| Show we can save northern france sa ra americans who dhove the crown clince pi Is s forces ba back ck from the lafarne marnen in july found on a captured gedmin of aicer this order destroy everything 11 that the cordei was faithfully executed by the retreating huns in the soissons rheims salient is the testimony of all in who ho h hive lve since visited the depolite de solite spot dynamite the i v ind torch were used with inith deadly effect and what anly a few months ago in wis is one of the fairest regious of fiance today is a desert Is all of occupied fiance to meet a similar fate 1 13 1 one of the richest and most beautiful regions 3 in the in of id comprising some sauile miles to become a desolate uninhabitable waste america must supply the answer the rulers of geimann Gei many the german high command and e even een en the german people aie conscious tod todia ir that they are beaten with evela avei horn houi that passes the be come more fully conscious of that fact they are corn coin ing to understand that the allies will dictate the terms of peace then wh do they continue to I 1 I 1 destroy destro en ever era thing because they leason in this wise the Ameli calis aie generous at least to their en amies and when the war inar is avei they will be all foi a soft a tint that will not require to m mike ake good whit she has stolen and destroyed in france lerance one of Geiman ys i motives for starting the wai was to ruin fiance is a competitor in the lace for the iN worlds trade if NN e gel gergins livins utterly destroy the rich provinces of france still in oui possession and if w ne e do not hive to mike good the losses we inflict france is a senous commercial competitor of germany will N ill be put out of the tile running II 11 tins this is cold philosophy of the hun if he knew that he in would have to pi in in full foi fol ex every c i y fi fiat uit tree cut down for every home burned for every dynamited that his ills own goods might be sold under the hammel to make good the tile losses he is no now inflicting he would be much less eager to destroy but he does not know this the amencia in go government has never told him tint thit he lie would have to pay pa american statesmen discussing terms hav hai e generally been silent on oil the subject of ie for france some of them hive have even declared declai ed that germiny germany must not be asked to kiy clince iny in in gatei ci so the prussian brute stumbling back 0 over er the fan fail lind tint he ii is iq inv in invaded v abed NN waves aves the torch and wields the ax it is time foi the united states gon government to toll germany that she must pay in full foi the thil flot she his destroyed or will destiny in fiance is well inell is in belgium that no matter how bankrupt geimann mia mi seem to be at the wars end i a strict accounting in will ill be made and that not one penny less than the full amount due will be accepted only in this wa nna cm win the tile be induced to hilt then of destruction in the meantime any my american holding i i position of au an dhority in the government in who ho encourages the gergins in their destructive iv li e NN ork b publicly opposing the prin ciple of re will deserve at least a pirt of the tile blame for frances prances further devastation salt lake herald 1 i I 1 |
