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Show GOWANS DISCUSSES GERMAN BARBARITY State Superintendent of Schools Excoriates Ex-coriates Teutons in Address at the U. A. C. Special to The Tribune. JXGAN, Feb. l Declaring that the attempt that ha-s been made by this nation na-tion to differentiate between the German Ger-man government and the German people In the present struggle of Prussian autocracy au-tocracy for world dominion has largely failed, State Superintendent of Kduca-tton Kduca-tton E. G. Gowans. speaking before the students of the Utah Agricultural college, said that the people of Germany had undergone un-dergone a complete transformation since I he war began and that they now represented rep-resented a nation ot" barbarians. "Von Goet he knew the German nature when he declared, 'The Prussian is cruel and civilization will make of him a barbarian,' bar-barian,' said Mr. Gowans. "When a German soldier will tell that, while it was once hard for him to bayonet to death a young girl on her kneefi pleading for her life, lie had now grown used to it. we can see to what degradation his nature has come. When we hear of babies ba-bies crucified while still alive, we catch a glimpse of the beast which man may become." |