declares that
the Huns not only stole the machin
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trade secrets, that they attempted to
enslave Belgium so that never again
could it become a commercial coun
try in competition with Germany, that
the tradesmen of Belgium are ruined,
that twenty per cent of the people in
Belgium and northern Prance are suf
fering from tuberculosis since the in
vasion, _ that persons whose opinions
carry weight' estimate that only a
small part of the children between
one and ten years of age who under
went the severe suffering caused by
the war will live to manhood and
womanhood and that of those who do
hardly any will be normal men and
•women.
After all that we have heard of
Armenian massacres and of the rape
of Belgium and northern Prance the
simple words of Doctor Anet 'Still
strike, fires in our horror-petrified
souls. The pitiless people who trod
upon the conquered masses, beat
them, starved them, infected them
with diseases so that they are now but
walking hospitals, ravished their
women and murdered men who dared
to protest, these are the same people
who are,cheering Americans in Ber
lin and demanding soft-handed justice.
They appeal to us because we are
noted for our mercy and our magnan
imity, but the hands they hold out for
mercy are black with crimes and red
with the blood of victims.
Let us grant them justice. If there
b? room for mercy, let us be merci
ful to those who deserve It Let us
go out of our way, Indeed, to find
those who merit mercy, but let us not
be so weak, so susceptible to flattery
that we will fail to impose Justice
where justice Is demanded by laws,
human and divine.
If we have any vision beyond that
of mere material vision we can see
other hosts marching by the American
headquarters In Berlin—the hosts of
the dead —. the men who were
strangled by poison gases, the women
who died in the hell of Belgium and
northern France, the women and lit
tle children of the Lusitanlan and
myriad others who were victims of
the Huns and kaiserism.
It is1 theirs to command. If, updn
their mystic lips, .the words of mercy
can find utterance, tlien we shall
grant mercy. But if they can send us
only an appeal for justice then we
must put mercy aside and for their
sake and for the sake of ourselves
and of fair-dealing in all ages we must
accord only exact justice.
To make the Hun pay is not to
wreak vengeance. ,
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DEMOCRATS AND 1920.
It is rather early to be gathering
future crops, but the wheat speculat
ors have already got the 1919 winter
wheat into the barn and now comes
the New York World, the leading
Democratic- paper of the country, ar^d
in its Sunday issue it has a Washing
to special to the effect that Pershing
may be the next Democratic candi
date for the presidency. Certain
southern senators, it learns, who have
lost interest in Wilson, have “ap
proached” the general. It does not
say what luck they had. •
Pershing has always been reported
as a Republican. Ex-Senator Dick, an
Ohio Republican, has already incorpo
rated himself as a Pershing boomer.
Hoover, launched thus promptly by
-the Providence Journal, has told the
butchers of Edith Cavell to go to hell,
therebv aaininer more niitsnnlrnn
praise than his wonderful work in
providing food for the hungry has
brought him. He,is supposed to be a
Republican, though he did whoop it.
up for Wilson in the recent election
and did tell the country that, if they
were to have things to eat, they must
elect Democrats to Congress, "which
they didn’t do it.” His friends ex
cuse him on the ground of "official
pressure.” Roosevelt had his friends
organized and General Woods occu
pies a strategic position from wher
ever the government has lately moved
him.
Wilson expects to run again as a
world figure, and gossip has it that
Son-in-Law McAdoo went ashore at
high treasury tide largely because he
and Pa both had the 1920 election in
mind, each for himself and neither for
the other. Champ Clark, seven times
carrying the national Democratic con
vention and then failing of nomina
tion, is said to be ready again. There
is a lot of time ahead, but also there
is nothing like being ready.
The Courant ventures to offer un
solicited advice to the Democratic
managers. They should take some
men who have been free from presi
dential controversies hitherto, men
whom everybody knows, men who
need no introduction. We suggest:
For president—Harry A. Garfield.
For vice-president—George Creel.
If that does not suit they might try:
For president—George Creel.
For vice president—Harry H. Gar
field.
It would be equally strong either
end first. There does not seem to be
room for Burleson, though many of
those who voted on his ticket would
be glad to have a chance to vote on
him, too.—Hartford Courant.
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The attempt to prevent the con
firmation of Judge Bunnell and Dis
trict Attorney Roth of Fairbanks,
who have been renominated by Presi
dent Wilson for the offices they hold,
is admittedly purely political. There
are no charges involving their official
efficiency or integrity. Both of tfiem
have lived long in Alaska. They came
here to make their homes and to help
develop the country—not to hold of
fice. They were called from private
life, where they were making good,
to hold high positions. Neither of
them were what could be termed of
fice seekers. Both of them were old
citizens of the territory before they
ever held an office of any port In the
territory, or before they aspired to
office. It is not charged that their
records as citizens, or as officials
after they were called into the pub
lic service, were not honorable and
satisfactory to the people. Their of
fense is that as citizens of the terri
tory, of long standing, they opposed
Judge Wickersham, who came to
Alaska with a commission as an of
ficial in carpetbag, and ever since has
been a constant office holder or office
seeker, for Delegate to Congress.—
Juneau Empire.
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The demobilization of the drafted
men at the different Alaska forts is
proceeding entirely too methodical
and slowly to suit most of the men in
the service, who are anxious to re
turn to their vocations, as their serv
ices are no longer required for war
purposes. •*
SOUTHEASTERN NATIVES
ESTABLISH CITIZENSHIP
Word comes from Juneau to the ef
fect that the natives of Southeastern
Alaska are taking advantage of the
■territorial act under which they may
be given the privilege of citizenship
under certain conditions. More than
thirty applications of natives for cer
tificates to establish their citizenship
are on file at the office of the federal
court clerk at Juneau.
Applications are made by the na
tives, signed by a government school
teacher, who certifies that the native
has passed examinations fitting him
for citizenship, and by six white citi
zens, who certify as to the native’s
character.
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ZAPATA’S REBEL BAND
BEING HUNTED DOWN.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 18 (by mail).—
Hunted by government troops and
with his forces deciminated by hun- ,
ger and influenza, Emiliano Zapata,
the rebel chief, is reported to have
sought refuge in inaccessible moun
tain fastnesses of the state of Morelos
with a small band of followers. Re
ports from the forces of pacification
daily tell of the surrender of former
Zapata adherents.
Train service has been inaugurated
from Mexico City to Guernavaca, the
beautiful, ruined copital of Morelos,
which for years has been in the power
of the Zapata men.
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