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Show ROPE FOR WILHELM. Many millions of people throughout the civilized world hold firmly to the opinion that William Hohenzollern, the most notorious murderer of any age or dime, should pay the extreme penalty for his monumental crimes. The feeling feel-ing that the former war lord should appear in the prisoners' dock is not confined to the people of Great Britain Brit-ain and France. There is much resentment resent-ment here in the United States, and auy number of people are openly declaring declar-ing that justice will be balked if Wil-helm Wil-helm is not punished. Former Ambassador Ambas-sador Gerard insists that a man who has "killed so many people that if they were stretched on the ground they would form a lino almost around the world,'' should not be allowed to es- cape. Mr. Gerard also calls attention to the fact that as the former war lord has been indicted for murder in England, and the further fact that Great Britain has an extradition treaty with Holland, it would be possible to Secure . possession of the miscreant in a perfectly per-fectly legal manner. There are others besides Wilhehn who richly merit death for their share in bringing about the war which has brought so much sorrow into the world. Old Admiral von Tirpitz and the other leaders who sought to bind humanity in chains, and used barbaric methods in order to accomplish their object, must not be overlooked, now that the day of reckoning has arrived. There are some subordinates, too, who sub- t, jet-ted the peoplo of Belgium and northern north-ern France to the most damnable outrages out-rages who should be turned over to the tender mercies of the executioner, after their guilt has been fastened upon them in open court. The old adage, ''All's fair in love and war," should be given the lie in the eases of those monsters of iniquity who took advantage advan-tage of their power to ravish women and girls, cruelly maltreat old men and women and little children and carry able-bodied men into captivity. International Inter-national law was set aside by the Germans Ger-mans at the beginning of the awful struggle. Since that time they have v iolated all the rules of civilized warfare. war-fare. There are no extenuating circumstances, circum-stances, and it is now too late to plead for mercy. All is not fair in war, and the Germans should be made aware of the fact. There is a precedent for the punishment punish-ment of these culprits. At the close of our own civil war Captain Wirz. the name is German, was tried on a charge of murder, for Causing the death of thousands of Union soldiers who were onfinod within the stockade at Ander-sonville Ander-sonville prison. He was convicted and hanged in Washington after the close of the war. and the verdict of history is that he received no more than just punishment for his many crimes. There are many men now living who survived the horrors of Andersonville prison. Some of them have been invalids ever since the gates of the stockade wore opened by the Union troops. These men know something 'about the horrors of war. But they suffered on account of the cruelty of one man. The Belgians and French were in the power of any number of monsters for more than four years, and their sufferings and the indignities indig-nities heaped upon them were increased many hundredfold. Criminal laws serve a twofold purpose, one of which is to provide punishment for crimes committed. commit-ted. The other is to supply a warning to evil disposed persons. The execution execu-tion of William Hohenzollern would serve both purposes. |