Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — Leopard Has Not Changed His Spots; Hun Quit, but Waits His Chance [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Leopard Has Not Changed His Spots; Hun Quit, but Waits His Chance

By GENERAL GOURAUD.

Fourth FnocK Amy

In 1871 Bismarck said in the reichstag that the war just finished was child’s play compared with what the next would be. He was right. The war we have * passed through is but child’s play compared to the next if it comes. Therefore we have got to see to it that Germany does not start the next war. I know it is altogether natural for American soldiers to be impressed with the beauties of the Rhine. It is altogether natural for them to be impressed with I one of the garden spots of the world. But they must | not forget that out of these beautiful valleys and down

from these beautiful hills came the band of brigands and robbers who tried to ruin civilization. It is now an open secret that on November 14 the allies were to have launched an attack on Lorraine which would have brought disaster to the German army. The Germans knew that, and so they surrendered. Did they in their hearts surrender? Their army has been received not as a conquered army. I ask if anyone has heard the Germans express any real repentance for waging history’s most brutal war? Now, when peace is signed, the Americans are going home across the seas. The English are going home, too. But France stays where she is. Marshal Foch has said that France is a barrier protecting civilization, and so France and civilization must be protected. We know the character of the Germans along the Rhine. We know there is no democracy in their hearts. We know their feeling attitude is as false as it can be. France wants no such people in her republic. We do not want to annex Germany up to the Rhine, but we do intend to see that the. German military machine stays behind the river. That is what Marshal Foch meant. If we don’t have that protection France must maintain always an enormous army to guard civilization. With our great loss of life in the war that would be a terrible burden for France. We must have a natural barrier or else it would be madness to demobilize our armies. I hope the Americans will see it the same way. I hope the soft words of the Germans will not convince the Americans that -the leopard has changed his Bpots. - , , , , So far I am not convinced that the Germans of today are not the Genpans of yesterday, the foes of the ideals of America, the ideals of France, the ideals of civilization, the foes of all that is desired in t e hearts of mankind.