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Show id m n MAKE THEM PAY - It As a fundamental principle of life , that people ought to pay for the damage they do. If this penalty is riot efc.act-'d upon thehi, jt encourages them to go on and commit other outrages. Hence, h) considering German peace 1 offers itis absolutely-necessary toehold 'sthem down to principle: of compensation for the dariiage they have done. They have ,ruthlessly ahd brutally laid waste arid sacked ;tHe fair cities and fields of France, Belgium, Serbia, Roumania and Poland. Theyjhaye gain.ed.no. .military -advantage thereby. They wilfullyfbr.oke. . the laws of War in" doing it. Their 'only purpose was to try to bulldoze the wor,ld linto submission by making themselves as tf rightful and beastly as -possible. The trouble with the Germans is that up to now they have always made war a paying business proposition. Make war pay for war, has been their motto. By jumping on other nations treacherously and unawares, they always expected to make War on the soil of their foes, so that Me German's home country should never nev-er sustain any damage. JThen they ex-pecifthe ex-pecifthe costs of the War to be made up by the levying of indemnities, and by stealing of valuable territory. They made the war of 1870 with France pay by a crushing indemnity, and by stealing the enormously valuable iron mines and other oth-er resources of Alsace Lorraine. . . Now if-we insist that Germany pay the damages she has done it will get ,it through-the thick and bony heads 'of the Huns, that the time when war could, be made to pay as a national industry has gone by. The damage she has committed commit-ted in the way of wicked destruction of life she can never pay for in cash, though she will pay for them in the hatred of i mankind she has excited. But at least- she must pay her physical bills, or we , Jiave lost the war. , .,,, v;. i i I,., i . I . ,i . ,-. |