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Show anaWK ft . . pHugg, TBE CoNVICT B The Prussian government, by planning H;' and carrying into effect a war which is R;: . has conducted in a manner so beatial as Rfe to cause civilization to shudder,' has Pf, placed itself in tKe outlaw class. k; Its actions as a nation have been akin l. to those of a band of bandits which has BC'- swooped down upon an inoffending com- Bf". iunity, put the torch to homes, slayed Mfr promiscuously, possessed themselves of Hp?, the wives and daughters of the district, Hi levied heavy tributes and is . living off . IL the fat of the land. kt :' In such individual instances the police K.' forces of cities, counties and occasional- v'V" ly states are rushed to the scene, while Er enraged citizens of other communities v',' offer their assistance an dopeh" their c doors to their unfortunate neighbors. m '' In time the outlaws are driven back to Pp their rendezvous in the hills. One by one v-, they are picked off, finally surrounded f . and the survivors oft he gang captured, .- taken to the nearest jail, given a fair HI -v t trial, then either hanged 'or given a life '4 - ' sentence in the penitentiary. H 1 4 AV their trial they can only plead for K'- mercy. They have nothing to sayyas to r. a i what penalty shall be meted out tor them. E;r IWhat loot they may have in their posses- BP"',T ion is taken from them and restored tp l its original owners. p tf The allied nations, acting as the peace fe, officers of the world, now are engaged in Hf? f bmng the Prussian bandit hordes out of Kl r " "the territory which they have ruthlessly P; destroyed." They are picking off the ban- H1 t Hf mm'- B ,t dits not one by one, but by .the thousands thous-ands and tens .0 f thousands. Eventually the world's peace officers will have driven the outlaws back to their rendezvous across the Rhine, where their eventual capture will'be a certainty. Then will come the trial the peace council. Does it stand to reason that this big, burly, national bandit should be part of the jury which is to decide his fate any more than the individual bandit and murdered, who has been caught,. red-handed, red-handed, should have a voice in working the terms of his sentence? The Prussian government should have no voice at the peace table except to be permitted to plod for mercy. It has . been caught red handed in the act of attempting at-tempting to steal the liberty of the world, tl has caused rivers of blood to flow and has been guilty of atrocities more fiendish fiend-ish than were given birth even in the minds of their Turkish fellow, butchers. The Prussian .government must be fettered fet-tered with something stronger than what it has termed "scraps of paper," and its sentence must be pronounced by the just and liberty loving. allied peace officers and not by the red handed criminal at the ba rof justice. Salt Lake erald. m mi mi |