Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-23 | Page 6 | Teuton Savagery

TEUTON SAVAGERY. After fiddling around for many weary weeks Turkey has once more notified the state department that Germany aud Austria object to granting safe passage to the American cruiser Des Moines and the collier Caesar from Alexandria, Kypt, to Beirut, Syria, to deliver supplies sup-plies to the starving Syrians and bring out 1000 or more American citizens who have been seeking deliverance in vain. Tlierc is pave concern in Washington uver the plight of these refugees, but there does not seem to be any hope for them until after the war, and by that tiu:e fc.v of them may be alive. This is another fine example of Her-ui;iii Her-ui;iii ' i ktiltur. " "While pretending friendship friend-ship for the United States and making professions of good intentions toward i!i.ens of neutral countries caught in rhe war zone, tho imperial government ;it Berlin lias proved treacherous from the very beginning and has left no stone unturned in the effort to destroy Amer-w Amer-w ;in lives and property. Jn this particular particu-lar case tho bloodthirsty Turk is shown to c more humane than the Teuton, and history will not fail to plaro the blame where it belongs. Now that the -i! lias been torn away we S'-e the imperial im-perial government in all its naked hid-eon.-ue'-s. There was no intention upon the part, of tiie Berlin authorities to be ei t h'T je t, or generous wit h the neu-tial- from the time the war b''gan, while I' wa-: their ddib-r:ile purpose to strike i'-jTor into the h-;ir1s of the unfortunate i vi i 'a us of I n in and northern Kram-e by p rpet rat iiiy every uet of cruelty and oppression that could be conceived in the minds of men who had long studied fiend ishness in a 1-1 its branches. f The world has long waited for vengeance ven-geance upon the Turk on account of the perpetration of detestable crimes. But the crushing of the power of the Turk is now a secondary matter. It is tho Teuton who has filled the earth with war and desolation and it is the Teuton Teu-ton against whom civilization is now j arrayed. There can be but one result, and that is fhe annihilation of Prussian militarism and an agreement among the great powers to prevent the recurrence of what has been happening in Europe, Asia and Africa and upon the high seas during the past three years. Jt is sad to think that the twentieth century of the Christian era witnesses horrors that even the heathen of past ages would have been ashamed to acknowledge, but such is the present condition of the world and it has been brought about by men who have been scheming and making ; plans for forty years. The day of reckoning reck-oning was slow in arriving, but it has I come at last.