Show I r n i A i Il Wrong If f out rr to Be Righted p A FiEK dr describing l rib 7 the all nH but inexpressible dc desolation ft which tho the retreating treating re-treating Nu Nuns Huns left in JIl Lens me including 1 lJ 1 the blowing blowing- up and flooding of or the mines and the looting looting loot oot- I ing au and burning of the stores and uHl homes an American o o correspondent cables as follows The German o object here lucre has been heen evidently e to lu cripple ripple the jor French coa coal in industry for the tho benefit oi of r German trade At t the c mime 1 idle PlIc J has been purs pursued letl was the head bend headquarters quarters of French table linen manufacturing willi wilh willia a 1 turnover huno an mounting amounting to a a. year cal B By eJsing tho the linen factories at the tho the French trade m in Germans c evidently Y hope to get thc these o goods for their own manufacturers whose principal centers arc at nt Westphalia and Hesse Another correspondent who has Ims visited lcd St. St Quentin since ince its e e evacuation on by the Huns reports that while man many homos Homes lOmes were left intact t er c every factory in in the tIte city ouy was Us rendered useless From every reclaimed city town to and hi hamlet h ulet along the western front comes the same story the Hie- Germans no matter how ho hurried has been their retreat have u al always s 's found timo to destroy factor factories to smash machinery ma ma- chinery of all kinds linds including farm implements to cut cuI down orchards and vineyards in short hort to do 10 everything everything every every- thing a human barman cunning cunning- can devise ise to cripple France aJan as ns asan an the after competitor of Germany in m in the tine com com- commercial commercial mercial and industrial world All this gives gi added proof that not only the thc kaiser kaiser b united business interests of and 1 the junkers but hut the These business in interests interests interests in- in German Germany ore are back of this war had had- found France an and Belgium rather stiff competitors It was therefore coldly decided to destroy destroy detroy de de- liked like the thc competition of stroy troy them They hind had not Britain's merchant fleet Hen Hence co the tho ruthless submarine submarine submarine rine polio policy was decided upon The business man of I Germany this war ar Inns has proved beyond question i. i is is as cold old and as brutal and as handed bloody as the kaiser himself And yet there are arc some ome people in tins Uris country who wino subscribe to tho the doctrine that Americans after aftel the tine theat war at should not discriminate against German goo goods s in favor 01 of goo goods s manufactured in France Prance Not to discriminate discriminate discriminate dis dis- criminate would ronld be he to encourage the German business businessman man to continue his Ilc practices It would bo be n helping helpin hint him to carry forward his design to kill in ur the tho foulest possible poss manner the industries of a no great na nn- nation tion lion lion-a a nation that has always placed i idealism above e materialism Cynics say sa say that the quality of gratitude no longer finds an all abiding place in the human breast If Americans Americans Amer Amer- ieans who owe 0 France more than titan than they can enn ever er repay y Made Malc in while whilo after tho trio war buy m goods French wares are arc offered in our markets the cynic will have ha fresh e evidence ence to substantiate his bis assertion F |