Show GERM any M pay entitled to no more sympathy than any criminal WRECKED CITIES AND LIVES many man cirisan girls in are mothers of babes whose fathers are gr ger mans mana punishment cannot be too Severe 1 by 0 WRIGHT A PATTERSON when a robber breaks into ybur house and steals that which lie ho can carry away nod and then Oes destroys troys that which he cannot steal you expect that when mylien caught lie ho will be punished both for or what lio lie stole and for what lie he destroyed st royed so it la Is with germany the german firmy army acting under the orders of the german government stole everything it could carry away in the invaded sections of belgium and france and what it could not carry away it destroyed f I 1 was in tho the city of if lille very shortly after the retreating germans had evacuated it before tho the war var lille had been one of the busiest and most prosperous manufacturing town aln nil of europe its ita grechi great factories producing linens cottons velvets velvety vel vets ribbons find and apolen goods had bad patrons till nil oyer over the world and its sugar and chemical plants supplied much of france with these products for four years during the german oi the factories of lille had licon been adlo adle they are idle today and they w will III ho fie fille die for ninny months to come collie the reason Is ahat luit germany vernean y stole the machinery from all alf of these factories or in the very few cases where actual was avas not possible or profitable they destro pry ery tho the people mile told me ine that this thid theft of had been carried to such lengths that the ilens even invaded alic of tho the people and took from them thern their sewing machines 1 germans fathers of their babes the german lerman larmy firmy looted this beautiful french or DC population jt it the I 1 it i finery I 1 from and its 1111 l irus es but even its people french mothers told roe me ot of how young girls of twenty two years of ago age and under had heen been carried civay at one girls with german money will not pay for these things but ra money oney and work can in some small email degree pay for tho the wrecked factories arid ruined business of too the city of 0 lille and through tho the payment of this money and labor the people of Ger germany ninny will wil 1 learn that might Js Is not right and that war for tile purpose of gratifying a selfish ambition is not profitable why lille was wa not destroyed tho the german retreat from lille come came near the close of the war when tho the germans knew thayere they vere beaten find and hey would have to pay and for alint reason tho the rity alty itself was aris not do st royed but the fact thatis that it was not destroyed Is but another evidence of german selfishness rather than of virtue there fire aro hundreds of cities and towns that have been destroyed after being looted as is lille was looted hundreds of towns where even tho the mate ilal of which they were built has been carried away that it might inight bo be used in the construction of fortifications behind which tho the german army might defend itself and its lh ill gotten gains for all of these germany should pay koiv now and for generations to come no sympathetic pardon board should sit on germanys germanas Germ anys case no sentimentalist should have a voice in deciding her punishment there Is no morti more if as much reason for leniency in fixing tile the punishment of germany than tharo would be for leniency in fixing filing the punishment of the ruthless slayer of your son or your daughter germany must pay all that the present and future generations can pay and she will even then have ex expiated plated her crime only in a small degree any demand not too great I 1 am sure suie I 1 know the desire of the american people for fair avy py in all things lings ti including the settlement with germany alie aliey would not wish to do tile urman german people an injustice ae in i the demand for reparation As I 1 rodo allo after hillo over the devastated fields or oe belgium and northern france as I 1 passed through town after town that lind had been destroyed because of a rond mad craze for loot and dot I 1 felt eliat could tha american people but see the t bilings in s 1 I was r seeing they would feel as I 1 felt that any ny demand that might be rondo made could nottie unfair co could uld they have seen the ruins of tho the cities of ypres ar ment mentle leres la dissek geronne Pc re ronne st quentin Quent ln doyon lens and many hundreds of others they too would say with ono one voice germany must pay the bocho boche will appeal and in fact Is a appealing for the sympathy of the x av k tr 4 na W 6 X na british official photograph of an elaborate mass of machinery in a lillet lille T linen mill that was waa completely wrecked by tho the germans I 1 fmc time they told me of another time when more than bo boys of from fourteen to twenty years of age had been carried away to germany when I 1 was in lille on october 22 it lind had very few inhabitants except old did people or very young oung children among the few exceptions were girls of from seventeen to twenty years year of age nursing babies which they told roe 1130 were the ho offspring of german fathers and the pathos of the situation of those young oung girls Is something I 1 shall in never ever forget and this condition at lille is the result of german ambition for world domination an ambition fostered among adiong the german people through years pears of training the ambition of a people whose boast has been that might makes right I 1 nm am sorry to say I 1 have heard peo pie attempt to tb excuse tills this looting of on me ground that it could bo be shown to bo be a war measure the need of germany for this machinery ond and for the libor labor of tho the peo people pie deported lo 10 0 o germany but these people cannot flud and noy any reason reasonable excuse for the war itself a war t that hat was started d only billy for tile the selfish purpose of a selfish people I 1 shall germany not pay for this condition tit at lille shall she not pay for the machinery that was carted away or destroyed for the people that were deported ported le slinia she not pay for the years cars of idleness of these factories for the years of idleness of tile the employees denied tile the opportunity of profitable It employment shall she sh e not pay for tho the markets that have anve been de destroyed find which it will enke years to establish reestablish re rc it if it can ever be done no germany will never be able to pay for all of it she will never be able to pay and no sum of money could pay for the anguish of those mothers who were forced to stand aside and watch theIr sons and daughters carried awny away into virtual slavery v she will n never lo im 10 able to pay for the ingul fiu tile the wrecked lives of those 0 world but the tha boche Is entitled to io just the same degree of sympathy that the world accords to any other inal we feed and clothe the caliz crien inal that he may live to expiate his crime and wo we will teed feed find and clothe cloth ethe the german people that they may runy live to jo expiate their crime and that aderi I 1 they have done aone that hint they may again bo be entitled to the eln ein the worlds civilization that only those who ara arc cleansed may occupy germany Is en ent t titled to nothing more than this and this is fair play |