Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1918 — People of Germany Prove Themselves in Wrong by Treacherous Actions [ARTICLE]

People of Germany Prove Themselves in Wrong by Treacherous Actions

By PAUL WEST,

Member of American Defeme Society

Who cheered and held school festivalsrasd > struck medals when our women and children sank with the Lusitahia? >The German people, the women and children of Germany. 1 Who have spit on our prisoners when have been carried wounded through German towns? The women and children. Who have sent the soldiers of Germany into battle full of hatred for us? The womanhood of Germany. Who have tampered with airplanes made in this country so that scores of young American boys have been killed by the machines breaking? Kind-faced German mechanics in the American factories. We must not take it out in angry grimaces, in tearing up all the German-music on our pianos or in refusing to deal with German grocers. We must send the hate along over the sea as we send our soldiers. We must fill them with it, must send them into battle backed by- the feeling that we are behind every bayonet thrust of theirs and that we want them to do to the Germans what the Germans have done to our allies and to our defenseless ones wherever they could find them. We know we’re right. We know Germany is wrong. We know Germany is a liar, a foul fighter, a nation whose population and people hate IM implacably and are fighting the better because of that hate. AU right; let us hate back.