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Show MURDER OF BABES. One of the saddest scenes resulting from the present war was the funeral of sixteen little English children slaughtered by the Germans in their blind rage. The heartstrings of civilized civi-lized people all over the world have been frequently wrenched during the past three years, but the recent Zeppelin Zeppe-lin raid on London is one of the crowning crown-ing horrors and calls for the sternest reprobation upon the part of Christian men and women everywhere. The war lord and his closest advisers, men who are trying to pull down the pillars of the temple of civilization and impose tho yoke of a conqueror upon the necks of frec-borp peoples, no doubt gloat over the murder of the English babes and secretly enjoy the agony the parents of the butchered innocents must be suffering, but, as sure as there is a God in Israel the day of vengeance will come and the house of Ilohenzollern will pay the penalty for the awful crimes that have been and are now being be-ing perpetrated by the barbarians vyho have made science their deity and brought woe and desolation to the earth, at the same time blasphemously raising their eyes to heaven and claiming claim-ing the Lord is with them while they are covering Europe with the blood of babes and sucklings. War is a fearful thing to contemplate. contem-plate. But there are times when it is not only justifiable but absolutely necessary for the welfare of the world. The stalwart young men of the United States are now arming because their future peace and happiness is menaced by the same hands that put the little ones to ftath in the east end of Lon-dou. Lon-dou. These young meu will go forth to strike manly blows on the field of battle or upon the high seas, and we know that we shall never hear that an American soldier or sailor has dipped his hands in the blood of women and children. Such diabolical crimes nre left for those who follow the black flag of Prus?ia. Hut the American land and ?ea forces will keop in mind the sinking of the Lusirania, the devastation devasta-tion of HMgiinr. northern France and Serbia, with ail tho attendant horror?, and wi!) not fail in their attemp: to bring the kaiser and h hi crew before the world's bar of justice. Thrre are limes when indignation and horror cannot be expressed in wo r i.!s, but the ie-!ing is in the heart and brain and sooner or later it find? vent in action. Doubtless most of tho who followed the London babies to their Ia?t resting place are too old to fight, but th;: Mns of Great Britain Brit-ain and her 1 0 Ion its beyond the seas are in tin: trenches and ultimately they will exact ray meat for one of the inot dastardly crimes since the nations of the earth laid claim to civilization. In the meantime WiJhelrn 11, seared in con- cieuce though he may bo, awaits in fear and trembling the. time when tho sword will drop from his nerveless grasp, when he will be shorn of his titles and hon-oic, hon-oic, .stripped of -his powers to command and forced to appear before the gaze of all men in his true light, after which he will pass into history as a monster of iniquity. |