Show keisers kaisers Kai sers men responsible for millions of murders CANNOT PAY FOR LIVES LOST nation must be forced to pay and pay and pay until it has learned that might la not right by A PATTERSON there are in france and belgium today very close to soldier braves that would not have been there bad germany not started a war of conquest to gratify the selfish ambitions ot a selfish people for world domination in these graves are buried the heroes of america of england of frame of belgium of italy of canada of australia of south africa of india of portugal of morocco of china and other parts of the world these heroes gave their lives that the cruelly selfish plans of the boche might be defeated that the world might be a dwelling place for freemen and not for the slaves of autocracy and the war in which they made punish the nations that have bcd the most terrible crimes known to modern times at least by making the people of these nations work only that they may pay among the saddest sights to be found in the battle areas of europa today Is the lonely grave tho little cross that stands by itself and marks the where a soldier met death by a stray shell there were many many thousands of these seen along the ldes of the thousand miles of roadways I 1 covered in belgium and northern france and in very many cases diey marked the spot where a german shell had caught a transport driver as be guided his truck to or from the front the boys who lie in these lonely graves were heroic american boys heroic french boys heroic british boys and they have paid the great price that the might not destroy the freedom of the world they gave their all and whatever the boche may be made to pay will be small in comparison with this sacrifice near what was the city of boyon noyon one may see a striking comparison between the methods of the boche and those of the nations that have been fighting ohp germans here he burled bide by side both french and german soldiers around each cemetery the french have built a fence over each french grave flies a french flag and on each german grave green boughs have been placed by the french such burial place of americans in lorraane Lorr alne the last great sacrifice was started by germany only to gratify the selfish greed of a people who had been taught that right I 1 realized the tragic interest of america in these graves as I 1 walked over the hilltop at farm near the village of bony and found there two large cemeteries in which american dead lie buried I 1 realized it anew as gen henry rawlinson commanding the fourth british army recounted to me the incidents of that battlo in which american troops made the first break in the hindenburg nin denburg line and when he told me of the wonderful gallantry of those american boys the most gallant troops that ever fought on a battlefield tod ly more than 1000 of those gal lant american boys are buried in soldier graves on that battlefield and little wooden crosses mark their resting places severe lesson for germany german money cannot pay for those lives but that spirit of greed of wantonness of selfish ambition that produced the senseless needless war in which they died must be crushed and it can be crushed only by making the german pay and pay and pay until he has learned that might Is not right and that war for the purposes of con quest and domination Is not profitable an american regiment to which I 1 had belonged some years ago and in which were enrolled many personal friends had fought on that field As I 1 walked beside the long rowa of wooden crosses and knew that some of them marked the resting places ot my friends I 1 felt as any other american would have felt under the same conditions that must pay in order that germany should leam that might Is not right I 1 am sure that every father every mother every brother every sister every relative and friend of those american boys who are burled on eu kopcan battlefields will feel that ger many must pay and pay heavily for the desolation she has caused throughout the world there Is on the somme battlefields not far from what once was the beau alful little city of peronne a soldiers cemetery in which british troops are buried on each little wooden cross biad been painted the name of the soldier burled beneath it as well as the letter of bis company and the number of his battalion in the onrush of the huns last march this cemetery was taken and the wanton cruelty of the boche Is nowise better illustrated than by the fact that he went through that cemetery and painted out the names of these british dead should pay to the limit should the bobbe not pay for such dastardly work as that should he not pay for attempting to deprive the relatives and friends of those british soldiers of their final resting place even though thanks to tha british graves commission the attempt will not be successful lie must pay the penalty lust as any other criminal roust pay the penalty for his crimes abo world cannot send an entire nation to jail but the world can today treatment for the german bead only emphasizes the need that germany apay for the desecration of the graves of the allied sold lera committed by her troops in france further display of impudence just at the edge of the little french city of st michlel held by the ger mans for four years and retaken by the american troops late last summer is a german cemetery that stands as an insult to the french leopie here are buried a large number of german officers in this cemetery the german government erected a magnificent marble shaft commemorating the valor of these german officers and over the graves stand elaborate marble and granite monuments erected to the memory of these german officers these monuments have been erected on what has always been french soil and they stand there as one of the greatest pieces of impudence committed by the german nation in this war this Is but another of the rainy many incidents that add to the seii ausness of the crimes committed by the boche and for which be should pay A very considerable portion of the soil of belgium and northern france Is today alyon over to the graves ot soldiers of the allies and these soldier boys would not be dead thee graves would not be there millions of homes would not today be in mourning had not a selfish people started a war for the purposes of conquest and loot a war conducted with all the wantonness and cruelty of savages why should they not pay and pay and pay until they find that an un holy war such as they waged Is the most unprofitable business in which man can engage |