Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — Messages to America: “Make Hun Pay;" “Get Together With the English” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Messages to America: “Make Hun Pay;" “Get Together With the English”

By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON

“Make the Hun pay” is one of the messages I am taking back to the United States after a visit to the allied battle fronts of France and Belgium. The Americans should not listen to any talk of “no indemnity.” They should demand as with one voice that Germany pay for her wanton devastation and pillage. It will be to the everlasting disgrace of the allies if they make any peace with the Hun that does not insure the restoration of France and Belgium, dollar for dollar. The best suggestion I have heard is that the allies compel Germany to continue to raise her annual military class

and to keep these classes on this restoration work. The kind of warfare Germany has been conducting does not call for an ordinary peace. It demands reparation, restitution and repentance. The Germans must rebuild as far as is possible what they have wickedly destroyed. Barbarians never did worse and I say the Huns should pay. Another thing I want to emphasize is the sincerity of the EnglishAmerican get-togethe* proposal. lam thoroughly convinced that the feeling of the average Englishman toward America today bears almost the game brand of sincerity as the feeling of admiration and esteem which Americans have for France. English people at home want us to regard them with the same affection we feel for the French, because they feel toward us as France does toward us. The whole world is changing rapidly and it looks to me as if the English-speaking peoples and other allies in this war are going to get together on a basis of genuine brotherhood that might not have come for centuries had it not been for the war. My biggest thrill came when General Rawlinson of the Fourth British army took me to Cambrai, where the Thirtieth Illinois division, with the Twenty-seventh New York division, participated in the first smashing of the famous Hindenburg line. It was here that Colonel Sanborn and the old First Illinois and Col. Abel Davis and the old Second and other regiments in the Prairie division pierced that line. General Rawlinson said that he had never seen more gallant troops in any fight and that no soldiers ever displayed greater gallantry than did our Illinois and New York boys on that day.