Show 7 GERMANY MUST PAY DIV boche entitled Entitle dlo to no more sympathy than any criminal I 1 WRECKED CITIES AND many girl girls in lille 1111 are mother mothers of babe babes whose father fathers are german cannot do be too severe by WRIGHT A PATTERSON when IN hen a robber breaks break 3 into your house and steals that w which ch ho he can carry away and then destroy destroys that which he cannot st steal you that when ben caught he lie III be punished both for what ho he stole and for what he lie de st strayed troy eJ so I 1 11 Is to with germany Gerni atly the german army acting under the th ordera orders of the german government governments etole stole everything it could carry alm in the invaded sect sections ionn of belgium and france and hat it could not can carr witty I 1 V destroyed I 1 was in the city of lille very 13 after tho the retreating germans had bad evacuated it before the war lille had been one of the busiest and bat prosperous town towns in a all of europe its great factories producing linene cotton cottons vel velvet vets ribbons find woolen good goods had patrona patrons all over the world and ite its ugar fugar and chemical plants supplied much of france with these product products for vor four beers yr during the german he the factories of lille had hall been idle they tire idle today toda and they hilll bo be idle for many months al ont ha to come the reason Is 1 that germany stole the machinery from all of these factories or in tho the ery cry few cases where actual theft ains na not or profitable they destroyed deR troyed the machin cry erv the people of lille ralle told me that this chett of machinery had find ben boen car mhd to euch such lengths that the juns cien the homes of the people and took from them their sewing machines german germans fathera fathers of their babes the german army looted this beautiful french city of more than population it swe not alone tile machinery from Ps factories fact orits nd ind jim te homes but even its people frenchi mothers told me of how young siria g als of twenty two years of age and under had been carried away at one time they told me of another time when more than then boys of from fourteen to twenty of 0 nee age had find been carried away to germany aca I 1 as J lille on october 22 it had bad my very ew w inhabitants except old peo pit pi or very young children among de pe few exception exceptions were girle girls of from seventeen to twenty year years ef c ace age nure nurs 1 arg babies which they told toe me were the olf offspring of german fa fathers thors and the pathos of the situation of those doting girls ie Is something I 1 hall never forget and this condition at tit ulle Is tho the re alt suit 0 german ambition for world domination aa an ambition fostered among the clerman people through rears years of training the ambition of a people whose boat boast haa han beau that might make makes right I 1 am sorry to jay say I 1 have heard people attempt to excuse this looting of t iello file on I tut we crould that it could bo be hn t to 1 be it war meagre the need of germany tor for thi this and for the labor of the people deported to germany but these people cannot find any reasonable excuse for the war itself ft a war that was we star stared led only for the purpose of A aco pie shall Cl germany ermany not pay for thi this condition at lille shall the she not mot pay for the machinery that was carted arway or destroyed destroy cl for the people that were deported the not pay for the years of Id leneda cf of thee these fac torIM for the beere Yel of 0 idleness oc of the employees denied the opportunity of prof liable shall she he not pay for the tut haro havo been destroyed and which it will take yean years to too re 1 if it can ever be dona donal no germany will never be able to pay for all oc of it sue she will new never be able to pay tiny and DO no sum of money coald could pay for the of those who were forced to stand adida vol watch their one tons and daughters car carried away into virtual clavery ria Tery she will never be ina able to pay fur far the the lives of tho those kith girt t with german babies money will not pay for or these things but money and work can in some small degree pay for the reeked factories end find ruined hu busl alness nesi of the city of lille and through the of this money and labor the people of germany will learn that might la Is not right find that war for tho the purpose of gratify gratifying inz a selfish ambI ambition tIou la Is not why lille wa was not destroyed the german retreat from I 1 I 1 gillim came near he the close of th tit war when the germans knew they were beaten and they would mould have to pay and for that reason the city itself was ains not de stroy st royed td but the net that it was naas not destroyed la Is but another evidence of german selfishness rather than of virtue there are hundreds of cities and towns that have been destroyed after being looted tooted as lille was looted bun dreda of towns where here even the material of which they were nere built has been carried away that it might be used in the construction of fortifications fortification a behind which the german army bt defend luck and its III rotten gotten gains for all of these germany should pay now and for generations generation to to come no sympathetic pardon board should sit on germany a case no sentimentalist should have a voice la in deciding her kunishi punishment nent there la Is no more morg if as much reason for leniency len tency in aring the punishment of germany than them would be for leniency la in fixter the punishment of the ruthless layer slayer of your eon son or your daughter germany must pay all that the present and future generallo genera ions dean can pay and eho she will even then have ix plated her liter crime only in a email small degree any demand notton great I 1 am nn suro sure I 1 know the desire of the american leopa for fair V py vy y in nil all things including the tile settlement with germany would not w elih ah to do the tile german people an W injustice ustice in the demand for reparation A a I 1 rode mile after mile over the devastated fields of belgium and northern france ea 43 1 I passed through town after town that had been destroyed because of a mad crate for or loot and world lon I 1 felt that could the american people but eee see the things I 1 was seeing they would feel as I 1 felt that any demand hat that might be made could not be b tin fair could they have havet seen the ruins of the ho I 1 beautiful catl of ve 1 arment teres leres la masee peronne Pero noc st quentin noyon boyon lens and many hundreds of others thay th ay too would eay say with one voice germany must pay the boche will appell end and in fact Is appealing for the sympathy of the ama k X t AA I 1 aln amm 0 west C british official photograph of si i elaborate Eli borato mar mato of machinery in sk ulle lille linen mill that wa was completely wrecked by the german germans world but the bocho boche Is entitled to just the tile same degree of sympathy that the world accords to any other criminal we feed od clothe the criminal that he lie may uve live to hie bla crime and ue feed and clothe tho the 11 erman people that they may live to expiate their crime end and that after they hare have done that they may again 1 be he entitled to the place la in the civilly atlon that only bw boxe who are ar cleansed may occupy germany I 1 Is entitled to nothing anore than thin this and this h ib fair play |