Show Jn r r Will IVill H He Ha Be Punished T p REPORTS which bear benr every indication of L. L have ha it that the time committee of learned learne lawyers who were appointed by the peace pence conference t to ta recommend recommend recommend mend punishment for individuals responsible for the world war have about concluded cd that since the time kaisers kaiser's crimes are without precedent no punishment can cun be meted out to him The cynic will at once say that it would be a strange company of lawyers that could not find a loophole for forso so great a criminal as the thc former emperor of Germany It is of course true that the vcr very great criminals criminal generally gen gen- orally escape Then why make an exception of oi the greatest criminal of all the thc the one man lUan in all the world who could have ha prevented the war and didn't 7 It would be interesting to know just what influences in allied countries are arc working to save saye the beast of Ber Ber- lin That such influences are at nt work no one can enn doubt That they will succeed in spite of the time black guilt of the tho thoman theman man who plunged ed the whole world into blood and tears seems likely Let no one imagine that if ir the time kaiser is I spared it will win be bo to save the feelings of the German I people The feelings of oi the time German people are arc not I being taken n seriously into consideration at the peace conference But royalty still exists in some of tho the allied counT coun- coun A T Tf T tho 1 n m fn Ml tT O fl C iT 1 till 11 L tV VV v u. u no not be in bc-in in part at least to to save tho feelings of roy royalty ro- ro oy alty It is royalty's game to overawe the common peo pIe But will win not the common people gain ain new contempt contempt contempt con con- tempt for ro royalty alty in general if one particular member I of tho the guild guild and and he perhaps the ablest and most prominent prominent prom prom- in the tho crowd crowd is is stood up against a while wall walland and amid shot for the time brutal criminal that he is One word more If the conference decides not to punish the time kaiser let it punish none of his underlings rYS If the time kaiser ser is not guilty the men who carried out his orders are not guilty guilt no one in Germany is guilty and the German people are all nIl angels I. I |