Show L Wizen When the Devil Was as Sick r THESE are the tile days when sympathetic over persons j 1 of a n certain type would tI da do T well to watch themselves and antI keep thc their r memories sharpened Else they are likely to to finn find themselves cs commiserating over Kaiser Bill when 1 they read rend that he is so EO badly hadly scared seared over the prospects I I of being tried for his for his misdeeds that he lie sf spends hi his days daysi I in S in j gloomy meditation and prayer an and that he prefers prefers' to talk on religious subjects only lie is literally sick with apprehension We Ve may well believe that his rulingS ruling i S thought is What are arc they going to do o with me met Hang Hant me or shoot mc meM v Americans who feel themselves slipping who find themselves beginning to pity the kaiser an and deprecate thc pc hard terms thrust upon Germany would do well 11 I I t to recall a few such sueh events in III recent history as these The Thc slaughter ter of of age aged men and w women men as ns' ns well 4 fas children in In Belgium in 1914 r i i r The e shooting t down n of and noff zi- zi 1 persons ive-persons pe persons ons h held l as as hostages J 0 I The hc dc desecration of countless countless homes bomes 1 The hc maiming of or children aPhie a- a The Phie slaughter The rue execution oll of or Edith Caell CaVell deportation of girls to Poison gas s air nil raids Germany tho tim shelling ot or lifeboats life life- burning of elevators boats crucifixion of prisoners and grain ships hips in in America Ameri a outrages It will do to remember that hit Kaiser Bill BilI no now in his boots bools wagon was wag and thil shuddering mumbling r pra prayers ers on only a little more than u a year yer ye r ago ngo brandishing his shining shining shining shin shin- ing ing- sword before the world and owin vowing that lint he hc would bring brin- all opposing peoples to the their r knees before him 1 Not that lint Did ho lie waste much sympathy on anyone then we recall When the devil Wl was sick the devil a saint would be when tho the devil was well ell L the IC devil a saint was tas IS he lie fia Ra ll |